Hisako Takihana
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 04, 1906
Deathday: February 12, 1985
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Known For
Sun over the River
1934-05-17
Sun over the River
Overview: Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and separation. The film is considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-17
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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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The Most Valuable Wife
1959-02-11
The Most Valuable Wife
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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The Long Darkness
1972-05-25
The Long Darkness
Overview: A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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Keshin
1962-01-14
Keshin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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誘拐
1962-02-04
誘拐
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
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Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
1950-01-29
Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
Overview: The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond on-premises that she's in charge of and cares for. The pond holds a number of carp, but someone is snatching them. The teacher forms a special bond with a child who lives in abject poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-29
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情熱の詩人啄木
1962-03-04
情熱の詩人啄木
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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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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When We Came Back
1950-06-03
When We Came Back
Overview: Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-03
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Outlaw island
1956-06-01
Outlaw island
Overview: The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous for its bullfights. Today there is also a bull market in the village, and there are extremely many people here. The black bull "Great Tengu", which Gonzo from Misaki offered, cost 50,000, but was forcibly taken away by a Bakuro soldier, who possessed extraordinary strength and physique, for less than half the price. However, the violent soldier was in love with Tsunayo, the hostess of the inn and the organizer of the bullfight. One day, a young man from the city, an Ihara police officer, arrives in the village. And soon the real problems will begin…
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Song of Love
1950-04-09
Song of Love
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-09
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Night in Hawaii
1953-01-09
Night in Hawaii
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Forbidden Lips
1958-01-03
Forbidden Lips
Overview: A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Mito Kōmon
1926-10-15
Mito Kōmon
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1926-10-15
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Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
1928-01-21
Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-01-21
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Forbidden
1962-12-15
Forbidden
Overview: Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-15
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The Crown of Life
1936-06-04
The Crown of Life
Overview: Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They are polar opposites. When a boat sails out looking for crab and does not return one day the brothers begin to argue over how to run their facility. They had just received a large order from a foreign country and had obtained a loan from a lender that needed to be repaid.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-06-04
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The Story of Shunkin
1954-06-27
The Story of Shunkin
Overview: Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-27
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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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Navy
1943-12-08
Navy
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-12-08
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Ah Special Attack Corps
1960-02-10
Ah Special Attack Corps
Overview: Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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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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Scrap Collectors
1968-11-28
Scrap Collectors
Overview: Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-28
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Summer Days Across the River
1973-10-26
Summer Days Across the River
Overview: Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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Flying in the Air
1957-01-09
Flying in the Air
Overview: The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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While Yet a Wife
1965-01-01
While Yet a Wife
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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A Certain Woman
1954-03-13
A Certain Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-13
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Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931-10-30
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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Repast
1951-11-23
Repast
Overview: Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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Lightning
1952-10-09
Lightning
Overview: The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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Kokoro tsuki nogotoku
1947-09-16
Kokoro tsuki nogotoku
Overview: 1947 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-09-16
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The Makioka Sisters
1959-01-14
The Makioka Sisters
Overview: 1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-14
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Sweat
1929-12-31
Sweat
Overview: Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-12-31
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The Woman Who Touched The Legs
1926-10-29
The Woman Who Touched The Legs
Overview: A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1926-10-29
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Chutaro of Banba
1955-03-29
Chutaro of Banba
Overview: Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-29
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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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New Women’s Dialogue
1955-08-23
New Women’s Dialogue
Overview: A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth film!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-23
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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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The Ataka Family
1952-05-15
The Ataka Family
Overview: Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt halt when Soichi's half-brother, Joji returns with his wife Masako after failing in a business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-15
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The Day the Sun Rose
1968-11-23
The Day the Sun Rose
Overview: Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-23
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Behold This Mother
1930-05-09
Behold This Mother
Overview: Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-05-09
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Farewell Song
1955-01-15
Farewell Song
Overview: A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-15
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牝犬脱走
1965-11-13
牝犬脱走
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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The Gambler's Code
1961-06-14
The Gambler's Code
Overview: One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man. In a brilliant performance from super-star Ichikawa Raizo, with strong support from two of the greats from Toho, Shimura Takashi (7 Samurai) and Aratama Michiyo (Sword of Doom) the heartfelt story reaches new heights. Tokijiro, having learned the true nature of the boss to whom he was obligated for having spent a night and eaten at the gang's headquarters takes up arms against them in a running battle fought across the back roads of the entire nation. Another powerful rendition of this superb story, it is not to be missed!
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-14
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955-07-12
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Overview: After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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Todoroki Sensei
1947-03-18
Todoroki Sensei
Overview: Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-03-18
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Eyes of Children
1956-01-15
Eyes of Children
Overview: A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds over the treatment of his daughter, with accusations that he abused the little girl. A sensational trial ensues in which the lawyer becomes a defendant, and secrets from childhood fester even into adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
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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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Clothes of Deception
1951-01-13
Clothes of Deception
Overview: The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-13
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Unending Advance
1937-11-03
Unending Advance
Overview: One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-11-03
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A Lustful Man
1961-03-21
A Lustful Man
Overview: Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Tokyo March
1929-05-31
Tokyo March
Overview: A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, "Tokyo March." (Sadly, less than a half hour of the footage has been recovered and restored.)
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-05-31
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Husband and Wife
1953-01-22
Husband and Wife
Overview: A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-22
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The Killing of Otsuya
1951-02-17
The Killing of Otsuya
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-17
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A Ripple in a Morning
1952-05-01
A Ripple in a Morning
Overview: Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Submarine Number One
1941-05-23
Submarine Number One
Overview: This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-23
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A Woman's Testament
1960-01-14
A Woman's Testament
Overview: The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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Seven Miles to Nakayama
1962-05-27
Seven Miles to Nakayama
Overview: When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hiding from the law, Masa eventually meets a young woman named Onaka, who looks exactly like Oshima. Tales having two look-alike heroines are a commonplace in Japanese period films, a plot affectation inherited from the kabuki theater. Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa, Nakayama shichiri was already twice filmed in 1930, one version directed by Namio Ochiai, and from which less than 40 minutes survive, the other directed by Kyotaro Namiki. Both are silent films, preserved by the Makino film institute.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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Metropolitan Symphony
1929-01-02
Metropolitan Symphony
Overview: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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An Osaka Story
1957-03-06
An Osaka Story
Overview: A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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A Design for Dying
1961-06-28
A Design for Dying
Overview: Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-28
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The Wayside Pebble
1960-12-31
The Wayside Pebble
Overview: In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well at home, however, where his father does not work leaving the mother to toil . With the boy's family having no money he cannot progress his education and has to drop out of school. A neighbour, who is a bookstore owner, offers the family money to allow the boy to continue his schooling, but the father is too proud to accept and rebuffs the offer forcing the boy to work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-31
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The Great White Tower
1966-10-15
The Great White Tower
Overview: The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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Who Will Judge Me?
1951-05-18
Who Will Judge Me?
Overview: Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Theater of Life
1958-11-23
Theater of Life
Overview: 1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-23
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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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続々十代の性典
1953-09-22
続々十代の性典
Overview: Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-22
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Resurrection
1950-06-10
Resurrection
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-10
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The Beloved Image
1960-10-08
The Beloved Image
Overview: A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
1951-11-16
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Overview: The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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The Hopeful Family
1947-05-13
The Hopeful Family
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-05-13
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Mother and Child Grass
1942-06-04
Mother and Child Grass
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-06-04
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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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Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
1932-03-03
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-03
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Across the Darkness
1959-12-01
Across the Darkness
Overview: A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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The Burdened Sisters
1961-12-17
The Burdened Sisters
Overview: Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-17
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Chikaiteshi
1957-09-14
Chikaiteshi
Overview:
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-14
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Love River
1958-04-22
Love River
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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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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The Dead Beauty Incident
1948-10-25
The Dead Beauty Incident
Overview: A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a now retired drug crime specialist, to cooperate. Kubota and his friends soon find the house of the murdered beauty and upon entering, they are surprised to find another corpse, this time of a man…
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-25
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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
1963-11-02
Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
Overview: The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-02
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960-06-17
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Overview: Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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