Eiji Funakoshi
Also Known As: Фунакоси Эйдзи, 船越 英二, Эйдзи Фунакоси
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eiji Funakoshi ( 17 March 1923 - 17 March 2007) was a Japanese actor. He received the Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Actor and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor for his performance in Fires on the Plain. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Funakoshi , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 17, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 17, 2007
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Musume no boken
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Gamera, the Giant Monster
Overview: A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
Genres: Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-27
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Fires on the Plain
Overview: In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-03
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Gamera vs. Guiron
Overview: Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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An Actor's Revenge
Overview: In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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Aru kankei
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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Gammera the Invincible
Overview: An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-15
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Victory and Defeat
Overview: After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title fight, but his comrade Hata (Kojiro Hongo) is not happy with this choice, and so he moves to the gym run by the criminal businessman Goda (Toru Abe) and burning desire to beat Yamanaka.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-27
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Aizen katsura
Overview: 1954 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-21
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Afraid to Die
Overview: On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-22
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Their Legacy
Overview: Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Manji
Overview: The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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Tokyo Crime Map
Overview: An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-04
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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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Mr. Minami is Very Embarrassed
Overview: Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-19
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Elegant Beast
Overview: A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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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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Brother and Sister
Overview: The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-19
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Being Two Isn't Easy
Overview: The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
Overview: The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-29
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Kiri no yoru no kyōfu
Overview: A dead lover returns as a ghost
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-07-20
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Hole in One
Overview: A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-15
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Tree of Youth
Overview: Takeshi, bound to be an outlaw youth, boards at the home of his female schoolmate who works at the family restaurant in devil-may-care Akasaka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-29
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The Wandering Princess
Overview: Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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The Venus' Tear
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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The Story of Shunkin
Overview: Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-27
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The Diary of a Sex Counsellor
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-10
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Blind Beast
Overview: A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-25
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Jirocho Fuji
Overview: Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-03
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Otoko to onna no sei no naka
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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The Betrothed
Overview: Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-28
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母山彦
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-24
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The Ladder of Success
Overview: A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to the top.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-15
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
Overview: Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they have not had. While Asako is a sweet young lady, Momoko, the eldest, goes out with whomever she wants, thus hiding the trauma caused by seduction and abandonment during the war by young Keita Aoki. One day Keita re-enters her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-19
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The Old Temple Well
Overview: Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-05
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The Pit of Death
Overview: Horror film directed by Koji Shima.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-15
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Ghost Tower
Overview: Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.
Genres: Romance Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-13
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The Red Water
Overview: Comedy drama film
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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Bridge of Japan
Overview: Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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A Public Benefactor
Overview: The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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While Yet a Wife
Overview: A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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A Certain Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-13
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Sexy Sign Suki Suki Suki
Overview: Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting and an advertising poster. The other is about coaching the hockey team. Simultaneously, however, he is head over heels for three gals, one is a hairdresser, one is a fashion model and of course the third is part of the cheering squad for the hockey team.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Stolen Pleasure
Overview: Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Makioka Sisters
Overview: 1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-14
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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
Overview: The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-02
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The Great White Tower
Overview: The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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The Little Runaway
Overview: During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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When the Cookie Crumbles
Overview: Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-09
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New Women’s Dialogue
Overview: A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth film!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-23
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The Ataka Family
Overview: Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt halt when Soichi's half-brother, Joji returns with his wife Masako after failing in a business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-15
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Onna no Katei
Overview: The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-10
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Ten Dark Women
Overview: Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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The False Student
Overview: A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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When Women Lie
Overview: Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-30
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The Golden Demon
Overview: Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-21
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Eriko
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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The Forest of No Escape
Overview: Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-23
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The Woman Who Touched Legs
Overview: Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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Bonchi
Overview: Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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Farewell Song
Overview: A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-15
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Warm Current
Overview: The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Street of Violence
Overview: An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Overview: A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-23
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The Freezing Point
Overview: Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital affair she was unable to watch over their child properly and blames her for their daughter's death. To exact revenge on his wife, he then adopts the killer's child without telling the truth to his wife or their newly adopted child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-26
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The Money Dance
Overview: Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-02
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The Sisters and I
Overview: Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of their cuisine in jeopardy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-14
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The Night before Pearl Harbor
Overview: The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.
Genres: Action War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-09
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Accomplice
Overview: Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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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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Patterns of Love
Overview: Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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The Messenger from the Moon
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-22
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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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A Lustful Man
Overview: Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Green Fruit
Overview: Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-22
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Rabble Tactics
Overview: The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks more like a boy than a girl, to join, disguised as a man.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Marriageable Age
Overview: Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete lack of consideration under polite and superficially perfect manners.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-14
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Dancing Girl
Overview: In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-12
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Goodbye, Hello
Overview: Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Fool's Love
Overview: A young man (Eiji Funakoshi) lavishes his complete attention and resources on a beautiful young girl (Junko Kano) who was picked up in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-17
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The Most Valuable Wife
Overview: Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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Tainted Flowers
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Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-13
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Advance Patrol
Overview: In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
Genres: Drama War Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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A Woman's Testament
Overview: The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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Sweet Seventeen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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The Enforcer
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-14
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Thousand Cranes
Overview: The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-19
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A Design for Dying
Overview: Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-28
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The Cast-Off
Overview: The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Overview: Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-19
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Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle
Overview: The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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Daiei Studio is Bustling
Overview: A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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Jūdai no yūwaku
Overview: Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-29
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続々十代の性典
Overview: Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-22
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五十円横町
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-22
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Teinen Taishoku
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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The Beloved Image
Overview: A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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The Sentimental Idiot
Overview: A young man steals money for a cabaret singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-18
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The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
Overview: 15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-15
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The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game
Overview: 13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Disobedience
Overview: A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-14
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The Lowest Man
Overview: A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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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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The Crowded Train
Overview: Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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The Person I Chose
Overview: A 1959 film directed by Hiromu Edagawa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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Tokyo Eyes
Overview: A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around these four characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Morning Whistling
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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Hey, Nakamura-kun
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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The Dead Beauty Incident
Overview: A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a now retired drug crime specialist, to cooperate. Kubota and his friends soon find the house of the murdered beauty and upon entering, they are surprised to find another corpse, this time of a man…
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-25
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I'll Cry Alone
Overview: "Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first loved and for a time thinks of married happiness."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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The Women Divers
Overview: A youth movie depicting the love between college students.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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Jōen
Overview: 1959 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-17
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新・与太郎戦記
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-27
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Shinkon nanatsu no tanoshimi
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-09
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ラーメン大使
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-11
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六人の女を殺した男
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-31
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現代インチキ物語 ど狸
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
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Prize of Flesh
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Original Language: ja
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Wakai yatsura no kaidan
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Kokoro no nichigetsu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Shin fūfu dokuhon ren'ai-byō kanja
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-15
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Sugamo no haha
Overview: Directed by Nobuo Adachi and starring Aiko Mimasu as a mother who lost three of her four sons to war. Aki is an elderly mother who has lost three of her sons to war. She is happy to be reunited with her youngest son, who has been demobilized from the South, only to find him imprisoned in Sugamo Prison as a suspected war criminal. The mother wishes only to be reunited with her son, but she falls ill from overwork and heartache...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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