Akihiko Katayama
Vendetta of a Samurai
as uncreditedThe famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism...
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Mother
as Susumu FukuharaA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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The Lady of Musashino
as Tsutomu MiyajiSet in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young...
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The Priest and the Beauty
as TomotsunaPrincess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but...
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Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
as uncreditedThe sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of...
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A Pebble by the Wayside
as Goichi AikawaTomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo...
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Dancing Girl
as TakaoThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved...
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The Ambitious
as Toranosuke NakahiraThe story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa...
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The Battleship Yamato
as Ensign NishidaThe film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland...
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Dancing Girls of Izu
as uncreditedA dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about...
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Kōfuku no genkai
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting...
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She Came For Love
as Katsuya KitaharaToshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not...
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Black Sea of Trees
as uncreditedSachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car...
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Her Hidden Past
as Eikichi KonoAdaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the...
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Marriageable Age
as uncreditedYoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and...
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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
as uncreditedThe biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century,...
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
as uncreditedA village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
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Explosion!
as uncredited"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five...
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Next Door to Happiness
as uncreditedThe Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer...
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花笠太鼓
as 半次In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a...
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Love's Cheerleader
as uncreditedDirectorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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Riverside Fish Market Empire
as uncreditedObscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
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Thus the Divine Wind Blows
as Michitada KônoSet in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the...
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The Bronze Devil
as Marquis Genjiro MizunoA steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map...
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
as uncreditedA young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his...
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The Days of Evil Women
as uncreditedThe common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune,...
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Unending Advance
as uncreditedOne of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu,...
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Kaze no Matasaburô
as uncreditedSaburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that...
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Ginza for Two
as KoizumiThe story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble,...
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Ah Special Attack Corps
as uncreditedDepicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic...
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元祿美少年記
as 佐野正平On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while...
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Delinquent Girl
as uncreditedA melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the...
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Submarine Number One
as uncreditedThis film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as...
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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