Ichirō Tsukida
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 11, 1909
Deathday: September 27, 1945
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Sun over the River
1934-05-17
Sun over the River
Overview: Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and separation. The film is considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-17
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敵は幾万ありとても
1944-09-01
敵は幾万ありとても
Overview: 1944 war movie
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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Life Begins at 61
1941-04-22
Life Begins at 61
Overview: Japanese war-era film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-04-22
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Poppy
1935-10-31
Poppy
Overview: Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-31
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The Lady and the Beard
1931-02-07
The Lady and the Beard
Overview: Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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I Flunked, But...
1930-04-11
I Flunked, But...
Overview: This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things don't work out for our roguish main character, but his classmates soon find themselves in a similarly sorry state...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-04-11
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I Believe I Am Being Followed
1945-03-08
I Believe I Am Being Followed
Overview: Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died in the Battle of Hong Kong.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-03-08
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The Comb of Oroku
1935-05-09
The Comb of Oroku
Overview: Once a wealthy local land owner, Toranosuke has long since fallen on hard times. Social ostracism befalls those who neglect communal duties and Toranosuke's life goes down hill by being exiled from the village. The story evolves around brother and sister Umakichi and Oroku left alone by their father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-05-09
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Battle Troop
1944-12-07
Battle Troop
Overview: Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-12-07
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Harbor of Life
1944-06-08
Harbor of Life
Overview: Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-06-08
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Bouquet of the South Seas
1942-05-21
Bouquet of the South Seas
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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The Cruel Sea
1944-05-25
The Cruel Sea
Overview: It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts a limit on the number of warships any country can possess. As a result, Japan has to decommission a ship to its makers' disappointment. An institute of technology's laboratory designs a new ship. Due to less ships, sailors have to retire and are also disappointed. The laboratory's manager and an admiral are visiting a patient at a hospital and meet coincidentally. The former has a daughter who worries about her father's workload. She asks him to accompany her to a concert. Father has little time, but is convinced for her sake. He is inspired for a ship's design at the performance. The film is inspired by the life of Jo Hiraga.
Genres: Action War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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Wings of Victory
1942-10-14
Wings of Victory
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-14
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The Dawn of Freedom
1944-02-10
The Dawn of Freedom
Overview: This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the Japanese invasion and takeover of their country.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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Kodakara fūfu
1941-02-26
Kodakara fūfu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-02-26
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Shanghai Landing Party
1939-05-19
Shanghai Landing Party
Overview: This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
1931-08-01
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
Overview: A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his new home, too.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Dancers of Awa
1941-05-21
Dancers of Awa
Overview: Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin. His brother (Kazuo Hasegawa) vowed vengeance on the day of his brother's death. So every year the villains are worried during the Awa Dance Festival (which is part of the Obon festival), but nothing has ever happened, until seven years later...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-21
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New Clothing
1936-03-05
New Clothing
Overview: Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth destined for Buddhist priesthood; it concluded with their separation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-03-05
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The Luck Which Touched the Leg
1930-10-03
The Luck Which Touched the Leg
Overview: A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start borrowing money and selling him things he doesn't need, much to his wife's annoyance. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-10-03
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The Revengeful Spirit of Eros
1930-07-27
The Revengeful Spirit of Eros
Overview: A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently discovers that his lover is also alive and working in a dance hall. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-07-27
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Silver Stream
1931-02-14
Silver Stream
Overview: Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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Mother of the Red Hands
1941-09-03
Mother of the Red Hands
Overview: The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village. She is a strong-minded girl and very popular among young children. I guess that this story is one of the origins of girl's manga in the 1950s in which I belonged to the first generation of Japanese story manga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-09-03
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Rainbow Hill
1938-03-11
Rainbow Hill
Overview: A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named Hasegawa checks into the hotel in order to recuperate in a calm environment with fresh air. She is the mother of the store employee. The mother and daughter were separated due to the Kanto earthquake. The girl was practically raised by her older half brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-03-11
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Sky of Hope
1942-01-14
Sky of Hope
Overview: What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-01-14
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Beautiful Departure
1939-02-21
Beautiful Departure
Overview: A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the family's second daughter who has an insecure bone in her body and ponders a day when the good times might end. Then one day the family-owned company goes bankrupt and a new era begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-02-21
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