Tomo'o Nagai
Also Known As: Osamu Iinuma, Tomo'o Nagai, Tomoo Nagai
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: June 14, 1914
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 17, 1991
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
Overview: A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-22
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The Wild Sea
Overview: Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the outbreak of violence by radical students and blockade of classrooms make studying impossible and Yoji goes home. Fortunately, he meets Katsuyuki Shinoda, a childhood friend, who works on a whaling vessel. Yoji decides to join him and rediscover a meaning in life. But finding sidework on a whaler is not so easy and Ogaki, a veteran harpooner, curtly turns him down. But finally, deeply touched by Yoji's earnestness, Ogaki reluctantly agrees to take him with them. Rules are very strict, for even one slight slip-up may jeopardize the safety of the entire ship. For a long time, it seems like a living hell, but with patience and courage, he begins to learn the ropes. And the day they sight their first whale, Yoji comes into his own and finds the real meaning of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-18
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事件記者 影なき侵入者
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-02
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Fall of the Shogun's Militia
Overview: Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who devoted his life to protecting the shogun and fighting on the side of the Tokugawa. This tells the story of the Shinsengumi starting at the moment of their greatest triumph through the final battles as the Tokugawa shogunate was brought down.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-22
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The Scarlet Camellia
Overview: A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-21
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Facing to the Clouds
Overview: A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
Overview: Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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The Thick-Walled Room
Overview: A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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Messengers to Satsuma
Overview: By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-26
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Hiroba no kōdoku
Overview: Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Yukiko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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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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Ai to shi no katami
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Sekai ni michi ga aru kagiri
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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Ikiru
Overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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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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Blood Type: Blue
Overview: UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-23
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Black River
Overview: A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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Silence
Overview: Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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Smashing the 0-Line
Overview: Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-25
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JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei
Overview: 1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, who followed the whereabouts of the distressed aircraft. It is an adaptation of the prize-winning broadcast drama recruited by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Week in 1958. The original author was Tsuneyuki Mori.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-25
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Solar Eclipse
Overview: When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-06
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Have Wings on Your Heart
Overview: Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
Overview: TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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トップ屋を殺せ
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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The Spy
Overview: Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-04
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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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The Day the Sun Rose
Overview: Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-23
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Shishun no izumi
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-05
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Sing, Young People
Overview: A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-06
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Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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Three Faces of Love
Overview: When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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August without Emperor
Overview: Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Overview: [Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of captured ninja and decides that, in the future, he needs a much crueler method of execution. The daimyo Hideyoshi comes to visit.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-06
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To Trap a Kidnapper
Overview: Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-25
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The Seasons of Love
Overview: A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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Patterns of Love
Overview: Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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Man on a False Flight
Overview: The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with the money...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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King of the Highway
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Men in a Rough Town
Overview: An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-28
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Mist and Shadows
Overview: The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters investigate the mysterious death of a teacher in Hokuriku and the dark suspicions that lurk behind it.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-26
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The Shrikes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
Overview: Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy dancer with a shady past. Pitiful and ridiculous as he is, Utsugi is without a trace of self-pity, and his diary shines with self-effacing good humor.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-20
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Pressure of Guilt
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-17
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The Lowest Man
Overview: A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Overview: Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Love Stopped the Runaway Train
Overview: Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-15
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
Overview: The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-08-16
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Stepbrothers
Overview: In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-25
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Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
Overview: The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vices. Kingoro and his family are also forced to fight against the Ezaki-Gumi group, which is opposed by Tomoda Kizo, who is trying to control the port of Wakamatsu.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-13
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The Corporation
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-14
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Mekishiko mushuku
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Genres: Western
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1
Overview: The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son. Part 1 sets up the story and introduces the characters. When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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Typhoon
Overview: A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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The Burdened Sisters
Overview: Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-17
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
Overview: A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-11
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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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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
Overview: A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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Shōjo
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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誰もが信じられない！
Overview: A wheelchair-bound daughter is told that her mother's death was a murder and asks for an investigation, gradually learning the secret of her own birth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-11
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悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
Overview: When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and was praised as a "Malay tiger." However, the situation in Japan changed steadily by the failure of Sai pan from the GA Talca translation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Beneath the Gallows
Overview: Who is the vicious criminal challenging the investigation team? Mysteries lead to more mysteries, and deductions lead to more deductions in this bizarre and terrifying thriller!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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Otome no inori
Overview: 1959 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-21
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Ohana han
Overview: This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives a lively life while being swept up in the waves of the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Overview: A sequel to Ohana han.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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