Yōyō Kojima
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 16, 1891
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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Fateful Birthplace
1961-09-06
Fateful Birthplace
Overview: A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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Yasubei Nakayama
1951-03-31
Yasubei Nakayama
Overview: Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-31
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新遊侠伝
1951-05-05
新遊侠伝
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-05
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Duel in the Sun
1950-03-07
Duel in the Sun
Overview: A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-07
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Red Peony of Night
1950-12-08
Red Peony of Night
Overview: A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
1937-02-20
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
Overview: Story of a bandit king part 2.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-20
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Enoken's Singing Detective Story
1948-12-31
Enoken's Singing Detective Story
Overview: A modern take on history with songs and comedy presented by Enoken (as Gonza), Fujiyama (as Sukeju), and Kasagi (Gonza’s wife Osaki).
Genres: History Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-31
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The Kingdom of Spectacles
1937-06-01
The Kingdom of Spectacles
Overview: Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's wallet. While everyone is trying to hunt down the thief, Hide-chan decides to make the most of it and enjoy her stay, while the thief and his main pursuer (Akira Kishii) play hide-and-seek among the funfair's spectacles and freakshows
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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あゝ洞爺丸
1954-11-08
あゝ洞爺丸
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-08
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悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
1953-04-29
悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
Overview: When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and was praised as a "Malay tiger." However, the situation in Japan changed steadily by the failure of Sai pan from the GA Talca translation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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What Made Her Do It?
1930-02-06
What Made Her Do It?
Overview: Sumiko's father sends her to live with her alcoholic uncle. He sells her to a circus, which is the start of a downward spiral in an unforgiving world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-02-06
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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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Green Earth
1942-04-01
Green Earth
Overview: Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950-01-22
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Overview: Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-22
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Karayuki-san
1937-03-11
Karayuki-san
Overview: "Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-11
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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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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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The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye: An Episode from the Tales of Flowers
1935-03-07
The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye: An Episode from the Tales of Flowers
Overview: When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that Kaoru finds in the company of her beautiful sister-in-law is frustrated by her brother Mitsuo, Miyoko's husband, who intervenes in their budding passion. Full of unspoken words, deeply suggestive mise-en-scène, and forbidden glances, Fukujuso is a compelling melodrama that surprises us with its potent homoeroticism, especially considering its year of production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-07
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Oath on the Burning Sands
1940-12-25
Oath on the Burning Sands
Overview: A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at building a highway through the "bandit"- (aka anti-Japanese militia-) infested hinterlands.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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Murder on The Last Train
1955-06-21
Murder on The Last Train
Overview: One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-21
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The Eleventh Hour
1957-11-24
The Eleventh Hour
Overview: Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-24
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Mother's Melody
1937-03-03
Mother's Melody
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Flowers Blooming In the Storm
1940-07-03
Flowers Blooming In the Storm
Overview: Jidaigeki from 1940
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-07-03
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Living Image
1948-10-12
Living Image
Overview: A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-12
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Toyuki
1940-02-07
Toyuki
Overview: Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-02-07
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Song of the White Orchid
1939-11-30
Song of the White Orchid
Overview: Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Continental Trilogy.” Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) runs up against an impertinent Yamaguchi (representing the continent); not surprisingly, in the course of the film the woman comes around and realizes the benevolent intentions of the Japanese. In Song of the White Orchid Yamaguchi leaves Hasegawa, who plays an expatriate working for the railway, because of a misunderstanding. She joins a communist guerilla group plotting to blow up the Manchurian railway. Learning of the subterfuge that led to the misunderstanding, she renews her faith in Hasegawa—and by extension Japan—and tries to undermine the plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-11-30
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
1937-02-11
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
Overview: Story of a bandit king.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-11
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Hikoroku Laughs a lot
1936-11-12
Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Overview: Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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Enoken's Yaji and Kita
1939-12-29
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
Overview: Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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The Man of Seven Faces
1960-04-26
The Man of Seven Faces
Overview: Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
1935-10-09
Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
Overview: Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His company hasn't paid his backsalary and he doesn't know how he will pay for the new baby. His friend Suihei tells him about a job at a bar, but on his way there, Tokunosuke meets a mysterious man who sells him a newspaper...for tomorrow!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-09
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