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Birthday: Not available
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Popularity:
1962-06-17
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-17
Popularity:
1970-08-22
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-22
Popularity:
1960-11-01
Overview: Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-01
Popularity:
1961-10-29
Overview: Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-29
Popularity:
1959-02-11
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
Popularity:
1965-01-23
Overview: Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-23
Popularity:
1963-03-30
Overview: Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-30
Popularity:
1964-05-02
Overview: Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-02
Popularity:
1967-07-29
Overview: A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-29
Popularity:
1959-05-13
Overview: The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-13
Popularity:
1962-09-16
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-16
Popularity:
1965-11-13
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
Popularity:
1961-10-14
Overview: One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-14
Popularity:
1966-06-04
Overview: Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-04
Popularity:
1966-09-17
Overview: A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.
Genres: Action War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-17
Popularity:
1969-06-14
Overview: A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
Popularity:
1964-08-22
Overview: Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-22
Popularity:
1962-06-30
Overview: Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-30
Popularity:
1965-03-18
Overview: A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Genres: Action War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-18
Popularity:
1965-11-27
Overview: A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-27
Popularity:
1966-04-17
Overview: Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-17
Popularity:
1960-10-08
Overview: A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
Popularity:
1959-12-01
Overview: A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-01
Popularity:
1961-12-17
Overview: Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-17
Popularity:
1968-02-24
Overview: Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-24
Popularity:
1961-03-08
Overview: A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young wife is a female doctor who has made a name for herself in sex medicine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-08
Popularity:
1959-08-19
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-19
Popularity:
1960-02-10
Overview: Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-10
Popularity:
1963-11-02
Overview: The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-02
Popularity:
1965-09-04
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-04
Popularity:
1961-05-31
Overview: 1961 Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-31
Popularity:
1963-04-14
Overview: A bright and cheerful story about a young girl who comes to Tokyo from the countryside, relying on her aunt to become a maid, and willingly aspires to become a maid and lives a healthy life despite the hardships she encounters with people from all walks of life. Ririko Tachibana moved to Tokyo in reliance on her aunt Motoko, who lives in Tokyo. When Ririko leaves her classmate Chizuko Misawa, who says she is going to rely on jazz singer Michi Nozoe, and arrives at her aunt's house, she is disappointed to find that a job has been arranged for her as a nanny. Her dream of attending night high school was dashed, but Ririko made up her mind to do her best to do as much as she could. The Honbashi family, where she was employed, lived alone with the widow Shinae, and Mrs Shinae was asked to go to her daughters' house to help out...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-14
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