Kamatari Fujiwara
Kamatari Fujiwara (藤原 釜足 Fujiwara Kamatari, January 15, 1905 - December 21, 1985) was a Japanese actor. Fujiwara was born in Tokyo, on January 15, 1905, in Tokyo, Japan. Fujiwara's parents ran a printing business. The business did not go well, so at the age of 10, Fujiwara started working at a local confectionery store. By the age of 14 he had started selling timber for building and manufacturing in Shizuoka prefecture. A year later he returned to Tokyo to study as a pharmacist. Fukiwara worked regularly and extensively with Akira Kurosawa, and was known for both being adept at comic acting, as well as being able to do serious roles.
Seven Samurai
as Manzô - Father of ShinoA samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Kagemusha
as DoctorAkira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to...
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The Hidden Fortress
as MatashichiIn feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
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Yojimbo
as TazaemonA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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Ikiru
as Sub-Section Chief OnoKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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High and Low
as Junkyard CookA shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when...
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The Bad Sleep Well
as Assistant-to-the-Chief WadaIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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Dodes'ka-den
as Suicidal Old ManThis film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the...
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Sanjuro
as TakebayashiToshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced,...
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Red Beard
as RokusukeAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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Tokyo Twilight
as Noodle VendorTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
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The Lower Depths
as The ActorResidents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and...
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The Sword of Doom
as Omatsu's grandfatherRyunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate...
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Three Outlaw Samurai
as JinbeiShiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their...
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I Live in Fear
as OkamotoKiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
as Ryuji HoshiA high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes...
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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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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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The Munekata Sisters
as Sangin's MasterSetsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She...
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The Funeral
as Small Old ManWhen Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random...
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
as uncreditedFearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own...
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The Tragedy of “W”
as uncreditedA young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she...
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Double Suicide
as Owner of the YamatoyaSuccessful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the...
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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The Sun's Burial
as Batasuke, peddlerIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
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Stakeout
as Mr. TakakuraTwo detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...
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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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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
as uncreditedGonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager...
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Light of Africa
as DoctorTwo semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido...
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Samurai Saga
as Rakuzo the sake seller (uncredited)Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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The Sunshine Girl
as uncreditedA young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
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Jakoman and Tetsu
as SoutaroIn a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the...
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The Skin of the South
as Shunpei GotoWhen a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development...
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Sazae-san Plays Cupid
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
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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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Invisible Man
as Mariko's grandfatherWhen an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
as uncreditedThree stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as AoyamaFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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All is Well
as uncreditedDaichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as Toma's fatherFinal part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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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 Blue Mountains: Part I
as Mr. OkamotoTeacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending...
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The Man Who Waited
as uncreditedA bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa)...
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Teenage Sazae
as uncreditedAdaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
as uncreditedAn outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of...
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as Takezo YamadaThree humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
as Yopparai - the DrunkardThree sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means...
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
as Shingo (Kimiko's uncle)Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing...
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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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Sazae-san Sequel
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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The Lone Journey
as GorosakuForced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. ...
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Sazae-san's Baby
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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Third Generation Boss
as uncreditedBased on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...
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Okuni and Gohei
as DoctorA high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as uncreditedOn a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
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Wife
as uncreditedTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
as SaheiDrama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.
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Young Guy at Sea
as 佐平Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young...
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Husband and Wife
as uncreditedA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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Man of the House
as ShogetsuThis film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as uncreditedA screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following...
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Sazae-san's Marriage
as uncreditedSazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken...
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Sky of Hope
as KamezoWhat is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited...
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Duel of Blood and Sand
as Miyuki SasaFrustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving...
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The Road I Travel with You
as uncreditedThe otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo...
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Mado Kara Tobidase
as ShôjirôThe movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between...
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Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
as Innkeeper of Oiso no YadoA movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
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Hideko the Bus Conductor
as Sonoda - the bus driverOkoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi...
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A Carpenter and Children
as uncreditedA carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an...
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Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
as Detective UchiyamaDirector Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about...
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Sasaki Kojiro
as uncreditedDirector Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro....
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
as uncreditedMasuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in...
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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 Approach of Autumn
as Tsunekichi YamadaA single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live...
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Taking the Castle
as uncreditedThe Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa,...
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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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Different Sons
as Shinsaburo AkagiIn the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray...
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武蔵と小次郎
as 万九郎As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword...
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
as uncreditedIn a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was...
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The Blossom and the Sword
as uncreditedTai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who...
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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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Travelling Actors
as Hyoroku Ichikawa - the ForelegsThis film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
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The Homely Sister
as Shinshichi, fatherIn the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal...
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
as uncreditedA series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke...
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Sazae-san
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
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Five Men in a Circus
as TadakichiThe main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring...
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Murahachibu
as uncreditedA villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
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When Winter Comes
as uncreditedAn old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late...
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
as uncreditedHistorical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
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Horse
as Jinjiro Onoda, Ine's fatherIne Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes...
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Sazae And Aunt Apron
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
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Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
as uncreditedSazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
as TatsugoroAkane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable...
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Sazae's Engagement Trip
as uncreditedAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
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Toyuki
as Cosmetics' Company Marketing ManShot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Good Luck to These Two
as uncreditedA young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
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Sir Galahad in Campus
as uncreditedThe first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
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Chocolate and Soldiers
as uncreditedChocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by...
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Tipsy Life
as uncreditedThe film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely...
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The Girl in the Rumor
as UncleA story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl")....
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Beyond the Hills
as Kumakichi FurukawaStory of young love in the hills.
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Love Never Fails
as SaitoTwo youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant...
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The Actress and the Poet
as Baido NosoAmong the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a...
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A Gentle Breeze With Father
as uncredited9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
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Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
as uncreditedAn inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself,...
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
as Old ManYoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is...
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Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Yutaka Asou
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Tojuro's Love
as uncreditedA colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the...
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Ayako
as uncreditedAn ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family,...
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Weeping Doll
as KawashimaA Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
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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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Against The Grain
as SudaEmployees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds confront many...
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Crescent Scarred Hatamoto
as uncreditedSaotome Mondonosuke, "Hatamoto" (direct servant of the shogun), a handsome man with a scar on...
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