Hideaki Nagai
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 27, 1921
Deathday: March 16, 2002
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Tasogare ni hyōteki o ute
1982-01-05
Tasogare ni hyōteki o ute
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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Enraptured
1961-04-18
Enraptured
Overview: A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-18
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Love in the Mountains
1959-10-23
Love in the Mountains
Overview: A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-23
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湖愁
1962-03-11
湖愁
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-11
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Zoku aizen katsura
1962-10-24
Zoku aizen katsura
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Umi no Chizu
1959-06-30
Umi no Chizu
Overview: Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Kono ni uruwashi
1962-03-18
Kono ni uruwashi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
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A Woman's Life
1955-01-29
A Woman's Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Early Spring
1956-01-29
Early Spring
Overview: A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-29
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Hikkoshi yatsure
1961-06-09
Hikkoshi yatsure
Overview: Manao Horiuchi movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-09
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Zero Focus
1961-03-19
Zero Focus
Overview: One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-19
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Internees of Kampili
1960-09-29
Internees of Kampili
Overview: In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the island of Celebes. Eighteen-hundred Allied women and children were interned for the duration of the war. Yamaji's iron rule for camp administration is : No violence; hands off internees; He also endeavors to establish self-administration by internees while aiming at a self-supporting camp economy within six months. His ingenuity gains the camp numerous pigs to enrich their diet, and sewing machines with to make fatigue uniforms for the military. The internees are grateful for what little aid he can give them. As the tides of war changes, Allied planes bomb the camp in error. But the surrender of Japan changes everything, and the internees join forces to save their former camp commander from the gallows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-29
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A Japanese Tragedy
1953-06-17
A Japanese Tragedy
Overview: At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-17
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Flower and Snake 3: Punishment
1986-03-08
Flower and Snake 3: Punishment
Overview: When successful business man refuses to save the business of his former partner he has his wife and her student kidnapped. The former partner plans to take his revenge by forcing both women into sexual slavery by training them as SM porn stars.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-03-08
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Sunny house
1954-02-17
Sunny house
Overview: On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a day laborer. The eldest daughter Haruko, who is already nineteen years old, works in a clothing store, the second daughter Natsuko works in a restaurant, a schoolboy Akio is studying carpentry, and even the youngest Fuyuko helps her mother by working as a nanny in a neighboring house. Nearby lives a widowed electrician Tokuji Yamada with two boys - Norio and Tatsuo. He has a widowed daughter, Sakiko, who, along with a small child, ran away from home, as she is going through hard times. At Haruko's suggestion, Mitsu and Tokuji get married, and it would seem that happiness smiles on their new family, but it turned out to be short-lived…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-02-17
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Always in My Heart
1953-09-15
Always in My Heart
Overview: Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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荒木又右衛門
1955-09-21
荒木又右衛門
Overview: Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō killed Kazuma's younger brother, Gentayū, and fled. Seeking assistance, Kazuma asked his brother-in-law, Araki Mataemon, for help, but Mataemon refused, saying that it was against the code for a brother to avenge another brother's death. On the other hand, the lord of the clan, Ikeda Tadao, ordered a search for Matagorō, who was found to be sheltered by the Hatamoto, including Andō Jiemon, in Edo. Tadao was furious but unable to act. Matagorō, in Edo, came to regret his birth as a samurai. He met and fell in love with Okō, a bathhouse maid. As the discord between the Hatamoto and the Ikeda clan deepened, Tadao died of illness. Seizing the opportunity to ease the conflict, the shogunate ordered the Ikeda clan to be succeeded by the young lord Katsugorō and to relocate to the Ikeda clan of Inshū Tottori. Meanwhile, Matagorō was exiled from Edo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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Sotobori murder case
1960-03-25
Sotobori murder case
Overview: A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll start falling for each other against their odds.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
1962-09-01
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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There Was a Father
1942-04-01
There Was a Father
Overview: Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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White Blaze
1958-03-04
White Blaze
Overview: A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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The Shape of Night
1964-11-01
The Shape of Night
Overview: Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing demeanor and constant demands for money lead Yoshie down a dark path.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-01
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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
1954-06-08
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
Overview: The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child! A cheerful work depicting the problems between three generations of men and women in a bright and healthy manner.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
1962-12-05
Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
1962-12-30
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-30
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Wet Kimono
1983-03-12
Wet Kimono
Overview: In the early Showa period, a young woman named Asako drifts into a certain red light district. She appears in a white dress, straw hat, and white parasol, which is out of place in this area, but what kind of past does she have, and what are her feelings as she drifts there?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-12
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The Private Police
1969-09-06
The Private Police
Overview: After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-06
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Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
1974-12-07
Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
Overview: Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu's older sister, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly, if unhappily, involved with the gangsters.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-07
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The Cheating Underworld
1968-08-14
The Cheating Underworld
Overview: Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Waga seishun no eleven
1979-07-21
Waga seishun no eleven
Overview: Soccer movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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Surgical Designs in Flames
1986-05-24
Surgical Designs in Flames
Overview: A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-24
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Rush to Our Sweetheart
1963-02-09
Rush to Our Sweetheart
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-09
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One Way Ticket to Love
1960-04-15
One Way Ticket to Love
Overview: The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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Hattari Seinen Shinshi
1961-03-15
Hattari Seinen Shinshi
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Hearts A-Flutter
1957-12-15
Hearts A-Flutter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
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The Strangers Upstairs
1961-12-15
The Strangers Upstairs
Overview: After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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The Big Ambition
1955-03-30
The Big Ambition
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-30
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Only She Knows
1960-04-01
Only She Knows
Overview: A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Glory on the Summit
1962-07-29
Glory on the Summit
Overview: A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
1969-11-20
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Overview: An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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Onna no Naka no Kaze
1988-02-09
Onna no Naka no Kaze
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-09
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The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
1954-09-29
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
Overview: In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister and music lover Keiko (Misora), Keiko's classmate Sachiko (Ota Chieko) and her brother Shoji (Yamada) meet enthusiastically to brighten the town and help themselves grow. Ichiro's family lives with his father and Keiko in a milk shop, but Keiko's desire to go to music school is unlikely to be fulfilled. Meanwhile, Shoji's father is trying to get Shoji and Keiko married.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-29
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Gang Warfare
1972-04-14
Gang Warfare
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-14
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Women's Doctor
1964-07-18
Women's Doctor
Overview: Life of a bachelor gynecologist in a hospital for women.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-18
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