Taizō Fukami
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 22, 1901
Deathday: N/A
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An Enemy of the People
1946-04-25
An Enemy of the People
Overview: Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-04-25
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Crazed Fruit
1956-07-12
Crazed Fruit
Overview: Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-12
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The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
1964-09-17
The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
Overview: The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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Keshin
1962-01-14
Keshin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Enoken's Bow-Wow General
1940-07-16
Enoken's Bow-Wow General
Overview: Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Genres: Drama Music Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-07-16
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A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
1941-12-30
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-12-30
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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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Sisters of the Gion
1936-10-15
Sisters of the Gion
Overview: Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-10-15
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White Beast
1950-06-03
White Beast
Overview: The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-03
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Machi
1939-08-20
Machi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-08-20
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The Man Who Waited
1942-04-23
The Man Who Waited
Overview: A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snooping around, however, he finds himself reluctantly drawn in to the case.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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Hometown
1937-04-07
Hometown
Overview: Set in a rural area of Shinshu, a drama in which a woman who graduated from a women's college in Tokyo with her brother's efforts opens up a new life in her hometown where she is tired of the city. The original is a stage play by Yobun Kaneko. Directed and written by Mansaku Itami.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-07
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Semyonov's Gold Ingots
1956-06-26
Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Overview: Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his gold bullion somewhere.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-26
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Escape at Dawn
1950-01-08
Escape at Dawn
Overview: Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-08
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Keshô yuki
1940-02-14
Keshô yuki
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-02-14
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Jigoku no hatoba
1956-03-04
Jigoku no hatoba
Overview: A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witnesses two men shooting each other and collapsing on the quay while his assistant Shinsuke is away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-04
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Singing Yaji and Kita in Kyoto and Osaka
1937-07-21
Singing Yaji and Kita in Kyoto and Osaka
Overview: Musical movie depicting adventures of Yaji and Kita (from the famous novel) in Kyoto and Osaka
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-21
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Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
1938-09-18
Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
Overview: This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an 80-minute compilation of the first (東海道の巻 or "Tokaido no maki") and second (日本晴れの巻 or "Japan's Fine Weather Reel") parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-18
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Eight Hours of Terror
1957-03-08
Eight Hours of Terror
Overview: A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Travelling Actors
1940-12-18
Travelling Actors
Overview: This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-12-18
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The Lady of Musashino
1951-09-14
The Lady of Musashino
Overview: Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close, but decide not to consummate their affair. He instead becomes involved with the flirtatious Tomiko, who is also conducting an affair with Michiko's husband. When Michiko finds that her husband has abandoned her, she decides to take her fate into her own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-14
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Snow Trail
1947-08-05
Snow Trail
Overview: Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-08-05
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Hatoba de akuma ga warau toki
1962-01-03
Hatoba de akuma ga warau toki
Overview: Japanese action film distributed by Taiho.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Yoru no hato
1937-05-11
Yoru no hato
Overview: Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-11
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Nangoku taiheiki
1937-08-11
Nangoku taiheiki
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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Ichiyo Higuchi
1939-05-31
Ichiyo Higuchi
Overview: Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-31
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
1945-06-28
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Overview: In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumored, drove the previous champion (Kazuma’s father) to suicide. Possessed of much raw talent, Kazuma is also very much a coward, holing himself up in an inn run by the kindly Okinu (Kinuyo Tanaka) and generally avoiding confrontation of any sort. Despite his clandestine manner, enough of the locals know of Kazuma’s purpose and an attempt is made on his life. He is saved by Karatsu Kanbei (Kazuo Hasegawa), a samurai who offers to help Kazuma hone his archery skills, though it soon becomes clear that this apparently selfless stranger has several potentially shady ulterior motives.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-06-28
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The Fencing Master
1962-09-30
The Fencing Master
Overview: The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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A Fond Face from the Past
1941-01-18
A Fond Face from the Past
Overview: A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because it is also his most direct engagement with the culture of war. When a newsreel comes to Kameoka featuring a local man named Yoichi, it causes some excitement in the community and, of course, in Yoichi's own family. First of all his mother makes the newsreel (Nippon News, no. 14), which begins with the same marching music that opens his own film, followed by a curious baby judging context in Los Angeles featuring two hundred Japanese babies. Released in January 1941, almost a year before the pacific war begins, this “found footage” is indicative of Japanese imperialist ambitions beyond Asia long before Pearl Harbor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-01-18
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Mother Never Dies
1942-09-24
Mother Never Dies
Overview: The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-09-24
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Street of Violence
1950-02-26
Street of Violence
Overview: An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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The Burning Sky
1940-05-10
The Burning Sky
Overview: The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China. Army supported the production, providing all the authentic airplanes, training and actual actions. They even provided the older biplanes disguised as Chinese fighter planes. Obinata plays the trainer-turned-combat-leader, who is passionate and cool at the same time. All his boys love him, of course. The film is not as intense, full of sugar-coated camaraderie, until young pilots are killed in action one by one. Last twenty minutes are fairly grim, as the message of self-sacrifice is heard loud and clear.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-10
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Red Pier
1958-09-23
Red Pier
Overview: Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941-11-30
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Overview: This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-11-30
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Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
1957-01-03
Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
Overview: A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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The Guitarist from the Sea
1960-02-28
The Guitarist from the Sea
Overview: Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-28
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Wind of Volcano
1960-05-28
Wind of Volcano
Overview: An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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Dispersed Clouds
1951-11-23
Dispersed Clouds
Overview: Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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Song of the Underworld
1956-12-12
Song of the Underworld
Overview: A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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Mahiru no wana
1960-12-18
Mahiru no wana
Overview: On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-18
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The Flower and the Sword
1964-11-11
The Flower and the Sword
Overview: A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Old Songs
1939-02-01
Old Songs
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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Iemitsu and Hikoza
1941-03-26
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Overview: A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-26
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Passion and Rifle Bullets
1955-09-21
Passion and Rifle Bullets
Overview: Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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The Third Will
1963-03-31
The Third Will
Overview: A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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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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Chikagai nijuyojikan
1947-04-29
Chikagai nijuyojikan
Overview: 1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-04-29
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The Street Without Sun
1954-06-24
The Street Without Sun
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Temptation
1957-09-22
Temptation
Overview: Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-22
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Lone Wolf
1960-08-27
Lone Wolf
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-27
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Hideko the Cheerleader
1940-01-31
Hideko the Cheerleader
Overview: Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-31
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The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
1937-10-21
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
Overview: A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man and a girl. The latter is the daughter of Shogun's former wife and also has revenge on her mind. The former is also connected to the castle. Separately a girl lives at the shogun's castle and believes in god.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-21
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Story of Leadership
1941-10-04
Story of Leadership
Overview: In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is finding the task overwhelming as it is hard work with practical lessons and classroom components. His wife has died, but he has three daughters with the oldest taking care of her younger siblings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-10-04
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Numazu Officer School
1939-02-21
Numazu Officer School
Overview: Japanese war movie
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-02-21
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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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Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
1966-01-01
Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Itahachi shima
1938-07-03
Itahachi shima
Overview: Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-07-03
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