Chōko Iida
Chôko Iida (飯田 蝶子, 15 April 1897 - 26 December 1972) was a Japanese actress.
Drunken Angel
as BâyaDoctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he...
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Stray Dog
as Kogetsu Hotel managerA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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The Rickshaw Man
as OtoraA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...
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The Only Son
as Tsune NonomiyaA silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite...
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A Story of Floating Weeds
as OtsuneAn aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and...
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Forever a Woman
as HideFumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her...
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Passing Fancy
as OtomeIn Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as uncreditedConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Tokyo Chorus
as Sensei no tusmaIn Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from...
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Summer Clouds
as HidéA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
as Chiyoko SugiyamaA professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited...
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as OtaneAn errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
as MaidA young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is...
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An Inn in Tokyo
as OtsuneAn unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era...
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
as Saiki's motherWhen a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three...
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After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced...
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I Graduated, But...
as LandladyTetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he...
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Wind and waves of the South
as RikiLittle dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the...
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Detective Duel
as uncreditedA friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as OkuraIemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot...
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
as LandladyUta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt...
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Maria of the Ant Village
as uncreditedAlongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a...
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
as Oseki, old maidSaheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
as OkuniA youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira...
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Sanshiro Sugata
as Old LadyRemake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro...
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Spring Awakens
as Tama TakemuraSlice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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The Wild Geese
as OsanA young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself...
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The Young Ace in Hawaii
as 田沼りきFourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous...
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Apart from You
as uncreditedAn aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Kohei's MotherPart 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and...
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
as Geisha"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu...
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Policeman's Diary
as Tatsu, the motherLending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...
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Gamblers' Luck
as uncreditedA group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of...
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The Lady and the Beard
as Hiroko's MotherGraduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the ...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as MatsuyoFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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Every-Night Dreams
as LandladyIn Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the...
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The Other Woman
as Miho no soboIn "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have...
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Twice on a Certain Night
as uncreditedPoor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband,...
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The Eleventh Hour
as Kane IshigakiBased on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s...
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Yellow Crow
as uncreditedIn this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master...
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Jubilation Street
as Wife of bathhouse ownerThe few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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The Trio's Engagements
as Woman at tobacco shopThree men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted...
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Flower Shop Curtain
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant...
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Kagebōshi
as お蝶On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
as uncreditedIkeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's...
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
as uncreditedThe Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures...
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Love's Cheerleader
as Kiyo YamamotoDirectorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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Still I Live On
as Akiyama grandmotherAbout the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the...
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Days of Youth
as AuntyStudents Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.
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Burden of Life
as OkaneA middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old...
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as Teisaku's motherThree humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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Campus A Go-Go
as Riki TanumaYoung Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football....
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Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya
as OmakiOiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and...
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Darkness at Noon
as Tsuna UemuraPolice beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based...
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On Wings of Love
as GrandmotherOn Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was...
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Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
as HamakoKeitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Nui, Fuwa's wifeThis 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed...
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The Naked Sun
as uncreditedA young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the...
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Typhoon
as uncreditedA group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has...
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Pride of the Campus
as Riki TanumaYoung Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant,...
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The Ditch
as uncreditedPostwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid...
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Arupusu no wakadaishô
as Yuichi's GrandmotherSeventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa
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Stepbrothers
as MasuIn a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal,...
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Itsudemo yume o
as uncreditedThis is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the...
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The Samurai of Edo
as uncreditedThis historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during...
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Young Guy at Sea
as 田沼りきEternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young...
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Sir Galahad in Campus
as Riki TanumaThe first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
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Sailor
as uncreditedShinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy....
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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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Middle-Aged Man
as uncreditedThe story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.
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Nobuko
as OkeiA spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking...
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Yami wo saku kuchibue
as uncreditedA unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for...
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Men vs. Women
as uncreditedA musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of...
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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 Body
as uncreditedThe sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job...
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
as NeighborThis pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife...
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Lord for a Night
as uncreditedLord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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Growing Up
as uncreditedA boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
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情艶一代女
as おしんBased on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her...
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Circuit-A-Go-Go
as uncreditedRally themed entry in the Wakadaisho series
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An Innocent Maid
as OtsuneIn a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of...
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Come Marry Me
as uncreditedMasako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his...
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
as uncreditedSabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when...
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Two Lanterns
as uncreditedA mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke
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College Is a Nice Place
as Wife of the b.h. ownerIn a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their...
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First Steps Ashore
as Mistress of hotelEarly Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.
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The Young Ace in the South Pacific
as Riki TanumaThe 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train...
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Fighting Yasubei
as uncreditedYasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon...
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The Cock Crows Twice
as uncreditedThree young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
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Until the Day We Meet Again
as MaidA young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted,...
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Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
as KurokawaMaruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an...
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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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Hot Spring Doctress
as OtamiA light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
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The Stand in Hakone
as uncreditedA period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high...
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Nippon no obaachan
as HanaTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
as uncreditedA continuation of the prior film (影法師).
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Let's Go! Young Guy
as Riki TanumaCollege student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face...
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Young Guy - Freshman
as uncreditedYoung Guy graduates from University.
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Physical Beauty
as Ritsuko, Takai's wifeA hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts...
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Over That Hill
as uncreditedMariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live...
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Ghosts Die at Dawn
as Yûko KôriyamaAt the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of...
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Woman in the Mist
as Otoku, Seiichi's motherOtoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed...
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
as uncreditedBurned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag...
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A Certain Woman
as uncreditedPretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at...
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Young Guy - The Sky is Ours!
as uncreditedYuzo Kayama does skydiving.
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Flirtation in Spring
as uncreditedJapanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
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Sword of Penitence
as uncreditedTwo criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts....
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Okoto and Sasuke
as OkimiA period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her...
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Three Faces
as uncreditedFive years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma...
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Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
as uncreditedKintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing...
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Family Meeting
as OyukiA melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
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The Genealogy of Women
as Ogen, mistressA melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is...
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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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College Champ
as Riki TanumaYuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon...
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Rikidozan: Man of Fury
as uncreditedThe story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
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Treasure Mountain
as Geisha's house landladyA young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the...
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Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
as uncreditedFocuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
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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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Diary of Forsaken Love
as uncreditedFollows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
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Okinawa
as uncreditedA group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of...
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Moon of the Plateau
as uncreditedAn older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their...
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