Ryo Sayama
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 16, 1911
Deathday: N/A
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Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940-01-18
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Overview: Part one of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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Wakaki sugata
1943-12-01
Wakaki sugata
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Currents of Youth
1942-02-14
Currents of Youth
Overview: It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less assertive as his bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-02-14
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Navy Bomb Squadron
1940-05-22
Navy Bomb Squadron
Overview: Japanese propaganda film
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-22
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Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
1940-01-18
Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
Overview: Part two of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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Pastoral Symphony
1938-06-11
Pastoral Symphony
Overview: A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-06-11
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The Giant
1938-02-02
The Giant
Overview: Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-02
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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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Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March
1938-04-21
Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March
Overview: A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese Navy band to his later years when his music, in particular the famed “Warship March” (Gunkan kōshinkyoku), surged in popularity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-21
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