Ryōtarō Mizushima
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 30, 1884
Deathday: January 01, 1954
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Honoo no sora
1927-10-14
Honoo no sora
Overview: Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1927-10-14
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On the Verge of Spiritual Light
1922-01-02
On the Verge of Spiritual Light
Overview: Directed by Kiyomatsu Hosoyama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1922-01-02
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Umi mo yusha
1927-10-26
Umi mo yusha
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1927-10-26
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Arashi no naka no shojo
1932-07-15
Arashi no naka no shojo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-07-15
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Kare to Tokyo
1928-05-12
Kare to Tokyo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-05-12
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Surging Waves
1939-10-13
Surging Waves
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Moken no himitsu
1924-03-14
Moken no himitsu
Overview: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-03-14
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Haha o tataeru uta
1939-07-06
Haha o tataeru uta
Overview: A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-07-06
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Sasaki Kojiro
1951-10-26
Sasaki Kojiro
Overview: Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as the legendary master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for the first time and essentially sets the standard for future portrayals.This masterpiece is based on the original story as written by noted author Murakami Genzo and is far superior to any other versions. Following Kojiro from his earliest days through his fateful meeting with Musashi, this movie is filled with exciting and dramatic moments culminating in the best version of the final duel ever seen on film.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
1932-10-13
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Overview: When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-10-13
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Okoto and Sasuke
1935-06-15
Okoto and Sasuke
Overview: A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-15
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So Goes My Love
1938-04-01
So Goes My Love
Overview: Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Sumida River
1942-09-03
Sumida River
Overview: Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-09-03
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A Certain Woman
1942-10-29
A Certain Woman
Overview: Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forgive him and even thank him for the path her life has taken.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-29
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
1933-02-01
The Dancing Girl of Izu
Overview: "The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-02-01
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Burden of Life
1935-12-10
Burden of Life
Overview: A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-12-10
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
1941-03-16
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Overview: Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-16
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The Groom Talks in His Sleep
1935-01-13
The Groom Talks in His Sleep
Overview: This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of gags.' Much of the films' distinction comes from the wit of Gosho's direction, the imaginative use of the new sound technology and the charm of the acting, particularly of the heroines (Kinuyo Tanaka in Bride; Hiroko Kawasaki in Groom). Yet in both films, Gosho finds room for some shrewd observation of character and environment, subtly exploring the values and assumptions of the suburban petit bourgeoisie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-01-13
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Family Diary
1938-09-29
Family Diary
Overview: Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-29
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Family Meeting
1936-04-03
Family Meeting
Overview: A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-03
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
1937-04-29
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Overview: Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-29
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Vermilion and Green
1937-04-17
Vermilion and Green
Overview: A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Parent
1929-08-01
Parent
Overview: A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-08-01
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Men vs. Women
1936-08-29
Men vs. Women
Overview: A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-08-29
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Island Girl
1933-03-15
Island Girl
Overview: Japanese silent film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-03-15
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Anguish of a Human Being
1923-05-31
Anguish of a Human Being
Overview: Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1923-05-31
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Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
1934-06-28
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Overview: Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-06-28
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Daini no shuppatsu
1939-11-09
Daini no shuppatsu
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-11-09
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Winter Camellia
1921-04-24
Winter Camellia
Overview: Directed in 1921
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1921-04-24
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Warm Current
1939-12-01
Warm Current
Overview: Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Trio's Engagements
1937-07-18
The Trio's Engagements
Overview: Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-18
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
1939-04-01
A Brother and His Younger Sister
Overview: A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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Eikichi the Chauffeur
1924-01-02
Eikichi the Chauffeur
Overview: Directed by Minoru Murata.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-01-02
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The Living Corpse
1918-03-31
The Living Corpse
Overview: A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1918-03-31
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