Kazuo Kitamura
High and Low
as Third ReporterIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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Kwaidan
as Tomomori (segment "Hoichi the Earless")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Foreign Minister Yosuke MatsuokaIn the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
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Vengeance Is Mine
as Shigomi DeikeA thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
as Tokugawa IeyasuEven though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an...
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The Insect Woman
as ChujiA woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect,...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Kitagô SôchôAfter the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....
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Profound Desires of the Gods
as Engineer KariyaTokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori...
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Yearning
as Mr. MorizonoWar widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many...
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
as TaroA down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual...
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Japan Sinks
as uncreditedIn the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As...
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Black Rain
as Shigematsu ShizumaShigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with...
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
as HamaguchiA high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Tomoo Sato - Cabinet General Affairs Section ChiefFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Heat Wave
as KosugiRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
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The Geisha
as uncreditedYokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th...
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Intentions of Murder
as Seiichiro TakahashiThe neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
as TsurumaruThe film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the...
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The Pornographers
as DoctorSubu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed...
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The Man Who Stole the Sun
as TanakaA high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is...
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Night Scandal in Japan
as AoyamaMayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
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Taro the Dragon Boy
as (voice)Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about...
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The Hunter's Diary
as Kentaro HatanakaLeaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an...
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Why Not?
as KoideThe film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
as uncreditedA woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother...
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Lake of Illusions
as OnishiA woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and...
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Solar Eclipse
as uncreditedWhen bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion,...
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Summer Soldiers
as TachikawaThe plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture...
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Warrior of the Wind
as Yôroku NabariA suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and...
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Vixen
as uncreditedMichi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school,...
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A Chain of Islands
as Narrator (voice)When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine...
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The Scent of Incense
as KeisukeAfter her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her...
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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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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
as uncreditedThere is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with...
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Impasse
as FujikidaShingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko...
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Company Executives
as uncreditedA fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
as uncreditedThis film stays very faithful to the original down to the smallest details, save for the...
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The Longest Tunnel
as uncreditedAfter a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a...
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Three Seconds to Zero Hour
as Sugiyama“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic,...
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Yakuza Ladies 11
as uncreditedWhen her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to...
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Amateur Singing Contest
as uncreditedTraditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for...
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The Soundless Cry
as uncreditedShinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His...
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
as uncreditedTV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to...
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Fresh Leaves
as uncreditedKeiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a...
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Free and Easy 9
as uncreditedHama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very...
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The Pirates of Buban
as uncreditedBy going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He...
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My Voiceless Friends
as uncreditedA man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country...
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The Wild Daisy
as Narrator (voice)Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to...
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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
as uncreditedIn this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to...
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White Love
as Yoichiro YamashitaKobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left...
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Darkness in the Light
as Takeo NagataA middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto,...
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The Detective Journey
as uncreditedA comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they...
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Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker
as HimselfDocumentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.
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I'll Never Cry!
as uncreditedThe rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in...
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Ukyunosuke on Patrol
as uncreditedThis is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of...
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Monument to Holy Service
as uncreditedA rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
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The Woman Changed Her Clothes at the Bus Stop
as SasakiA woman in a bright green coat, Mizue (Toda Naho), gets off the bus at Shikaoi Town in Hokkaido....
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The Great Villains
as Attorney OkanoPsychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school...
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Wakare no uta
as uncreditedRichness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.
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Women and Miso Soup
as uncreditedTemari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
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Island of Light
as Taizo SuzukiHiromi, attends junior high school in Tokyo. The combination of getting bullied on campus and...
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The Shootist 3
as uncreditedThe biggest crisis has come to Matsushita, a shootist who has passed through numerous shrines!
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Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran
as uncreditedNakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
as Kohei OtaniDuring the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is...
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Moeru otoko Nagashima Shigeo: eikō no se-bangō 3
as Narrator (voice)Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima
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Age of Japanese Guerrillas
as Director of BeheironKinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to...
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Churasan
as Shimada DaishinThe 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was...
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune
as Hiromoto OeThe chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late...
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Musashi
as Ieyasu TokugawaOrphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the...
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Haru no Sakamichi
as Shima SakonThe story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.
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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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Life of a Flower
as Utsuki KageyoshiThe story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.
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Iki no Iiyatsu
as uncreditedSet in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a...
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Brother
as uncreditedThe drama depicts the lives and loves of people living in three different environments: a family...
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Oretachi no Tabi
as uncreditedA milestone in Japanese teen drama, representing the 1970s. It questions the meaning of life,...
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I Miss Age 35
as uncreditedAkemi's marriage was the kind that no one could complain about. Akemi had perfect kids and a...
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Daihijôsen
as uncreditedAn action detective drama depicting the activities of detectives belonging to a fictional...
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