Personal Info
Birth date
1903-08-13 (121 Years)
Day of death
1961-01-16
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as
古川緑波
Ikuro Furukawa
古川郁郎
Роппа Фурукава
Roppa Furukawa
Biography
We dont have a biography for Roppa Furukawa
Filmography
Rikidozan no tetsuwan kyojin
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1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.Queen of Asia
6
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Japanese war film based on the true story of Yoshiko Kawashima, played by actress Miyuki Takakura in her film debut.Five Men in a Circus
5.4
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The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-circus owner. The high points are the sound (and score) and cinematography featuring a lot of vertiginous panning (appropriate - as high wire trapeze artists are also an important element in the film). A fascinating side-light on 30s Japan.The President Talks Bank
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The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.Good Son-in-Law
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Asahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's father has already cleared up his eldest daughter Keiko to Mizukami, but this time Aiko's turn and her sister's wedding greeting card are handy to add a request for the color of her sister's son. However, Aiko, who wants to be herself, uses the help of her friend, private detective Nobuko Migishi, to break through the behavior of the matchmaker, Mrs. Yamaguchi, who is a matchmaker. However, Nobuko's mistress Rokuro Kojima has become sloppy these days, so when Aiko investigated this time, it was found that the cause was Kojima's best friend Hiroshi Minamimura. Aiko was completely indignant at Minamimura's rude attitude of saying what she thought. In the mouth of Mrs. Yamaguchi's match, Mr. Fumio Kaki, the sales manager, is the best candidate.Living Image
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A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.Namiko
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An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western sources that give sole directing credit to Eizo Tanaka, it was actually co-directed by six different directors, Tanaka, Kazue Kimura, Kazuo Takimura, Ryoji Mikami and Hidekuni Ouchi.Iemitsu and Hikoza
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A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).情艶一代女
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Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue this new path, but falls in love with a naval officer who is the younger brother of Kikugoro and who saves her from a stalker monk. Kikugoro hears of this and becomes enraged. The naval officer dies in the Second Sino-Japanese War, causing the lead to go back home to her mother where she meets, and falls in love with, a poet who resembles her now-deceased fiancé. This poet leaves her in order to force her to dedicate her entire life to dancing, which he sees as her true pursuit.Holiday in Japan
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Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.A Mother's Love
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A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.Dimple of Tokyo
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Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family as friend, "Sachio-san"...The Way of Drama
6.5
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The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.Tipsy Life
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The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a company founded specifically to take advantage of emergent sound technology. P.C.L. worked in collaboration with a brewer’s firm, Dai Nihon Biru, who met the production costs of the film in full, and whose products are featured in the film in an example of the sophisticated and modern merchandising typical of the studio’s early work. The film is partially set in a beer hall, and its story concerns a beer seller at a train station and her relationship with a music student trying to create a hit song. Director Sotoji Kimura was to become a company stalwart, making such films as Ino and Mon, while actress Sachiko Chiba would emerge the studio’s first real star, appearing in such films as Wife Be Like a Rose.Until Victory Day
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An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to entertain and amuse the national troops. Inside this rocket would be tiny performers. Once launched from the laboratory and landed amidst the Japanese troops the soldiers could enjoy the performers. The laboratory succeeds and the rocket is built. It bears the insignia, 'until the victory days.' The Japanese government began a program of shooting and disseminating propaganda and entertainment movies for its troops during World War II. It is a lost film.Acting
1960弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻 as Unknown
1960若社長と爆発娘 as Unknown
1959Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū as Otsuka
1958Holiday in Japan as Unknown
1958Botchan no yakyūō as Unknown
1957Queen of Asia as Unknown
1956坊ちゃんの逆襲 as Unknown
1956The President Talks Bank as Unknown
1956Nigetekita hanayome as Unknown
1956Masura o hashutsu fukai as Unknown
1956The President's Boss as Unknown
1954浮かれ狐千本櫻 as Yazaemon
1954Rikidozan no tetsuwan kyojin as Dr. Amachi
1954Good Son-in-Law as Unknown
1954A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival as Unknown
1953名探偵アジャパー氏 as Unknown
1953Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage as Horiuchi
1953珍説忠臣蔵 as Oishi Kuranosuke
1952Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo as Unknown
1952Dimple of Tokyo as Chojuro Hayashi
1952娘十八びっくり天国 as Unknown
1952大当りパチンコ娘 as Unknown
1951Kōmon to yajikita kara su-gumi ihen as Mito Kōmon
1951情艶一代女 as 山吹周吉
1950Enoken roppa no yajikita bugiugi dōchū as Unknown
1950A Mother's Love as Unknown
1950Akogare no Hawaii kôro as Unknown
1949Odoroki ikka as Unknown
1948Living Image as Unknown
1948Golden Devil Part 2 as Unknown
1948Golden Devil as Unknown
1947These Foolish Times as Unknown
1947Todoroki Sensei as Unknown
1946The Okagura Brothers as Unknown
1945Five Tokyo Men as Unknown
1945Tokkan ekichô as Unknown
1945Until Victory Day as Unknown
1944敵は幾万ありとても as Unknown
1944The Way of Drama as Unknown
1943音楽大進軍 as Rokurota Kurikawa
1942Onna keizu as Shunzo Sakai
1941A Man's Flower Road of Triumph as Habu Genseki
1941Iemitsu and Hikoza as Okubo Hikozaemon Tadataka
1940Roppa's Honeymoon as Unknown
1939Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei as Unknown
1937The Kingdom of Spectacles as Unknown
1937Japanese Women's Textbook as Unknown
1937Harikiri Boy as Nogawa
1934Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô as Unknown
1933Tipsy Life as Unknown
1932Namiko as Unknown