Yuriko Hanabusa
Also Known As: Юрико Ханабуса
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 07, 1900
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 07, 1970
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Hikkoshi yatsure
Overview: Manao Horiuchi movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-09
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Romantic and Crazy
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-03
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Reminiscence
Overview: Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-15
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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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Police Department Story Pt.15: Alibi
Overview: The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an alibi for the suspects. A security guard was killed in the building, the safe was broken into, but nothing was stolen. The three suspects have alibis, but who then killed the guard and broke into the safe? The 15th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department. Sonny Chiba's first film role as one of the seven detectives.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-26
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Shimizu Port Salaryman Sequel
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Salaryman Shimizu Minato
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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The President Talks Bank
Overview: The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-20
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Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Overview: Part one of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Overview: Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-15
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
Overview: A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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Children of Hiroshima
Overview: Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-06
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Matenro sôtohen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-10-17
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Souls on the Road
Overview: A small town boy dreams of being a famous fiddler; Meanwhile, two convicts escape from prison and hide in the woods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1921-04-08
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Divorce
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-29
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Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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Green Earth
Overview: Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Learn from Experience, Part One
Overview: Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Avalanche
Overview: The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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Life Is like a Somersault
Overview: After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-06-27
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Assistant President
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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The Third President
Overview: The fifth entry in the Company President Series
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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The Daughter of the Samurai
Overview: Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-02-04
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Boku chin hōrō-ki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-26
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Miai Ryokou
Overview: A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-15
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Currents of Youth
Overview: It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less assertive as his bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-02-14
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Murder on The Last Train
Overview: One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-21
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Miss Hanako
Overview: Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy under the wartime, was made into a film from comic serials by SUGIURA Yukio published in a magazine.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-02-25
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Murahachibu
Overview: A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-21
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The Blue Pearl
Overview: The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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Spring Snow
Overview: The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Enoken's Hokaibo
Overview: An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-06-21
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Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky
Overview: Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recruits. Yokaren was highly selective, and thus an object of great fascination and desire for boys and young men. In this Navy–sponsored film, Setsuko Hara plays the daughter of a family that often entertains recruits on their days off—a surrogate sister to many trainees. Her fragile younger brother aspires to join the program, but is rejected. With perseverance and much support from Hara and their mother, he surmounts his weaknesses and becomes a flier.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-05-01
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Pirates
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-07-13
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Overview: After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-20
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3 Gents in the Snow Country
Overview: Shûe Matsubayashi movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-29
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Saigo no kikyō
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-07-26
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Spring Awakens
Overview: Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-11-02
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The Devil's toast
Overview: Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in the hotel. But when an ex-actress who is also a guest there mentions an unsolved murder that occurred on the spot over a year ago, Kurusu decides to investigate.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-10-21
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
Overview: The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-11-17
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
Overview: The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-01-25
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
Overview: The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-11-29
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Botchan
Overview: 1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-14
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Overview: This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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Omoide tsukiyo
Overview: Japanese romance film.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-21
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Sister with Sister
Overview: Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-09
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Romance Freestyle
Overview: The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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I Am a Cat
Overview: 1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-14
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Botchan
Overview: 1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-14
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Ichiyo Higuchi
Overview: Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-31
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Detective Duel
Overview: A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-06
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Overview: Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-07
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Spring Voyage
Overview: Japanese youth film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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The Wolves
Overview: A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-03
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The Tale of Genji
Overview: Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-11
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Street of Violence
Overview: An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Wings of Victory
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-14
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel
Overview: Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Young People
Overview: Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki (Obinata) speaks up for Keiko, one of the girls at the school, every time she causes problems because he feels sorry for her, a child born out of wedlock. Sumi (Natsukawa), one of Masaki’s colleagues and who is secretly in love with him, strongly disagrees with him about Keiko. Then Sumi hears a rumor that Keiko is pregnant with Masaki's child . . . .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Tokkan ekichô
Overview: Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-03-29
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The Giant
Overview: Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-02
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Schoolgirl Records
Overview: A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-08-27
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Adolescence Part II
Overview: A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Kodakara fūfu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-02-26
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Senka o koete
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-09-02
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Wedding Day
Overview: Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-03-20
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Brother and Sister
Overview: Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter foreman on the damn, lacks control of his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-06-21
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音楽大進軍
Overview: A 1943 film.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-03-18
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Drifting
Overview: Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Shanghai Landing Party
Overview: This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Jirocho, the Hunted
Overview: A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-15
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Good Luck to These Two
Overview: A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-19
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Miniature
Overview: Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Metropolitan Symphony
Overview: A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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Ashes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-03-01
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Life Begins at 61
Overview: Japanese war-era film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-04-22
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On Wings of Love
Overview: On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-13
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Adolescence
Overview: Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-28
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Red-Light Bases
Overview: Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-08
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Mother's Melody
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Jakoman and Tetsu
Overview: In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-11
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Hikari to kage (Kōhen)
Overview: Part two of two.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-18
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Five Gents' Trick Book
Overview: The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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Yurusareta ichiya
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-12-24
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Radio Queen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-11
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Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Overview: Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Okumura Ioka
Overview: Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-06-25
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Sky of Hope
Overview: What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-01-14
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Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Overview: Hikoroku Laughs a lot
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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Eleven High School Girls
Overview: With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will surely be our confidant," and looked at each other and nodded their heads. This was the beginning of their collective affection for the new Ms. Shiono. The school for girls is a sacred place where the hearts of hundreds of innocent girls should ferment beautifully and freely for the day when they will become wives and mothers to come. How can we abandon them in such a state? Even after the nightmarish war was over, the nightmare remained at Shuei Girls' School.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-08-21
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The Great Road
Overview: The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-08
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Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March
Overview: A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese Navy band to his later years when his music, in particular the famed “Warship March” (Gunkan kōshinkyoku), surged in popularity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-21
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Tears Behind Victory
Overview: Silent Japanese historical drama, now presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Sendō shimai
Overview: 1957 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-02
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Travel Stories of a Company President
Overview: It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. The president of the U. s.solar paint, heitaro Domoto (Morishige), has become completely American, and plans to rationalize the company to the American style and prohibit the company's entertainment. Members of the Taiko Kyushu Branch Company (Ryohei Miki), who were living in the banquet, were hit by a big blow, and the company and the meeting club were very annoying. After that, the president who went to the business trip to Kyushu met with a sexy Geisha (Junko Ikeuchi) on the way to the tour, and he felt like a fool.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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