Kōichi Itō
Also Known As: 伊東光一, 伊藤光一
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Itō, Shizuoka , Japan
Birthday: July 08, 1907
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Two Wives
Overview: After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-15
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誘拐
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
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Bridge of Japan
Overview: Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Love for Eternity
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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君は海を見たか
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Her Brother
Overview: Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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An Ode to Yakuza
Overview: Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-11
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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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Surging Waves
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-10-13
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Utsukushiki Rinjin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-23
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Queen of the Wind
Overview: A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training would help them to start their own business. The general manager selects another woman and the trouble begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-17
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Five Siblings
Overview: A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-07-20
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The Midday Trap
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-19
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Sentimental Mobsters
Overview: A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-27
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Forget Love for Now
Overview: Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
Overview: A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-03-04
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The Precipice
Overview: Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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The Cast-Off
Overview: The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru
Overview: Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-18
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Fūshinraishin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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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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When the Cookie Crumbles
Overview: Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-09
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The Time of Reckoning
Overview: "The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-29
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Fires on the Plain
Overview: In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-03
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When Women Lie
Overview: Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-30
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Ten Dark Women
Overview: Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Overview: A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a strange buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs. Is the killer invisible or possibly some other incredible creature?
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-25
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Punishment Room
Overview: Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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Ninja in a Business Suit
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Play It Cool
Overview: This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Overview: Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Two Enemy Women Gamblers
Overview: Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-08
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
Overview: In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car was blown up. The General Staff Headquarters in Japan, sends Lieutenant Shiina, a graduate of the famed Nakano School of Spies inaugurated by Colonel Kusanagi, to investigate the matter. Arriving in Shanghai, he disguises himself as a Chinese coolie and sets out to watch for developments, the only clue being a silver dollar found beside what was left of the victim.
Genres: Action War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-03
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The School of Spies
Overview: Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-04
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Young Boss: Prison Release
Overview: The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-14
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Warm Current
Overview: Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Killer's Killer
Overview: Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago. When he visits the graveyard with his father to pray at his mother's tomb, his father is shot by someone. Now he thirsts for revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-05
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Blood End
Overview: Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-15
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A Killer's Key
Overview: Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-02
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The Black Trademark
Overview: Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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Sinking the Unsinkable
Overview: Japanese Warmovie
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-03-23
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Advance Patrol
Overview: In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
Genres: Drama War Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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Giants and Toys
Overview: Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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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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Warm Current
Overview: The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Black Test Car
Overview: Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-30
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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?
Overview: Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Gateway to Glory
Overview: A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
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Love and Greed
Overview: Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-24
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Zatoichi Challenged
Overview: Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-30
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Gamera vs. Barugon
Overview: Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-17
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Gamera vs. Gyaos
Overview: Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-15
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Black Report
Overview: After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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Vixen
Overview: Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie (Kyoko Kishida), Ishida's wife and the chairman's daughter, offers her a million, but he gives her what she demands. Now Michi is not only satisfied, but she has a mad desire for Ishida and calls him every day asking for a date. His sympathy for her gradually evolves into love, and he soon allows her insatiable passion to strip him of his decency.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-18
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The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi
Overview: Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Dancing with a Mask
Overview: Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-10-28
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Love and Life
Overview: Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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A Woman's Life
Overview: One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Fools at Work
Overview: A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-19
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Invitation to Jail
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-02
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The Crowded Train
Overview: Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Hit and Run Gang
Overview: Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit. His younger brother Matabei vowed to challenge the culprit in front of his brother's grave. A fast-paced action-packed story.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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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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The Women Divers
Overview: A youth movie depicting the love between college students.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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While Yet a Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
Overview: The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.
Genres: Drama War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-06
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The Snowy Heron
Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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