Akira Yamanouchi
Also Known As: Akira Yamauchi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: July 11, 1921
Deathday: October 29, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Striving to Live
Overview: Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-25
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Turbid Youth
Overview: Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-21
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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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Waiting Woman
Overview: Waiting woman
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Overview: In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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Kawa wa nagareru
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-25
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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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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Overview: Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-30
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Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Overview: An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-24
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Iki na fûraibô
Overview: A lost film by Masahiro Makino
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-02-28
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The Mask and Destiny
Overview: Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of tragedies. The central character is a Japanese monarch who would prefer to live a humble existence as a maskmaker. Unfortunately, events -- and destiny -- are against him. When first released, Shuzenji Monogatari was held in far lower esteem than such recent Japanese films as Gate of Hell and Samurai. Nevertheless, the film was selected as an entry at the Venice Film Festival, possibly on the strength of its excellent production values.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-13
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Confession of a girl: The Forbidden Fruit
Overview: A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-10
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Unmei no gyakuten: Nusuma reta kigyô himitsu!
Overview: Kazuhiko, a game software planner, resigns and decides to go independent after a trade secret leak to a rival company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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The Sands of Kurobe
Overview: Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man
Overview: The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Whistling in the morning
Overview: Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bill and gave up going to high school. His friends heard about this, and they donated money to his mother. So, Minoru goes to high school and yet he delivers newspapers cheerfully whistling every morning. A memorable film debut by Sayuri Yoshinaga, a representative of the Japanese film industry.The film adaptation of "Newspaper Delivery" by Minoru Yoshida, who won the Minister of Education Award at the national small and Medium student essay competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Overview: A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-03-27
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My Way
Overview: Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-07
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At the Side of the Bridge
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Overview: The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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Moeru minamijūjisei
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Ai to kanashimi to
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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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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Quick Draw Sanshiro
Overview: Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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Hiroi Ten
Overview: A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-14
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母山彦
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-24
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Navy
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-12-08
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At the Side of the Bridge 2
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Tattooed Life
Overview: After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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Shadow of Intimidation
Overview: Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts and disperse. However, one by one, the henchmen die. The last survivor, Sima Kyuhei, gets a call and is informed that Ryu is alive. He is told that if he does not return the money, he will be killed, and he goes to the meeting place...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-22
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限りなき情熱
Overview: Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry abounds, a tale of love and chivalry blossoms into a beautiful flower of emotion.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Temptation
Overview: A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-04-01
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The Paths of Two Maidens
Overview: Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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The Battle of Okinawa
Overview: The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-14
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The Woman Who Holds the Key
Overview: Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-08-15
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こゝに幸あり・後篇 花咲く朝
Overview: 1956 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-04
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こゝに幸あり・前篇 誘惑の都
Overview: 1956 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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Apostasy
Overview: In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-11-30
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The War Without Weapons
Overview: It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-08
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The Ghost of Iwojima
Overview: The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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Before Dawn
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-13
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Street of Violence
Overview: An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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The Face
Overview: A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming model.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-22
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Wind of Volcano
Overview: An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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Glory on the Summit
Overview: A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
Overview: French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he was found supplying classified information to the Russians.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-29
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Destroyer Yukikaze
Overview: Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-16
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
Overview: Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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Jungle Block
Overview: A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-15
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The Hidden Profile
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-17
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Overview: After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-28
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Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
Overview: The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-25
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The Sting of Death
Overview: Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-28
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Dying at a Hospital
Overview: Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-24
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Shadow of Love
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-05
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Children of Hiroshima
Overview: Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-06
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Thirst for Love
Overview: A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-18
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Phoenix
Overview: A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-12-11
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Miniature
Overview: Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Song of my Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-29
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A Case of Honor
Overview: The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-20
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The Last Women
Overview: The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On July 7, an order comes that everyone must die in order not to be captured by the enemy.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-22
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
Overview: Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Tenchu!
Overview: A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-09
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Onna no issho
Overview: Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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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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Yoru no chōsen-sha
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
Overview: The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-28
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Midori naru hito: kōhen ai no honryū
Overview: 1956 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-15
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Midori naru hito: zenpen wakare no yogisha
Overview: 1956 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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