Kan Yanagiya
Stray Dog
as Police OfficerA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Tanoue NitôheiKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
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Yearning
as Mr. KagaWar widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many...
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A Taxing Woman
as Grocery Store OwnerIntrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering...
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Turbid Youth
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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The Abandoned Swords
as uncreditedBest friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
as SakuzôThis epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story...
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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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Shiroi natsu
as uncreditedHey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received...
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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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Travelling Actors
as Senpei Nakamura - the HindlegsThis film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
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Eight Hours of Terror
as Seikichi HanashimA bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
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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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Escape at Dawn
as YamamotoMikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is...
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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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Children of Hiroshima
as uncreditedShows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...
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Wakasama samurai torimonochō o keshō kumo
as uncreditedMovie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda
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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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Moment of Terror
as uncreditedWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as DoctorFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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The Naked Sun
as uncreditedA young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the...
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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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Frankie the Milkman
as Daisuke AokiRoppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out...
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Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla
as uncreditedFourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
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Dynamite Doctor Returns
as uncreditedSecond movie in the yoidore hakase serie
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Rabble Tactics
as Masuda ShobeiThe warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers...
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Dispersed Clouds
as uncreditedFive women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when...
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Detective
as uncreditedThe first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
as uncreditedSheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as Seijiro, Yoshiko's brother-in-lawThree humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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The Blue Pearl
as ShintaroThe Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers;...
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Dancing Sisters
as uncreditedIt’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
as KajimuA comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
as uncreditedPopular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is...
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Hazardous Graduation
as uncreditedSex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the...
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Destroyer Yukikaze
as uncreditedYutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a...
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The Black Current
as uncreditedA reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company,...
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Police Precinct Part 14
as uncreditedAn elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son...
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With Songs in My Heart
as uncreditedSayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long...
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Lord Mito: All Star Version
as uncreditedIn 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to...
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The Skin of the South
as SanpeiWhen a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development...
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Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters
as uncreditedSecond Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
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Shanghai Landing Party
as uncreditedThis film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an...
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The Giant
as uncreditedJapanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from...
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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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Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan
as GorohachiThe 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.
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Voice Without a Shadow
as SuzumotoAsako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued...
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Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil
as uncreditedThe sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.
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Beautiful Departure
as uncreditedA rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only...
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Swords and Brocade
as uncreditedA young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
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Moonlight Mask: The Challenging Ghost
as uncreditedFifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
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Pursuit At Dawn
as uncreditedThis little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period...
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Rainbow Hill
as Man HikingA half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop...
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