Fudeko Tanaka
Onibaba
as Old WomanWhile her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai...
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
as GrandmotherAn experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
as The Old WomanAfter being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent...
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Demon Pond
as Old WomanWhen a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed...
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Oh, My Son!
as uncreditedA man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
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300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
as uncreditedIn this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of...
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May Love Be Restored
as uncreditedA tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as Toma's motherFinal part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
as Prostitute of a Certain AgeA jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light...
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Tower of Lilies
as uncreditedA group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the...
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Ballad of Orin
as uncreditedA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world...
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Karisome no kuchibeni
as OhanaA Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
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Dispersed Clouds
as uncreditedFive women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when...
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Two Iida
as Ice shop womanBased on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The...
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A Slope in the Sun
as HanakoThe young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro...
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Kitakami yakyoku
as Keisuke's motherKeisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it....
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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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Break Down that Wall
as uncreditedA man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Floating Weeds Diary
as uncreditedA travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and...
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This Happy Life
as uncreditedA small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
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A Story Written with Water
as Old WomanStruggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about...
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Time Within Memory
as uncreditedMinoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old...
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Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
as uncreditedFirst film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman...
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The Boy Who Came Back
as uncreditedNobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break...
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The Assassination of Ryoma
as Old womanStory of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who...
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Muhō Ichidai
as uncreditedThe movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in...
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A Turning to Hell
as Michie's mother ToyoMaki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
as uncreditedA great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
as Chiyo ShimizuMega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a...
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
as Eguchi's motherAbout an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized...
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The Straits of Love and Hate
as uncreditedA story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
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Spring Awakens
as Taki TaiSlice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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Life Is like a Somersault
as uncreditedAfter learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the...
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Virgin Blues
as Mami's grandmotherA young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.
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A Grain of Wheat
as uncreditedThe film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head...
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Actress
as Playing the shamisenSumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought...
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Frankie the Milkman
as uncreditedRoppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out...
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Sun over the River
as OyukiFather, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their...
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A Mummy’s Love
as uncreditedIn post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation...
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The Balloon
as Shôta's WifeHaruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to...
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An Innocent Witch
as uncreditedAyako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
as uncreditedRambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old...
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World of Love
as uncreditedA sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in...
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Season of Farewell
as uncreditedA touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
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Let's Go, Grandma!
as uncreditedLet's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo...
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
as uncreditedA film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific...
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Both You and I
as Ooki's wifeA comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.
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War and Peace
as uncreditedA woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.
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A Modern Samurai Village
as Zunda no KamisanTajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment...
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Glass-Hearted Johnny
as uncreditedJoe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a...
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Geisha Hidekoma
as uncreditedAs a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the...
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The Roads Men Travel
as Seiji's motherThe series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and...
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