Chishū Ryū
Also Known As: 笠 智衆, Chishû Ryû, Ryu Chishu, Chishuu Ryuu, Тисю Рю
Biography: Chishu Ryu (May 13, 1904 in Kumamoto, Japan – March 16, 1993 in Yokohama, Japan) was a famous Japanese film actor, a favourite of the director Yasujiro Ozu. From 1928 to 1992 he appeared in at least 155 films, including Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953) and Yoshitaro Nomura's Castle of Sand (1974). From 1969 until his death, Ryu became familiar to a new generation as the curmudgeonly but benevolent Buddhist priest in Yoji Yamada's Tora-san movie series (a role he parodied to great effect in a cameo in Juzo Itami's 1984 comedy, The Funeral). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: May 13, 1904
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 16, 1993
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The Fourth Lady
Overview: It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to burnt earth. A Tokyo with no one to rely on.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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The Longest Tunnel
Overview: After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-16
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Red Beard
Overview: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Overview: Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to Oita to meet them, with Tora-san quickly falling for her en route.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-22
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Tora-san Confesses
Overview: When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-23
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Crybaby Chacha
Overview: Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for girls and breakdancing in discos. A funeral forces him to return home and meet his familiy, which (espicially his father) disapprove of his lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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Late Spring
Overview: Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-13
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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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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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Late Autumn
Overview: A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-13
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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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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Overview: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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Love in the Mountains
Overview: A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-23
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There Was a Father
Overview: Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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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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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Overview: Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-06
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
Overview: In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-01
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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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Good Morning
Overview: A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-12
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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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Kaisen no Zenya
Overview: Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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Gekimetsu no uta
Overview: Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again for the first time since their graduation ceremony. This film was made at the end of the war to promote the military song “Song of the Annihilation of the United States and Great Britain” and to raise the will to fight.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-03-29
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Street Without End
Overview: Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-04-26
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The Funeral
Overview: When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-17
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Dolls floating down the river
Overview: A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi bina", which absorbed the customs of the Tottori region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Twenty-Four Eyes
Overview: From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-15
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The Rickshaw Man
Overview: A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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Zoku aizen katsura
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Futari dake no toride
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-24
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Flower in a Storm
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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Mole Alley
Overview: 33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-07
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Otome no iru kichi
Overview: Japanese war movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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Japan's Longest Day
Overview: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-03
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Floating Weeds
Overview: When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-17
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The Soundless Cry
Overview: Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-30
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Tokyo Story
Overview: The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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That Night's Wife
Overview: In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-07-06
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An Autumn Afternoon
Overview: Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Early Summer
Overview: A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-10-03
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The Only Son
Overview: A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-09-15
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Overview: An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-05-20
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Tokyo Twilight
Overview: Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Overview: The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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The Munekata Sisters
Overview: Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-08-08
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Tokyo-Ga
Overview: German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-04-24
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Overview: After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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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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Bridge
Overview: A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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The Last War
Overview: A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-08
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Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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The Human Bullet
Overview: A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-22
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Carmen Comes Home
Overview: A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-21
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Overview: Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-01
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Woman of Tokyo
Overview: Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-02-09
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Boyhood
Overview: When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-12
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Ornamental Hairpin
Overview: A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among the other patrons regarding her identity.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-08-26
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Overview: On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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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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Youth of the Son
Overview: The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-25
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Passing Fancy
Overview: In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-09-07
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A Mother Should Be Loved
Overview: A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Utsukushiki Rinjin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-23
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Overview: Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-23
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Overview: After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-26
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The Snow Flurry
Overview: After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Army
Overview: Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-12-07
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Home from the Sea
Overview: On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they lead. But rapid industrial growth makes it all but impossible to continue their chosen living style, and they are forced to leave their beloved hometown in search of a brighter future. But their hometown lingers on their hearts, and they dream of a time when they may once again return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-28
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Luminous Moss
Overview: A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-25
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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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Sailor
Overview: Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the family business and refuses to accept it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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Children in the Wind
Overview: On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Overview: Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-28
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The Eternal Rainbow
Overview: Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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A Star Athlete
Overview: During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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Boy Aviation Pilots
Overview: Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in civilian aviation through his instructor's good offices.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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Housewife Camellia
Overview: The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to look after, and they end up meeting several colorful personalities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-10-04
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Spring Dreams
Overview: When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Queen of the Wind
Overview: A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training would help them to start their own business. The general manager selects another woman and the trouble begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-17
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Mother is Strong
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-17
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Overview: While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-05
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Southern Wind
Overview: Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has an elegance to it, which is the charm of the 30 year old Kinuyo Tanaka. There was a time when Tanaka was adorable... Shin Saburi was young and Chishu Ryu was young too. It is a promise of melodrama that the rival or friend is prettier than the heroine Kinyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-02-15
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Flower
Overview: Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-07-15
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South Wind
Overview: Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Current", Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine and Mitsuko Mito are appearing, but this is a fresh comedy very unusual for wartime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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Tora-san's Love Call
Overview: Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
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Yoru no keisha
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-28
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Love Under the Crucifix
Overview: The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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Where Spring Comes Late
Overview: The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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Tora-san's Lovesick
Overview: After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-10
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The Wandering Princess
Overview: Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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The Moon Has Risen
Overview: Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-08
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Tora-san's Lullaby
Overview: After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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慶安水滸傳
Overview: Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's bodyguard, Maruhashi Tadayasu, and Kaku, a priest. He ended up settling at the Kasugaya, the house of Oko, whom he had saved. When Oko decided to go to Edo, where her biological father lived, Daisuke accompanied her. Along the way, at Suruga Abe River, they encountered Sawanojiki's theater group, which had departed from Osaka earlier heading to Edo. A scuffle initiated by Tadayasu over a ferry boat with the students of Yui Masayuki but was amicably resolved through Masayuki's intervention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
Overview: Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-27
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The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
Overview: The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-04-01
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Tora-san's Pure Love
Overview: When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Overview: Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-06
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The Radish and the Carrot
Overview: One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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Don't Tell Your Wife About It
Overview: A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-20
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Drunkard's Paradise
Overview: A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
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Navy
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-12-08
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All is Well
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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All is Well 2
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-20
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
Overview: Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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The Lights of Asakusa
Overview: Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-02
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Satan's Sword
Overview: The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-18
Popularity:
Kare o korosu na
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-11
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Kyōshū
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-02
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Home Sweet Home
Overview: The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-21
Popularity:
Sisters
Overview: Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), and the third was Mihato (Hibari Misora). Mihato was still a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, but she considered herself as mature as her older sisters. Mihato knows that Tsugumi is friends with Ippei Yaguchi (Masao Wakahara) and acts as a love messenger between them, but she didn't know that Takako is also in love with Ippei...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
Overview: The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child! A cheerful work depicting the problems between three generations of men and women in a bright and healthy manner.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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Scrap Collectors
Overview: Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-28
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Door of Flowers
Overview: Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-26
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The Storm
Overview: A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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Tora-san, My Uncle
Overview: Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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Port of Flowers
Overview: The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
Genres: War Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-07-29
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
Overview: Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-26
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Freedom School
Overview: Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also finds herself freed and is unable to ignore her confusion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-05
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The Man Who Has Returned
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
Overview: Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-05
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I Flunked, But...
Overview: This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things don't work out for our roguish main character, but his classmates soon find themselves in a similarly sorry state...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-04-11
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Flying in the Air
Overview: The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
Popularity:
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Overview: When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-10-13
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Dragnet Girl
Overview: A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-04-27
Popularity:
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Overview: After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-27
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Dreams
Overview: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Our Planes Fly South
Overview:
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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It's Tough Being a Man
Overview: Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Monument to Holy Service
Overview: A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Overview: Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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The Lady and the Beard
Overview: Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Dislikes
Overview: An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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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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Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
Overview: The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-05
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Life's Simple Pleasures
Overview: A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos, focusing on the daily life of Sanpei Mejiro, a salaryman for over twenty years who finds a little happiness in life in his poor but joyful home.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-17
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Overview: Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-21
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When We are Old
Overview: An old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move together. A few days after moving, he decides to go back to see his wife, though being opposed by his son.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-03
Popularity:
Sennichimae fukin
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-10-25
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Until Spring Comes
Overview: Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her heart, but she eventually opens up to him, as depicted in the beautiful images of Kamakura from fall to winter and then to early spring.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-06
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When Winter Comes
Overview: An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his deathbed and develops a faint affection for an elegant old woman, but the purpose of his journey is actually to find a place to die. He gives a large sum of money to a young couple, who are poor but have a dream for the future, and tries to throw himself into the sea. The movie depicts the loneliness of an old man who has lost his wife.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-03-30
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South Wind 2
Overview: In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inventing the story that Saigo Takamori didn't actually die in the Satsuma Rebellion but escaped to Southeast Asia to start a new religion and in the process fathered a son who is now the founder. But when they bring the supposed heir and his aide to Japan, chaos ensues...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-22
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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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The Castle of Sand
Overview: Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-19
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Until the End of the World
Overview: In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Overview: Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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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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Always in My Heart Part 3
Overview: Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-27
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Fireworks Over the Sea
Overview: A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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The Last Kamikaze
Overview: With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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Traveling in Party
Overview: A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-12
Popularity:
The Good Fairy
Overview: The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-17
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Farewell to Spring
Overview: Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
Popularity:
Love Letter
Overview: A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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The First Kiss
Overview: Portmanteau film about young lovers.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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The Wiser Age
Overview: Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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A Story of Floating Weeds
Overview: An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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An Inn in Tokyo
Overview: An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-11-21
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Overview: On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Overview: In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-24
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Overview: During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
Overview: A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Overview: During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-07
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Overview: When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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Tora-san's Promise
Overview: Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enamored of Tora-san and follows him around. One of Tora-san's old friends is terminally ill and makes Tora-san promise him to marry his wife once he is gone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-28
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
Overview: In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-03
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Tora-san, the Expert
Overview: Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-12-28
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
Overview: Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-28
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Tora-san's Song of Love
Overview: Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-06
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
Overview: After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-27
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Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
Overview: A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those relatives in Waikiki.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-01
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Stray Sheep
Overview: 1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-31
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Rush to Our Sweetheart
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-09
Popularity:
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio
Overview: Documentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-01
Popularity:
Tange Sazen
Overview: In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu Clan tries to raise funds by obtaining a sword which holds the key to a wondrous, hidden treasure. After learning the sword's secret, Tange Sazen sides with the Yagyu Clan, but his motive seems to be more than just pure interest in the treasure...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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A Visage to Remember
Overview: During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he meets the professor's lovely young wife, Sachiko (Hamada Yuriko), and is unsettled by the striking resemblance she bears to his wife, who died three years earlier. Attracted to Sachiko, he does his best to hide his feelings. The couple, however, senses a deep-seated melancholy in him. Attributing it to the loss of his wife, they urge him to marry their niece, Kaoru, but he is not interested. Shortly after, Fumiko , Sachiko's older sister, realizes that Sachiko and Kawasaki have feelings for each other, but she keeps her counsel. One day Kawasaki, Sachiko, and Kaoru go boating when a storm forces them to stay overnight at a hotel. Unable to sleep, Kawasaki takes a walk along the beach where he finds Sachiko, also unable to sleep. He declares his love for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-04-04
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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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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Overview: Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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The Golden Demon
Overview: A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-10
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Days of Youth
Overview: Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-04-13
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Song of the Flower Basket
Overview: Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-14
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The Black Sheep
Overview: Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who is related to the family hosting them and whom they keep running into, but can't help but to feel sympathy for. Of course, rumours start fast in a small town, but delightfully she doesn't really care at all. This is another very solid Shogoro Nishimura film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-03
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Four Sisters
Overview: A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
Overview:
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-04-17
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Oretachi no toki
Overview: Japanese youth film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-06
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High-School Outcasts
Overview: Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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I Lived, But...
Overview: An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-29
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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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Miyamoto Musashi
Overview: In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-13
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Lanterns on Blue Waters
Overview: The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-15
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Flower and Dragon
Overview: Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-17
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The Waves
Overview: Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-03
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Overview: Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-28
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Great X
Overview: A 1948 Japanese film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-05-07
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Moon Over the Ruins
Overview: Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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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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Eyes of Children
Overview: A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds over the treatment of his daughter, with accusations that he abused the little girl. A sensational trial ensues in which the lawyer becomes a defendant, and secrets from childhood fester even into adulthood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
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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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Fight for the Glory
Overview: Coming of age/high school sports drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Overview: When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Overview: On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-12
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College Is a Nice Place
Overview: In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-03-19
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Physical Beauty
Overview: A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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Couple on the Move
Overview: When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-09-28
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Pumpkin
Overview: Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-08-31
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Wife Lost
Overview: A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-06-15
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Overview: Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-14
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Only She Knows
Overview: A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
Overview: Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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The Youth and His Amulet
Overview: Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-17
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Overview: In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-04
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And Then
Overview: Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support his interests. When his friend Hiraoka returns with his wife Michiyo, problems arise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-09
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Introspection Tower
Overview: A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-01-30
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A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-27
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Dôkoku
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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The New Road: Akemi
Overview: The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-30
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Tora-san's Runaway
Overview: After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-26
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Come Marry Me
Overview: Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-20
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Gazing at Love and Death
Overview: A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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The Greatest Man in the World
Overview: Remake of classic samurai film of 1932
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-25
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A Hen in the Wind
Overview: Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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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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Hearts A-Flutter
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
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Wim Wenders in Tokyo
Overview: A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and details the creation of the film’s groundbreaking high-definition sequences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-31
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Izu no musumetachi
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-08-30
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The Four Loves
Overview: A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-28
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Dreams of Youth
Overview: Lost silent film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
Overview: Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Overview: Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-19
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Overview: Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-28
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Double Wedding
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
Overview: The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-06-04
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Talking with Ozu
Overview: A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-27
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
Overview: A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
Overview:
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-24
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Storm on the Silvery Peaks
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Overview: When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Overview: After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Overview: Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-15
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Tora-san Goes North
Overview: When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-15
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Overview: During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-05
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Goodbye to the Front
Overview: A 1937 Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-24
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Spring Thunder
Overview: Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and she was suddenly thrown out into the world without any foundation. Eiko has no one to support her after she loses her social status, and her only tutor, Shinnosuke (Natsukawa Daijiro) was the only one who was sincere. Eiko is a stickler for using everything she can get her hands on, and she quickly moves into Shinnosuke's house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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Machi no Hi
Overview: Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerage. Choromatsu is partnered with Umekichi, whom he calls "big brother," in this business. They live on the second floor of the aka-chochin (red lantern) owned by Takeko, where boys and girls who were abandoned at the abandoned children's temple on Mukojima also live together, making up a family of people who are not related to each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-27
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Aoimoku no yome-han
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-29
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Warm Current
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-29
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Aiyoku no sabaki
Overview: Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution more worthwhile than the marriage recommended by her parents. Meanwhile, inside Inokichi's heart a flame of unknowing love for the single-minded Motoko begins to burn...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-06
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Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
Overview: A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora after the war. Previously, there is only a 6-minute short version in the National Film Archive, therefore, the full version is this movie is very valuable. This is considered a masterpiece that depicts a happy family of 7 (a father, a mother, 3 sons and 2 daughters).They care about each other, and also trust each other. Father started to ask all the children "what do you want to be in the future?" since an early age. Boys said they want to go to college, they want to be painters, and when it comes to the girls, although they wanted to be generals, their answer was "become a bride, a wife, and a good mother." Brothers and sisters get along well and occasionally fight, but they all discuss the cause, and would apologize to each other. The story was so gentle that it is hard to believe it was during the war.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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Haru no Wakakusa
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-27
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Beauty of Life
Overview: Inochi uruwashi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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Forgotten Children
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-10-04
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New Woman Question and Answer
Overview: Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Living Image
Overview: A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-12
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Love
Overview: Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-11-09
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Kekkon Sanjûshi
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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A Good Man, A Good Day
Overview: The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Overview:
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-06
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Overview: An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop of the turbulent history of the Showa period and the magnificent nature of Hokkaido.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-22
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Kyukei no Koya
Overview: A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his country, his wife and children, and risked everything to save his country from ruin, and the bond between father and daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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The White Road Across the River
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-19
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I'm a Bodyguard
Overview: Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a writer living in the area while working at a police box. His dream is to become a bodyguard (BG) for the Prime Minister, just like his senior, Detective Inspector Takagi (Ryu Chishu). Kita Ippei is very successful in both work and love, getting attacked while guarding a female minister, getting some perks as a BG for a foreign princess, and becoming friends with a woman at his favorite bar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-16
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最後の攘夷党
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-12-20
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Oyuki
Overview: A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and joyful life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-04
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Shin Jinsei Gekijo
Overview: 1961 Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-31
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Overview: Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-02-19
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Subarashiki shōtai
Overview: 1955 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-11
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Monrō no yōna onna
Overview: 1964 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Bandits on the Wind
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Overview: A sequel to Ohana han.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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