Chisako Hara
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 06, 1936
Deathday: January 19, 2020
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Known For
Black Angel 2
1999-11-13
Black Angel 2
Overview: Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the way. It's none other than Yamambe, who once rescued Mayo from a rape and has lived in her heart since then.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-13
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Attack from Space
1965-03-06
Attack from Space
Overview: The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
2003-08-02
Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
Overview: Once again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes to defeat Scropis. Musashi has joined Team Sea to save the Blue Area. But there is mysterious evil monster, Sandros, who wants to destroy the Earth. Now it is up Musashi and Ultraman Cosmos to defeat Sandros and who’s the other Ultraman?
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-02
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Hagure kigeki mandara
1962-02-24
Hagure kigeki mandara
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-24
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Pale Flower
1964-03-01
Pale Flower
Overview: A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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Evil Brain from Outer Space
1966-01-21
Evil Brain from Outer Space
Overview: An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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Atomic Rulers
1965-04-10
Atomic Rulers
Overview: Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-10
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Dupe
1965-10-01
Dupe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Ayako
1962-02-24
Ayako
Overview: An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-24
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Jesus' Ark
1985-12-09
Jesus' Ark
Overview: One-episode drama starring Beat Takeshi depicting the turbulent life of the protagonist Takeyoshi Sengoku, based on the "Jesus' Ark Incident".
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-09
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Bullet Wound
1969-09-10
Bullet Wound
Overview: Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to take out both parties. After almost getting assassinated himself, he takes a wounded civilian with him despite living in a world where no one can be trusted.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-10
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Invaders from Space
1965-05-31
Invaders from Space
Overview: A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-31
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Preparation for the Festival
1975-11-08
Preparation for the Festival
Overview: Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-08
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Devil's Flute
1979-01-20
Devil's Flute
Overview: Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.
Genres: Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-20
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Josei jishin
1962-05-22
Josei jishin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-22
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Heso no taisho
1962-06-20
Heso no taisho
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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The Chastity Boy and Miss Brassiere
1958-01-18
The Chastity Boy and Miss Brassiere
Overview: Early pinku.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-18
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The Ceremony
1971-05-18
The Ceremony
Overview: Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-18
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Sararīman yajikita dōchū
1961-06-27
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-27
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Dark Water
2002-01-19
Dark Water
Overview: A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-19
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The Desperate
1964-04-18
The Desperate
Overview: A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo (Hara Chisako), the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi (Hisashi Igawa) and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-18
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The Burning Buddha Man
2013-02-23
The Burning Buddha Man
Overview: There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family's temple stolen and has her parents killed at the same time. She needs to know what caused the death of a parents and dreams of revenge. She goes on a fantastical journey to ultimately face the demon. The entire film is produced by hand drawing all the gods 'manifesto animation' or 'gekimation' based on the amazing hand drawings.
Genres: Horror Animation Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-23
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Girls of the Night
1961-09-04
Girls of the Night
Overview: In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1995-09-02
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
Overview: Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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The Men Who Made Ultraman
1989-03-21
The Men Who Made Ultraman
Overview: A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-21
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Faraway Sunset
1992-07-04
Faraway Sunset
Overview: Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent that cause syphilis, and for his relentless search for a cure to yellow fever. As a toddler, his mother's neglect had caused an accident to his left hand, fusing together all the fingers in a bizarre twist of fate. Naturally extremely remorseful for being the cause of her son's handicap, she does everything she could to ensure that he gets to lead a normal life, despite having to fend off bullies and unfair prejudices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-04
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Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears
1958-04-29
Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears
Overview: The 7th Super Giant film. Super Giant battles a marauding alien brain-like creature created by a mad scientist and an alien army. (stand-alone episode)
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Summer Days Across the River
1973-10-26
Summer Days Across the River
Overview: Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007-04-14
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
Overview: Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and emotional strength of his mother Okan. Following a period of intensely rebellious behavior, Boku learns that his mom has contracted cancer; suddenly, his mother comes to live with him in Tokyo the entire emotional landscape of his life is altered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-14
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Rampo Noir
2005-05-11
Rampo Noir
Overview: An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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Our Wasteland
1969-06-28
Our Wasteland
Overview: Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day. Meanwhile, his best friend Jun wants to build a home on some local wasteland. Yet the introduction of Yuki, who they both fall in love with, begins to tear their friendship apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-28
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Marriage of the sky and the sea
1962-12-19
Marriage of the sky and the sea
Overview: A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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It Was a Faint Dream
1974-10-26
It Was a Faint Dream
Overview: Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and the brother of a retired Emperor. Realising that she is only a plaything of the court, she becomes a nun and wanders the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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This Greedy Old Skin
1960-09-18
This Greedy Old Skin
Overview: A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-18
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Gekkyū dorobō
1962-12-08
Gekkyū dorobō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-08
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The Approach of Autumn
1960-10-01
The Approach of Autumn
Overview: A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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Murder on D Street
1998-05-16
Murder on D Street
Overview: Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-16
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Hachiko
1987-08-01
Hachiko
Overview: The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Demon King of Yoja Manor
1957-10-22
Demon King of Yoja Manor
Overview: During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayatori, deputy director of Hayatori Hospital, grows suspicious of Akuri, founder of the new religion “Reihi-kyo,” who had predicted these incidents. Together with his fiancée Mitsuko Nogata and friend Chief Kamimura, he investigates Akuri. It’s revealed that Akuri conspired with Dr. Sakurada, a psychiatrist, using a brainwave-disrupting ray to cause Tsubota and Tsukita’s collapse. Disguised as “Busujima,” Sakurada operates from a nearby villa. Meanwhile, Dr. Stanley from Monotor Republic plans to assassinate conglomerate Maurice and enlists Sakurada to create a half-animal man. Soon after, Akuri predicts Tsubota’s death as Sakurada aims to showcase the creature’s power for profit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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Broken Blossoms
1959-02-25
Broken Blossoms
Overview: War drama about army nurses.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-25
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Wait and See
1998-12-19
Wait and See
Overview: A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-19
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Kegareta nikutai seijo
1958-11-29
Kegareta nikutai seijo
Overview: A sensual love-story between two lesbian nuns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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When the Cookie Crumbles
1967-06-09
When the Cookie Crumbles
Overview: Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-09
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Have Wings on Your Heart
1978-10-14
Have Wings on Your Heart
Overview: Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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The Skies of Haruo
1977-12-19
The Skies of Haruo
Overview: 1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-19
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日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦
1957-04-23
日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-23
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Kingorō no omawari-san
1956-08-05
Kingorō no omawari-san
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-05
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黄金奉行
1958-06-29
黄金奉行
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-29
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Love in the Mud
1977-07-30
Love in the Mud
Overview: This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-30
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The Twilight Story
1960-08-28
The Twilight Story
Overview: In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-28
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The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
1979-12-01
The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
Overview: A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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Village of Eight Tombs
1969-10-04
Village of Eight Tombs
Overview: Japanese horror thriller from 1969.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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Woman of Design
1962-01-28
Woman of Design
Overview: Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-28
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The Lost Alibi
1960-03-13
The Lost Alibi
Overview: Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-13
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Sanshiro Sugata
1965-05-29
Sanshiro Sugata
Overview: Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-29
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Bonds of Love
1969-02-15
Bonds of Love
Overview: Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei's life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison - with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-15
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The Ghost of Kasane
1957-07-10
The Ghost of Kasane
Overview: A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-10
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Summer of Ubume
2005-07-15
Summer of Ubume
Overview: Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a detective with the unusual ability to see people's memories. They are hired by the impossibly pregnant woman's sister to find the woman's missing husband and lay this whole matter to rest. In the end, they need the help of Kyogokudo to exorcise the family curse.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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The Woman Dicer
1968-10-02
The Woman Dicer
Overview: Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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Free and Easy 8
1996-08-10
Free and Easy 8
Overview: When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-10
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The Secret Ceremony
1971-06-23
The Secret Ceremony
Overview: Erotic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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Tengoku wa doko da
1956-04-23
Tengoku wa doko da
Overview: Japanese drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-23
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Lily Festival
2001-08-26
Lily Festival
Overview: Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-26
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Attack on Titan
2015-08-01
Attack on Titan
Overview: 100 years ago, titans suddenly appeared on Earth. Soon, human civilization veered on collapse due to the titans. Humans then built a giant wall to defend themselves. Within the giant walls, humans lived in peace, but, 100 years later, the giant wall is broken.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-01
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1990-05-11
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Overview: Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Blue Lake Girl
1986-11-04
Blue Lake Girl
Overview: Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.
Genres: Romance Horror Fantasy Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-11-04
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967-10-28
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Overview: The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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Eternal Monument
1982-06-12
Eternal Monument
Overview: A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-12
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The Key
1983-12-24
The Key
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-24
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Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983-11-15
Lanterns on Blue Waters
Overview: The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-15
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The Cola Game
1959-07-28
The Cola Game
Overview: Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or strip. The woman, Junko, becomes involved with Makoto, leader of the gang, becomes pregnant, has an abortion, then gets involved with an architect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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A Man in Red
1961-09-12
A Man in Red
Overview: Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza running a dope ring. Battling gangsters all the way, Takashi searches for his former girlfriend, now a drug addict.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020-07-11
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
Overview: A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa, answers his call and warmly accepts him. Pretending as her grandson, he settles down in the town. He gets used to his friendship with young villagers, the sound and landscape of Amakusa, and the old lady’s everyday life.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-11
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Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
2019-03-09
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
Overview: Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transferred from Aizu Wakamatsu City to Naraho Town to take over the Disaster PR Division. Murai takes Kokuhei around Fukushima including areas washed away by the tsunami. They examine the still incomplete railway lines, the unfinished decontamination area and villages in the danger zone, where deadly cesium continues to pile up. One day Kokuhei is told to organize a party to celebrate the professor who has been appointed as deputy director of the Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-03-09
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1967-10-28
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Overview: The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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Girl's Reform School
1956-02-05
Girl's Reform School
Overview: The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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Women Doing Time
1966-03-05
Women Doing Time
Overview: Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-05
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Lovers of Ginza
1961-01-15
Lovers of Ginza
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Kwaidan
1992-08-21
Kwaidan
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Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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Chained Bitch
1965-10-15
Chained Bitch
Overview: Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-15
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The Preacher of Love
1961-02-01
The Preacher of Love
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
1961-08-29
Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
1969-04-12
25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
Overview: Police detective Amachi fights against those who banished him from his job-both cops and criminals.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-12
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偽りの花嫁
1982-05-29
偽りの花嫁
Overview: A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then, finally, a murder occurs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-05-29
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Different Sons
1961-11-12
Different Sons
Overview: In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden unemployment later in life causes friction among the siblings of the Akagi family. Kensuke, a salaryman at a top company, refuses to support his parents while his brother, Shoji, determines to care for them despite only working as a taxi driver. The concern over money affects Noriko's own love life as she courts a wealthy salaryman to the chagrin of her mechanic boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-12
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