Sadako Sawamura
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 11, 1908
Deathday: August 16, 1996
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Hikkoshi yatsure
1961-06-09
Hikkoshi yatsure
Overview: Manao Horiuchi movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-09
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Princess Finds Her Prince
1953-10-02
Princess Finds Her Prince
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-02
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952-05-14
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Overview: Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-14
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
1949-06-04
Ishimatsu of the Forest
Overview: The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-06-04
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South Pacific Waves Are High
1962-01-09
South Pacific Waves Are High
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-09
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Pineapple Butai
1959-12-27
Pineapple Butai
Overview: The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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Police Precinct Part 13
1960-06-07
Police Precinct Part 13
Overview: On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents of the murdered child. They use a towel, baby diapers and bruises on the baby's body as clues in the investigation. Who killed the baby?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-07
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The Life of Rikisha-Man
1963-04-28
The Life of Rikisha-Man
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Good Morning
1959-05-12
Good Morning
Overview: A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-12
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Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962-03-25
Lady Sen and Hideyori
Overview: From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation. Princess Sen, a daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, is caught amidst the family feud between the Tokugawa and Toyotomi families. When her father Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu attacks her husband Toyotomi Hideyori's castle, her life takes a sudden turn for the worse. Will she ever find peace in her life again? One of Hibari Misora's most memorable performances, a movie you will never forget!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
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Street of Shame
1956-03-18
Street of Shame
Overview: The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-18
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湖愁
1962-03-11
湖愁
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-11
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Wedding March
1951-12-28
Wedding March
Overview: Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-28
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Zoku aizen katsura
1962-10-24
Zoku aizen katsura
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Bridge of Japan
1956-10-01
Bridge of Japan
Overview: Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Flower in a Storm
1962-04-01
Flower in a Storm
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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Romance Express
1961-04-04
Romance Express
Overview: Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
1949-09-11
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-11
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A Sky Full of Tears
1966-05-21
A Sky Full of Tears
Overview: Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara. On the way home from the Tohoku tour, he rescued Akiko, a girl who had passed out in a car accident. Ahead of him was the bustle of Tokyo. He suddenly met Akiko during a noisy party with friends. He tried to persuade Akiko, who wanted to become a singer, to return to the village, but it didn't work. One day he invited Akiko to play in Yokohama. When they returned to childhood and talked about their dreams, they felt love for the first time. Meanwhile, returning home, Yoko turned her jealousy on the two of them, and announced the death of Shunsuke's mother...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-21
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The President Talks Bank
1956-03-20
The President Talks Bank
Overview: The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-20
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A Man from Akagi
1950-10-07
A Man from Akagi
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-07
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Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain
1962-09-22
Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-22
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Swift Current
1967-08-19
Swift Current
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-19
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Onna keizu
1942-06-11
Onna keizu
Overview: 1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-06-11
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Night Bitch
1966-02-03
Night Bitch
Overview: A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a rich married man. Their attempts at making easy money can only end tragically.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-03
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Third Class Executives
1952-05-30
Third Class Executives
Overview: 1950s Japanese comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
1957-12-17
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Overview: Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Ôban
1957-03-05
Ôban
Overview: A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-05
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957-07-19
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Overview: Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-19
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Beyond the Hills
1960-02-02
Beyond the Hills
Overview: Story of young love in the hills.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-02
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Hito mo arukeba
1960-02-09
Hito mo arukeba
Overview: A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-09
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Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
1939-12-20
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
Overview: Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-20
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A Fugitive from the Past
1965-01-15
A Fugitive from the Past
Overview: Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-15
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Next Door to Happiness
1955-09-07
Next Door to Happiness
Overview: The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-07
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Toilet Manager
1961-08-29
Toilet Manager
Overview: The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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Pig and Goldfish
1962-06-20
Pig and Goldfish
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Ottamage ningyo monogatari
1962-06-15
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-15
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Whistling in the morning
1959-03-04
Whistling in the morning
Overview: Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bill and gave up going to high school. His friends heard about this, and they donated money to his mother. So, Minoru goes to high school and yet he delivers newspapers cheerfully whistling every morning. A memorable film debut by Sayuri Yoshinaga, a representative of the Japanese film industry.The film adaptation of "Newspaper Delivery" by Minoru Yoshida, who won the Minister of Education Award at the national small and Medium student essay competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Keishichō monogatari gao no nai on'na
1959-02-18
Keishichō monogatari gao no nai on'na
Overview: 1959 Japanese movie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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Night Scandal in Japan
1964-03-12
Night Scandal in Japan
Overview: Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori. - Pulpinternational
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-12
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Our Marriage
1962-03-18
Our Marriage
Overview: When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
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Ofukuro
1955-04-10
Ofukuro
Overview: Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizuka's desire to live together in familiar Tokyo. Mineko is the exact opposite of Eiichiro. A literary masterpiece depicting the fateful sorrow and humor of a mother and child
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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Nami kage
1965-01-31
Nami kage
Overview: Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-31
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At the Side of the Bridge
1962-07-01
At the Side of the Bridge
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Girls of the Night
1961-09-04
Girls of the Night
Overview: In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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The Wandering Princess
1960-01-27
The Wandering Princess
Overview: Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the interest of the Japanese rulers , which legitimizes the relationship between Japan and its Chinese puppet state. To the surprise of all , a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops. It is put to the test when Japan loses the war, Manchukuo is dissolved and the imperial court must flee. The lovers now have to separate: Pu Zhe tries to escape to Japan with his brother , while Ryuko flees with her daughter Eisei over the country. A film on the relationship between Pujie (1907-94) , brother of the " last emperor " Puyi and his second wife, Marquise Hiro Saga (1914-87).
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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Kigeki ekimae onsen
1962-07-29
Kigeki ekimae onsen
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Kyūjin ryokō
1962-08-12
Kyūjin ryokō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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The Romance of Yushima
1955-09-28
The Romance of Yushima
Overview: Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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Ejima and Ikushima
1955-10-30
Ejima and Ikushima
Overview: This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-30
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Women of Tokyo
1961-03-01
Women of Tokyo
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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喜劇 駅前飯店
1962-12-23
喜劇 駅前飯店
Overview: The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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The Betrothed
1957-05-28
The Betrothed
Overview: Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-28
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The President's Boss
1956-01-03
The President's Boss
Overview: A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-03
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That Cute Girl
1965-03-31
That Cute Girl
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-31
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The Cast-Off
1959-05-13
The Cast-Off
Overview: The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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At the Side of the Bridge 2
1962-09-30
At the Side of the Bridge 2
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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直八子供旅
1958-02-25
直八子供旅
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-25
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One Step to Happiness
1958-11-11
One Step to Happiness
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-11
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Koko ni otoko ari
1959-08-09
Koko ni otoko ari
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-09
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Sisters
1953-04-29
Sisters
Overview: Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), and the third was Mihato (Hibari Misora). Mihato was still a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, but she considered herself as mature as her older sisters. Mihato knows that Tsugumi is friends with Ippei Yaguchi (Masao Wakahara) and acts as a love messenger between them, but she didn't know that Takako is also in love with Ippei...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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So Young, So Bright
1955-11-01
So Young, So Bright
Overview: Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the three of them. A musical starring 3 Japanese pop music and TV stars.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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When It Rains, It Pours
1957-06-11
When It Rains, It Pours
Overview: Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-11
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Spring Snow
1950-02-26
Spring Snow
Overview: The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Twenty-One Fingerprints
1948-07-12
Twenty-One Fingerprints
Overview: Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-07-12
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Avalanche
1956-03-22
Avalanche
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-22
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The Estuary
1961-07-26
The Estuary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-26
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滝の白糸
1956-07-12
滝の白糸
Overview: The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall, thought that he would go to the Kanazawa in the first place of the year and try to interrupt the white thread. Tororo Goro troupe crossed the Yabe gawa River and tried to borrow a carriage at a carriage company on the other side of the river, but he was forced by Jinya murakoshi, a charter, and started with jinrikisha without stopping.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-12
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Curry Rice
1962-11-23
Curry Rice
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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A Roaring Trade
1962-01-03
A Roaring Trade
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Wakai kisetsu
1962-10-20
Wakai kisetsu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-20
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Star of Hong Kong
1962-07-14
Star of Hong Kong
Overview: Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The two meet again and fall in love in Hokkaido when Wang and her best friend Sugimoto Kanako are going on a holiday. Urged by her friend Zhang Yingming to concentrate on her studies, Wang remains ambivalent about the relationship, and is even more upset to realise that Sugimoto is in love with her fellow countryman. Feigning an engagement with Zhang, Wang initiates a break-up with Hasegawa and finds work in Singapore after graduation. Hasegawa learns the real cause of the break-up from Sugimoto in Hong Kong. A frenzy search finally leads to a reunion and a proposal in Kuala Lumpur. However, their love is doomed by a twist of fate as Wang must leave to see her desperately ill father in Hong Kong while Hasegawa has to leave for America to pursue his career.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-07-14
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Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
1975-07-12
Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-12
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Naite waratta hanayome
1962-12-19
Naite waratta hanayome
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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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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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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Kōfuku no genkai
1948-11-01
Kōfuku no genkai
Overview: The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other hand, the youngest daughter, Yukiko, is in love with a teacher older than her, much to her father's chagrin. All of this, together with Yukiko and Atusko not getting along, will shake the foundations of the Takamatsu family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Life's Simple Pleasures
1955-05-17
Life's Simple Pleasures
Overview: A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos, focusing on the daily life of Sanpei Mejiro, a salaryman for over twenty years who finds a little happiness in life in his poor but joyful home.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-17
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Late Chrysanthemums
1954-06-15
Late Chrysanthemums
Overview: With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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Mother
1952-06-12
Mother
Overview: A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-12
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A Wife's Heart
1956-05-03
A Wife's Heart
Overview: Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-03
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Little Peach
1958-05-13
Little Peach
Overview: Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-13
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When Winter Comes
1985-03-30
When Winter Comes
Overview: An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his deathbed and develops a faint affection for an elegant old woman, but the purpose of his journey is actually to find a place to die. He gives a large sum of money to a young couple, who are poor but have a dream for the future, and tries to throw himself into the sea. The movie depicts the loneliness of an old man who has lost his wife.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-30
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Here Is a Spring
1955-02-12
Here Is a Spring
Overview: The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-12
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1968-06-01
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
Overview: The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Policeman's Diary
1955-02-03
Policeman's Diary
Overview: Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-03
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Love Letter
1953-12-13
Love Letter
Overview: A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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Women of the Night
1948-05-26
Women of the Night
Overview: In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-05-26
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Broken Drum
1949-12-01
Broken Drum
Overview: When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Firefly Light
1958-03-18
Firefly Light
Overview: Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi. She does not have an easy life. Her husband, Isuke (Ban Junzaburo), is a wastrel who fancies himself a kabuki singer and who is obsessed with cleanliness. Her mother-in-law, Sada (Miyoshi Eiko) dislikes her because of her humble origins (her family are farmers) and because she fears that she will inherit the inn instead of Sugi, her daughter. Sada's hopes for Sugi, however, are dashed when she runs off with a con artist and leaves her child behind for Tose to take care of. When Sada becomes seriously ill, it is Tose who nurses her. On her deathbed, Sada asks her daughter-in-law's forgiveness. Meanwhile Isuke spends most of his time with a mistress he has taken, forcing Tose to manage the inn by herself
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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Beyond the Hills
1950-07-08
Beyond the Hills
Overview: Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-07-08
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Santōshain to onna hisho
1955-09-18
Santōshain to onna hisho
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-18
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Romance Freestyle
1958-04-30
Romance Freestyle
Overview: The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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The Life of Oharu
1952-04-17
The Life of Oharu
Overview: In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-17
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Ghosts Die at Dawn
1948-10-12
Ghosts Die at Dawn
Overview: At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice, Kohei takes Michiko to stay at a dilapidated mountain villa in his hometown. What awaited him there...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-12
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Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
1960-09-20
Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-20
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乾杯！女学生
1954-06-29
乾杯！女学生
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-29
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Bellflower
1940-07-30
Bellflower
Overview: Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poor young girl, trying to become a teacher on her quest to become independent to be able to look after her younger brother. But then tragedy strikes...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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Tokyo Profile
1953-07-08
Tokyo Profile
Overview: A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the crowded streets of Ginza.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-08
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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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The End of the Night
1953-04-08
The End of the Night
Overview: Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will lead to a long, dark night of the soul, while his lady love, a bar hostess, tries to cope with her sudden change of fortune.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-08
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Boss Takes to the Road
1961-09-23
Boss Takes to the Road
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960-01-15
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Overview: Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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The Rose on His Arm
1956-11-14
The Rose on His Arm
Overview: Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-14
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Zero Focus
1961-03-19
Zero Focus
Overview: One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-19
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The Human Wall
1959-10-18
The Human Wall
Overview: Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-18
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The Catch
1961-11-22
The Catch
Overview: Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Bright Young Maidens
1958-10-07
Bright Young Maidens
Overview: In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a suitable lodger who will catch the eye of her daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-07
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The Lovers
1953-11-10
The Lovers
Overview: Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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Once a Rainy Day
1966-10-01
Once a Rainy Day
Overview: Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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裸足の青春
1956-10-16
裸足の青春
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-16
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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 Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
1962-02-07
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
Overview: A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-07
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Snow Country
1965-04-10
Snow Country
Overview: This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-10
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Dancing Girl
1951-08-17
Dancing Girl
Overview: The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-17
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The Foster Mother
The Foster Mother
Overview: A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in Kyoto, who divorced her father, but her father in Tokyo, who has another family, takes her to himself out of guilt for breaking up with her. How does the daughter feel?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
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A Story from Echigo
1964-05-09
A Story from Echigo
Overview: A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-09
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No Advice Taken
1958-01-03
No Advice Taken
Overview: A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a handsome, earnest and poverty stricken man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Dreaming People
1953-06-10
Dreaming People
Overview: Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marrying Toshio (Toshio Hosokawa), the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi (Yoshito Yamaji), for her obligation. He encouraged the unhappy Yuriko and taught her how to make her marriage with Toshio a happy one. He makes a fresh start as an architect under the care of Ryosuke Shibata (Jiro Yanagi), who had taken care of his father, but Ryosuke's daughter Sumiko (Yoko Katsuragi) has feelings for him. Fujie Kakimoto's (Sadako Sawamura) son Koichi (Eiji Wakasugi) came to know about Sumiko and asked her to marry him after coming to Shinya to ask for her design. Knowing that Shinya's love for Yuriko would not be easily wiped away, Sumiko decided to marry Koichi, who had a bad leg. Shinya watches the beautiful bond between Koichi and Sumiko and decides to forget his past and move forward on the path to self-perfection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-10
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Victory Song
1945-02-22
Victory Song
Overview: Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-02-22
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Youth in Fury
1960-08-30
Youth in Fury
Overview: A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-30
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The Blue Sky Maiden
1957-10-08
The Blue Sky Maiden
Overview: Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-08
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
1967-12-08
Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
Overview: Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-08
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Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958-06-10
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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In Search of Mother
1962-01-14
In Search of Mother
Overview: Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo (Tokyo), he travels there, intent on finding her and leaving the swordsman's life behind. But a team of rival gangsters is hot on his heels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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The Cock Crows Twice
1954-11-30
The Cock Crows Twice
Overview: Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-30
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Nunnery Confidential
1968-02-22
Nunnery Confidential
Overview: Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-22
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Towering Waves
1960-10-30
Towering Waves
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-30
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Born in Sin
1962-11-23
Born in Sin
Overview: A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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Eddy Currents of Life
1964-11-22
Eddy Currents of Life
Overview: It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursion trip. Still, she gets a temporary job at a factory and tries to make ends meet. A film about bright side of youth adapted from the television serial of the same name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-22
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Souls in the Moonlight II
1958-04-20
Souls in the Moonlight II
Overview: This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-20
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Souls in the Moonlight III
1959-04-28
Souls in the Moonlight III
Overview: Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be served for the lost innocent lives? The conclusion of the famed Jidaigeki series is an amazing film, with a completely different perspective on the story from the later versions. While the international audience is more familiar with the “Sword of Doom” and “Satan’s Sword” versions of Daibosatsu Toge (The Great Bodhisattva Pass), the “Souls in the Moonlight” trilogy casts an entirely different light on Ryunosuke and his motives. Can this brutal killer be brought to justice, or is living his life as a blind wanderer a more terrible fate? His sword skills have not diminished, nor has his desire to kill!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Whirlpool of Flesh
1964-10-21
Whirlpool of Flesh
Overview: During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-21
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Tale of Army Brutality
1963-06-14
Tale of Army Brutality
Overview: Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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Love on the Rainbow
1965-03-31
Love on the Rainbow
Overview: A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-31
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The Kii River
1966-06-11
The Kii River
Overview: Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-11
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The Adorable Trio
1957-12-28
The Adorable Trio
Overview: Japanese romantic comedy film.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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Glory on the Summit
1962-07-29
Glory on the Summit
Overview: A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Wedding Day
1940-03-20
Wedding Day
Overview: Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-03-20
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Someday I'll Know
1959-09-08
Someday I'll Know
Overview: A modern love story involving different affairs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-08
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952-11-02
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Overview: A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-02
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Horse
1941-03-11
Horse
Overview: Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-11
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Four Sisters
1962-07-01
Four Sisters
Overview: A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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The Blue Revolution
1953-06-10
The Blue Revolution
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-10
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The Surf
1954-10-20
The Surf
Overview: Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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My Brother, My Love
1968-09-07
My Brother, My Love
Overview:
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-07
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Young Lovers
1957-01-03
Young Lovers
Overview: The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them, they find it very difficult to achieve happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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Triangle Moods
1961-05-24
Triangle Moods
Overview: Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Young Tree
1956-01-22
Young Tree
Overview: A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-22
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Late Autumn
1960-11-13
Late Autumn
Overview: A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-13
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The Beauty Expert
1957-08-11
The Beauty Expert
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-11
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The Naked General
1958-10-28
The Naked General
Overview: A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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Sweet Sweat
1964-09-19
Sweet Sweat
Overview: This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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Echo Mountain
1959-01-22
Echo Mountain
Overview: An Ishiro Honda film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-22
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Chûshingura
1962-11-03
Chûshingura
Overview: After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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A Pebble by the Wayside
1938-09-21
A Pebble by the Wayside
Overview: Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-21
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Untamed Woman
1957-05-28
Untamed Woman
Overview: A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-28
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Miniature
1953-04-01
Miniature
Overview: Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
1941-12-30
A Man's Flower Road of Triumph
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-12-30
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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 Passionate Spinster
1965-11-23
The Passionate Spinster
Overview: She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-23
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Nippon no obaachan
1962-01-03
Nippon no obaachan
Overview: Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Hero of the Red Light District
1960-09-03
Hero of the Red Light District
Overview: A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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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...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-21
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Double Wedding
1963-07-13
Double Wedding
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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The Big Ambition
1955-03-30
The Big Ambition
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-30
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son
1967-12-01
The Rickshaw Man’s Son
Overview: A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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The White Orchid
1951-03-24
The White Orchid
Overview: A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-24
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The Street Car Game
1969-12-31
The Street Car Game
Overview: Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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Adolescence
1952-08-28
Adolescence
Overview: Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-28
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Shanghai Rose
1952-08-13
Shanghai Rose
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-13
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Itsuko to sono haha
1954-02-17
Itsuko to sono haha
Overview: An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-02-17
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Forbidden Path
1952-07-08
Forbidden Path
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-08
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Storm on the Silvery Peaks
1960-04-29
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Flower Cards Chivalry
1967-03-10
Flower Cards Chivalry
Overview: An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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Iroha Elegy
1955-11-01
Iroha Elegy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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Awamori-kun uridasu
1961-07-30
Awamori-kun uridasu
Overview: First of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-30
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The Dangerous Kiss
1960-06-26
The Dangerous Kiss
Overview: Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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Rose Buds in the Rainbow
1968-07-20
Rose Buds in the Rainbow
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-20
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Elegy
1951-02-22
Elegy
Overview: Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-22
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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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Tokyo Sweetheart
1952-07-15
Tokyo Sweetheart
Overview: Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-15
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Flame of My Love
1949-02-13
Flame of My Love
Overview: A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-02-13
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Bad Reputation: Cherry Blossoms
1966-03-12
Bad Reputation: Cherry Blossoms
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-12
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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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Sôbô
1937-02-18
Sôbô
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-18
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Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
1936-03-12
Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
Overview: Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Mr. Lucky
1952-02-02
Mr. Lucky
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-02
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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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Goblin Courier
1949-01-04
Goblin Courier
Overview: Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-01-04
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First Love Questions and Answers
1950-01-15
First Love Questions and Answers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-15
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Fearless Opposition
1958-05-07
Fearless Opposition
Overview: This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-07
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Ripe and Marriageable
1959-09-17
Ripe and Marriageable
Overview: 1959 youth comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-17
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Morning Whistling
1957-03-13
Morning Whistling
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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I'm a Bodyguard
1964-05-16
I'm a Bodyguard
Overview: Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a writer living in the area while working at a police box. His dream is to become a bodyguard (BG) for the Prime Minister, just like his senior, Detective Inspector Takagi (Ryu Chishu). Kita Ippei is very successful in both work and love, getting attacked while guarding a female minister, getting some perks as a BG for a foreign princess, and becoming friends with a woman at his favorite bar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-16
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Crazy Operation
1963-03-24
Crazy Operation
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-24
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The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
1954-09-29
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
Overview: In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister and music lover Keiko (Misora), Keiko's classmate Sachiko (Ota Chieko) and her brother Shoji (Yamada) meet enthusiastically to brighten the town and help themselves grow. Ichiro's family lives with his father and Keiko in a milk shop, but Keiko's desire to go to music school is unlikely to be fulfilled. Meanwhile, Shoji's father is trying to get Shoji and Keiko married.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-29
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Salaryman's Medal
1965-02-13
Salaryman's Medal
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-13
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Geisha Hidekoma
1954-08-10
Geisha Hidekoma
Overview: As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the politicians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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Guntō nanban-sen
1950-06-13
Guntō nanban-sen
Overview: 1950 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-13
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Jiruba no Tetsu
1950-08-12
Jiruba no Tetsu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-08-12
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ぽんこつ
1960-11-08
ぽんこつ
Overview: In the shimotsuke town of Tokyo, Honmachi tenkawa Cho continues to take the remains of the car. One of them was inuzuka store where the man loved the machine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-08
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