Bontarō Miake
Actor. Born 1906, died 1987.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Adm. Koshiro OikawaIn the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
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Sansho the Bailiff
as KichijiIn medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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Gamera vs. Barugon
as Self-Defense Force GeneralGamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from...
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Street of Shame
as Officer NonomuraThe lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the...
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Late Chrysanthemums
as SekiWith delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his...
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Princess Yang Kwei Fei
as Chen-Hsuan-liIn eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family...
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Summer Clouds
as PatronA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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The Most Dangerous Game
as uncreditedThe first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a...
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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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Street of Violence
as ArifusaAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...
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Kojiki Taishô
as uncreditedGotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually...
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Carmen Comes Home
as MarujuA rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware...
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Birth of a Fighter
as uncreditedA young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
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Bloody Territories
as Shinsaku Fujioka, Sakura Syndicate chairA once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group...
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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
as uncreditedReiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local...
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Warning from Space
as Dr. KamuraLarge star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe....
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Buddha
as ChannaAn Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six...
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Satan's Sword
as Urajuku no ShichibeeThe Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41...
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The Phantom Horse
as Yasuke ShiraishiFollowing the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in...
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Black Test Car
as Kihachi OguriTwo car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports...
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The Woman in the Rumor
as KobayashiYukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises...
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Organized Violence
as uncreditedA war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
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The Broken Commandment
as uncreditedUshimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now...
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
as uncreditedDuring the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out...
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The Paths of Two Maidens
as uncreditedMelodrama about two sisters with different mothers.
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A Woman's Testament
as uncreditedThe first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for...
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続々十代の性典
as uncreditedFilm directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
as Chief of the Metropolitan PoliceA series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is...
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The Bitch
as uncreditedThe fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
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The Priest and the Beauty
as KiyotsuguPrincess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but...
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The Last Kamikaze
as uncreditedWith World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
as uncreditedAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
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The Rainbow Man
as Ryuzu MayaWhen a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her...
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The Water Magician
as ShinzôTaki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a...
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A Lustful Man
as uncreditedFascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of...
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Night Butterflies
as uncreditedA traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Advance Patrol
as uncreditedIn 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive...
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浅草の夜
as Teacher AkiyamaA young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a...
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The Pit of Death
as President YukawaHorror film directed by Koji Shima.
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The Battleship Yamato
as Chief army surgeon YamadaThe film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland...
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Shogun's Holiday
as uncreditedDuring the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo...
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Green Fruit
as uncreditedTwo sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former...
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High School Third Graders
as uncreditedIn 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a...
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The Great White Tower
as uncreditedThe story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors...
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Outlaw island
as uncreditedThe southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the...
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Victory and Defeat
as KondoAfter the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura),...
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The Burdened Sisters
as Father KeitaObscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
as uncreditedDisguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Sound in the Mist
as uncreditedIn the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko...
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Jūdai no yūwaku
as uncreditedFilm directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
as uncreditedKitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The...
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Tokyo Crime Map
as uncreditedAn exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the...
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
as uncreditedFourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Kisses
as uncreditedKinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a...
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Earth
as HeizoKanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and...
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The Crowded Train
as uncreditedTamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do...
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The Whale God
as uncreditedA fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
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Black Report
as Prosecutor NarumiAfter a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial...
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The Snowy Heron
as uncreditedThe story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
as uncreditedMomoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also...
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Tokyo March
as 松並の弟敏男A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The...
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Black Challenger
as uncreditedYoung lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a...
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The Dead Beauty Incident
as uncreditedA dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi)...
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A Baby Given by a Fox
as uncreditedA lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a...
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Confessions of a Gynecologist
as uncreditedA timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is...
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Dancing Girl
as NumataThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved...
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The Falcon Fighters
as uncreditedIn the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor...
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Zoku jūdai no seiten
as Shinkichi ShigenoFilm directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
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Beauty the Enemy
as SahiraIn a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are...
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Zoku jūdai no seiten
as uncreditedFilm directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
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as uncreditedA young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his...
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The Romance of Yushima
as uncreditedHayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much...
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Return of Gun Dog
as uncreditedZoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the...
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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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Blind Devotion
as KurisuLate romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
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And Yet They Go On
as uncreditedDirected by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931
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Hole in One
as Oya, chief editorA female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from...
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Across the Darkness
as uncreditedA journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed...
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The Ataka Family
as VeterinarianSoichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with...
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Miai Ryokou
as uncreditedA chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more...
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Ripe and Marriageable
as Konosuke, Shinobu's father1959 youth comedy.
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Love and Greed
as uncreditedNamiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her...
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A Woman's Gamble
as uncreditedOnna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko...
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The Blossom and the Sword
as uncreditedTai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who...
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Devil's Gold
as uncredited1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Forbidden
as uncreditedYukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a...
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The Crown of Life
as uncreditedTwo brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on...
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Golden Devil Part 2
as uncredited1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2
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The Woman Gambler's Revenge
as uncreditedTenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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On This Earth
as MoriyamaKanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a...
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A Grain of Wheat
as uncreditedThe film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head...
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Five Scouts
as uncreditedAn early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of...
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Okoto and Sasuke
as IchizôOne of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
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Image of a Mother
as uncreditedThe final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s...
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Vagabonds from Badgerville
as uncreditedA musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
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Fools at Work
as Parent CA comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
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The Feast of Gion
as uncreditedA sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house.
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Black Dividend
as uncreditedRyokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial...
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Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
as uncreditedThe salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job...
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BGs of Ginza
as Shuntaro NonomuraStory of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.
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Diary of a Nurse
as uncreditedRen Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's...
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Typhoon Reporter
as uncreditedSet around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and...
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Hyōchū no Bijo
as uncreditedBased on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.
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Karisome no kuchibeni
as KaruyamaA Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
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Jean Valjean: Part One
as uncreditedThe first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of...
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A face glowing at night
as uncreditedEx-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night...
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil
as uncreditedThe magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.
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Black Money
as uncreditedThe case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.
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Jean Valjean: Part Two
as uncreditedThe second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of...
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Lips of Ruin
as uncreditedIndustrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.
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Hit and Run Gang
as uncreditedDetective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman,...
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The Song Lantern
as uncreditedThe title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. 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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The Devil's toast
as uncreditedRetired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a...
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New Snow
as uncreditedMinowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the...
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Muchana Yakko
as uncreditedA comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth...
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