Shūji Sano
Also Known As: Shuji Sano, Сюдзи Сано
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: October 20, 1912
Deathday: December 21, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Wedding Day
Overview: Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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Spring Snow
Overview: The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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There Was a Father
Overview: Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako
Overview: 1954 Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-14
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Men Fighting Whales
Overview: A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will have to face a giant, monstrous whale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-09
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Till Tomorow Comes
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-10
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Haru no sanmyaku
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-17
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Dolls floating down the river
Overview: A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi bina", which absorbed the customs of the Tottori region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Zoku aizen katsura
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Flower in a Storm
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
Overview: Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal plan
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-01-07
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Mole Alley
Overview: 33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-07
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The Injured Boy
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-04
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Iki na fûraibô
Overview: A lost film by Masahiro Makino
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-02-28
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What Did the Lady Forget?
Overview: A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Woman Boss
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Here's to the Young Lady
Overview: A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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Carmen Comes Home
Overview: A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-21
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A Hen in the Wind
Overview: Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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The Sands of Kurobe
Overview: Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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An Inn at Osaka
Overview: An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-20
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A Star Athlete
Overview: During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-01
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Forget Love for Now
Overview: Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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Queen of the Wind
Overview: A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training would help them to start their own business. The general manager selects another woman and the trouble begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-02-17
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Kokumin no chikai
Overview: This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war. A Japanese production, it was nevertheless made with German involvement in the form of skiing champion Sepp Rist and celebrated cinematographer Richard Angst (who also contributed to the script). Both had regularly worked with the inventor of the mountain film genre, Dr. Arnold Fanck, who had helmed the German-Japanese co-production "Die Tochter des Samurai", also shot by Angst, the year before. Angst apparently stayed in Japan until mid-1939 when he returned to Germany, carrying this film with him. Angst submitted it to the German censors later that year, but for reasons unknown to me it took three more years before the film was finally shown in Germany under the name "Das heilige Ziel" (The Holy Aim). (Karargara)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-11-16
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A Certain Woman
Overview: Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forgive him and even thank him for the path her life has taken.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-29
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Moon of the Plateau
Overview: An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains. As for their parents, father was serving in the South Seas and mother died of illness on her way home. So, the brother, who is still young, will live alone with his grandfather whilst the sister goes away to study to become a teacher.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-05-14
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The Trio's Engagements
Overview: Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-18
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San'nin musume kanpai!
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-18
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Aruhi watashi wa
Overview: The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
Overview: A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-03
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All is Well
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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All is Well 2
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-20
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Sky Scraper!
Overview: A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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Kare o korosu na
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-11
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Kyōshū
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-02
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愛情の旋風
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-10
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Love and the Shop Curtain
Overview: Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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So Goes My Love
Overview: Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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The Man Who Has Returned
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-07-20
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Naite waratta hanayome
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Overview: A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-21
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Tengoku no hanayome
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-11-29
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Love Letter
Overview: A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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Spring Dreams
Overview: When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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The Conspirator
Overview: Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provides little happiness. His manipulative mother adds further complications through her constant interference and attempts at defeating the Nobunaga family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-08
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Mount Hakone
Overview: Japanese drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-15
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The New Road: Akemi
Overview: The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-30
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Sudden Rain
Overview: A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-14
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Here Because of You
Overview: An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki’s career is threatened as a result of a false accusation from the school’s PTA, the students band together to stand up for their beloved teacher and help him to save his good reputation and job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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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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The Horse Boy
Overview: A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his father, but feudal codes threaten their happiness. Uchida’s poignant masterpiece condemns the inflexible class system and launches an indictment of values that favor symbolic objects over human life. The film’s focus is on character rather than swordplay, and charged performances - especially child actor Motoharu Ueki - add to the emotional power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-19
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The Moon Has Risen
Overview: Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-08
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The Maid's Kid
Overview: In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-28
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The Snowy Heron
Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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Victory Song
Overview: Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-02-22
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Suzhou Nights
Overview: A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the Japanese doctor (Sano) who treats her wards. Disease outbreaks and family obligations, however, threaten to torpedo their budding romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-12-29
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The Bridal Night Again
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-01-18
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The Golden Demon
Overview: A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-10
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The Cock Crows Twice
Overview: Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-30
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Song of the Flower Basket
Overview: Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-14
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Moon Over the Ruins
Overview: Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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Fight for the Glory
Overview: Coming of age/high school sports drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Tokyo Omnibus
Overview: The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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Hadashi no hanayome
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Our Young World of Music
Overview: Japanese youth film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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Army
Overview: Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-12-07
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Early Summer
Overview: A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-10-03
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Kaei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-09
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Young Tree
Overview: A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-22
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Maria of the Ant Village
Overview: Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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Statue in Fire
Overview: Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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Twice on a Certain Night
Overview: Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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Soyokaze
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Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-10-11
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Pretty Devil Yoko
Overview: Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here (Hayato Tani) the first boyfriend. Director Yasuo Furuhata (his first picture) lets his camera roll in trendy clubs amongst partying youngsters in a way that could've been out of 60s England or a Nikkatsu film. The film was inspired by an article in Life magazine (Volume 57, 1964) titled The Young Rebellion.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-19
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Our Chief, Our Doctor
Overview: It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ (‘Tonkatsu Taisho’, the film’s Japanese title) from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives. When a local hospital, run by a female doctor, plans to expand, the future of the tenement is called into question.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-15
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Otome no iru kichi
Overview: Japanese war movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-04-01
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
Overview: In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-01
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August Moon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-29
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Typhoon
Overview: A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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Flowers of Patriotism
Overview: A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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Waiting Woman
Overview: Waiting woman
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Crazy Uproar
Overview: Also known as Crazy Uproar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-07-23
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First Love Questions and Answers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-15
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That Complicated Guy
Overview: Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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