Hiroshi Akutagawa
Biography: Hiroshi Akutagawa (芥川比呂志) was born on March 20, 1920 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953), Gan (1953) and Tôkyô yawa (1961). He died on October 25, 1981 in Tokyo.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 20, 1920
Deathday: October 25, 1981
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The Rickshaw Man
1958-04-21
The Rickshaw Man
Overview: A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970-01-26
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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The Wild Geese
1953-09-15
The Wild Geese
Overview: A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953-11-23
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Overview: A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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A Thousand and One Nights
1969-06-14
A Thousand and One Nights
Overview: Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Hōryū-ji
1958-01-01
Hōryū-ji
Overview: This celebrated documentary, filmed in colour, depicts one of the most famous of all Japanese temples. Horyu-ji, in the small town of Ikaruga outside Japan’s ancient capital of Nara, was one of the first Buddhist places of worship established in Japan, and contains the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the world, dating from the seventh century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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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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Night and Fog in Japan
1960-10-09
Night and Fog in Japan
Overview: Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-09
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Kyoto
1969-01-01
Kyoto
Overview: Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Dodes'ka-den
1970-10-31
Dodes'ka-den
Overview: This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-31
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A Certain Woman
1954-03-13
A Certain Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-13
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Night Butterflies
1957-04-01
Night Butterflies
Overview: A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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How Sorrowful
1956-09-07
How Sorrowful
Overview: The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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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 Valley Between Love and Death
1954-09-21
The Valley Between Love and Death
Overview: A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-21
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Eyes of Children
1956-01-15
Eyes of Children
Overview: A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds over the treatment of his daughter, with accusations that he abused the little girl. A sensational trial ensues in which the lawyer becomes a defendant, and secrets from childhood fester even into adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970-04-18
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Overview: An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Jose Torres II
1965-03-04
Jose Torres II
Overview: This is the sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres, who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. We follow Torres from his training in preparation to challenge world lightweight champion Willie Pastrano, to the match and Torres’ victory in 1965. The contrast between the nervous Torres before the match, filmed in painstaking detail, and the first round, filmed in one shot, is striking.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-04
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Till We Meet Again
1950-03-21
Till We Meet Again
Overview: Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-21
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
1969-10-16
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Overview: This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-16
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