Miki Odagiri Trailers
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Miki Odagiri (小田切美喜) was known primarily for her important and timeless role as the upbeat office girl in Akira Kurosawa's classic Ikiru opposite Takashi Shimura, whose character is dying of cancer, and Miki, as Toyo Odagiri, inspires him to live... just by being herself: bubbly, spontaneous, and optimistic. Her character is also filled with blunt sarcasm that was extremely rare in movies of the early-1950's. Perhaps Miki and Takashi's most memorable scene is when she's telling him the nicknames she created for their fellow workmates... including his! Sadly, beyond Ikiru, finding the handful of other Japanese movies she appeared in, especially on DVD or Blu Ray, is extremely difficult. But she left an impression in what's considered not only one of the legendary Kurosawa's greatest achievements, but one of the best movies ever made, worldwide.
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09 October 1952
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades.
11 June 1938
A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.
18 March 1955
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other.
08 January 1955
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war.
03 February 1955
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description.
15 September 1953
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
28 April 1963
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
15 May 1953
Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
02 June 1987
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization.
25 February 1955
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.
16 November 1955
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
22 September 1953
Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
24 May 1955
A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.
11 September 1956
Japanese drama film.
26 August 1962
1962 Japanese movie
04 December 1955
Japanese drama film.
24 September 1959
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
28 June 1956
A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
09 January 1953
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island.
05 February 1953
Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako
15 January 1958
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
23 November 1954
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.
24 September 1971
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
25 October 2002
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
