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Tōgō Yamamoto is a Actor Japonais born on 3 november 1886 at Yokohama City (Japon)
Togo Yamamoto (山本冬郷, Yamamoto Tōgō, 4 November 1886 – ?) was a pioneering actor who appeared on stage and film in the United States and Japan.
Born in Yokohama, Japan on 4 November 1886, Togo emigrated to the United States and began an acting career in the early years of the twentieth century.
Yamamoto told Blanche Partington in a 1906 interview that he had been "in the dramatic business" in Japan, playing "tragedy, comedy, both" before coming to the United States. His first appearance on the American stage was in The White Tigress of Japan (1904), a play about the Russo-Japanese War. "I was Japanese spy--I killed half a dozen Russians every night!" he told Partington. Theatrical manager Kirke La Shelle spotted him in the production and hired him to play the part of a Japanese servant in The Heir to the Hoorah (1905).
Yamamoto subsequently appeared in a number of stage plays, including The Offenders (1908), An American Widow (1909), The Inferior Sex (1910), The Muezzin (1910), Kismet (1911), Miss Phoenix (1913), and others.
In 1918, Yamamoto made his first appearances on the silver screen in The Midnight Patrol (1918) and The City of Dim Faces (1918). In both films he played Chinese characters, as he did in many of his later American films. He appeared in more than a dozen American films, most notably Cecil B. DeMille's Something to Think About, in which he played a Japanese servant, and Flesh and Blood, a 1922 film starring Lon Chaney, in which he played a Chinese character, The Prince.
In 1925, Yamamoto returned to his native Japan and appeared with Tokihiko Okada in a film entitled Maboroshi no hansen. After a four year hiatus, he returned to the Japanese screen in two 1929 films and no fewer than eleven 1930 films, including Sono yo no tsuma and Ojosan, both directed by Yasujirō Ozu. He worked steadily through the 1930s, appearing in more than forty films, working with directors like Ozu and Hiroshi Shimizu, usually in supporting roles. In the 1940s, however, he appeared in only a handful of films. Among his last were Nishi manrui (Two outs, bases loaded, 1946) and Yottsu no koi no monogatari (Four tales of passion, 1947).
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Born in Yokohama, Japan on 4 November 1886, Togo emigrated to the United States and began an acting career in the early years of the twentieth century.
Yamamoto told Blanche Partington in a 1906 interview that he had been "in the dramatic business" in Japan, playing "tragedy, comedy, both" before coming to the United States. His first appearance on the American stage was in The White Tigress of Japan (1904), a play about the Russo-Japanese War. "I was Japanese spy--I killed half a dozen Russians every night!" he told Partington. Theatrical manager Kirke La Shelle spotted him in the production and hired him to play the part of a Japanese servant in The Heir to the Hoorah (1905).
Yamamoto subsequently appeared in a number of stage plays, including The Offenders (1908), An American Widow (1909), The Inferior Sex (1910), The Muezzin (1910), Kismet (1911), Miss Phoenix (1913), and others.
In 1918, Yamamoto made his first appearances on the silver screen in The Midnight Patrol (1918) and The City of Dim Faces (1918). In both films he played Chinese characters, as he did in many of his later American films. He appeared in more than a dozen American films, most notably Cecil B. DeMille's Something to Think About, in which he played a Japanese servant, and Flesh and Blood, a 1922 film starring Lon Chaney, in which he played a Chinese character, The Prince.
In 1925, Yamamoto returned to his native Japan and appeared with Tokihiko Okada in a film entitled Maboroshi no hansen. After a four year hiatus, he returned to the Japanese screen in two 1929 films and no fewer than eleven 1930 films, including Sono yo no tsuma and Ojosan, both directed by Yasujirō Ozu. He worked steadily through the 1930s, appearing in more than forty films, working with directors like Ozu and Hiroshi Shimizu, usually in supporting roles. In the 1940s, however, he appeared in only a handful of films. Among his last were Nishi manrui (Two outs, bases loaded, 1946) and Yottsu no koi no monogatari (Four tales of passion, 1947).
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, 1h42Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Isuzu Yamada, Denmei Suzuki, Komako Hara, Tōgō Yamamoto
Les amours tragiques entre un membre du parti libéral, emprisonné suite à l'incident de Chichibu en novembre 1884 et une actrice qui se résout à se prostituer pour l'aider.
That Night's Wife (1930)
, 1h5Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chishū Ryū, Emiko Yagumo, Tatsuo Saitō, Tōgō Yamamoto
Roles Detective Kagawa
Rating68%
Afin de payer les soins pour sa fille malade, Shuji Hashizume, un artiste sans le sou, se résout à commettre un vol à main armée. Mais un des employés a le temps de prévenir la police et une course poursuite nocturne s'engage dans les rues de Tokyo. Shuji parvient à s'enfuir en empruntant un taxi, sans se rendre compte que le chauffeur n'est autre que Kawaga, un inspecteur agissant sous couverture. Pendant ce temps, le docteur Suda annonce à Mayumi, la femme de Shuji, que l'état de la petite Michiko est critique. Elle ne pourra survivre que si elle passe la nuit.
Young Lady (1930)
, 2h15Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Origin Japon
Genres Comedy
Actors Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitō, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tōgō Yamamoto, Shigeru Ogura
Roles President of acting school
Rating44%
Okamoto et Saida, deux journalistes débutants, sont envoyés en quête de bonnes histoires à faire paraître par leur journal. Alors qu'ils enquêtent autour d'une école d'art dramatique, ils apprennent qu'une journaliste travaillant pour le Toto Shinpo, un journal concurrent, et qui se fait appeler « Mademoiselle » les a devancé en se glissant parmi les étudiants...
Flesh and Blood (1922)
, 1h14Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Noah Beery Sr., DeWitt Jennings, Ralph Lewis, Jack Mulhall
Roles The Prince
Rating61%
In the film, the main character (Lon Chaney) escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years to see his daughter (Edith Roberts). But she is engaged to the son of the crook who framed him, complicating his plan of revenge. The movie features an interesting setting in San Francisco's Chinatown.
A Tale of Two Worlds (1921)
, 1h10Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Actors Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery, Irene Rich, E. Alyn Warren, Yutaka Abe, Margaret McWade
Roles One Eye
Rating58%
Based upon a summary in a film publication, Ah Wing (Warren) saves a white child during the Boxer Rebellion and raises her as Chinese in America as Sui Sen (Joy). Ling Jo (Beery), a tong leader and slave trader, desires Sui Sen and enters a marriage contract with Ah Wing where he will search and give the Scepter of the Mings to Ah Wing in return for the girl. Ah Wing agrees because he does not believe that the scepter can be recovered, but when it is produced, he, while heartbroken, must must keep his word. The wedding day is set and Ling Jo wants Sui Sen even after being told that she is white. Robert Newcomb (Glendon), a curio collector who has fallen in love with Sui Sen, and with the help of a young Chinese man called "The Worm" (Abbe), who also loves her, rescues her from the tong chief.
Something to Think About (1920)
, 1h18Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Actors Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Monte Blue, Theodore Roberts, Claire McDowell, Julia Faye
Roles Servant
Rating59%
The Willow Tree (1920)
Directed by Henry Otto
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Viola Dana, Edward Connelly, Tom Ricketts, Harry Dunkinson, Tōgō Yamamoto, George Kuwa
Roles Itomudo
The River's End (1920)
, 1hDirected by Marshall Neilan, Victor Heerman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Lewis Stone, Marjorie Daw, Jane Novak, Marjorie Daw, J. Barney Sherry, George Nichols
Roles Shan Tung