Ichirō Sugai
Stray Dog
as Yayoi Hotel ownerA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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The Life of Oharu
as ShinzaemonIn Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the...
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Sansho the Bailiff
as Minister of JusticeIn medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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Gamera vs. Barugon
as Dr. MatsushitaGamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from...
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The Crucified Lovers
as GembeiIn 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is...
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Early Summer
as Shukichi MamiyaA 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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Sanshiro Sugata
as Police Chief MishimaThe story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn...
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One Wonderful Sunday
as Black-marketeerYuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
as Yoshizo FubikiIn this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his...
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A Geisha
as uncreditedEiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive...
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Odd Obsession
as MasseurA middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he...
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The Pornographers
as Shinun OgataSubu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed...
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The Most Beautiful
as Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor SectionThe stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during...
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Killers on Parade
as MizutaA vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews...
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Black Test Car
as MawatariTwo car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports...
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Crimson pistol belt
as uncreditedWearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe...
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Night Drum
as uncreditedFollowing a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...
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Bonchi
as uncreditedKikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal....
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Tiger of the Sea
as uncreditedA group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
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Taira Clan Saga
as CarpenterSpecial Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the...
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Eagle of the Pacific
as Admiral Koshirô OikawaAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
as Yakuza boss Kanichi ShigeA street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the...
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Beauty and the Thief
as Mr. InokumaThe picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and...
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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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Yakuza Law
as uncreditedA story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
as RyuStalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a...
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Heat Wave Island
as uncreditedOtowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find...
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Jūdai no yūwaku
as uncreditedFilm directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
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The Sound of Waves
as Jukichi OyamaOn a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji...
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Endless Desire
as Kinzo OnoyuSet in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a...
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The Tale of Genji
as Minister of the LeftGenji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em...
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Gambling Kitten
as Detective KinoshitaArikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a...
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Living by Karate
as TsuyamaWada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
as Hikozaemon OkuboThe shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
as uncreditedWhen Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a...
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Blood Is Dry
as uncreditedAn employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
as uncreditedAn exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007)...
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The Ditch
as uncreditedToku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He...
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Miniature
as IsogaiGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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Silk Hat Boss
as uncreditedIn a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like...
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Flame of My Love
as Kentaro OmoiA woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo,...
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Apostasy
as Keinosuke KazamaIn the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a...
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Youth A Go Go!
as Iwao MurakiKenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The...
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Showdown of Men 3
as uncreditedAfter being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to...
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The Long Death
as uncreditedOn January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned...
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Rise and Fall of Chivalry
as uncreditedA reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.
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The Portrait
as uncreditedThe mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an...
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Harbor Rats
as uncreditedA scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir...
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Clothes of Deception
as YamashitaThe story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist...
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Mr. Pu
as uncreditedA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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The Flower and the Sword
as uncreditedA dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji...
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The Life of a Horse Trader
as OgasawaraThis early gem starring the great Mifune Toshiro tells the tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The...
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Nippon no obaachan
as uncreditedTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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The White Orchid
as uncreditedA Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
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Lord for a Night
as uncreditedLord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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The Water Magician
as Gozô IwabuchiTaki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a...
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Tange Sazen
as uncreditedDrama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period...
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The Body
as uncreditedThe sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job...
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as NumataA period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of...
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Typhoon Reporter
as uncreditedSet around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and...
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Duel in the Storm
as Jisuke SawaiyaIt is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to...
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Song of the Underworld
as OkaruhachiA conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken...
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
as uncreditedAn honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of...
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
as DenkichiThis is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji,...
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Gun Demon Without Form
as uncreditedA detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under...
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Darkness at Noon
as Lawyer YamamotoPolice beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based...
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Troops of Darkness
as uncreditedA disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years...
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Satan's Town
as ÔbaA yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their...
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Woman Gambler
as Detective KinoshitaMourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During...
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The Wolves
as uncreditedA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...
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Karisome no kuchibeni
as KonoA Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
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Family Crest: Die Like a Man
as Kinosuke AoiThe story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake,...
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The Man Without a Nationality
as SakuraiThriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
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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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Murahachibu
as uncreditedA villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
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Furankī no uchūbito
as uncreditedDr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange...
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The Night is mine
as uncreditedFour criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape....
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Made in Japan
as Artist SakamotoA love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo...
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Reminiscence
as uncreditedKazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of...
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Ningen Gari
as uncreditedA detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
as uncreditedStory of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi...
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The Straits of Love and Hate
as Sanjuro MoriA story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
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Victory is Ours
as uncreditedA sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after...
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Gunman's Alley
as uncreditedNitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
as uncreditedThe university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his...
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Bodyguard from Hell
as uncreditedKitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the...
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Code Between Brothers: All New
as uncreditedWhen the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss...
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Night of Sorrow
as Machiko's grandfatherA young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is...
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Sisters of Nishijin
as uncreditedA family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
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The Angry Street
as uncreditedThe Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including...
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Who's The Real Killer
as EikichiHarsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
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The Gambler's Counterattack
as FujiokaAiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang...
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Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell
as Kinosuke AoiNonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete...
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Secret Report From A House Of Women
as uncreditedJapanese crime film
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
as Kiyosi ArakavaA man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger...
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The Armed Organization
as uncreditedViolent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji...
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Flowering Maidens
as SuganumaThe young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the...
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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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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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The Lovers
as TeppuuComedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son...
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江戸いろは祭
as 赤羽根多仲Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife...
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Enchanted Princess
as DoroemonOnce upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken...
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Muchana Yakko
as uncreditedA comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth...
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
as uncreditedSabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when...
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Hot Spring Doctress
as Daisaku YabuuchiA light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
as uncreditedSet in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to...
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Love in the Air
as EzakiSatake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate,...
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Hot Wind
as Grandfather YoshinoSet in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka...
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Evil Reward
as uncreditedAfter finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was...
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Spring on Leper's Island
as uncreditedA female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.
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Mother Never Dies
as uncreditedThe premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
as uncreditedA Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked...
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The Gun Like Lightning
as Hitoshi OtsuSadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just...
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And Yet They Go On
as uncreditedDirected by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931
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The King of Rowing
as uncreditedA pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta....
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Jean Valjean: Part One
as uncreditedThe first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of...
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Dash to the Sun
as uncreditedA song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru....
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Jean Valjean: Part Two
as uncreditedThe second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of...
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Profit from Killing
as uncreditedThe bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there...
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A Visage to Remember
as uncreditedDuring his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late...
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The Feast of Gion
as JinbeeA sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house.
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Ashita Koso
as 良二The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.
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Kogarashi Monjiro
as YamatoyaMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
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