Shin Morikawa
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 14, 1912
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 26, 1972
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Tōkyō dodonpa musume
Overview: Motomu Ida movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-13
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Oyae no hatsukoi sensei
Overview: A hilarious comedy where newly appointed teacher Oyae shows off her unusual plays as she fights alone against a group of five bad boys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Nigetekita hanayome
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-12
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A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
Overview: A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-04
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Overview: Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank him for the newlyweds, but Masuo has been told by Managing Director Hanamura to go on a business trip to Kansai. Before long, Masuo contacted Sazae to come to Osaka.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-26
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Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Overview: Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the newlywed life that started at the Isono family was a disaster. At the Isono family, where bonito and Wakame pranks and neighbors visit, it is difficult even to be alone.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-23
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Sazae-san's Marriage
Overview: Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and eventually heads for Nikko, a travel destination. Sazae is once again overwhelmed by the sight of the newlyweds bustling with sunlight, but...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Sazae And Aunt Apron
Overview: An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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女難コースを突破せよ
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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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 Dangoro Party in the Sky
Overview: The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater at the end of the year. The troupe "Kumo no Ue Dangoro" continues to tour from town to village. The small cast of the troupe includes its leader (Kenichi Enomoto), Norizo (Norihei Miki) and Taizo (Mutoshi Happa), who play female roles - they are all super actors, each of whom plays five roles. Dan Goro dreams of performing in a major theater and tries to put on a big show with a young man he meets in Shikoku named Sakai (Frankie Sakai), but...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-15
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ひばり姫 初夢道中
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-12-29
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Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-22
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Sazae-san Plays Cupid
Overview: An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-28
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Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
Overview: In this sizzling escapade, three irresistible vixens—Dump, Hip, and Bump—deliver a daring, alluring masterclass in mischief. Dump, a martial arts maven, combines lethal moves with an untamed sensuality, while Hip captivates with her razor-sharp wit and magnetic allure. Meanwhile, Bump’s sultry charm turns even the staunchest hearts to mush. Under Masako Sakamoto's provocative orders, they plunge into hedonistic debauchery at the “Dream National Assembly.” First, they seductively manipulate sauna sirens into high-stakes bets that pay off handsomely. Next, they incite wild, erotic revelry at a ghostly bar, unleashing an intoxicating tide of risqué abandon. Finally, their provocative presence ignites a deluxe key club with unbridled, seductive intensity, transforming scandal into a lush celebration of desire.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-17
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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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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Overview: After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-26
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Sararīman yajikita dōchū
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-27
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Overview: After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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Tora-san's Love Call
Overview: Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
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Kagebōshi
Overview: On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and decided to catch the culprit, not only for the sake of the beautiful wife of Utsugi, Chika, but also for his own honor. Chika's younger brother Shinjiro and the powerful Uechi family living near Ryunosuke's abode, join hands to support Ryunosuke. Counterfeit coins begin to surface—a scheme by the corrupt faction led by Yanagisawa. The henchman behind this is Koyamada Tesshin, who gathers ronin to amplify Yanagisawa's power. Among those ronin is Tendo Sakon—a man who drinks silently and plays the flute when in a mood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-03
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Last Days of the Samurai
Overview: Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted as a tragic romance between one of the ronins, Jurozaemon Isogai, and Omino. An adaptation of Seika Mayama play "Genroku Chusingura, the Last Day of Oishi", which tells about the torments of life and death of samurai living in feudal times.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-13
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Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
Overview: Comedy movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-15
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All is Well
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Yoko o muita seishun
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-19
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Fangs of Night
Overview: A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Tōkyō sanosa musume
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-16
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It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
Overview: This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit recapping the major events of the lost middle episodes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-03
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Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
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It's Tough Being a Man
Overview: Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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おヤエの家つき女中
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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おヤエのもぐり医者
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-28
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おヤエのママさん女中
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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Yūkyō no mure
Overview: 1948 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-28
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おヤエの女中と幽霊
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-12
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Cape Ashizuri
Overview: 1950s Japanese drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-05-18
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The Girl from Osaka
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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社長野郎ども
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-05
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Sararīman monogatari shin'nyū shain dai ikka
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-29
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Sararīman monogatari: Teki wa ikuman aritotemo
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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ワンマン今昔物語
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
Overview: Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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Shimazu no sanshita yakko
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Overview: Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-26
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Tora-san's Runaway
Overview: After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-26
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
Overview: A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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A Slope in the Sun
Overview: The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
Overview: On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-27
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浮かれ狐千本櫻
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Where Spring Comes Late
Overview: The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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Red Handkerchief
Overview: A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Overview: Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-14
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Overview: Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Zoku Isoginchaku
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-07
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The Hotelman's Holiday
Overview: A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-12
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Sazae-san Sequel
Overview: An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-09
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Sazae-san
Overview: An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Overview: Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-15
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Flowers of Chivalry
Overview: Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his younger brother Shinjiro (Yukio Hashi), who has completely changed. Shinjiro abandoned the quiet samurai life and began to lead a Yakuza lifestyle. The older brother is angry at the younger one for his depravity, and the younger one laughs at him for being tied to old-fashioned traditions. As a result, they quarrel. Ichinoshin hears that the person he has to take revenge on has become a Yakuza, and in order to get a hint, he takes care of the Otsu family, to which Shinjiro owes, but later discovers that the boss of Otsu Kanemon is the one he is looking for.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Adventures of Princess Anmitsu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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Cruel Story of Youth
Overview: A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-03
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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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Three Generations of Company Presidents
Overview: The third installment in the Shacho Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-13
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Overview: Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-29
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The Story of a Salesman: Every Man Has a Dream
Overview: A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman pursuing a man's dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-02
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
Overview: An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
Overview: A continuation of the prior film (影法師).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-08
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Sono kekkon igiari
Overview: 1963 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-04
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Tactics of Love
Overview: 1955 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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The Ginza Three Boys
Overview: The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Doing What I Please
Overview: Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that have been damaged in accidents at a low price and scraps them for his own company. He uses the money he earns in this way to pay back Kanda Trading. Morita, the president of the company, is suspicious about the identity of Kanda Trading, from whom he borrowed money. However, what is borrowed must be repaid, and Koichi drives to Toyokawa to beg his grandfather for money as his scrap business is not going well. In addition to begging for money, Koichi has another secret purpose...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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Talkative Company President
Overview: A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms that shake up its corporate culture. Just as success arrives, he quietly walks away, leaving a changed company behind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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