Masahiko Inoue
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Overview: This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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Enraptured
Overview: A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-18
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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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White Blaze
Overview: A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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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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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Overview: Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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Navy
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-12-08
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Confronting Fear
Overview: Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is being released from prison, where he was imprisoned on charges of causing bodily harm. He meets his younger brother Fumio, who is going to become a boxer and dreams of owning his own car repair shop. Goro tries to help Fumio, but is refused. At this time, the boss of the underworld, whom Goro met in prison, is released, and this escalates into a confrontation involving Goro and Fumio.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-20
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悪魔の顔
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-09
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The Dawn of Judo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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Killers on Parade
Overview: A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-19
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Pale Flower
Overview: A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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Danger Stalks Near
Overview: The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Farewell to Dream
Overview: A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-17
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Equinox Flower
Overview: Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Rebellion of Japan
Overview: Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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The Big Ambition
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-30
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Early Spring
Overview: A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-29
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七人の刑事 女を探がせ
Overview: This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-14
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Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
Overview: Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-21
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The Refugee
Overview: A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-03
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Shisha to no kekkon
Overview: A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-02
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