Akira Tani
Seven Samurai
as BanditA samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Yojimbo
as KameA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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The Hidden Fortress
as Soldier (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
as Village LeaderJournalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found...
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Throne of Blood
as Washizu soldierReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
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Ikiru
as Bar OwnerKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Drunken Angel
as Yakuza FollowerDoctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as (uncredited)After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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I Live in Fear
as Chunky JailbirdKiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...
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Kwaidan
as Huntsman #2 (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Real Estate AgentKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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Floating Clouds
as uncreditedA married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young...
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Untamed Woman
as SakutaroA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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The Wiser Age
as uncreditedDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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The Three Treasures
as uncreditedThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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Daredevil in the Castle
as Rice-Shop OwnerDuring the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family...
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Mr. Pu
as uncreditedA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Wife
as KitoTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
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Husband and Wife
as uncreditedA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as uncreditedShozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his...
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Half Human
as Chubby ThugThree competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as...
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The Beast Shall Die
as Apartment superintendentA promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following...
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Samurai Saga
as (uncredited)Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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Farewell Rabaul
as uncreditedA squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they...
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Late Chrysanthemums
as uncreditedWith delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his...
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The Scarlet Camellia
as uncreditedA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
as uncreditedEvery year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a...
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Our Failures
as uncreditedTells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his...
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The Lone Journey
as uncreditedForced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. ...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as uncreditedAn American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
as uncreditedIn a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as uncreditedIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...
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Desperado Outpost
as uncreditedWhen Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the...
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Beast Alley
as uncredited"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite...
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Snow Country
as uncreditedIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
as YoshidaA young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as UshijiUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...
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Marital Relations
as uncreditedThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
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The Storm
as uncreditedA widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
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Saga of the Vagabonds
as uncreditedLord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men,...
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Whirlwind
as uncreditedSet at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the...
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Story of Lightning
as uncreditedGensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was...
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The Irresponsible Fool
as uncreditedPicked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate...
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The King
as uncreditedThe film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an...
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Ôban
as Ushikichi, Ushinosule's fatherA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as uncreditedUshinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. ...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
as uncreditedA longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with...
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The Living Koheiji
as InnkeeperThe actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro;...
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Life of a Country Doctor
as uncreditedA skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and...
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Red-Light Bases
as uncreditedStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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A Gang of Five
as KyusukeA group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.
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The Legend of the White Serpent
as Oil salesmanLavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in...
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Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
as uncreditedComedy movie
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Ultra Q
as VillagerAs supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be...
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