Toyoko Takechi
Also Known As: 武知杜代子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 25, 1908
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 18, 1985
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New Tale of Zatoichi
Overview: Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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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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Romantic and Crazy
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-03
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Toshigoro
Overview: Teenage film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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The Lucky General
Overview: The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-26
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Red Bud and White Flower
Overview: A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-10
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Car Thieves
Overview: Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-04
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Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Overview: Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-02-19
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Stolen Desire
Overview: A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-20
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Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life
Overview: Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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A Colt Is My Passport
Overview: A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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The Manster
Overview: An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Seinen no isu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-08
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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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Kappa no Sanpei: Ghost Operation
Overview: Sanpei has opened the door to the world of the kappa.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-23
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Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Overview: Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades one of his former performers to join his troupe and she learns new tricks of the trade.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-09
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Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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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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Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
Overview: 1963 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Fresh Leaves
Overview: Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-06
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It's a Psychic, Gather Everyone!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-03
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Muremure joshidaisei
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-25
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Junko's Bliss
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-04
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Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Beauty Wandering Story
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Hore tatte dame yo
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
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Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-12
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Overview: Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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明朗五人男
Overview: 1940 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-11-30
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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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Fearless Comrades
Overview: The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal death at the hands of the gang leader. He goes on a trip with a guitar in his hand and ends up in Yokohama. The guitar he plays at the bar in the evening was given to him by his late best friend. At the bar, Kosuke meets Kumagoro. Kosuke saves Kumagoro from bandits. Kumagoro is a funny man, he came to this city to reunite with the woman he swore to marry. Kosuke decides to settle in this city and help him find his beloved, but the future of this city is not cloudless either, because the cruel Yakuza is in power in the city, and soon Kosuke will have to fight with him...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-08
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おヤエの身替り女中
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-19
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The Dancer and Two Warriors
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-26
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親馬鹿花合戦
Overview: Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-29
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Danger Pays
Overview: Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
Overview: Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the breasts and hips of all the girls in his father's office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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Three Little Geisha
Overview: A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Overview: Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-10
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Glass-Hearted Johnny
Overview: Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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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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The Sunshine Girl
Overview: A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-18
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The Lovable Tramp
Overview: Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-12
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The Secret Ceremony
Overview: Erotic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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The Mayor's Secret
Overview: A mayoral candidate and his love child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-14
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The Revelation of a Geisha
Overview: After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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I Sell My Husband
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-09
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Pigs and Battleships
Overview: In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-21
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Lost in the Sun
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-16
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Dragon Princess
Overview: A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-31
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The Notorious Man's Return
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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Samurai Wolf
Overview: This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-19
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Pleasure in the Mirror
Overview: A young college student discovers a hidden two way mirror in a closet that looks into a bathroom. Nightly he watches his cruel older brother sexually abuse his wife. He wants to protect her but he also begins to lust after her body. How far is he willing to go?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-09
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Gamblers' Luck
Overview: A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-19
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The Acrobats of Death
Overview: Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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The Dragon of Macao
Overview: Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Game of Chance
Overview: Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-22
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Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
Overview: In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked out the infirmary's doctor and taken his place. A trio of students notice the trick and dress up as medical professionals to assist the female portion of the school body. A newspaper has caught wind of this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-01
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Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
Overview: Students against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-12
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Shameless School
Overview: Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-02
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Military Comfort Woman
Overview: Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
Overview: Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-13
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The Gambling Monk
Overview: One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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Travels of Gonkuro
Overview: Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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Tora-san's Lovesick
Overview: After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-10
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Overview: When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
Overview: Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-08
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Vagabond Schemer
Overview: The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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Hobo General
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-24
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Jolly Barbers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
Overview: Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-22
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Otona to kodomo no ainoko dai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-15
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Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with him without asking her any questions. Turmoil ensues with the reaction of the crew when the runaway girl starts working alongside with them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Inside a Girl's Dormitory
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-21
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Ore wa inaka no puresurī
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-05
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The Witty Samurai
Overview: The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-21
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Ekisutora
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-07
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忍術・猿飛佐助
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-24
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
Overview: A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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おヤエのママさん女中
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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