Yumeji Tsukioka
Also Known As: Юмэдзи Цукиока, Akiko Hinotsume
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yumeji Tsukioka (月丘 夢路, Tsukioka Yumeji, 14 October 1922 – 3 May 2017) was a Japanese film actress. She has appeared in over 150 films between 1940 and 1994. She starred in the film The Temptress and the Monk, which was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Her husband was the director Umetsugu Inoue. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yumeji Tsukioka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hiroshima City, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: October 14, 1922
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 03, 2017
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Late Spring
Overview: Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-13
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The Beautiful Nuns
Overview: A samurai who slashes a young girl's mage appears in Edo, and she is never caught.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-26
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Phoenix
Overview: Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-14
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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
Overview: The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-05-10
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Gekimetsu no uta
Overview: Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again for the first time since their graduation ceremony. This film was made at the end of the war to promote the military song “Song of the Annihilation of the United States and Great Britain” and to raise the will to fight.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-03-29
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Kawa wa nagareru
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Cell No. 8
Overview: A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
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Pachinko
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-30
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Meiji no kyōdai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-01-31
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Sabakareru Echizen no kami
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-06
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Enoken roppa no yajikita bugiugi dōchū
Overview: 1950 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-07-09
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Kumoemon to sono tsuma
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
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Love New and Old
Overview: A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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Love Under the Crucifix
Overview: The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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Forever a Woman
Overview: Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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Streetlights
Overview: A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-13
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
Overview: At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi Shirakawa, Kurama Tengu was attacked by the Shinsengumi. Given the circumstances, he began to suspect a connection between the Mikado and the Shinsengumi.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-22
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Hana no shôgai
Overview: In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His friend, the Kokugaku scholar Nagano Shuzen, introduced him to a captivating shamisen master named Murayama Taka. Naosuke became deeply infatuated with her, disregarding the jealousy of his consort Shizu and the warnings of his senior retainer, Gaiji. However, upon discovering Taka's relationship with Shuzen, Naosuke promptly ended his ties with her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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慶安水滸傳
Overview: Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's bodyguard, Maruhashi Tadayasu, and Kaku, a priest. He ended up settling at the Kasugaya, the house of Oko, whom he had saved. When Oko decided to go to Edo, where her biological father lived, Daisuke accompanied her. Along the way, at Suruga Abe River, they encountered Sawanojiki's theater group, which had departed from Osaka earlier heading to Edo. A scuffle initiated by Tadayasu over a ferry boat with the students of Yui Masayuki but was amicably resolved through Masayuki's intervention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Senryo Human Skin
Overview: In the era of the twelfth Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, a notorious bandit known as "Shippu" (or "Swift Wind") emerged in Edo. Shippu would send a warning message called the "Thief's Summons" before striking, yet despite the magistrate's desperate search efforts, they couldn't find any leads. One day, a summons was shot into the residence of Ono Ryusai, who was leading a peaceful retirement life with his two concubines, O-Ran and O-Koshi. With the summons, various individuals including O-Ran's brother Itami Shigoshiro, the master of the Muso-ryu dojo, vigilante Mankichiro, rope expert Gohei, and Den'ichi from Kuromon Town were assigned to monitor the situation. However, while they were distracted by a neighboring fire, a chest containing a thousand ryo was stolen, and O-Koshi was killed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble
Overview: During the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one night a carver named Fujijiro was murdered. Immediately launching an investigation, Denhichi, accompanied by Otoshi and Take, toured the entertainment houses of Ryogoku. There, they discovered a connection between an acrobat and the incident. On their way home, Otoshi unexpectedly encountered an old friend, Inosuke, nervously buying a dagger. Inosuke, a clerk at the Kashimaya store, was in love with Oko, a secret lover of Bunzaemon. Amidst this, Seihei, the head clerk, was murdered by someone, and a dagger belonging to Inosuke was found at the scene, leading Gohei to suspect Inosuke as the culprit. However, Otoshi was hiding Inosuke. Driven by Otoshi's plea and a professional instinct that Inosuke wasn't the perpetrator, Denhichi desperately searched for the real culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-06
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Hiroshima
Overview: The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Umi no tora
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-02-08
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The Temptress and the Monk
Overview: Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-14
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Kyoto Yokai Map 1: A 900-Year-Old New Bride Living in Sagano
Overview: Kaori, a doll hairdresser, is a demonic woman who has been alive for over 900 years. She has maintained her youth by drinking the blood of young men while waiting for her husband, who disappeared shortly after their wedding. However, when Kinosaki, who looks exactly like her husband, uncovers her true identity, Kaori transforms into a terrifying figure.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-17
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Immoral Lecture
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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Shachō to onna tenin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-01-07
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Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Confessions Among Actresses
Overview: In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-17
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Overview: A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires. Against all the odds, he manages to push through his business idea – the foundation of an airline. At the same time, his ex-girlfriend refuses to accept their separation and attempts to force her way back into his life by any means possible. He in turn feels attracted to a young woman, who turns out to be the wife of one of his airline investors and who has herself had a secret lover for several years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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The Family
Overview: Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-26
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Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori
Overview: Based on Shinichi Mori song
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-10
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Saigo no kikyō
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-07-26
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Wakare mo tanoshi
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-09-13
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Buddha
Overview: An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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晴小袖
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Always in My Heart
Overview: Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Overview: Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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Always in My Heart Part 3
Overview: Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-27
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The Second Is a Christian
Overview: The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhiko who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling police detective Kumashiro. The Tenryu Gumi is a collection of misfits and other troublemakers but are relatively peaceful due to their Christian beliefs. Their bitter rivals are the more traditional "Kuroiwa Gumi", a much more sadistic and violent group led by godfather Kuroiwa.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-14
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Love Letter
Overview: A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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The Happy Dancers
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-10
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A Hole of My Own Making
Overview: Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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Family of Sorrow
Overview: Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-04
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Madam
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-24
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Kanshō fujin
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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Tokyo no Kodoku
Overview: A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-12
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Lunar Eclipse
Overview: A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of young people in the agony of mistrust, love and hate with a powerful touch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye
Overview: Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news that she will never regain the sight in her eye leaves her heartbroken. As a last resort, she undergoes a costly surgery from the mysterious doctor known as Black Jack, where after a successful operation, a mysterious figure starts to emerge in her vision, and only she can see it.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-11-26
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Epitaph to My Love
Overview: Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-16
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Overview: In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-29
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Drunken Sword
Overview: Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authorities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Refresher Course for Wives
Overview: One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and invites them to " P " Hotel to see for themselves. They have been married for many years and are bored with their husbands, and are about to secretly carry on affairs with the other's mates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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Hadashi no hanayome
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Red Peony of Night
Overview: A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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The Flesh Is Weak
Overview: A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-29
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That Wonderful Guy
Overview: Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-06
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-29
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Denshichi Torimonocho: The Case of the Golden Goddess
Overview: A samurai detective film.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Fangs of Night
Overview: A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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The Praying Man
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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Tales of Ginza
Overview: In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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Turning Point
Overview: A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-06-18
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Dancing Sisters
Overview: It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daughters. Haruko, the eldest, is the lead vocalist in a band. Natsuko is the conscientious type, who spends her days in ballet classes beautifying herself. The youngest of the three, Akiko is a bookworm who found her niche in philosophy. Although the sisters may appear to have nothing in common, there is one thing they all agree on; "Mom needs a new husband".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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Twenty-Four Eyes
Overview: From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-15
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Young Miss Executive
Overview: A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But Madoka wants to be a stage dancer, so she won't concentrate her office job. Madoka meets Akiyama, a stage director. Akiyama introduce her to his neighbors. In among poor but open minded people, Madoka has changed. Her new ambition is her company provide nice sweets for children. She decide to focus on the office job. But she doesn't know that company executives has conspiracy against her...
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-29
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son
Overview: A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Aiyoku no sabaki
Overview: Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution more worthwhile than the marriage recommended by her parents. Meanwhile, inside Inokichi's heart a flame of unknowing love for the single-minded Motoko begins to burn...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-06
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Chushingura
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Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-10-17
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Haru no Wakakusa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-27
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New Snow
Overview: Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-01
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Bad Reputation of the Big Three
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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The Bells of Nagasaki
Overview: The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-09-23
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I'll Cry Alone
Overview: "Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first loved and for a time thinks of married happiness."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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The Husband Wore the Apron
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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続夫婦百景
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-03
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Noren to hanayome
Overview: Romantic comedy
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
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