Izumi Hara
Also Known As: Sen Hara, 原泉子, Senko Hara
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Matsue, Shimane prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 11, 1905
Deathday: May 21, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Tampopo
Overview: In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-23
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Island of Horrors
Overview: Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolated island in the Seto Inland Sea. Kosuke Kindaichi received a will from his friend Kito, which said, "Go to Gokumon Island to save my three younger sisters," and Kosuke went to Gokumon Island. Upon arriving at the residence of Quito, there were three beautiful sisters, a crazy father, a cousin of Sanae, and Kosuke plunged into a strange atmosphere. The film adaptation of the masterpiece novel of the same name by Seishi Yokomizo. Kyozo Kataoka plays Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, and Ryutaro Otomo plays Inspector Isokawa, who can be called Kindaichi's best partner.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-11-20
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The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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Police Precinct Part 17
Overview: The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-13
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The Snow Woman
Overview: A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-20
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Overview: A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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Apart from Life
Overview: A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-30
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Distant Thunder
Overview: A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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Code of Ruffians
Overview: Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Ballad of Orin
Overview: A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-11-19
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Me o tsubutte tsuppashire
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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Second Generation Young Boss
Overview: Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and become the head of the Nanjo-gumi in the second generation. He brutally chivalrously avenges the death of his father by a vicious yakuza linked to extremists within the army through the courage and swordsmanship of naval training!
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-01
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Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
Overview: Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Konna onna ni dare ga shita
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-04
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Shinran: Path to Purity
Overview: In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-02
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Overview: During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-04
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Island of the Evil Spirits
Overview: Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-03
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Happiness of Us Alone
Overview: The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
Overview: The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Overview: Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-20
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Village of Doom
Overview: An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-15
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In the Realm of Death and Pleasure
Overview: 1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-05-06
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Moonlight Mask
Overview: First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-30
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Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters
Overview: Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-06
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The Time of Reckoning
Overview: "The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-29
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Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan
Overview: Gekko Kamen faces off against Satan's Claw, who is after the treasure of the Kingdom of Baradai.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-22
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The Garden of Women
Overview: A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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The Tattered Banner
Overview: Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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Man of the World 2
Overview: An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-13
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Rice
Overview: A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community creates friction amongst the proud residents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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The Sand Boat
Overview: A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must face a Deadly cult who want to sacrifice them.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-05-31
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The Street Without Sun
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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Time Within Memory
Overview: Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-24
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The Magic Serpent
Overview: In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince Ikazuki-maru is rescued from the jaws of death by a magic bird sent by a wizard. Ten years later, Ikazuki-maru embarks on an adventure to avenge his parents and the wizard's death with his magic powers he learned from the wizard. He kills Yuki Daijo but then must battle Oroki-maru in a battle to the death.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-05
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The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor
Overview: A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small room in a local boarding house, but he was unprepared for what life will throw at him. The room next to him boards a local gangster whose gang is a menace to the neighborhood, a bit further down lives a boy who dresses like a woman. And the old people managing the boarding house are quite peculiar too. Based on the manga by Leiji Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-16
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The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
Overview: In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-28
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Sweet Revenge
Overview: Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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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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Young Boss
Overview: After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-13
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The River Fuefuki
Overview: In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-19
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Nippon no obaachan
Overview: Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Journey
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-12
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Drifting
Overview: Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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The River - Poem of Wrath
Overview: A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
Overview: One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised to see a call girl he once had an encounter with standing among the parents in the back of the classroom. According to the school's files, her name is Yukako Sawada, and her child Eisaku has no legal father. The next day, Eisaku gives Tasaka a letter from Yukako asking to meet at the hotel where they first met, and Tasaka sets out with an uneasy feeling...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-28
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A Taxing Woman's Return
Overview: Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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The Inugami Family
Overview: When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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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 Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil
Overview: The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-27
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Tower of Lilies
Overview: A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Jakoman and Tetsu
Overview: In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-11
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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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Children of the Sun
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1939
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-05-18
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Actress
Overview: Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-27
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While Yet a Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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