Kyū Sazanka
Also Known As: 山茶花 究, Кю Садзанка
Biography: Kyū Sazanka (山茶花 究 Sazanka Kyū, born April 1, 1914 – March 4, 1971) was a Japanese actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 01, 1914
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 04, 1971
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抱寝の長脇差
Overview: Tatsuo Osone movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-26
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Shachō to onna tenin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-01-07
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The Shop Curtain
Overview: Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-15
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Fires on the Plain
Overview: In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-03
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Night River
Overview: In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Overview: After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Yojimbo
Overview: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-25
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High and Low
Overview: In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Kanpai! Sararīman shokun
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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The End of Summer
Overview: The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-29
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The Precipice
Overview: Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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Ichi ka bachi ka
Overview: The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-16
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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-15
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The Fiery Magistrate
Overview: Film adaption by Kenji Misumi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-19
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A Doting Parent’s Lullaby
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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Ayako
Overview: An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-24
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Giants and Toys
Overview: Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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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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Elegant Beast
Overview: A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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I Will Buy You
Overview: A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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Master Fencer Sees the World
Overview: A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-16
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Accomplice
Overview: Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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Haru ranman tanuki matsuri
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Genres: Music Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-06-29
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Heso no taisho
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Police Precinct Part 12
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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A Whistle in My Heart
Overview: The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-29
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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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Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Overview: Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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High School Geisha
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-21
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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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喜劇 駅前飯店
Overview: The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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The Masterless 47
Overview: Part one of The Masterless 47.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-25
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大当り黄金狂時代
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-05
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Yume de aimasho
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-15
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Sisters of Gion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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Black Challenger
Overview: Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming from those at the very top of society.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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ふり袖侠艶録
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-05
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Shin kitsune to tanuki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-29
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The Red Water
Overview: Comedy drama film
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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ふり袖小天狗
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-22
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Hadaka no Machi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-23
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Marriage of the sky and the sea
Overview: A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil
Overview: Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-07
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Chronicle of the Bulbul
Overview: Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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This Greedy Old Skin
Overview: A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-18
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風雲児
Overview: Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Bad Sleep Well
Overview: In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-19
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Manji
Overview: The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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The Makioka Sisters
Overview: 1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-14
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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
Overview: Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-03
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親馬鹿花合戦
Overview: Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-29
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聟入り豪華船
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-01-14
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Story of Second Class Private, Sequel
Overview: First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-18
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Song Festival, Full Moon, and the Battle of the Raccoon Dogs
Overview: Hibari Misora musical.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-01
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Detective Duel
Overview: A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-06
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Tale of a Company Boss 3
Overview: A story about the nature of office workers today.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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The Fencing Master
Overview: The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Geisha in the Old City
Overview: Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and resilience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-13
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The Man from Planet Alpha
Overview: A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Crazy Cats comedy group and jazz band members. It is the sixth film in the Crazy Operation series where the lead role was handed over from Eikichi Ueki to Kei Tani. According to the plot, Planet Alpha Secretary severely worried by the effects of the Earth's atomic bomb experiment and sent Mistake 7 and Zero 8, as a watchers to Earth for a nuclear disarmament.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-28
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Odd Obsession
Overview: A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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When Women Lie
Overview: Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-30
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Nonsense Boys
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-01
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The Catch
Overview: Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Overview: Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-09
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A Warrior's Flute
Overview: Tale of tragic love between samurai and princess during Heian period.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-04
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Spring Voyage
Overview: Japanese youth film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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First Love of Okon
Overview: A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-06
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Warm Current
Overview: The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Bonds of Love
Overview: Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei's life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison - with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-15
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A Geisha's Diary
Overview: A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-28
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Internees of Kampili
Overview: In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the island of Celebes. Eighteen-hundred Allied women and children were interned for the duration of the war. Yamaji's iron rule for camp administration is : No violence; hands off internees; He also endeavors to establish self-administration by internees while aiming at a self-supporting camp economy within six months. His ingenuity gains the camp numerous pigs to enrich their diet, and sewing machines with to make fatigue uniforms for the military. The internees are grateful for what little aid he can give them. As the tides of war changes, Allied planes bomb the camp in error. But the surrender of Japan changes everything, and the internees join forces to save their former camp commander from the gallows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-29
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Room for Let
Overview: When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-02
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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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浮かれ狐千本櫻
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Darkness at Noon
Overview: Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-26
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Hoodlum Soldier
Overview: A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Genres: Action War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Overview: Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Chance Meeting
Overview: Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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The Maid Story
Overview: Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-16
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Black Dividend
Overview: Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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Tough Guy
Overview: Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-30
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Silence Has No Wings
Overview: Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-11
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Sweet Sweat
Overview: This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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Pressure of Guilt
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-17
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Woman Gambler Is Coming
Overview: Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-31
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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
Overview: #13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-31
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The Enforcer
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-14
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Chûshingura
Overview: After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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The Swordsman and the Actress
Overview: A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost love Lady Okyo gave him years ago. It turns out this fan is a precious clan heirloom whose possession, for convoluted reasons, will determine the clan's leadership. Sword-slinging bad guys descend to capture the fan, and Koharu embarks on a road trip to Edo to return the MacGuffin to the rightful hands of Lady Okyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-09
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Travel Romances
Overview: Romantic comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-10
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The Sand City in Manchuria
Overview: When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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An Osaka Story
Overview: A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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The Wayside Pebble
Overview: In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well at home, however, where his father does not work leaving the mother to toil . With the boy's family having no money he cannot progress his education and has to drop out of school. A neighbour, who is a bookstore owner, offers the family money to allow the boy to continue his schooling, but the father is too proud to accept and rebuffs the offer forcing the boy to work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-31
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The Temple of Wild Geese
Overview: Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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Case of a Young Lord 3
Overview: Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had served the Shogun came home in fear for her life. Will the Young Lord uncover the truth of what went on at the Palace, and does it relate to a series of murders that have been occurring just before the festival?
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-21
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On This Earth
Overview: Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Demonfire Palanquin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-09
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The Sandal Keeper
Overview: The second installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-11
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Bad Reputation Returns
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-17
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Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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The Adventures of Kantaro
Overview: Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-18
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Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-26
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Cruel Story of Youth
Overview: A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-03
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Sisters of Destiny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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Tange Sazen: Heavenly Clouds, Earthly Dragon
Overview: This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece sword for his lord. However, his efforts are not appreciated and he becomes a man of hatred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-17
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Oshidori kenkagasa
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Genres: Action Drama Music History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-22
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Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
Overview: Ensemble comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-10
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Love and Life
Overview: Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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Megitsune Buro
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-13
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Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-12
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Fighting Fire Fighter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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The Crowded Train
Overview: Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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The Tattooed Magistrate: Fallen Flowers Showdown Volume
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-23
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Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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Gambling Den Breakdown
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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ぽんこつ
Overview: In the shimotsuke town of Tokyo, Honmachi tenkawa Cho continues to take the remains of the car. One of them was inuzuka store where the man loved the machine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-08
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The Tattooed Magistrate: Cherry Blossoms Dance Volume
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-14
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Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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High Teen
Overview: Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-26
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喜劇 各駅停車
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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The Preacher of Love
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Black Hooded Man Rides Again
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-02
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The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
Overview: A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi (The Millionaire of a Night) and shot by Hiro Imai (Akado Suzunosuke (1957)). Starring Achako Hanabishi (Segedei Momoshiki Goten), Tamao Nakamura (Akado Suzunosuke (1957)), Seinen Hayashi (Nijunin no Kenka-jou) and Sumire Harukaze (Harukaze Sumire). Also Rumiko Komachi, Shunji Sakai, Yoshio Tabata and Mieko Suzuki.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-13
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Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
Overview: 1967 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Talkative Company President
Overview: A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms that shake up its corporate culture. Just as success arrives, he quietly walks away, leaving a changed company behind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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Red Flowers of Hell
Overview: 1961 gangster film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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