Eiko Miyoshi
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 08, 1894
Deathday: July 28, 1963
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Known For
The Hidden Fortress
1958-12-28
The Hidden Fortress
Overview: In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-28
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Stray Dog
1949-10-17
Stray Dog
Overview: A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Escape Zone
1953-03-19
Escape Zone
Overview: Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a beautiful woman with a sad face.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-19
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I Live in Fear
1955-11-22
I Live in Fear
Overview: Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-22
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954-09-25
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Overview: Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-25
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The Idiot
1951-05-23
The Idiot
Overview: Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-23
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The Lower Depths
1957-10-01
The Lower Depths
Overview: Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Good Morning
1959-05-12
Good Morning
Overview: A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-12
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No Regrets for Our Youth
1946-10-29
No Regrets for Our Youth
Overview: Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-10-29
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White Fish
1953-08-05
White Fish
Overview: A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-05
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
1953-11-11
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
Overview: Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being too boring and uninteresting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-11
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The President Talks Bank
1956-03-20
The President Talks Bank
Overview: The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-20
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Samurai Saga
1959-04-28
Samurai Saga
Overview: Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Omatsuri hanjiro
1953-11-23
Omatsuri hanjiro
Overview: Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather toward the port town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1958-12-07
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1951-12-21
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Overview: Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-21
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Assistant President
1958-01-03
Assistant President
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Clothes of Deception
1951-01-13
Clothes of Deception
Overview: The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-13
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955-10-05
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-05
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A Holiday in Tokyo
1958-04-15
A Holiday in Tokyo
Overview: May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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A Boy and Three Mothers
1958-02-18
A Boy and Three Mothers
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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The President's Boss
1956-01-03
The President's Boss
Overview: A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-03
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Jigoku bana
1957-06-25
Jigoku bana
Overview: Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-25
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The Blue Pearl
1951-08-03
The Blue Pearl
Overview: The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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Third Class Executives
1952-05-30
Third Class Executives
Overview: 1950s Japanese comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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Escape from Prison
1950-01-04
Escape from Prison
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-04
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Ikiru
1952-10-09
Ikiru
Overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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Throne of Blood
1957-01-15
Throne of Blood
Overview: Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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Mother
1952-06-12
Mother
Overview: A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-12
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A Wife's Heart
1956-05-03
A Wife's Heart
Overview: Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-03
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An Inn at Osaka
1954-04-20
An Inn at Osaka
Overview: An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-20
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953-03-05
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Overview: Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
1941-03-16
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Overview: Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-16
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Bot-chan
1953-06-15
Bot-chan
Overview: 1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-15
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Firefly Light
1958-03-18
Firefly Light
Overview: Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi. She does not have an easy life. Her husband, Isuke (Ban Junzaburo), is a wastrel who fancies himself a kabuki singer and who is obsessed with cleanliness. Her mother-in-law, Sada (Miyoshi Eiko) dislikes her because of her humble origins (her family are farmers) and because she fears that she will inherit the inn instead of Sugi, her daughter. Sada's hopes for Sugi, however, are dashed when she runs off with a con artist and leaves her child behind for Tose to take care of. When Sada becomes seriously ill, it is Tose who nurses her. On her deathbed, Sada asks her daughter-in-law's forgiveness. Meanwhile Isuke spends most of his time with a mistress he has taken, forcing Tose to manage the inn by herself
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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女大学野球狂時代
1956-07-26
女大学野球狂時代
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-26
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Okuni and Gohei
1952-04-10
Okuni and Gohei
Overview: A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-10
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A Whistle in My Heart
1959-03-29
A Whistle in My Heart
Overview: The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-29
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Mr. Pu
1953-04-15
Mr. Pu
Overview: A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-15
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1956-10-09
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Overview: Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-09
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Marital Relations
1955-09-13
Marital Relations
Overview: The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-13
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Snow Country
1957-04-30
Snow Country
Overview: It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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Sword for Hire
1952-05-22
Sword for Hire
Overview: Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-22
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Black River
1957-10-23
Black River
Overview: A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955-07-12
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Overview: After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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Carmen's Innocent Love
1952-11-13
Carmen's Innocent Love
Overview: Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-13
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The Unbalanced Wheel
1957-07-03
The Unbalanced Wheel
Overview: A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-03
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The Cock Crows Twice
1954-11-30
The Cock Crows Twice
Overview: Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-30
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The Days of Evil Women
1958-11-30
The Days of Evil Women
Overview: The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-30
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The Skin of the South
1952-02-28
The Skin of the South
Overview: When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-28
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The Beast Shall Die
1959-06-09
The Beast Shall Die
Overview: A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-09
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952-11-02
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Overview: A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-02
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Husband and Wife
1953-01-22
Husband and Wife
Overview: A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-22
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
1953-01-09
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Overview: Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Tokyo Twilight
1957-04-30
Tokyo Twilight
Overview: Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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A Case of Honor
1957-02-20
A Case of Honor
Overview: The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-20
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954-11-23
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Overview: This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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Boyhood
1951-05-12
Boyhood
Overview: When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-12
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The Big Ambition
1955-03-30
The Big Ambition
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-30
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Jacks and Jills
1956-08-15
Jacks and Jills
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-15
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My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953-01-15
My Wonderful Yellow Car
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-15
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Their Father's Wife
1953-05-27
Their Father's Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-27
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Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953-08-19
Youth of Heiji Senigata
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Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-19
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Love Never Fails
1955-04-01
Love Never Fails
Overview: Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the other boy and the girl find they cannot forget him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Forbidden Path
1952-07-08
Forbidden Path
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-08
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Sunflower Girl
1953-03-26
Sunflower Girl
Overview: Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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Elegy
1951-02-22
Elegy
Overview: Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-22
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社長太平記
1959-01-03
社長太平記
Overview: Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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The Third President
1958-03-18
The Third President
Overview: The fifth entry in the Company President Series
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
1959-03-15
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
Overview: 7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-15
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Street of Shame
1956-03-18
Street of Shame
Overview: The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-18
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