Musei Tokugawa
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 13, 1894
Age: 131 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 01, 1971
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Children Hand in Hand
Overview: A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-03-30
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Yakuza Princess of Edo
Overview: Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo 's father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword called Kongomaru, which was planned to be presented to the shogun Iemitsu, but he died due to a yakuza attack. In addition, the sword was stolen, and Ochiyo 's sister was also kidnapped... A humorous historical drama directed by Eiichi Kudo, starring Hibari Misora and Kotaro Satomi. Hibari Misora plays a male princess and shows off her charming appearance with stylish songs and dances.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-13
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Saiyûki
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-10
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敵は幾万ありとても
Overview: 1944 war movie
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Overview: Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-11
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
Overview: film directed by Tai Katô
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Princess Iron Fan
Overview: The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Drama Music Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1941-11-19
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Overview: Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Otogi's Voyage Around the World
Overview: Also Known As: Otogi's Voyage Around the World
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-25
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A Rebel's Fortress
Overview: A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki Murahara constructs the “beehive fortress,” the point of reference for the protest movement opposing the decision to expropriate land.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-05
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Until Victory Day
Overview: An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to entertain and amuse the national troops. Inside this rocket would be tiny performers. Once launched from the laboratory and landed amidst the Japanese troops the soldiers could enjoy the performers. The laboratory succeeds and the rocket is built. It bears the insignia, 'until the victory days.' The Japanese government began a program of shooting and disseminating propaganda and entertainment movies for its troops during World War II. It is a lost film.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-01-25
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death”
Overview: At a time when the USSR and the USA fervently vied to develop nuclear arms, the mass media buzzed with terms inspired by nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll such as the “Daigo Fukuryu Maru Incident,” the “ash of death,” “radioactive tuna,” and “radioactive rain,” and nuclear testing continued, Japan, the only nation to have suffered an atom-bomb attack, felt massive anxiety. “What is the radioactive ash of death?” “What effect does it have on living creatures?” Against the background of the era, the film scientifically describes the terrors of radioactivity with the cooperation of many scientists, physicians and research institutions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-12
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The Third President
Overview: The fifth entry in the Company President Series
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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Kobayashi Issa
Overview: The film uses the haiku of early 19th century poet Kobayashi Issa as its motif to portray the lives of farmers residing deep in the mountains of Nagano. Commissioned by the Nagano Prefectural Department of Tourism, the movie became instead, in the hands of Kamei, a depiction, sometimes ironic, of poverty and the harsh life of the inhabitants of the area. The short movie is often considered Japan’s first “poetic documentary”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-02-18
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Bravo! Tebare Ishin
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-01-11
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An Actor's Revenge
Overview: In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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Nagareru hoshi wa ikiteiru
Overview: Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-18
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Tipsy Life
Overview: The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a company founded specifically to take advantage of emergent sound technology. P.C.L. worked in collaboration with a brewer’s firm, Dai Nihon Biru, who met the production costs of the film in full, and whose products are featured in the film in an example of the sophisticated and modern merchandising typical of the studio’s early work. The film is partially set in a beer hall, and its story concerns a beer seller at a train station and her relationship with a music student trying to create a hit song. Director Sotoji Kimura was to become a company stalwart, making such films as Ino and Mon, while actress Sachiko Chiba would emerge the studio’s first real star, appearing in such films as Wife Be Like a Rose.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-05-04
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Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
Overview: This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an 80-minute compilation of the first (東海道の巻 or "Tokaido no maki") and second (日本晴れの巻 or "Japan's Fine Weather Reel") parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-18
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The Whole Family Works
Overview: Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-03-11
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Diary of a Nurse
Overview: Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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A Mother's Love
Overview: A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-27
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大当りパチンコ娘
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-15
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Ghost Tower
Overview: Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.
Genres: Romance Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-13
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I Am a Cat
Overview: 1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-14
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Botchan
Overview: 1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-14
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Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Overview: A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was born and what the world would be like if she where never born. While in the clouds she meets her grandparents and a few other people she loved who have passed on.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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Ghosts Die at Dawn
Overview: At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice, Kohei takes Michiko to stay at a dilapidated mountain villa in his hometown. What awaited him there...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-12
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Composition Class
Overview: Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-08-21
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The Legend of the White Serpent
Overview: Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-22
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The Adventures of Tobisuke
Overview: Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother so she can heals him with a golden fruit. But O-fuku and Tobisuke had to cross the valley of death filled with fantastic creatures, will they survive?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-27
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Flirtation in Spring
Overview: Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-04-12
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The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
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Genres: Mystery History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-01-09
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
Overview: This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-11-30
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Nanking
Overview: Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was discovered in Beijing, China, in the year 1995.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-20
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The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
Overview: The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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The Brick Factory Girl
Overview: This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-02-14
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Machi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-08-20
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Kodakara fūfu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-02-26
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The Living Magoroku
Overview: A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-11-18
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Iseshima
Overview: An Ishiro Honda short film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Akireta renchû
Overview: The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a background story to do their popular manzai-routines on film. Here, Entatsu and Achako start out as rivals for the affection of a young woman but ultimately pair up to face a bigger rival. Entatsu chooses to become a boxer to get his chance at punching the rival out of the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-01-11
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Namiko
Overview: An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western sources that give sole directing credit to Eizo Tanaka, it was actually co-directed by six different directors, Tanaka, Kazue Kimura, Kazuo Takimura, Ryoji Mikami and Hidekuni Ouchi.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-05-19
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Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Overview: Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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The Dead Beauty Incident
Overview: A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a now retired drug crime specialist, to cooperate. Kubota and his friends soon find the house of the murdered beauty and upon entering, they are surprised to find another corpse, this time of a man…
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-25
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Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Sea Monster on Land
Overview: An octopus flees a box on the way to the fish market and embarks on a long and perilous journey back to the ocean.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-17
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12 Chapters About Women
Overview: Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result of his promotion, but just then, a big change occurs in Minako's body..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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