Akemi Negishi
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Biography: Akemi Negishi (根岸明美 Negishi Akemi, b. 26 March 1934, Tokyo, Japan - died 11 March 2008 (74), Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) was a Japanese actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: March 26, 1934
Deathday: March 11, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
Overview: The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-11
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Lady Snowblood
Overview: Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Red Beard
Overview: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Sex and Fury
Overview: Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
Overview: TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization TIGER (The International Group of Espionage and Revolt). Shunsuke Dan is agent Spycatcher J3 of the TULIP Japan Branch. Spycatcher J3 stands against TIGER's machinations.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-03
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Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
Overview: Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on Hanawa, but as he leaves, he is unaware that a boy is watching him. Toru's new employer asks him to kill a competitor in drug sales, but...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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I Live in Fear
Overview: Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-22
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Toshigoro
Overview: Teenage film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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The Lower Depths
Overview: Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
Overview: After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Mako Osorubeshi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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Girl in College
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-30
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Anatahan
Overview: From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-28
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Overview: An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film "Jūjin Yuki Otoko" (1955) with added American-made footage, narration, and music.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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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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Half Human
Overview: Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-14
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Distant Thunder
Overview: A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-23
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The Hot Little Girl
Overview: A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-03
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Code of Ruffians
Overview: Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Dangerous Liaisons
Overview: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy will deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-18
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Overview: A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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18 Roughs
Overview: Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-11
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A Man in the Storm
Overview: Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-05
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-05
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A Holiday in Tokyo
Overview: May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Overview: Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garners popularity in the slums due to her compassionate care for children. In an attempt to secure a stable future for their child, she enters into marriage with Tsutomu Yamazaki, who struggles with a stutter. Unfortunately, their union is cut short by the untimely death of Tsutomu Yamazaki in an accident.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-09
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
Overview: Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-29
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The Setting Sun
Overview: A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-15
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Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
Overview: Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window cleaner Kurata Katsuo. This was to be their first encounter. Completely enchanted by Kumi, Katsuo does everything he can to get close to her. Katsuo is a man with a terrible past. With the death of his coal miner father, his family was broken up and he was forced to follow in his father's footsteps laboring away in the mud. In spite of this, Katsuo still has dreams. He dreams of living in Resiporuko, a utopian fantasyland that exists only in his imagination. When Katsuo and Kumi finally meet they find themselves unable to communicate. Katsuo spends all his time talking about Resiporuko with a starry look in his eyes, while Kumi dreams of living the high life in the city. One day when the two travel to the seashore, they discover a wounded seagull.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-12
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Dodes'ka-den
Overview: This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-31
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Play It Cool
Overview: This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Female Yakuza Tale
Overview: Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-06
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A Wife's Heart
Overview: Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-03
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Lady Karuizawa
Overview: A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman from a wealthy family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-06
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The Wandering of the Naked General: The Kiyoshi Yamashita Story
Overview: Sent to an institution for mentally handicapped children by his parents, he began creating artworks using torn strips of paper. After running away to avoid army conscription, he began his wanderings around Japan, encountering many scenes which he would recreate as torn paper art from his amazing photographic memory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-07-21
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Snake Woman's Curse
Overview: An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-12
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Location
Overview: The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-22
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The Underworld
Overview: Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
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Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
Overview: Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-08
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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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King of the Widow-Killers
Overview: The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by fighting with women. However, when he returned to his hometown in Kyushu for his father's memorial service, his gambling partner Masa not only confiscated Hiroshi's store and bankbook, but was also saddled with debts in Hiroshi's name. Although Hiroshi was angry, he made a decision and decided to start over using his body. Starting with a female designer, he battles an antique art dealer, Master Nagauta, a female doctor, and many others, and finally battles a rich man's widow.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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The Strangling
Overview: The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-02
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High School Juniors (Part II)
Overview: A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity and find fun and happiness in helping others.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-22
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Hooligans on Buggies
Overview: Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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An Unforgettable Affair
Overview: Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
Overview: A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-17
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The Life of Chikuzan
Overview: A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly
Overview: Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-28
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Express Train
Overview: Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to his passengers. With his many years of experience, he never fails to find solutions for any troubles that occur along the way. A comedic drama revolving around the lives of those who ride the express train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-03
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No More Easy Life
Overview: Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion
Overview: Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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Military Comfort Woman
Overview: Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Overview: An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-09
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Song for a Bride
Overview: An Ishiro Honda film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-11
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Aoi bara satsujin jiken
Overview: A magazine reporter gets involved in a murder case while covering a rose nursery that's developing a blue rose.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-29
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Shikibu monogatari
Overview: Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near Mt. Aso in rural Kyushu. He seeks solace in a small religious group run by Buddhist nun Chishu-bo who claims to be the 68th descendant of famed 11th century poet Izumi Shikibu. The members of her sect regard her as a living saint. Yet instead of balming his soul, she riles his libido by playing a sexual cat-and-mouse game with the fragile Toyoichi. When she does bed him, it leads to a miracle healing -- followed by a terrible calamity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-06
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Happiness of Us Alone
Overview: The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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The Makioka Sisters
Overview: This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-05-21
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Overview: An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-09
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
Overview: When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-26
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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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