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Attack from Space
Overview: The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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Hagure kigeki mandara
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-24
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Till Tomorow Comes
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-10
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Evil Brain from Outer Space
Overview: An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Overview: Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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Atomic Rulers
Overview: Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-10
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Hail the 3 Gents
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Travels of Lord Mito
Overview: In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-01
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Women and Miso Soup
Overview: Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-04
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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-15
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Illusion of Blood
Overview: The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-25
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Doburoku no Tatsu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-29
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-11
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Futari no Koibito
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-12
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Pomegranate Time
Overview: Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Sexy Line
Overview: It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his lover. The other is a woman pick-pocket who is entrapped by the organization's schemes involving their crimes. Fate places them together, and they start to investigate the prostitution ring run by the organization...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Invaders from Space
Overview: A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-31
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姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-07-11
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Vampire Bride
Overview: Shintoho studio boss Mitsugu Okura was furious that actress Junko Ikeuchi had married against his wishes. In an act of revenge that could have come out of one of his movies, he cast her against the girl-next-door persona she had established to play a dancer who survives a great fall only to become a disfigured beast.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-27
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Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Overview: Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when afforded a night’s stay and meals at the home of a town boss. Though he dislikes killing, the strength of his swordsmanship will be tested time and time again in the bloody tale.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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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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Zoku izuko e
Overview: Sequel to "真実の愛情を求めて 何処へ" (1954). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-12
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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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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 Lady Vampire
Overview: Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-07
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Yume de aimasho
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-15
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Super Giant Continues
Overview: The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. (Part 2 of 2)
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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Shin kitsune to tanuki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-29
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Counterattack of a Queen Bee
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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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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Basement of Death
Overview: Shintoho crime film directed by Kyotaro Namiki.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-14
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King of the Ring: The World of Glory
Overview: Boxing film directed by Teruo Ishii in his directorial debut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-10
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女大学野球狂時代
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-26
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Omoide tsukiyo
Overview: Japanese romance film.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-21
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坊ちゃんの逆襲
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-05
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カックン超特急
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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凸凹珍道中
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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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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Meigetsu sataro gasa
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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A Smell of Money
Overview: Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-05
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The Tale of Jiro
Overview: Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-25
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Blood Festival of Akagi
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-25
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The Shadow Avenger
Overview: For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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復讐秘文字峠
Overview: 1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-15
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Nonki saiban
Overview: A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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Young Swordsman
Overview: This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-31
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Beast Alley
Overview: "When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-05
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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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Brutal Woman
Overview: Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home and soon takes a lover, but leads a wanton life without paying heed to his advice. However, the younger sister Yoshiko, is an innocent and kind girl. One day, with the sudden death of their mother in a car accident, Keiko learns that she and Yoshiko are actually stepsisters, and that she is the daughter of a murderer. She now plans extortion from Yoshiko's true father who is the president of a well-known trading company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-04
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The Maid Story
Overview: Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-16
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The Tragedy of W
Overview: The lakeside at Lake Yamanaka is covered with snow. In the vacation house in such a quiet area owned by the chairman of Watsuji Seiyaku, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Japan, the tragedy suddenly breaks out. ”I have killed my granduncle!!” says Mako, who is loved by everybody in the Watsuji family. She has stabbed her granduncle, Yohei, to death. Soon after the domestic homicide, the entire family joining together in an attempt to make it look like a crime committed by somebody outside the family, begins to engage in imitative deception...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-11
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Kaei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-09
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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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Procurer of Hell
Overview: Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two women, one of them a young widow with a son. They like him and think that he is an ordinary office worker. One day, Tobe accidentally discovers pictures of an acquaintance, Kanzaburo, with a woman and sets out to blackmail him. He soon finds out that Kanzaburo died in a train accident but things may not be what they seem
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Young Challengers
Overview: A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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Taiyô to Chi to Suna
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Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-22
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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
Overview: #13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-31
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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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This Madding Crowd
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-28
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Michi
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-06
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Crazy Operation
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-24
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Five Gents' Trick Book
Overview: The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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花眞珠
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-22
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Ren'ai Zubari Kôza
Overview: A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kôshoku".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-21
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Girl's Reform School
Overview: The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Overview: Ensemble comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-10
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Kawachi fudoki oiro ke hanjō-ki
Overview: 1963 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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