Masami Shimojō
Know for: Acting
Born: 1915-08-26
Place of birth: Busan, South Korea
Also know as:
Tora-san's Matchmaker (1993)
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring...
City of Beasts (1970)
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely...
Turbid Youth (1954)
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...
Tora-san to the Rescue (1995)
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
Jungle Block (1960)
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...
Kids Return (1996)
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time...
I Love The Sun (1966)
A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.
Break Down that Wall (1959)
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Morning Fog (1971)
Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club (1969)
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976)
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...
Blood and Sea (1965)
The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...
Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu (1961)
Strife between competing lumber mills.
Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen (1982)
Sequel to "Nomugi Pass"
Tora-san's Lullaby (1974)
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again....
Moeru minamijūjisei (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
Tora-san, the Intellectual (1975)
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to...
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident (1995)
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Tora-san's Pure Love (1976)
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...
Tora-san Meets His Lordship (1977)
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
Tora-san Plays Cupid (1977)
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt...
Lost Love (1967)
Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the...
Tora-san, My Uncle (1989)
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
Tora-san Makes Excuses (1992)
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko...
Stage-Struck Tora-san (1978)
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...
Punishment of a Lawless Villian (1964)
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many...
Tsugumi (1990)
Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a...
Talk of the Town Tora-san (1978)
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...
Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts (1992)
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
Tora-san, the Matchmaker (1979)
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
The Great White Tower (1966)
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...
I Have the Sun in My Back (1963)
Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But...
Many Happy Returns (1993)
Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of...
This Is Noriko (1981)
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...
Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter (1975)
Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone...
Skinny and Fatty (1958)
Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
The Day the Sun Rose (1968)
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
The Wolves (1955)
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...
Hana to musume to shiroi michi (1961)
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Street of Violence (1950)
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
The Village (1976)
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,...
I'll Never Cry! (1966)
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...
Youth A Go Go! (1966)
Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."
Tora-san's Forbidden Love (1984)
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...
Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...
Whirlpool of Flesh (1964)
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...
The Seasons of Love (1958)
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...
Tora-san's Tropical Fever (1980)
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
The Heart (1955)
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...
Love in Ginza (1962)
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...
Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984)
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san (1982)
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living...
Oración (1988)
Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is...
Foster Daddy, Tora! (1980)
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again (1975)
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...
Tora-san's Promise (1981)
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...
Tora-san's Love in Osaka (1981)
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his...
Tora-san, the Expert (1982)
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...
Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979)
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Moscow, My Love (1974)
A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success,...
Tora-san Goes Religious? (1983)
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...
Tora-san's Song of Love (1983)
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy (1986)
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and...
Tora-san's Island Encounter (1985)
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested...
Tora-san, the Go-Between (1985)
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...
Tora-san Plays Daddy (1987)
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...
Tora-san Goes North (1987)
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial (1988)
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
Tora-san Goes to Vienna (1989)
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
The Shadow of Fear (1956)
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...
Taiheiyō no katsugiya (1961)
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the...
Ishigassen (1955)
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a...