Hisako Takihana
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as (uncredited)After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns...
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Repast
as Sumi TakenakaMichiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook...
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Lightning
as TomeThe story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
as uncreditedYuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family...
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A Woman's Testament
as uncreditedThe first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for...
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続々十代の性典
as uncreditedFilm directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
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The Long Darkness
as Tetsuro's motherA delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric...
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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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A Lustful Man
as uncreditedFascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of...
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The Great White Tower
as uncreditedThe story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors...
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Outlaw island
as uncreditedThe southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the...
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The Burdened Sisters
as Mrs. UmezuObscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
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An Osaka Story
as uncreditedA poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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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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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
as uncreditedThe biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century,...
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The Eleventh Hour
as Toshie SunagaBased on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s...
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Tokyo March
as 澄江（後にるり子）A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The...
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The Story of Shunkin
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy...
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The Dead Beauty Incident
as uncreditedA dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi)...
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A Ripple in a Morning
as uncreditedAtsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in...
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Unending Advance
as uncreditedOne of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu,...
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Husband and Wife
as uncreditedA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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A Design for Dying
as Kiyo, the maidShikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils...
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Summer Days Across the River
as uncreditedSet in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with...
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Across the Darkness
as uncreditedA journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed...
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The Ataka Family
as uncreditedSoichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with...
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滝の白糸
as uncreditedThe middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the...
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The Most Valuable Wife
as Sugiko NonomiyaIn the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to...
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Forbidden
as uncreditedYukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a...
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The Crown of Life
as uncreditedTwo brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on...
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The Woman Who Touched The Legs
as Nitta's wifeA twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.
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The Makioka Sisters
as uncredited1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
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The Wayside Pebble
as Yasuhiko's MotherIn Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic...
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New Women’s Dialogue
as uncreditedA young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a...
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The Gambler's Code
as OtowaOne of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who...
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Yasubei Nakayama
as uncreditedJidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge...
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A Pebble by the Wayside
as Goichi's mother - OrenTomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo...
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The Beloved Image
as uncreditedA girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
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Sun over the River
as OshinFather, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their...
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Forbidden Lips
as uncreditedA youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a...
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Clothes of Deception
as KikuThe story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist...
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Ah Special Attack Corps
as uncreditedDepicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic...
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Seven Miles to Nakayama
as uncreditedWhen a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the...
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Chutaro of Banba
as uncreditedBased on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major...
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Sweat
as OshizuSweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his...
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The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
as uncreditedThe Stormy Era of Twenty Years
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Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi
as uncreditedThe film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school...
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Submarine Number One
as uncreditedThis film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as...
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Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
as uncreditedFilm about poet Ishikawa Takuboku
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Niji
as 義母・ひろのStarring Yōko Minamida as a woman who supported her family during and after World War II. All...
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