Rentaro Mikuni
Also Known As: Рэнтаро Микуни, 三國 連太郎, 佐藤 政雄, 三国连太郎, さとう まさお, みくに れんたろう
Biography: Rentaro Mikuni (三國 連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, born January 20, 1923) was a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. Kōichi Satō is his son. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rentaro Mikuni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: January 20, 1923
Deathday: April 14, 2013
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Bear Storm
Overview: An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in search of agricultural land to the land of the pioneers in Hokkaido led a peaceful life. One day, one of the pioneers, Mikio Shimakawa's wife Yura, and her child Taichi are attacked and killed by a bear that cannot hibernate. To resolve the situation, Shimakawa goes against all odds and turns to Ginshiro, the most hated hunter in the village, for help. While Shimakawa was away from the village, Yura and his friends were holding a funeral, the bear attacked again...
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-27
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
Overview: A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-22
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Good Son-in-Law
Overview: Asahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's father has already cleared up his eldest daughter Keiko to Mizukami, but this time Aiko's turn and her sister's wedding greeting card are handy to add a request for the color of her sister's son. However, Aiko, who wants to be herself, uses the help of her friend, private detective Nobuko Migishi, to break through the behavior of the matchmaker, Mrs. Yamaguchi, who is a matchmaker. However, Nobuko's mistress Rokuro Kojima has become sloppy these days, so when Aiko investigated this time, it was found that the cause was Kojima's best friend Hiroshi Minamimura. Aiko was completely indignant at Minamimura's rude attitude of saying what she thought. In the mouth of Mrs. Yamaguchi's match, Mr. Fumio Kaki, the sales manager, is the best candidate.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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The Life of a Horse-Trader
Overview: Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick woman Yuki at a vague shop after violence.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-14
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Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Overview: Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-02-19
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Escape Zone
Overview: Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a beautiful woman with a sad face.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-19
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Aijô ni tsuite
Overview: Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-14
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Kwaidan
Overview: Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-06
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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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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Turbid Youth
Overview: Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-21
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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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Bodyguard from Hell
Overview: Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-11
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Three Faces
Overview: Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Shinagawa Station, which was crowded with repatriates. , The day of reunion is approaching.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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The Beautiful Nuns
Overview: A samurai who slashes a young girl's mage appears in Edo, and she is never caught.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-26
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Overview: Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-25
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The Burmese Harp
Overview: In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-21
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Evil Reward
Overview: After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of the Metropolitan Police Department, but the real Kenmochi detective arrived a few minutes later. The corpse of the bunch went up in the moat near Akasaka, and the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1 was colored.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-08
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Phoenix
Overview: Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-14
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Ryûri no kishi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-21
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Dotanba
Overview: Dotanba - Last Minute
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-10
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Yoku
Overview: Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-24
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The Undefeated Woman
Overview: The Undefeated Woman
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-21
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A Dead Drifter
Overview: A Dead Drifter / Hyoryû shitaî
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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The Stragglers
Overview: The last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-05
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Like Fire is My Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-09
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Fateful Birthplace
Overview: A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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Umineko ga tonde
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Futari dake no toride
Overview: Futari dake no toride
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-24
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The King
Overview: The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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The Life of Rikisha-Man
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Never Give Up
Overview: Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for which he is responsible. Years later, Ajisawa is forced to return to the scene of the tragedy for his new job as a claims adjuster where he is subsequently arrested for his suspected involvement. But the threat of jail time is the least of his worries as his former organization comes gunning for him.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-07
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Vengeance Is Mine
Overview: A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-21
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Harakiri
Overview: Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-15
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Rikyu
Overview: Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Tokyo Untouchable
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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Neon taiheiki
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Overview: Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Overview: A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-19
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Profound Desires of the Gods
Overview: Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-22
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The Last Dance
Overview: A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from him, Buhei gradually comes to realize the truth of his condition, leading him on a journey of despair, anger, and – ultimately – acceptance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-29
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
Overview: When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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Zatoichi at Large
Overview: Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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The Catch
Overview: Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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Himiko
Overview: The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-09
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The Christian Revolt
Overview: In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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The Outsiders
Overview: A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Coup d'Etat
Overview: A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-07
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The Broken Commandment
Overview: Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-06
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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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Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death
Overview: In the sixth and final episode Rentaro Mikuni steals the show as Baiken Shishido, Musashi's nemesis. Mikuni is the nominal villain of the film, but he is a devoted husband and father as well. He tries to kill Musashi only to avenge the death of his brother-in-law. While Baiken (who wields a chain and sickle against Musashi's sword) is a very human character and the emotions that Mikuni displays in his performance are quite believable and engaging
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-20
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Mount Hakkoda
Overview: Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-04
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The Friends
Overview: A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-09
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Miyamoto Musashi
Overview: In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-27
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A Fugitive from the Past
Overview: Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-15
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The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman's Return".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Overview: Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Overview: Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-12-20
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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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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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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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Thus Another Day
Overview: A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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Someday
Overview: The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best friend arrive back in town...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-16
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Making of Daibyonin
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Dance".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
Overview: Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of betrayal and deceit, and become the very thing Heizo the Demon investigates daily.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-15
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The Rendezvous
Overview: The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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Duel at Fort Ezo
Overview: 1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-09
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Husband and Wife
Overview: A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-22
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Free and Easy 7
Overview: Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later, Hama-chan sees her again at a dentist's office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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A Human Promise
Overview: An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-13
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
Overview: Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job - steal 40 million in cash and drugs, and he invites Sabu and gang to act as decoys, for 50,000 each. The sting is a success, but the double-crossing starts almost immediately. Sabu discovers how little of the take they were promised and hides the stash. Jiro and his slimy partner pressure the kids to fess up. Meanwhile, their respectable elder brother Ichiro is being leaned on by the town's big boss, whose money it was.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-26
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The Go Masters
Overview: Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes evident that the Chinese master's son is the most talented player that the Japanese master has ever encountered, and he convinces the boy's father to let him bring the child back to Japan to train him as a professional Go player. Years pass, and as the young Chinese master grows to maturity in Japan, the Japanese invasion of China forces him to choose between his triumphant career and his loyalty to his native country. His decision is complicated by his marriage to the daughter of the Japanese master, with whom he has produced a child. His choice will profoundly alter the lives of two families. Their saga serves as a reflection of the tragic relations between their two great countries, and the possibility of reconciliation and healing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Journey Into Solitude
Overview: Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific Ocean. After meeting with a theatre group she falls sick and is rescued by a fisherman with who she shares her life with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-28
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Will to Live
Overview: It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-15
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Overview: Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-12
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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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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Overview: The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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Shadow of Deception
Overview: It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who owns a dry goods store. Minako travels to Tokyo on business every three months, during which time she continues to meet Sozo, who has married the daughter of his respected teacher.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Doctor's Day Off
Overview: Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-01
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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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Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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Free and Easy Special
Overview: Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but Michiko entertains Su-san late into the night. When he gets drunk and ends up spending the night, Hama-chan, begins to question his boss's relationship with Michiko.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-16
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Chronicle of My Mother
Overview: Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spirited family matriarch, is diagnosed with dementia, Igami must come to terms with the toll his own behavior has taken on his increasingly distant family and resolve his own long-simmering resentments. Evocative of classic Ozu, this gorgeously wrought epic family portrait explores the tenderness and trappings of familial bonds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-04-28
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Shinran: Path to Purity
Overview: In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-02
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Free and Easy 15
Overview: Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-08-21
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Basara: The Princess Goh
Overview: Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-11
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Overview: Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-08-18
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Wife
Overview: Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Captive's Island
Overview: Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-02
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My Sons
Overview: Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-12
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Confessions Among Actresses
Overview: In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-17
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The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao
Overview: An exploration of the nature of journalism that focuses on Fukuoka Nichi Nichi newspaper reporter Kikutake Sunao, with reenactments of scenes from his life, in which he is portrayed by the actor Mikuni Rentaro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-11-10
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Free and Easy 19
Overview: Hama-chan joins a company excursion to Oita with the rest of his department including his new junior Daisuke. Beautiful Namiko, the organizer of the trip is a contract employee and her elder brother is a fisherman. Hama-chan, as always sets out to sea for a bout of angling. He is a tad surprised when Namiko's brother consults him about Namiko's status as an unmarried contract worker...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-25
Popularity:
Free and Easy 17
Overview: Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-05
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Rennyo and His Mother
Overview: Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a background of great poverty and hardship, at the age of 16 he set out to spread the word across the land.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
Overview: The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian translator, Nicholai, played by Sergei Nakariakov - a trumpeter from Russia. Some months later after they have returned, Nicholai and Yukiko meet again while he is auditioning for the Tokyo orchestra where seeds of romance begin. Yukiko's father, however, is diagnosed with a terminal case of cancer. Yukiko returns home to be with him in his final months as he decides not to go through therapy and let the disease run its course. Coming into contact with a childhood friend while at home Yukiko is left to choose between her old friend and Nicholai, all while having to face the emotional struggle of dealing with her father's impending death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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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
Popularity:
Free and Easy 14
Overview: Hama-chan's supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward, fishing-obsessed underling, and Hama-chan's new boss naively tries to retrain him. Later, Su-san and Hama-chan go on a business trip, where they meet a beautiful, warm-hearted truck driver.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-20
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Solar Eclipse
Overview: When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-06
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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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Policeman's Diary
Overview: Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-03
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August without Emperor
Overview: Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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Run, Genta, Run!
Overview: A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
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The Possessed
Overview: Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all. Shinzo hated Oshima, and he made love with Sawa.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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Barefoot Gen
Overview: First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-24
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The Song of the Cart
Overview: A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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The Old Man and the Sea
Overview: An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.
Genres: Animation Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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Night Drum
Overview: Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous affair carried on, in his long absence, between his wife and a famous drummer. With Hikokuro’s honor imperiled by rumor, his family insists on a formal investigation into the veracity of the gossip. Through the combined testimony of many witnesses, a tale unwinds around the visits of a traveling musician hired to tutor the family heir, the spurned attentions of the man who started the rumor, and the ultimate truth behind the accusations. The conclusion of events prove as much an indictment of bushidō as it is of the reluctant parties involved. Adapted from a 1706 play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon and based on a true case.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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A Hole of My Own Making
Overview: Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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Nikoyon monogatari
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-11
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Overview: Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Through the Mist
Overview: A biopic of the late musician Dédé Fortin, the singer, songwriter, and founder of a very popular Québécois band called "Les Colocs".
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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The Fugitive Samurai
Overview: Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the honor of his name, Ogami- The Wolf- must flee the Shogun's grasp and live long enough to prove his innocence. Taking only his sword and his son, Ogami embarks on a bloody journey of righteousness and revenge as he seeks to destroy those who would disgrace his family's name. Hunted mercilessly by the Shogun's troops, by his enemies, and by those who seek the reward put on his head, Ogami must fight his way through feudal Japan, challenging and defeating all who stand in the way of his quest for honor. Can Ogami- a true Samurai Warrior- endure the ceaseless violence which surrounds him?
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-03
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Glorious Fights
Overview: A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-29
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The Women of Osaka Castle
Overview: A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th anniversary of the founding of Nippon Television.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-03
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The Tattered Banner
Overview: Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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River of Fireflies
Overview: During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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The Lovers
Overview: Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Overview: Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-29
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A Story from Echigo
Overview: A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-09
Popularity:
Free and Easy 9
Overview: Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veteran employee decides to find his boss, a divorced father, a new wife. The supervisor loves a bar hostess “mama-san,” but is unable to confess his true feelings until Hama-chan comes to his rescue.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-06
Popularity:
Free and Easy 2
Overview: Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woman saves Su-san when he collapses while fishing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-12-27
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Free and Easy
Overview: Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke Suzuki. Ichinosuke is a lonely and old man who learns to enjoy life again through his friendship with Densuke. Meanwhile, Densuke is completely unaware that Ichinosuke is the boss of his construction company. The two men become friends through their shared passion for fishing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-24
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Free and Easy 6
Overview: Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Beauty and the Thief
Overview: The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-22
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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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The Threat
Overview: Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-17
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Farewell Rabaul
Overview: A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Thirst for Love
Overview: Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Overview: Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-12
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The Inugami Family
Overview: When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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Sweet Revenge
Overview: Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Oishinbo
Overview: Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-13
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Deeper Than Blue
Overview: About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-10
Popularity:
Free and Easy 3
Overview: Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-22
Popularity:
Free and Easy 4
Overview: Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-23
Popularity:
Free and Easy 5
Overview: Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-26
Popularity:
Free and Easy 8
Overview: When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-10
Popularity:
Free and Easy 10
Overview: Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-08
Popularity:
Free and Easy 16
Overview: Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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The Wind Carpet
Overview: Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic city in mountainous area of Honsyu. A man planned to resume the carpet in the festival, and asked Kinue, a Persian carpet designer, to design it. Kinue's husband, Makoto, is a carpet importer. They send the design to Iran to weave the carpet. But just before Makoto goes to Iran to receive the carpet, Kinue dies of a traffic accident. A month before the festival, Makoto went to Isphahan, Iran, to receive the carpet. He brings his daughter Sakura, who does not open her heart after she lost her mother. To surprise, the carpet production has not even started. It will take 3 months from the start. For Makoto it means he betrays not only the festival planners but also his late wife.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Overview: The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-17
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
Overview: In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Overview: In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-29
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Escape from Hell
Overview: This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-27
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The Escape
Overview: Film about the 2-26 Incident.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Overview: The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-04
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Stepbrothers
Overview: In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-25
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Face in the Dark
Overview: Japanese suspense film.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-30
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The Earth is Born Again
Overview: A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone development. The men who dream of making the overlooking wasteland as a big industrial area draw the courage to realize the ideal purely with the fishy desire swirling back to the coastal industrial area of Kashima Nada in Ibaraki prefecture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-26
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Tale of Army Brutality
Overview: Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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Zoku ôsho
Overview: Adaptation of novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Beyond the Shining Sea
Overview: Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-12
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The Flesh Is Weak
Overview: A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-29
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Crossroad
Overview: Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-14
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-29
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Mitabi no kaikyô
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-11
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The Street of Desire
Overview: A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-04-14
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Turning Point
Overview: A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-06-18
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Nomugi Pass
Overview: The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-30
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Free and Easy 18
Overview: Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Overview: Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-09-17
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Free and Easy 11
Overview: Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-05
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-21
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Shanghai Rose
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-13
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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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My Wonderful Yellow Car
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-15
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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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Itsuko to sono haha
Overview: An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-02-17
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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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Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Overview: A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-23
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City of Beasts
Overview: University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely getting more embroiled in his dirty dealings.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-23
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Hell's Kitchen
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-12
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The Blue Revolution
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-10
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Overview: From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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The Samurai of Edo
Overview: This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, and therefore, shows audience the dynamic change from Edo to Meiji. Before the war, the director, Eisuke Takizawa, together with the writers, formed a scenario writer group "Narutaki-gumi and they shot many historical masterpieces.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-23
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Beauty of Life
Overview: Inochi uruwashi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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Kimi ga kagayaku toki
Overview: A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-10-10
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Free and Easy 20: Final
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-12-26
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Vanished Glory
Overview: In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training. Yoshitake's father was called, and his mother lived in the house where he used to work, but Midori, a female student at that house, secretly loved Yoshitake.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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The Murderer Must Die
Overview: A year ago, Tetsuo Yazaki was unemployed and wanted money, attacked a police box in Kobe, robbed a policeman of his pistol, attacked Hamamatsu OS Theater and Nagoya Shinwa Bank, and succeeded in robbing a large amount of money.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-27
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Reunion
Overview: If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials of ten years when they fell in love and fell in love, climbed the hill of memories again. Surprisingly, there was an event that turned a moment of joy into tears ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-07
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Women's House
Overview: After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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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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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Overview: Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-14
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The Whisper of Spring
Overview: After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-12-10
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Hunting Opium-Eaters
Overview: The Chase after Opium Dealers
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-04
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City
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-14
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Asshii-tachi no machi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-03-28
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