Ken Mitsuda
Sansho the Bailiff
as Prime Minister FujiwaraIn medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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Red Beard
as Genpaku AmanoAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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I Live in Fear
as Judge ArakiKiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...
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The Bad Sleep Well
as Public Corporation President ArimuraIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as SonodaKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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The Ballad of Narayama
as TeruyanIn Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of...
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Composer (segment "Les Cinq Bienfaiteurs de Fumiko")Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five...
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Manji
as NovelistThe four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
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Battle of the Japan Sea
as Ariaki YamagataJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the...
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Professional Killers
as Seiten no DaigorôTwo assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone...
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The Yoshida School
as Kijūrō ShideharaCoinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as Ichimonjiya KiheiIemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot...
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The Lost Alibi
as OkazakiSuspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised...
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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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The Great Wall
as MenciusIn 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as Ichimonjiya KiheiPart 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and...
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The False Student
as University presidentA youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
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Freedom School
as uncreditedMinamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is...
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Army
as TomonojoThough plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his...
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The Whisper of Spring
as uncreditedAfter graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko,...
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Night Scandal in Japan
as MikiMayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in...
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Afraid to Die
as uncreditedOn his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on...
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The Threat
as SakataTwo escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an...
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The Young and Bad
as uncreditedNot too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his...
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Night Butterflies
as uncreditedA traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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The Blue Beast
as uncreditedTatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses...
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Revenge
as Katagai YoromoAn innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai...
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The Wandering Princess
as AsabukiPu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of...
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White Fish
as ToyamaA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a...
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Facing to the Clouds
as uncreditedA rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet...
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Man at the Bullfight
as uncreditedAn unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the...
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The Conspirator
as uncreditedYoung lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime,...
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Three O'clock in the Morning in a Big City
as uncreditedTo avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. ...
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Dispersed Clouds
as Ryohei FujimuraFive women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when...
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Raised in a Palace
as "Manharu" masterSet in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young...
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Three-Fingered Detective
as uncreditedBeing acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding...
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Cosmetic Sales Competition
as uncreditedA cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.
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Whirlpool of Flesh
as uncreditedDuring the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is...
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Zoku jūdai no seiten
as PrincipleFilm directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
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The Storm over Arabia
as uncreditedA young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance....
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The Wind Blows Twice
as uncreditedKanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her...
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Judge and Jeopardy
as uncreditedIt is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's...
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The Invisible Wall
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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A Design for Dying
as uncreditedShikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils...
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
as uncreditedAbout an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
as Gotaro GodaReputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô...
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The Black Cat
as uncreditedHelping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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The Thinking Leaf
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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The Song of the Season
as uncreditedA touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her...
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Sunflower Girl
as uncreditedYoung Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei...
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Fumiko's Five Benefactors
as ComposerA greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.
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Akutoku
as uncreditedA movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a...
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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