Eijirō Tōno

Born: 1907-09-17

Eijirō Tōno (東野英治郎 Tōno Eijirō, 17 September 1907 – 8 September 1994) was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). He also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).


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Seven Samurai

as Kidnapper
Released: 1954-04-26

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...

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Stray Dog

as uncredited
Released: 1949-10-17

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...

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Tokyo Story

as Numata
Released: 1953-11-03

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village...

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Yojimbo

as Gonji, Tavern Keeper
Released: 1961-04-25

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...

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High and Low

as Factory Worker
Released: 1963-03-01

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when...

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Admiral Chuici Nagumo
Released: 1970-01-26

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...

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An Autumn Afternoon

as Sakuma, The 'Gourd'
Released: 1962-11-18

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...

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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

as Baiken Shishido (uncredited)
Released: 1956-01-03

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...

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Good Morning

as Hiroshi Tomizawa
Released: 1959-05-12

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...

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Red Beard

as Goheiji
Released: 1965-04-03

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...

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I Live in Fear

as Old man from Brazil
Released: 1955-11-22

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...

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Samurai Assassin

as Masagorō Kisoya
Released: 1965-01-03

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the...

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Horus: Prince of the Sun

as Ganko (voice)
Released: 1968-07-24

Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the...

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Policeman's Diary

as Old man Murata
Released: 1955-02-03

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...

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The Lower Depths

as Tomekichi the Tinker
Released: 1957-10-01

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and...

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Pale Flower

as Yasuoka
Released: 1964-03-01

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the...

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-15

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...

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Sword of the Beast

as Minister
Released: 1965-09-18

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the...

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Early Spring

as Tokichi Hattori
Released: 1956-01-29

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...

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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

as Akiharu
Released: 1963-11-16

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into...

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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

as Baiken Shishido
Released: 1955-07-12

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns...

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Pigs and Battleships

as Kan'ichi
Released: 1961-01-21

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the...

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Hunter in the Dark

as Shogen
Released: 1979-06-17

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill....

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The Battle of Okinawa

as uncredited
Released: 1971-08-14

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...

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The Ballad of Narayama

as Messenger
Released: 1958-06-01

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of...

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Otome no iru kichi

as uncredited
Released: 1945-04-01

Japanese war movie.

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Kill!

as Hyogo Moriuchi
Released: 1968-06-22

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become...

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The Orphan Brother

as Sanshô Dayû (voice)
Released: 1961-07-19

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but...

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Goyokin

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-01

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

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Zatoichi's Cane Sword

as Senzo
Released: 1967-01-03

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite...

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The Great Wall

as Li Tang
Released: 1962-11-01

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his...

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Children of Hiroshima

as uncredited
Released: 1952-08-06

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...

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The Eleventh Hour

as uncredited
Released: 1957-11-24

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s...

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Akitsu Hot Springs

as uncredited
Released: 1962-06-15

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and...

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The Beast Shall Die

as Detective Kuwashima
Released: 1959-06-09

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following...

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Tales of a Golden Geisha

as Prime Minister
Released: 1990-06-02

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the...

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Life of Hishakaku 2

as uncredited
Released: 1963-05-25

Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain...

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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

as Policeman
Released: 1959-03-29

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...

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Immortal Love

as Policeman
Released: 1961-09-16

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the...

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Black River

as Kurihara
Released: 1957-10-23

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...

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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

as Haiya
Released: 1964-01-01

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...

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Tora-san's Cherished Mother

as Sanpo Sensei
Released: 1969-11-14

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

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The Story of Pure Love

as uncredited
Released: 1957-10-15

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling...

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This Madding Crowd

as Grandpa Yoshi
Released: 1962-06-28

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The Last War

as Captain Umehara
Released: 1961-10-08

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the...

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Wife

as uncredited
Released: 1953-04-29

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...

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I Lived, But...

as Self
Released: 1983-10-29

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...

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A Story from Echigo

as uncredited
Released: 1964-05-09

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...

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Sinking the Unsinkable

as uncredited
Released: 1944-03-23

Japanese Warmovie

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Shogun and His Mistress 2

as Narrator
Released: 1967-11-01

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It...

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Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

as Ishiguro, Tatsugoro (Jun's father)
Released: 1962-04-08

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families...

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Night Drum

as uncredited
Released: 1958-04-15

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...

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Untamed Woman

as Oshima's father
Released: 1957-05-28

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...

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Twin Sisters of Kyoto

as Sosuke Otomo
Released: 1963-01-13

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a...

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Yagyu Secret Scrolls

as Fugetsusai
Released: 1957-04-14

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...

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The Masterless 47 – Part II

as uncredited
Released: 1961-02-25

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So What

as uncredited
Released: 1988-07-16

In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while...

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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

as uncredited
Released: 1950-11-03

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Navy

as Teacher Ogata
Released: 1943-12-08

Japanese war film.

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Actress

as uncredited
Released: 1956-11-27

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her...

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Ginza Cosmetics

as Hyôbei Sugano
Released: 1951-04-14

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

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The Three Treasures

as Ootomo
Released: 1959-11-01

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...

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Beauty and the Thief

as Jurota
Released: 1952-09-22

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and...

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A Woman in the Typhoon Area

as Yoshii
Released: 1948-09-18

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the...

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Fine Man

as uncredited
Released: 1961-06-11

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he...

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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

as Shibiku-Shosuke Hori
Released: 1963-04-28

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...

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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

as uncredited
Released: 1963-04-21

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager...

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A Carpenter and Children

as uncredited
Released: 1962-06-10

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an...

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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region

as uncredited
Released: 1961-06-21

He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not...

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Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

as uncredited
Released: 1962-04-29

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Double Wedding

as Goro
Released: 1963-07-13

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The Forest Is Alive

as uncredited
Released: 1956-10-08

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

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Sword for Hire

as uncredited
Released: 1952-05-22

Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind...

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The Sunshine Girl

as uncredited
Released: 1963-04-18

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

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Island of Hell

as Kaemon Kito
Released: 1977-08-27

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

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An Innocent Witch

as uncredited
Released: 1965-10-30

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her...

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Adrift at Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1983-12-03

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the...

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An Osaka Story

as Gonzaemon Hoshino
Released: 1957-03-06

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi...

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Beyond the Seasonal Wind

as uncredited
Released: 1958-06-10

Japanese drama film.

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Wind and waves of the South

as Genji
Released: 1961-11-19

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the...

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The Great White Tower

as uncredited
Released: 1966-10-15

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors...

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Five Gents' Trick Book

as uncredited
Released: 1965-01-03

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

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The Naked Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1958-10-01

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the...

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Burden of Love

as Jozo Araki
Released: 1955-03-18

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a...

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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Released: 1963-08-06

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni...

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Tange Sazen

as uncredited
Released: 1963-11-17

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot...

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The Wild Geese

as Suezo
Released: 1953-09-15

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself...

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Firefly Light

as uncredited
Released: 1958-03-18

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose...

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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

as uncredited
Released: 1959-09-13

The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is...

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Flame of My Love

as State Councillor Itô
Released: 1949-02-13

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo,...

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The Black Current

as uncredited
Released: 1954-08-31

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company,...

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Eddy Currents of Life

as Shigesuke Hayashi
Released: 1964-11-22

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study...

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Apostasy

as uncredited
Released: 1948-11-30

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a...

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Buddha

as Suratha
Released: 1961-10-31

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six...

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Lady Sen and Hideyori

as Tokugawa Ieyasu
Released: 1962-03-25

From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as...

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The Love of the Actress Sumako

as uncredited
Released: 1947-08-16

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the...

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Pressure of Guilt

as uncredited
Released: 1963-02-17

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Our Marriage

as Father
Released: 1962-03-18

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

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Choji Snack Bar

as uncredited
Released: 1983-11-12

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for...

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Lost Sex

as Neighbor / Writer
Released: 1966-08-27

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima...

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Ôban

as Chaplin-San
Released: 1957-03-05

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....

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Army

as Sakuragi
Released: 1944-12-07

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

as Chaplin san
Released: 1957-07-19

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. ...

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Silence Has No Wings

as uncredited
Released: 1966-02-11

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido,...

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Police Precinct Part 13

as uncredited
Released: 1960-06-07

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after...

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The Naked Executive

as Kosugi, president
Released: 1964-07-01

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work",...

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A House in the Quarter

as uncredited
Released: 1963-11-01

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a...

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Night River

as Yujiro Funaki
Released: 1956-09-12

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

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Boss Takes to the Road

as uncredited
Released: 1961-09-23

Japanese comedy film.

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The Cock Crows Twice

as uncredited
Released: 1954-11-30

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

as uncredited
Released: 1958-12-07

1958 Japanese movie

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I Will Buy You

as Ogushi
Released: 1956-11-21

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...

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Jinsei Gekijo

as uncredited
Released: 1958-11-23

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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The Last Game

as uncredited
Released: 1979-11-03

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of...

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Rice

as uncredited
Released: 1957-03-04

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a...

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The Vampire Moth

as Tetsuzô Ibuki / Shunsaku Etô
Released: 1956-04-11

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

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The Masterless 47

as Gonosuke Kira
Released: 1960-12-25

Part one of The Masterless 47.

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Death of a Tea Master

as Kokei
Released: 1989-10-07

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve...

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The War Without Weapons

as uncredited
Released: 1960-11-08

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children,...

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The Bandits

as uncredited
Released: 1962-05-27

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

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Jubilation Street

as Shingo’s father
Released: 1944-06-08

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to...

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An Edo Magistrate

as uncredited
Released: 1961-03-12

When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a...

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Mount Hakone

as uncredited
Released: 1962-09-15

Japanese drama.

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The Yamabiko School

as uncredited
Released: 1952-05-01

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

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The Navy

as uncredited
Released: 1963-08-13

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about...

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Morning for the Osone Family

as Ippei Yamaka
Released: 1946-02-21

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them...

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Freedom School

as uncredited
Released: 1951-05-05

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is...

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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

as uncredited
Released: 1963-12-28

[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja...

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早射ち無頼 大平原の男

as uncredited
Released: 1961-12-06

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Kaze no uchi so to

as uncredited
Released: 1959-03-24

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Hiroba no kōdoku

as uncredited
Released: 1953-09-15

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

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Illusion of Blood

as uncredited
Released: 1965-07-25

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

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The Legend of the White Serpent

as uncredited
Released: 1956-06-22

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in...

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Seinen no isu

as uncredited
Released: 1962-04-08

1962 Japanese movie

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Run, Genta, Run!

as uncredited
Released: 1961-11-22

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of...

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The Days of Evil Women

as uncredited
Released: 1958-11-30

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune,...

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Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

as Kozo Kawai
Released: 1952-10-09

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Ukyunosuke on Patrol

as uncredited
Released: 1963-11-20

This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of...

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The Surf

as Schoolmaster
Released: 1954-10-20

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love....

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Rinchi

as uncredited
Released: 1949-12-20

Japanese noir.

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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

as uncredited
Released: 1952-11-06

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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続サラリーマン清水港

as uncredited
Released: 1962-03-07

1962 Japanese movie

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Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha

as uncredited
Released: 1959-06-09

1959 Japanese movie

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Tears

as uncredited
Released: 1956-09-26

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

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A Man from Akagi

as uncredited
Released: 1950-10-07

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The Street Without Sun

as President Kunio
Released: 1954-06-24

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The Third Dead Angle

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-22

Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation,...

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The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo

as uncredited
Released: 1982-08-30

The fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble....

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Fuun Senryobune

as uncredited
Released: 1952-12-16

1952 Japanese movie

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Will to Conquer

as uncredited
Released: 1970-10-17

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa...

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Farewell to Dream

as Yôichi's father, Genkichi
Released: 1956-04-17

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi...

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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi

as Mieko's father
Released: 1959-11-22

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with...

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The Gambling Samurai

as Kansuke
Released: 1960-03-28

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...

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Journey to the North

as Kichinosuke Kawara
Released: 1967-01-03

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the...

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Lord Mito

as Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Released: 1978-12-23

One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose...

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The Wolves

as uncredited
Released: 1955-07-03

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...

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The Crimson Plains

as Shinzô Okui
Released: 1961-07-30

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki...

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Monsieur Zivaco

as uncredited
Released: 1967-10-28

International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles...

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Song of Vengeance

as 看守A
Released: 1968-09-17

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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

as Fugetsusai
Released: 1958-01-03

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...

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Diary of Forsaken Love

as uncredited
Released: 1959-04-14

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

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Zoku Sasaki Kojiro

as uncredited
Released: 1951-03-31

1951 Japanese movie

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Farewell to Spring

as Sakichi Arakawa
Released: 1952-03-28

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

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The Fight of the Gamblers

as uncredited
Released: 1963-12-26

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men,...

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Monument to the Girl's Corps

as Nakaji, Principal
Released: 1968-09-21

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although...

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Dynamite Doctor

as Marshal
Released: 1966-06-04

Film by director Kenji Misumi

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The Naked General

as uncredited
Released: 1958-10-28

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

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Wait for Tomorrow

as Seisaku Kajiwara
Released: 1960-10-26

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given...

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The Pirates

as uncredited
Released: 1960-09-18

Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships)...

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Oban kanketsu hen

as uncredited
Released: 1958-07-01

Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of...

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Port of Flowers

as Hayashida
Released: 1943-07-29

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at...

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Twilight Saloon

as Onizuka
Released: 1955-06-19

Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this...

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The Last Judgment

as uncredited
Released: 1965-05-16

The last judgment.

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Four and A Half Mats

as Uyu
Released: 1966-02-17

Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and...

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Season of Farewell

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-14

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

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The Human Wall

as uncredited
Released: 1959-10-18

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

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Shimizu Port of Chivalry

as Kansuke
Released: 1957-01-03

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of...

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Our Happiness Alone

as uncredited
Released: 1964-03-29

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother,...

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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness

as Chamberlain
Released: 1958-03-25

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued...

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Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko

as uncredited
Released: 1965-05-29

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Young Boss: Leader's Flesh

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-30

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風雲児

as uncredited
Released: 1951-05-18

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts...

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Girls in the Orchard

as uncredited
Released: 1953-09-15

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Challenge to Live

as uncredited
Released: 1961-06-17

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a...

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Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

as uncredited
Released: 1957-12-22

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police...

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Heat and Mud

as uncredited
Released: 1950-05-01

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar...

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Yasubei Nakayama

as uncredited
Released: 1951-03-31

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge...

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Musume to watashi

as uncredited
Released: 1962-04-01

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The Master Spearman

as uncredited
Released: 1960-05-15

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit...

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Girls Born in August

as uncredited
Released: 1963-02-19

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Shishun no izumi

as Nakamura, a policeman
Released: 1953-07-05

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The King and His Vassal

as uncredited
Released: 1981-08-30

This is a story of "Takechiyo," the previous name of Iemitsu Tokunaga, the third Shogun...

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Blood and Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1965-10-01

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking...

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Floating Weeds Diary

as Magoro Ichikawa
Released: 1955-11-15

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and...

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Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

as uncredited
Released: 1964-09-09

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way...

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Marriage

as Fumie's father
Released: 1947-03-18

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in...

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Three Faces of Love

as Soga
Released: 1967-01-14

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take...

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Jûdai no seiten

as uncredited
Released: 1953-02-05

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

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Facing to the Clouds

as uncredited
Released: 1962-05-01

1962 Japanese movie

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Born in Sin

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-23

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

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Here Is a Spring

as uncredited
Released: 1955-02-12

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...

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Wild Ducks and Green Onions

as uncredited
Released: 1968-03-16

The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori),...

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The Donkey Comes on a Tank

as uncredited
Released: 1964-12-26

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when...

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Flowery Brothers

as uncredited
Released: 1956-06-08

Early film by Kenji Misumi.

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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

as uncredited
Released: 1965-10-31

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must...

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The Saga of Tanegashima

as Kinbei Yaita
Released: 1968-05-18

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese...

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Izu no musumetachi

as uncredited
Released: 1945-08-30

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Days with Harasu

as uncredited
Released: 1989-11-18

The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog.

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The Twilight Story

as uncredited
Released: 1960-08-28

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...

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Sasaki Kojiro

as uncredited
Released: 1950-12-19

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro....

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The Stream of Youth

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-15

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Women's House

as uncredited
Released: 1954-11-23

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno,...

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Salaryman Shimizu Minato

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-03

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The Great Road

as uncredited
Released: 1960-03-08

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National...

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The Estuary

as uncredited
Released: 1961-07-26

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俺の故郷は大西部

as uncredited
Released: 1960-12-27

George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a...

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Dash to the Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1966-09-08

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru....

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The Glorious Days

as uncredited
Released: 1954-04-14

The Glorious Days

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水戸黄門 第2部

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-09-28

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水戸黄門 第1部

as uncredited
First aired: 1969-08-04

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水戸黄門 第3部

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-11-29

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