A man's face is his trump card

...In 1953, she remarried director Koji Shima (divorced in 1965), and after that she was strongly portrayed as a "fat mother" in films such as "Youth Ghost Stories" (1955), "Sunny Slope" (1958), and "A Man's Crest" (1963). Her last film was "A Man's Face is a Trump Card" (1966), directed by Makino Masahiro (now known as Makino Masahiro) and starring Ando Noboru, after which she died of illness at the age of 49. [Hirooka Tsutomu]...

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…53年，島耕二監督と再婚(1965年離婚)，その後は一転して《青春怪談》(1955)から《陽のあたる坂道》(1958)，《男の紋章》(1963)に至る〈ふとったお母さん〉のイメージが強い。マキノ正博改めマキノ雅裕監督，安藤昇主演の《男の顔は切り札》(1966)が最後の出演作になり，そのあと，49歳で病死した。【広岡 勉】。…

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