Tokuji Kobayashi
Also Known As: Токудзи Кобаяси
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 09, 1901
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 11, 1964
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Hikkoshi yatsure
Overview: Manao Horiuchi movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-09
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I Will Buy You
Overview: A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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One Wonderful Sunday
Overview: Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams is able to lift Yuzo from his realistic despair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Hotaru no hikari
Overview: Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-14
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Apart from You
Overview: An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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Mother's Love Letter
Overview: Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-04-18
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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Kare to Tokyo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-05-12
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Moth-eaten Spring
Overview: Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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Riku no ôja
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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The Ballad of Narayama
Overview: In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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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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White Blaze
Overview: A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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Woman in the Mist
Overview: Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems his uncle's advice may already be too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-05-14
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The Trio's Engagements
Overview: Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-18
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Always in My Heart
Overview: Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Kigeki ekimae onsen
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Day-Dream
Overview: While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-04
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Namida no hanamichi
Overview: Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke and become a hatamoto, a direct retainer of the shogun. Yukinojō's younger brother, Shingorō, traveling to Edo from their hometown, helped the town boy Kiyohē and his daughter Michi from troublemakers led by Kumosuke. This act led to a reunion with Yukinojō through the assistance of their associate, Daisaburō.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-19
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Dancing Girls of Izu
Overview: A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-31
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悪魔の顔
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-09
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その手にのるな
Overview: A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-16
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Haru no Wakakusa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-27
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Hard Times
Overview: Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-05-02
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Haha o tataeru uta
Overview: A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-07-06
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Marching On
Overview: A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local squire, who introduces the lad to her pilot brother and his flying officer friends; through hard work, and despite the handicap of a lowly class status, he eventually succeeds in qualifying as a pilot and joining the air force.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-03-07
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-30
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Osayo koisugata
Overview: The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the model for his novel. Saya however is in love with a young driver. When he is forced to move into a spa town as the result of the jealousy of another man Saya is terribly sad. But with the help of Yamamoto the driver's rival can be revealed and Saya can finally be with her beloved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-09-14
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Okoto and Sasuke
Overview: A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-15
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
Overview: This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of gags.' Much of the films' distinction comes from the wit of Gosho's direction, the imaginative use of the new sound technology and the charm of the acting, particularly of the heroines (Kinuyo Tanaka in Bride; Hiroko Kawasaki in Groom). Yet in both films, Gosho finds room for some shrewd observation of character and environment, subtly exploring the values and assumptions of the suburban petit bourgeoisie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-01-14
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So Goes My Love
Overview: Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Sono yoru no tsuma
Overview: Hiroo Ikeda movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-18
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Our Planes Fly South
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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Crying to the Blue Sky
Overview: After losing their parents, Eiichi and his sister Kikue are taken in by their aunt and uncle. Kikue is sent to Tokyo to work as a servant. Left alone, Eiichi wants a model airplane that a friend at school has, but finds found solace in reading the model-making instructions in a magazine that his sister sent him. One day, Eiichi gets into a fight and falls into a river, contracting pneumonia. Presumed to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-10
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
Overview: "The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-02-01
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
Overview: A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his new home, too.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The Groom Talks in His Sleep
Overview: A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes back to sleep. Her neglect of daily duties starts to strain their marriage, and the couple is on the brink of divorce. However, a close friend of the husband, determined to save their relationship, introduces a hypnotist to uncover something.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-01-13
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Burden of Life
Overview: A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-12-10
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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: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-14
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My Elder Brother
Overview: Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to correct him…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-12-13
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Overview: Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-29
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Stakeout
Overview: Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Hattari Seinen Shinshi
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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Happy Times
Overview: A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-10-19
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Snow-Flake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-17
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Love
Overview: Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-11-09
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The River Fuefuki
Overview: In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-19
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Treasure Mountain
Overview: A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current girlfriend. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-02-22
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Maria of the Ant Village
Overview: Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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The Spy Has Not Died Yet
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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Family Meeting
Overview: A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-03
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Twenty-Four Eyes
Overview: From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-15
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Hearts A-Flutter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
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The Lights of Asakusa
Overview: Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-02
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A Japanese Tragedy
Overview: At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-17
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Equinox Flower
Overview: Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Happiness of Us Alone
Overview: The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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The Big Ambition
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-30
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Reijin
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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Men vs. Women
Overview: A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-08-29
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
Overview: A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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College Is a Nice Place
Overview: In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-03-19
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A Woman's Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Beyond The Pass
Overview: Debut film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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Nikutai no bōfū
Overview: The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-03-26
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The Age of Emotion
Overview: A young man torn between love and friendship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-03-01
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Silver Stream
Overview: Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-02-14
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Haha machi gusa
Overview: Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the older widow she works with that the new girl is undoubtedly her half-sister. When the younger sister suddenly flees on account of a misunderstanding, Asako makes up her mind to find the mother who deserted them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-17
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Odoru ryûgûjô
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Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-01
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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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Beauty of Life
Overview: Inochi uruwashi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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Mado Kara Tobidase
Overview: The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an agricultural and livestock industry, and has his father Ritaro (Hiroshi Shiomi), younger brother Yuji (Keiju Kobayashi), wife Fujiko (Kiko Todoroki), and four children (three of whom are Obinata's sons). They lived in a large family of 8 people, including 2 children and 2 daughters. The Fujieda family next door is Chieko (Ayako Okamura), whose husband, a captain, died in a shipwreck at sea, her daughter Mariko (Kyoko Kagawa), and her son Michio (Oohinata's son), who has a leg disability and is undergoing rehabilitation. ) We were a family of three. Through the interaction between the Tokuyama family and the Fujieda family, the importance of family and the kindness of people are reflected on the screen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-26
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Living Things
Overview: Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-15
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Tengoku ni musubu koi
Overview: Based on the Sakatayama double suicide
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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