Kōji Mitsui
High and Low
as Second ReporterIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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Woman in the Dunes
as Village ElderA vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken...
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The Hidden Fortress
as Guard (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as FuruyaAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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There Was a Father
as GraduateShuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite...
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Red Beard
as HeikichiAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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Floating Weeds
as KichinosukeWhen a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of...
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Scandal
as Cameraman AA celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a...
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The Lower Depths
as Yoshisaburo the GamblerResidents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and...
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Dodes'ka-den
as Foodstand ownerThis film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the...
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The Bad Sleep Well
as Reporter AIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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Early Spring
as HirayamaA young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless...
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Carmen Comes Home
as OkaA rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware...
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A Story of Floating Weeds
as ShinkichiAn aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and...
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A Fugitive from the Past
as MotojimaThree robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Old JournalistFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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A Hen in the Wind
as HideoTokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old...
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The Battle of Okinawa
as uncreditedThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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The Thick-Walled Room
as uncreditedA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...
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Love Letter
as uncreditedA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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The Inheritance
as uncreditedOn his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among...
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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
as Mr. OtagakiA teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
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Young Swordsman
as Yabe SenjuroThis Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were...
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Dragnet Girl
as HiroshiA gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his...
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Street Without End
as Guest (at café)Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose...
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With Wife, Children, and Friends
as uncreditedJapanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the...
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I Will Buy You
as Tamekichi KuritaA talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
as Mr. KanemakiThe story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as ShopkeeperKiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...
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Killers on Parade
as uncreditedA vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews...
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Five Men of Edo
as KodairaDuring the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of...
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No Blood Relation
as Guy on bikeAn actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of...
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as KichitarōA period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of...
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Our Chief, Our Doctor
as uncreditedIt chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular...
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The Honest Fool
as uncreditedYasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law....
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The Unbalanced Wheel
as uncreditedA study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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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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Always in My Heart
as uncreditedMachiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge...
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
as uncreditedHistorical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
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Mother Country
as uncreditedIn 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
as KousakuA young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is...
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Hot Corner Murder
as HobaraProsecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
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Epitaph to My Love
as TorikieIshihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an...
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The Layabout and Seabathing
as uncreditedThe seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono)....
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The Boss's Son at College
as KitamuraThe story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
as MoriyamaA fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains...
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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 Young Ace in Hawaii
as uncreditedFourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous...
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Our Miyo-chan
as YagiOwner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.
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美男天狗党
as 弥之助During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito....
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Ejima and Ikushima
as 岡本五郎右衛門This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in...
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
as uncreditedThe tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it...
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Thus Another Day
as Man AA father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in...
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Incidental Murders
as GenjiThe daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the...
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Spring Thunder
as Kensuke IdeEiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at...
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Great Jailbreak
as uncreditedA group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a...
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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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Drunkard's Paradise
as uncreditedA father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving...
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The Greatest Challenge of All
as uncreditedAfter an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many...
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Maria of the Ant Village
as uncreditedAlongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a...
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Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
as uncreditedKintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing...
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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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Tokyo Bay
as Narcotics Control Agent HayashiAn investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets...
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Beyond the Rainbow
as uncreditedOne day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The...
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A Case of Honor
as uncreditedThe obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a...
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Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi
as uncreditedA power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As...
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元祿美少年記
as 父長助On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while...
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Irohanihoheto
as uncreditedThe anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano,...
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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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Victory Song
as KawanishiHisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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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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Gang vs. Gang
as uncreditedThe plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the...
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Legends of Honor
as uncreditedFirst ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
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慶安水滸傳
as 和尚廓念Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata...
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Haha o tataeru uta
as uncreditedA widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
as 古門前の長次At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
as uncreditedMachiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Firefly Light
as uncreditedSet in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose...
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Lumberjack and Lady
as uncreditedA Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a...
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Tokyo Omnibus
as uncreditedThe story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow...
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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
as uncreditedThe timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl!...
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Typhoon
as uncreditedA group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has...
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Only She Knows
as uncreditedA young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is...
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The Genealogy of Women
as uncreditedA melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is...
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Weeping Doll
as ShigeA Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
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Okinu and Banto
as uncreditedA story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
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Sumida River
as uncreditedInoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to...
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A Hero of Tokyo
as Hideo NemotoThe story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the...
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