Hideo Fujino
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced...
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Family Meeting
as Shinsuke IkejimaA melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
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An Actor's Revenge
as WakitaAn onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963...
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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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Okoto and Sasuke
as YasuzaemonA period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her...
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
as Shôsuke HiramatsuUta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt...
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Tsukiyo Karasu
as Wajûrô KineyaThe ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.
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Eclipse
as Keinosuke IwakiThe story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as HyobuThis 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed...
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Family Diary
as Tomoe TsujiTwo childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both...
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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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Otoko no iki
as uncreditedThis was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war...
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Vermilion and Green
as uncreditedA businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
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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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Kojiki Taishô
as Tokugawa IeyasuGotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually...
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Marching On
as uncreditedA farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real...
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Okinu and Banto
as uncreditedA story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
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Warm Current
as Yasuhide ShimaAdaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a...
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The Tree of Love
as YasukiA young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret:...
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Silver Stream
as Kentaro Terao, Michiko's FatherMichiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid...
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Dancing with a Mask
as Akimasa, fatherJapanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
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Five Siblings
as uncreditedA businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five...
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Sumida River
as uncreditedInoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to...
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Youth, Why Do You Cry?
as uncreditedA modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.
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Passion
as FatherFilm by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko...
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