Hisao Toake
Tokyo Story
as Osamu HattoriThe elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Saburo KurusuIn the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
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The Crucified Lovers
as MorinokojiWhen the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with...
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The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
as Toichiro AmamiyaThe arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic...
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Street of Shame
as ShiomiThe lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the...
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Late Autumn
as Tanekichi KuwataA woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...
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Yearning
as Mr. OkamoroWar widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many...
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Equinox Flower
as Ryozo SogaWataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...
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Two in the Shadow
as uncreditedA man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him...
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Zero Focus
as SaekiOne week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business...
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Sound of the Mountain
as Shingo no yuujinAn ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely...
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Taira Clan Saga
as uncreditedSpecial Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the...
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The Master Spearman
as uncreditedThis subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit...
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Spring Dreams
as Senior Managing DirectorWhen a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their...
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Moment of Terror
as uncreditedWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
as ImamuraMega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a...
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The Woman in the Rumor
as YamadaYukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises...
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The Thin Line
as uncreditedTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in...
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You Can Succeed, Too
as Executive BA group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
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I Will Buy You
as Gôsuke SakataA talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...
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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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Happiness of Us Alone
as uncreditedThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a...
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Night Butterflies
as uncreditedA traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
as uncreditedAn ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of...
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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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An Osaka Story
as ShinyaA poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi...
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Here Is a Spring
as uncreditedThe story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...
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Doctor's Day Off
as uncreditedHaving completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day...
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Red-Light Bases
as uncreditedStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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With Wife, Children, and Friends
as Jukichi KanaiJapanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as Police ChiefUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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Life of a Country Doctor
as uncreditedA skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as Jewelry shop proprietorFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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The Face
as ScoutA notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the...
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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
as uncreditedDetective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
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Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
as uncreditedShinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a...
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A Flame at the Pier
as uncreditedA young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as Kenryô ShirafujiFormer boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow...
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An Inn at Osaka
as uncreditedAn Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive...
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Turbid youth
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
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The Other Woman
as KusuharaIn "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have...
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Men Fighting Whales
as uncreditedA film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the...
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The Trail of Blood
as uncreditedCan a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of...
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Freedom School
as uncreditedMinamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is...
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Shameless School
as uncreditedComedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
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Man with the Funky Hat
as SakainoIchiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun...
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Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru
as uncreditedEarly adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.
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Mexican Free-for-All
as uncreditedA Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
as President KiyomuraDaughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.
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若き日の千葉周作
as 岩上孤雲Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor...
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A Fishwife's Tale
as uncreditedHibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that...
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Song of Yakuza
as uncreditedA low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work falls in love...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as uncreditedTelevision production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan,...
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New Couple's Guide: The Young Wife is Popular
as uncreditedA coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way,...
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Stolen Pleasure
as Sakie's husbandBased on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo,...
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Women in Prison
as YamashitaThe woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There...
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The Black Cat
as uncreditedHelping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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Gang and G-Men Part 2
as uncreditedA gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that...
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Adolescence Part II
as (uncredited)A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
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I Hear the Whistle
as IpponmatsuTells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
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Five Paths to Revenge
as Saijiro AkutsuThe orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the...
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Mahiru no wana
as AdachiOn his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her...
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Toilet Manager
as uncreditedThe life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
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Where did Sharaku go?
as uncreditedWriter Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his...
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Girls Behind the Bars
as uncreditedStory of girls in a Japanese reform school.
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Hibari Jolly Angel
as uncreditedA heartfelt story about a young girl from the choir and her sympathy for a poor boy until she...
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I'm a Bodyguard
as uncreditedKita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's...
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Marathon Samurai
as uncreditedThe TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori...
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Professional Killers
as TsujiyaA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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