Minoru Takada — Actor (18)

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Football hero (1967) IMDb Douban
Let's Go, Young Guy!
director: 岩内克己 actor: 陈曼玲 / 加山雄三 …
other title: Lets go!若大将 / Let's Go, Young Guy! …
College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuichi has his sights set on winning football gold, but his father, who wants him to take over his sukiyaki restaurant, isn't too keen on this. Set in Kyoto, Hong Kong, and Macau, we follow Yuichi as he falls in love and chases after his dreams.

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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
明治天皇と日露大戦争
director: 渡边邦男 actor: 岚宽寿郎 / 阿部九州男 …
other title: 明治天皇与日俄战争 / 明治天皇と日露大戦争 …
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.

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决战的天空 (1943) Douban
決戦の大空へ
director: 渡边邦男 actor: 原节子 / 高田稔 …
other title: 決戦の大空へ
予科練の生活と倶楽部の民間人との交流を描く。戦意高揚映画ではあるが、人物描写等は評価されている。挿入歌『若鷲の歌』は大ヒットを記録した。

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Learn from Experience, Part I (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
禍福 前篇
director: 成濑巳喜男 actor: 高田稔 / 入江隆子 …
other title: 祸福:前篇 / 禍福 前篇 …
Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. The two lovers flee to Tokyo, but when Shintaro returns to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the marriage meeting with Yurie. Part one of a two-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan.

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Learn from Experience, Part II (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
禍福 後篇
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Minoru Takada / Takako Irie …
other title: 祸福:后篇 / 禍福 後篇 …
Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by close friend Michiko and her mother but also, surprisingly, Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even moreso, Toyomi and Yurie become friends. Part two of a two-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan.

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I Graduated But... (1929) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
大学は出たけれど
★ 5.8 (10 ratings) director: 小津安二郎 actor: 高田稔 / 斋藤达雄
other title: 我毕业了,但…… / 大学は出たけれど …
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the fact that he has no job. Hardships come quickly, which forces Machiko to find a job in a bar.

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Sincerity (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
まごころ
director: 成濑巳喜男 actor: 高田稔 / 村濑幸子 …
other title: 真心 / まごころ …
The Kinema Junpo critics were, of course, mistaken to think that Naruse had abandoned his emphasis on women. His next film, Sincerity, features two strong female characters, played by Irie Takako and Murase Sachiko, each of whom have a daughter. The girls are schoolmates, but one (Nobuko) is from a middle-class home and the other (Tomiko) is from a poor family. Tomiko's mother Tsutako (Irie) is a single mother who works from home as a seamstress, while Nobuko's mother lives in an elegant home with her husband, Kei. Eventually, it is revealed that Kei had a romantic relationship with Tsutako, and may be Tomiko's father as well, but he is conscripted shortly after this revelation and goes off to war.
This is very much a home front film, in which the women are involved in supporting activities, and the whole town cheers on the new recruits. As Kei is a banker, he is conscripted as an officer. He is introduced brandishing a magnificent sword, indicating his readiness for his call-up, for which everyone congratulates him when it comes. The wartime context is little more than a backdrop to the story of paternity and former love. The complex emotions among the women are conveyed through cutting on eye movements and eye lines, and through the use of the pastoral location.

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Walk Cheerfully (1930) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
朗かに歩め
★ 5.8 (5 ratings) director: 小津安二郎 actor: 高田稔 / 川崎弘子 …
other title: 开心地走吧 / 朗かに歩め …
Raucous small-time thief Kenji falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, but when she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him until he proves to be honest. Kenji soon finds it's not so easy to get rid of one's past.