Chishū Ryū
Chishu Ryu (May 13, 1904 in Kumamoto, Japan – March 16, 1993 in Yokohama, Japan) was a famous Japanese film actor, a favourite of the director Yasujiro Ozu. From 1928 to 1992 he appeared in at least 155 films, including Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953) and Yoshitaro Nomura's Castle of Sand (1974). From 1969 until his death, Ryu became familiar to a new generation as the curmudgeonly but benevolent Buddhist priest in Yoji Yamada's Tora-san movie series (a role he parodied to great effect in a cameo in Juzo Itami's 1984 comedy, The Funeral). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Good Morning
as Keitaro HayashiA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...
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Tokyo Story
as Shukichi HirayamaThe elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village...
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Late Spring
as Shukichi SomiyaNoriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to...
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Until the End of the World
as Mr. MoriIn 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers,...
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Dreams
as Old ManA collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
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The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Prosecutor NonakaIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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Early Summer
as Koichi MamiyaA 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Hinanmin no ChôrôAfter the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....
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Red Beard
as Mr. YasumotoAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as A monkA fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of...
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The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
as Sadao HirayamaThe arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic...
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The End of Summer
as FarmerThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as Otoko SenseiFrom 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese...
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An Autumn Afternoon
as Shuhei HirayamaShuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...
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Floating Weeds
as Theatre OwnerWhen a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of...
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A Story of Floating Weeds
as Audience MemberAn aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and...
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Late Autumn
as Shukichi MiwaA woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...
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Tokyo-Ga
as SelfGerman director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of...
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Equinox Flower
as Shukichi MikamiWataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...
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Tokyo Twilight
as Shukichi SugiyamaTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
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The Funeral
as The PriestWhen Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random...
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Early Spring
as Kiichi OnoderaA young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless...
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After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced...
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There Was a Father
as Shuhei HorikawaShuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
as Gozen-samaAfter a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
as Former PriestRyōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Prime Minister Baron Kantaro SuzukiFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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A Hen in the Wind
as Kazuichiro SatakeTokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as TakuanIn Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving...
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The Castle of Sand
as Kojuro KiriharaTwo detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in...
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It's Tough Being a Man
as Gozen-samaTora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but...
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The Wiser Age
as Kinjiro IshikawaDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Old man in the parkSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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Carmen Comes Home
as PrincipalA rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware...
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Satan's Sword
as TsukueThe Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41...
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The Rickshaw Man
as Shigezo YukiA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...
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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 Only Son
as Teacher OkuboA silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
as General Maresuke NogiJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the...
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Tora-san, the Expert
as Gozen-samaTora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets...
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Love Under the Crucifix
as Sokei NamboThe basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both...
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
as GozensamaKuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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Tora-san's Love Call
as the High PriestTaking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Tora-san's Lullaby
as Gozen-samaAfter Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved...
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as TashiroAn errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor...
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Ornamental Hairpin
as NanmuraA Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
as Tarobei KamiyaA fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains...
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Tora-san Goes North
as the High PriestWhen his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian...
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Gazing at Love and Death
as uncreditedA young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the...
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Port of Flowers
as NobadamaThe sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at...
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The Munekata Sisters
as Tadachika MunekataSetsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She...
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The Last War
as EbaraA Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the...
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
as the High PriestOn the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
as High PriestTraveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
as Seizaburō UtsumiA man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger...
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Street Without End
as Yukihiko ChibaMikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as uncreditedTora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan...
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Always in My Heart
as uncreditedMachiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge...
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Spring Dreams
as Shinichirô AtsumiWhen a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their...
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as Masao - Age 73On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and...
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慶安水滸傳
as 神尾備前守Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata...
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Days of Youth
as StudentStudents Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.
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The Lady and the Beard
as (uncredited)Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the ...
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Flying in the Air
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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Four Sisters
as uncreditedA story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
as HattoriA young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is...
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Drunkard's Paradise
as uncreditedA father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving...
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The Moon Has Risen
as Asai MokichiMokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple...
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The Black Sheep
as uncreditedYoung female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little...
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Love Letter
as uncreditedA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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The Longest Tunnel
as Saiji AkutsuAfter a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a...
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
as uncreditedTora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi...
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The Eternal Rainbow
as Naoji KageyamaTwo men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job,...
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Sailor
as Teacher (uncredited)Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy....
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Tora-san's Promise
as Gozen-samaTora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he...
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The Human Bullet
as Bookstore ManA soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his...
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The Refugee
as uncreditedA Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
as the High PriestTorajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
as the High PriestTora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
as uncreditedMachiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as the High PriestDuring his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully...
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Sisters
as uncreditedThree beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako...
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
as uncreditedPart one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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The Waves
as uncreditedNami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
as the High PriestWhile Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young...
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
as uncreditedDirector Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio...
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Where Spring Comes Late
as Genzo, So's fatherThe story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a...
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Always in My Heart Part 3
as uncreditedMachiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet...
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Master Fencer Sees the World
as uncreditedA historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
as PriestAfter winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to...
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Home from the Sea
as Ishizaki SenzoOn a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting...
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The Wandering Princess
as KinoshitaPu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of...
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Home Sweet Home
as Kosaku UemuraThe Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded...
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I Flunked, But...
as Class mateThis bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as KomiyaOn a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
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Flower in a Storm
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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The Soundless Cry
as TatenoShinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His...
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I Lived, But...
as SelfAn extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...
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The Lights of Asakusa
as Shin'ichi KatoriPre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking...
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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
as uncreditedThe timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl!...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
as Gozen-samaAfter Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs...
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The Good Fairy
as Ryôen TobaThe wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
as the High PriestTora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's...
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South Wind 2
as uncreditedIn this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
as Gozen-samaWhen his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to...
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And Then
as uncreditedDaisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is...
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The Greatest Man in the World
as HermitRemake of classic samurai film of 1932
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
as the High PriestA playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy...
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Until Spring Comes
as uncreditedLiving with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate...
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The Fourth Lady
as uncreditedIt was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land...
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Mole Alley
as uncredited33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie,...
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The Crowded Train
as Genroku, the fatherTamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as PriestTora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...
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Tora-san's Runaway
as High PriestAfter an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro...
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Machi no Hi
as TakushokuChiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an...
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High-School Outcasts
as Instructor TakeyamaTsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
as Gozen-samaTora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years...
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
as the High PriestAfter a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
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Tange Sazen
as uncreditedIn 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot...
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Traveling in Party
as uncreditedA comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
as Gozen-samaTora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an...
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Let's Go in Good Spirits
as The BossIn the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were...
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White Blaze
as uncreditedA masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel...
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Farewell to Spring
as Kôzô's fatherFive longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not...
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The Radish and the Carrot
as uncreditedOne day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
as the High PriestTora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her...
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Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
as uncreditedA family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on...
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
as Gozen-samaAfter a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her...
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
as ShimazakiWhen a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three...
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When Winter Comes
as uncreditedAn old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late...
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Striving to Live
as uncreditedYasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
as PriestWhen cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by...
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Woman of Tokyo
as ReporterRyoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at...
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
as Gozen-samaTora-san helps out a runaway bride.
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Tora-san, My Uncle
as Gozen-samaTora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as the High PriestIn Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san...
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Freedom School
as uncreditedMinamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is...
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The Storm
as uncreditedA widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
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Army
as Tomosuke TakagiThough plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his...
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as the High PriestDuring his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
as PriestTora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes...
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The Snow Flurry
as uncreditedAfter surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
as the High PriestIn Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself....
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as Gozen-samaIn his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he...
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Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
as uncreditedThe fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
as uncreditedTora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he...
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The New Road: Akemi
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow...
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That Night's Wife
as PolicemanIn Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes...
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Living Image
as uncreditedA film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
as uncreditedThe tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it...
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Kyukei no Koya
as uncreditedA film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko...
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Door of Flowers
as uncreditedGoto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is...
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Wim Wenders in Tokyo
as SelfA documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
as the High PriestTora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
as the High PriestTora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984),...
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Passing Fancy
as Man on BoatIn Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a...
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Flower and Dragon
as uncreditedKingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the...
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
as uncreditedAn epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations...
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Monument to Holy Service
as uncreditedA rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
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Tora-san's Pure Love
as Gozen-samaWhen Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on...
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South Wind
as uncreditedAmusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the...
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
as GozensamaTora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased...
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Only She Knows
as uncreditedA young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is...
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Aiyoku no sabaki
as uncreditedMotoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls...
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An Inn in Tokyo
as PolicemanAn unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era...
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Talking with Ozu
as Self (archival footage)A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers...
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Dolls floating down the river
as NeighborA touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of...
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Dragnet Girl
as PolicemanA gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his...
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Bridge
as uncreditedA 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
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Couple on the Move
as uncreditedWhen a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to...
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Love in the Mountains
as uncreditedA mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl...
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The Four Loves
as Heitarô MisawaA father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that...
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Children Hand in Hand
as Mr. MatsumuraA small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
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The Youth and His Amulet
as uncreditedGen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the...
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Internees of Kampili
as Vice-Admiral ShibataIn the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
as the High PriestWhen Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor...
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Song of the Flower Basket
as Nenkai HottaThree men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the...
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Youth of the Son
as Mr. UemuraThe story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
as the High PriestDuring his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers...
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The Golden Demon
as Kuranosuke KazahayaA penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy...
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College Is a Nice Place
as AmanoIn a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their...
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Luminous Moss
as JudgeA headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before...
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Introspection Tower
as Mr. KusamaA reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
as uncreditedMitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for...
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A Star Athlete
as TaniDuring college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is...
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Housewife Camellia
as uncreditedThe narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime...
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Gekimetsu no uta
as 河上耕造Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the...
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Spring Thunder
as uncreditedEiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at...
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Boyhood
as FatherWhen a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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Come Marry Me
as Tamotsu's GrandfatherMasako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his...
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Children in the Wind
as PolicemanOn vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is...
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New Woman Question and Answer
as uncreditedJie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha...
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Dislikes
as uncreditedAn old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has...
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Life's Simple Pleasures
as uncreditedA masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that...
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Love
as uncreditedHeinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a...
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Physical Beauty
as uncreditedA hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts...
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Pumpkin
as uncreditedComedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.
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Flower
as uncreditedMost of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families....
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The Face
as Det. HasegawaA notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the...
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Crybaby Chacha
as uncreditedChiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is...
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Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
as Gôzô TôyamaA young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes...
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Boy Aviation Pilots
as uncreditedStory of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in...
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Wife Lost
as uncreditedA married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him....
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Kaisen no Zenya
as uncreditedKempeitai fights American spies in Japan
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A Good Man, A Good Day
as Ozeki HitoshiThe university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his...
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Fight for the Glory
as uncreditedComing of age/high school sports drama.
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Tora-san Confesses
as uncreditedWhen Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a...
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A Visage to Remember
as uncreditedDuring his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late...
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Southern Wind
as uncreditedBased on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The...
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The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
as uncreditedThe film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five...
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Eyes of Children
as uncreditedA man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An...
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When We are Old
as uncreditedAn old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move...
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Queen of the Wind
as uncreditedA man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store....
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Chishu Ryu and Shochiku’s Ofuna Studio
as SelfDocumentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu.
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I'm a Bodyguard
as uncreditedKita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's...
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Tamayura
as 直木良彦The 5th NHK Asadora. Starring Chishuu Ryuu as an old man who begins to travel after he retires....
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Hi no kuni ni
as 造園主・吉野公平The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape...
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A-Un
as uncreditedSenkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are...
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The Roads Men Travel
as KadomaeThe series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and...
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Haguregumo
as uncreditedSet at the end of the Edo period, the series depicts Kumo's family with his wife, Kame, their...
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An Early Autumn
as uncreditedA former couple, separated for over 20 years, were reunited after being told their son had only...
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Zoku zoku jiken
as uncreditedDaisaburo Kikuchi (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a skilled lawyer full of humanity, thrillingly depicts...
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Tokyo Suburbia
as uncreditedTwo couples are confronted with the fact that their children have dropped out of high school and...
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