Kichijirō Ueda
Also Known As: Kichijirou Ueda, Kichijiroh Ueda, 上田 吉二郎, Sadao Ueda, 上田 定雄, 上田吉二郎, Kichijirô Ueda
Biography: Kichijirō Ueda was a Japanese stage, film and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kobe, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 30, 1904
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 03, 1972
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The Hidden Fortress
Overview: In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-28
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Rashomon
Overview: Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-08-26
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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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Omatsuri hanjiro
Overview: Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather toward the port town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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I Live in Fear
Overview: Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-22
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Overview: A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-03
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A Lonely Gamble
Overview: In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his proprietress is forced to turn to a successful businessman, owner of entertainment establishments and bars. But she has nothing to guarantee the return of the debt, and then she offers herself as collateral. A drama about the contradictory nature of human feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-10
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The Lower Depths
Overview: Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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A Modern Samurai Village
Overview: Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again. A unique social drama depicting the growth of a new generation that confronts the world of adults full of vanity in the image of a girl living in poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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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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Car Thieves
Overview: Mixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-04
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Teppo Yasu no Shogai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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Kono ni uruwashi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
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Ken ni kakeru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-16
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The Song Lantern
Overview: The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the actors of the Japanese classical theater No, friendship, hatred and love…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-18
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Her Hidden Past
Overview: Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-07
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Muchana Yakko
Overview: A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up in a dirty carriage that his father owned. His dream was to have a horse with a good coat that costs 10 million yen and he set a goal for it. At the invitation of Otaki-gumi executive Iwasa, he joined Otaki-gumi while the leader Sozaburo was sick. Miyoshi's method is not to deal with the yakuza's morale and slashing, but to handle things mentally....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-04
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The Scarlet Camellia
Overview: A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-21
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Gamera vs. Gyaos
Overview: Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-15
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Adventures of Zatoichi
Overview: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
Overview: A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-22
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Overview: Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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Bloody Territories
Overview: A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is it the police? Rival gang members? Or is it an entirely new group of hired killers who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of Tokyo's "bloody territories"?
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Mount Hakone
Overview: Japanese drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-15
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Monsters Catcher Oedo Seven Changes
Overview: Film about Ghost-Cat.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-11
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Seven Samurai
Overview: A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-26
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Oda Nobunaga
Overview: A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and Shimura Takashi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-02-05
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Oh, My Comrade!
Overview: Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One day Fukuzo guides Harumi, an old woman, to the Yasukuni Shrine where the souls of fallen soldiers are enshrined. Finding she has no place to go, Fukuzo carries her to his shack by the sea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-19
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情艶一代女
Overview: Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue this new path, but falls in love with a naval officer who is the younger brother of Kikugoro and who saves her from a stalker monk. Kikugoro hears of this and becomes enraged. The naval officer dies in the Second Sino-Japanese War, causing the lead to go back home to her mother where she meets, and falls in love with, a poet who resembles her now-deceased fiancé. This poet leaves her in order to force her to dedicate her entire life to dancing, which he sees as her true pursuit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-03
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Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Overview: Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
Overview: A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-03
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Izayoi kaidō
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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Rebels on the High Sea
Overview: A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-08
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All is Well
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Rise Against the Sword
Overview: Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
Genres: History Action War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-25
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Curry Rice
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
Overview: Jidaigeki by Tai Kato
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-07
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Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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祇園物語 春怨
Overview: The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the backdrop of the city's dance festival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-04-21
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さくら盃 義兄弟
Overview: Second movie in the Sakura Code series.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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Scandal
Overview: A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-26
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Throne of Blood
Overview: Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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Gale Winds! Tengu Karama
Overview: The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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ドリフターズですよ！全員突撃
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-27
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Flowing
Overview: Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-20
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The Whale God
Overview: A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-15
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The Okagura Brothers
Overview: 1946 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-10-22
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Black Test Car
Overview: Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-30
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Teru hi kumoru hi dainihen Part 01
Overview: First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The people gathered at Kiba late at night are Shinnojo Hosoki, a loyal loyalist to the king, who has organized a gang of thieves for the king and works behind the scenes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-08
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Devotion to Railway
Overview: A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-08
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Red Diamond
Overview: After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the azuki beans market. A young man tries to regain his wealth in the bean market.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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The Invisible Man Appears
Overview: Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the "Tears of Amour."
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-26
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Black Report
Overview: After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
Overview: The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-07
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Picture Book of Sarutobi Sasuke
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-02-19
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The Legend of the White Serpent
Overview: Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-22
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Nangoku taiheiki
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Overview: Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-26
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Overview: Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Overview: Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-21
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The Fencing Master
Overview: The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
Overview: A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
Overview: A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-06
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Bored Hatamoto: The Demon of Chinatown
Overview: Bored Hatamoto movie #12
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-07
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King of the Night Life
Overview: 1970 Toei movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-07
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Beyond Love and Hate
Overview: A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his escape from the prison in order to seek her out and learn the truth, but the police give chase and he must flee into the mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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Marital Relations
Overview: The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-13
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Shogun's Joy of Torture
Overview: A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-28
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Bonds of Love
Overview: Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei's life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison - with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-15
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Sword for Hire
Overview: Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-22
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Wind, Woman and Road
Overview: A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they are about to be robbed as the two gamblers face off against each other swords in hand.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-14
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Overview: Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Overview: In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-14
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Samurai Saga
Overview: Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Festival Across the Sea
Overview: There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and teachers gather from all over the country, including sesame oil sellers and organ grinders. The day before the festival, trouble arises with some horses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-04
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Daredevil in the Castle
Overview: During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
Overview: The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-14
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Love and Crime
Overview: A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
Overview: The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to overthrow the shogun is set in motion and Kondo Isami and his fellow samurai must answer the call and expose those behind it.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-13
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Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
Overview: Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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Wolf Escort
Overview: Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-31
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
Overview: Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden treasure of Lord Yoshitsune. When he gives a piece of the treasure to a couple of poor but honest people so they can pay their debts, it attracts the unwanted attention of several dishonest people, such as pirates, greedy merchants and rebels. While the government is fighting a battle for power against rebels and royalists, all want the treasure by any means possible.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-11
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
Overview: After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in Tokyo to face different challenges in the form of yakuza and… street vendors.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-03
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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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The Maiden Courtesan
Overview: Period romantic drama.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-22
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The Swindlers
Overview: Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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Hooligans on Buggies
Overview: Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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Live and Learn
Overview: Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after school is out and they are caught by the old school janitor. Tsuneo's mother, orders Tetsuko to pay for what she did to her son but Tetsuko blackmails her instead, saying that she is ready to inform a news company of what has happened to Tsuneo and receives one million yen hush money. Expelled from school, she comes to Tokyo, intending to take a round-the-world trip. But Sankichi (Yoshihiko Aoyama), a jack-of-all-trades, cheats her. So, she makes up her mind to catch him and get back her money.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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The Domain: Flower and Dragon
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Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-31
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The Revelation of a Geisha
Overview: After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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Hot Springs Geisha
Overview: A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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Phantom Castle
Overview: Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.
Genres: Action History Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Souls in the Moonlight II
Overview: This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-20
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Orgies of Edo
Overview: Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-09
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The Three Treasures
Overview: The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
Genres: Fantasy Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-01
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A Geisha's Diary
Overview: A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-28
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New Year Trip
Overview: A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-03
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The Acrobats of Death
Overview: Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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Prison Tales
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-10
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Horrors of Malformed Men
Overview: After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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Samurai from Nowhere
Overview: Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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The Lone Journey
Overview: Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-31
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The Edo Official and Apprentice
Overview: It's an extravaganza of entertainment as famous magistrate in disguise, Toyama no Kinshiro attempts to confront the elusive thief known as the "Long-Sleeve Burglar". Played to the hilt by Misora Hibari in a delightful performance highlighted by singing, dancing, and swordplay with a unique story within a story twist that starts to unfold in the city jail as a playwright is brought into custody and meets the famed Long-Sleeve Burglar himself. Misora Hibari is totally captivating in this gender bending role as the famed thief whose expoits can only be stopped by the great Kin-san himself!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-25
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母子鶴
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-03
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Fun on the Run
Overview: Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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Superexpress
Overview: A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-31
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Madcap Mixup
Overview: Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-23
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Our Miyo-chan
Overview: Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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The Dragon Crest
Overview: A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-10
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Shameless School
Overview: Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-02
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The Demon of Mount Oe
Overview: A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and the beautiful lady in tragic love! A grand visual epic told with mesmerizing extravagance!
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-27
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Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
Overview: The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until subduing almost all his enemies, the lonely comprehension of knowing that he actually can not take over the whole country because he was born too late.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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Jirocho in Disgrace
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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Last of the Wild Ones
Overview: A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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The Tiger of Malaya
Overview: A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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People of Tokyo, Goodbye
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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Nippon no obaachan
Overview: Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Burning Nature
Overview: Film from 1967.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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Women in Prison
Overview: The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-11
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
Overview: Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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Ugetsu
Overview: In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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Konto 55: The Weaknesses of the Century
Overview: A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-02
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Life is a Battle
Overview: Two born rivals plot a new start after a string of ups and downs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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On This Earth
Overview: Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Bad Reputation Returns
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-17
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The Dangerous Kiss
Overview: Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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Even If Life Withers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-25
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Lion Festival of Echigo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Pirates
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-07-13
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The Surf
Overview: Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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Inferno of Torture
Overview: Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-02
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That Night's Adventure
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-09-28
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Traveling with Breeze
Overview: 1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-07
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-17
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Kuriyama Daizen
Overview: Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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Goblin Courier
Overview: Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-01-04
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Last Days of Edo
Overview: It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Fools at Work
Overview: A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-19
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Story of Lightning
Overview: Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his father and younger brother. I left the town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-30
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Tokyo Olympics
Overview: Adapted from the song " Tokyo Olympic Ondo " , which was the theme song for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics held in October 1964 . Song was composed by Masao Koga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-09
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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
Overview: The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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Why Are We Young?
Overview: After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Miyamoto musashi Ichijōji kettō
Overview: 1942 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-03-25
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The Judo Champ
Overview: When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to use the school for teaching the Ryukyu art of Karate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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Someday I'll Know
Overview: A modern love story involving different affairs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-08
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Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority
Overview: A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-16
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Women's Doctor
Overview: Life of a bachelor gynecologist in a hospital for women.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-18
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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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The Snowy Heron
Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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むっつり右門捕物帖 鬼面屋敷
Overview: 1955 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-06
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Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū
Overview: The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the coveted Shinshu Mountain map targeted by the phantom gang, but loses the key to unlocking it. The one who picks up the key is Osumi, a female courier. (Existing version. Please excuse any deterioration in image quality due to original conditions.)
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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The Mysterious Cape
Overview: Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogun, hears news of a doctor gone missing, he begins to suspect that things are not what they seem at Ryujin Misaki. Intent on discovering the truth, Saotome launches a private investigation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-09
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Who Is the Informer?
Overview: After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-18
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A Man in the Storm
Overview: Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-05
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Hijō no otoko
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-13
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Miyamoto Musashi - Dai-ichi-bu: Kusawake no hitobito - Dai-ni-bu: Eitatsu no mon
Overview: A movie by Hiroshi Inagaki
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-03-31
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Ohana han
Overview: This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives a lively life while being swept up in the waves of the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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