Jūkichi Uno
Onibaba
as The SamuraiWhile her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai...
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The Life of Oharu
as Yakichi OgiyaIn Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the...
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Children of Hiroshima
as Kōji (deleted scenes; cenas apagadas)Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...
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Sea Prince and the Fire Child
as Moelle (voice)In this Japanese animated film, Sea Prince and Fire Child are two youngsters in love who flee...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
as uncreditedYoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and...
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Love Letter
as Naoto YamajiA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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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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Writhing Tongue
as DoctorMasako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as MoriKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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The Izu Dancer
as Narrator (voice)While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by...
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Flame of My Love
as uncreditedA woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo,...
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Four Sisters
as Old ManFour sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune...
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Broken Drum
as Shigeki NonakaWhen the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his...
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The Fossil
as Tappei YabukiAn industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a...
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The Fossil
as Tappei YakubiAn industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a...
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as Mr. KimuraA young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself...
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Miniature
as GinzoGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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The Stormy Man
as Kensaku KokubuA remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
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The War Without Weapons
as uncreditedIt's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children,...
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Autumn Interlude
as uncreditedThe story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love...
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Hirate Miki the Swordman
as uncreditedThe man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
as KeitaStory of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi...
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Apostasy
as Ginnosuke TsuchiyaIn the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a...
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Two Iida
as Chair (voice)Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The...
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The Baby Carriage
as uncreditedUpon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and...
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A Chain of Islands
as AkiyamaWhen a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine...
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The Flame of Devotion
as uncreditedThe tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a...
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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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Lucky Dragon No. 5
as Manakichi KuboyamaAn ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of...
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Love Comes with Youth
as uncreditedDuring his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as YomoshichiPart 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and...
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My Way
as Narrator (voice)Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve...
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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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Lost Sex
as DoctorA well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima...
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Solar Eclipse
as Sankichi IshiharaWhen bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion,...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as YomoshichiIemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot...
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Wind and waves of the South
as Aikichi, Kazuo's fatherLittle dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the...
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Unripe Fruit
as uncreditedA youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on...
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Jungle Block
as Yusaku KasamaA young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted...
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The Sweet Interns
as uncreditedThe love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
as uncreditedLife and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the...
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Morning Fog
as uncreditedKyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in...
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The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
as Ishizuka GuardAkiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro...
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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
as uncreditedThis typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture...
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The Shiinomi School
as Professor YamamotoA university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
as uncreditedA documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived...
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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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Sisters of Nishijin
as uncreditedA family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
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The Politicians
as uncreditedWho will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and...
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The Seasons of Love
as uncreditedA family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman...
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Apart from Life
as Shigeo MiyajiA film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
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When We are Old
as uncreditedAn old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
as MuraokiThe Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect...
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The Human Wall
as uncreditedDrama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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Gazing at Love and Death
as uncreditedA young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the...
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The Ditch
as uncreditedPostwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid...
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Street of Violence
as NatsumeAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...
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Wedding Ring
as Michio KukiA jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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A Hole of My Own Making
as uncreditedNobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's...
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The Little Runaway
as Nobuyuki Noda, Ken's uncleDuring a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin....
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Sorrow Is Only for Women
as uncreditedThe beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who...
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Wolves of the Night
as uncreditedA unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love...
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The Matsukawa Incident
as uncreditedSatsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.
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Ishigassen
as uncreditedAcross the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two...
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Toshishun
as ToshishunThe Chinese tale of a poor young man. His mother married to the cruel king of the state and he...
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Ofukuro
as uncreditedShizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading...
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Striving to Live
as uncreditedYasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly...
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限りなき情熱
as uncreditedIs it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Kisaku YamadaOnna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the...
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Mole Alley
as uncredited33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie,...
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Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako
as uncredited1954 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Flirtation in Spring
as uncreditedJapanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
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Friendship of Jazz
as uncreditedKenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time...
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Shutsugeki
as uncreditedAn original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango”...
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Song of Farewell
as Shingo KazamiAfter her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as...
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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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Ghost Story of Youth
as KogamataA melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a...
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The Beautiful Teenager
as uncreditedA boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.
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Conquest
as uncreditedProvincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as Ikenouchi SeikanTora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...
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Muhō Ichidai
as uncreditedThe movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
as Sutematsu OsawaA great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love...
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
as uncreditedA film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific...
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The Diary of a Police Officer: The piggy bank is full
as uncreditedA small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
as uncreditedHousewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in...
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Dorei kōjō
as uncreditedAfter the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
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The Song of Love
as uncreditedHeartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her...
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Tokyo Paralympics: Festival of Love and Glory
as Narrator (voice)A fascinating glimpse of the Tokyo Paralympics Games of 1964 and the pioneering athletes who...
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The Price of Victory
as Narrator (voice)Nobuko Shibuya's Japanese volleyball documentary
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Tabiji
as 室伏嘉一The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national...
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Mansaku no hana
as 柳田老人（版画家）The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is...
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Nobody's Boy: Remi
as uncreditedOrphaned Remi gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents...
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Heaven and Earth
as Usami SadamitsuThe story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.
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Akō Rōshi
as uncredited"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit...
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Sekigahara
as Hideyoshi ToyotomiBlockbuster drama based on the novel Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba, a program dedicated to the...
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