Izumi Hara
Tampopo
as Old Woman Pressing Camembert CheeseIn this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit...
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Village of Doom
as Han InumaruAn emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps...
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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
as Sen Hara (Phantom of old woman)A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Sawamura FuchôKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
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The Inugamis
as Old Woman OsonoWhen a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the...
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Ballad of Orin
as Old WomanA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world...
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The Magic Serpent
as Spider womanIn ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and...
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Island of the Evil Spirits
as Haru AsaiFamous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he...
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Distant Thunder
as Grandmother of MitsuoA young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation...
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The River Fuefuki
as uncreditedIn a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very...
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Happiness of Us Alone
as Akiko's motherThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a...
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The Snow Woman
as Shrine MaidenA master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
as Old WomanRyōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
as Taka (as Senko Hara)In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the...
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The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
as Grandma in Yonakuni IslandIn Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily...
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Sweet Revenge
as Kiku WatanabeMasao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of...
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Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan
as Marine no OtakiThe 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.
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Code of Ruffians
as uncreditedBecause of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or...
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Actress
as uncreditedBased on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
as uncreditedIn the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...
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Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
as Aobamaru's wifeFocuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
as Old Woman with UrnDuring the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is...
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The Last Women
as OkamiThe events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the...
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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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The Tattered Banner
as uncreditedFilm about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
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The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor
as uncreditedBased on the manga by Leiji Matsumoto.
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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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Young Boss
as HisaAfter a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over...
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Nippon no obaachan
as HatsuTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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Second Generation Young Boss
as ToseTakeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza...
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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
as Old womanOne spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While...
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Police Precinct Part 17
as Kiyo, Ichiro's motherThe murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The...
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The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil
as uncreditedThe fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling...
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Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters
as uncreditedSecond Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
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New Snow
as uncreditedMinowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the...
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The Sand Boat
as Narration (voice)A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must...
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Island of Horrors
as OkaneKindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the...
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Rice
as uncreditedA touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a...
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Apart from Life
as KaneyoA film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
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