Masumi Harukawa
Also Known As: 瀧川マチエ, Masumi Harukawa, Machie Takigawa
Biography: Born Machie Takigawa, she was active as a dancer at the Asakusa Rock Theater under the stage name Mary Rose in the early 1950s. Due to her appearance, she was affectionately nicknamed Daruma-chan and Jumbo-chan. Soon after moving to the Nichigeki Music Hall, she was scouted by the film industry and made her acting debut in "Gurama-to no yuwaku/The Temptation of Grama Island." Memorable in Japan for her regular role in eight of the ten Toei film series " Trucker Rascals," playing the wife of the series co-star Aikawa Kinya, among appearances in other popular cinematic serials such as Zatoichi and Tora-san. International audiences would be more familiar with her work with avant-garde directors Shōhei Imamura & Shūji Terayama.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: November 16, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Female
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Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Overview: Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-01
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Hachiko
Overview: The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Pineapple Butai
Overview: The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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The Insect Woman
Overview: A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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Neon taiheiki
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Intentions of Murder
Overview: The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-28
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Color
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-13
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A Cheerful Yakuza
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-14
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Dynamite Doctor Returns
Overview: Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-17
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Overview: Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-03
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Zatoichi in Desperation
Overview: After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel - but this causes more problems than solves them.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal
Overview: A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a debt bond in a basket with parrots, which they received instead of pension money. At that time, Hiromi Go and Kirin Kiki, who were gaining popularity, play the main roles, demonstrating an exquisite combination.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-29
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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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Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Overview: A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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The Human Bullet
Overview: A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-22
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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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How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
Overview: A salaryman comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-22
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Silk Hat Boss
Overview: In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler series. Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the Chindai family of Kumamoto, and Boss Kumatora boldly fights back with the help of O'Ryu the Red Peony. A super entertaining film with non-stop comedy and action directed by Suzuki Norifumi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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Hajimete no Tabi
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-09
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Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
Overview: Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows the culprit! Unfortunately, she doesn't have it in her to tell anybody about it, and to make matters worse, said aforementioned friend gets accused of the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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Code of Ruffians
Overview: Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Sodachi zakari
Overview: Japanese movie released on September 30 , 1967 . Produced and distributed by Toho . Color , Toho scope . Running time is 88 minutes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-30
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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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Nami kage
Overview: Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-31
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House of Terrors
Overview: A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-01
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Samurai Banners
Overview: Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
Genres: Action War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-01
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Overview: Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-11
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幻の殺意
Overview: Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-04-15
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Carlos
Overview: V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-25
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Shogun's Ninja
Overview: In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Overview: Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garners popularity in the slums due to her compassionate care for children. In an attempt to secure a stable future for their child, she enters into marriage with Tsutomu Yamazaki, who struggles with a stutter. Unfortunately, their union is cut short by the untimely death of Tsutomu Yamazaki in an accident.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-09
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The Gate of Youth
Overview: Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-15
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Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me
Overview: The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their skills in driving fast and evading the police while transporting commodities throughout the country. Chance encounters with people along the way help them to come to terms with events clouding their past and offer them a shot at redemption.
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-30
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Boxer
Overview: In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and start living alone with his mangy dog. One day a young mediocre boxer knocks at the door and wants to be Hayato's apprentice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Bokyo
Overview: In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-09
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The Wild Trucker
Overview: The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro and Eizo help bring home the father of two young children in time to celebrate New Year’s together.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-27
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Curse of the Blood
Overview: A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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Silk Hat Boss
Overview: In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler series. Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the Chindai family of Kumamoto, and Boss Kumatora boldly fights back with the help of O'Ryu the Red Peony. A super entertaining film with non-stop comedy and action directed by Suzuki Norifumi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-25
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
Overview: The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
Overview: A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-07
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Life of Hishakaku 3
Overview: Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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The Glamorous Ghost
Overview: Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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Tokyo Pop
Overview: A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has including ex-boyfriend's rent money and goes to Tokyo. She has numerous cross-cultural adventures and ends up singing with a Japanese rock group looking for a gaijin gimmick.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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The Threat
Overview: Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-17
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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
Overview: Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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Run Truck Rascal, Run!
Overview: Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-22
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Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
Overview: The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful designer named Wakako, who is on a pilgrimage.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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I Am A Man of Honor
Overview: The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again... this time with a beautiful college student Masako.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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Truckster of Guts
Overview: The fifth movie of the “Truck Yaro” series, which is comical road movies of two long-distance truckers. This time Momojiro falls in love with beautiful Minako in Sado, Niigata.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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The Truck Rascals Go to The North
Overview: Eighth movie in the Torakku Yarō series
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
Overview: Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonathan get drawn into her old friend's fraud.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-12
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A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun
Overview: Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving logging freight through the mountains. There he meets the wild and beautiful Natsu.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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Our Marriage
Overview: When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
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Golden Ninja
Overview: Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. When the leader cuts down the rest of the team, a bloodstained footman seems to be the only survivor, and his image haunts the pair for the next twenty years. As they are serving a prison sentence a plan is hatched to get them released so they can lead their captors to the hidden gold on Hikone Beach. Danger and excitement await the two as they run into unexpected and dangerous obstacles!
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
Overview: The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the early 20th century. Shinkai then runs afoul of a gangster group using strong-arm tactics to take over the profits from local gambling. When he proves to be more than they can handle, they hire the one man who has the ability to kill Shinkai and exact revenge, Ryotatsu, the karate priest whom Shinkai blinded in the first film. This ultra-violent entry has long been considered the best movie in the series and never made its way to home video before. See a spectacular display of Wakayama Tomisaburo’s martial art expertise in this action packed film. The Holy Grail of sword movies has arrived at last! /Winterheart of CG
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-30
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Sex Peddlers
Overview: A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-30
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Bloody Shuriken
Overview: Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-20
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How to Make Money
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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Wolf Escort
Overview: Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-31
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Obon, The Moll Dipper
Overview: Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-16
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The Black Cat
Overview: Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-13
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Shiro and Marilyn
Overview: Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-16
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
Overview: A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-17
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Where Spring Comes Late
Overview: The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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The Marked Man
Overview: A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Desperate Hoodlum
Overview: Second part of the Zenka mono series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-02
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Ellie My Love
Overview: Based on the comic by Mako Takami.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-11
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Girls of the Night
Overview: In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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The Abalone Gals
Overview: South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-26
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Makeup
Overview: 1987film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-25
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Overview: Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Madcap Mixup
Overview: Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-23
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The Cola Game
Overview: Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or strip. The woman, Junko, becomes involved with Makoto, leader of the gang, becomes pregnant, has an abortion, then gets involved with an architect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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Hole in the Pants
Overview: A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut video release from Pantsu no ana, a subsection of "BOMB" magazine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-17
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The Spying Sorceress
Overview: Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate.
Genres: Action Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-12
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Women Can't Be Beaten
Overview: An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Tora-san's Lullaby
Overview: After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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Michi
Overview: A married long-distance truck driver falls for a significantly younger waitress at a diner. Their affair brings tragedy to themselves and those around them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-06
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My Voiceless Friends
Overview: A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-29
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Human Revolution II
Overview: Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-19
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Yanagase Blues
Overview: Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Temptation on Glamour Island
Overview: Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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The Castle of Sand
Overview: Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-19
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Hobo General
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-24
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Overview: Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Yakuza Vassal
Overview: A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-10
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Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
Overview: 7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-15
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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Overview: Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who dies in an accident and experiences the afterlife as a spirit. The leading role is Tamba Tetsuro's biological son, Tamba Yoshitaka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-14
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Kigeki-otoko no ude dameshi
Overview: In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welcomes Okoma, a stripper who has been locked up for public indecency. Shosuke immediately takes the paroled Okoma to the police station to greet her, and meets a young new detective, Matsuta Obara, who has just been transferred. But the two don't get along from the moment they meet...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-09
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Bridal Cruise
Overview: Daisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out they are rivals bidding for control of a major resort hotel. During the bargaining sessions each accuses the other of misconduct because of their escapades, thus getting them in trouble with their families. Shinichi's ecology group and Daisuke's wife's women's lib movement become involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-04
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Women Doing Time
Overview: Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-05
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Chained Bitch
Overview: Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-15
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Pink Lady's Motion Picture
Overview: The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a bulky, over-sized pink acrylic costume) who suffers acts of unusual cruelty by the keeper and ringmaster before the girls escape with the creature in a circus trailer.
Genres: Fantasy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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Tokyo Gambler
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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School for Thieves
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-06
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The Killing Game
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Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-22
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Aces Wild
Overview: Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil of his native land, his first thought was to visit Otanuki Fudo, the guardian deity of the Otorigumi, but the Otorigumi had fallen and Otanuki Fudo was on the verge of eviction for the construction of an expressway. Keisuke and Joji put on the striped suits left to them by their late boss, and set out to rebuild the clan...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Mappira shain yūkyōden
Overview: 1968 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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Jiyūgaoka fujin
Overview: 1960 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-18
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喜劇 駅前桟橋
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-15
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ラーメン大使
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-11
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六人の女を殺した男
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-31
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I Love You So Much
Overview: The Sagami family has been running an Edo-style woodworking shop in downtown Tokyo for generations. The head of the family, Bunzo (Kunie Tanaka), has received official recognition for his craftsmanship, but business remains modest. He lives with his wife, Sumiko (Masumi Harukawa), their divorced eldest daughter, Naomi (Rino Katase), and their heir, Seiichi (Hiroyuki Sanada). One day, Seiichi tells his parents that he has someone he wants them to meet—his former junior in school, Yuko Ogata (Anna Nakagawa). Yuko admires traditional woodworking and dreams of marrying into the trade. Stunned yet delighted, Bunzo and Sumiko are thrown into a whirlwind of emotions. The next day, Yuko arrives at the Sagami home, setting the stage for an unexpected turn of events.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-17
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Monrō no yōna onna
Overview: 1964 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Yellow Cherries
Overview: The film is based on the 1959 hit song of the same name by the Three Cats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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Abarenbo Shogun II – New Year’s Special
Overview: When the seventh shogun, Ietsugu died, shogunate officials chose Yoshimune, Lord of Kishu, to succeed him. Since then Yoshimune has led a double life.In court he remains a dedicated leader, but outside he travels incognito as a wandering swordsman, seeking out crime and corruption. With his trusted friends and his ninja, he’ll expose anyone who perverts the shogun’s justice and oppresses his people and he’ll ruthlessly put them down with his lightning-fast sword. But since he became shogun, many high-placed officials look on with jealousy, and long to destroy him. One such man, Lord Owari, tries to unseat Yoshimune by exposing his mother as a practitioner of an outlaw religion, Christianity, an offense punishable by crucifixion!
Genres: Action Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-05
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I Am a Cat
Overview: Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-31
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