Masao Oda
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Yoshizo YashiroKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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High and Low
as First Executor at Tax OfficeIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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An Autumn Afternoon
as WatanabeShuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...
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The Ballad of Narayama
as One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of...
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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 Orphan Brother
as uncreditedAfter their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but...
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Summer Clouds
as uncreditedA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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Black River
as uncreditedA university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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Zero Focus
as uncreditedOne week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as Fumiko's fatherConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as GoheiAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as ZenpachiSaheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...
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Tales of Ginza
as Art Dealer IwaiIn the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged...
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The Master Spearman
as KichibeiThis subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit...
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The Last War
as Imoya's Old ManA Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the...
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Spring Dreams
as TakeuchiWhen a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their...
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A Billionaire
as uncreditedAn ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...
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Points and Lines
as uncreditedBased on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a...
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The Lost Alibi
as Kozo SugiyamaSuspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as Cheap hotel's ownerThe remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to...
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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
as uncreditedTragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants –...
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The Third Ninja
as uncreditedThree Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Kichin InnkeeperIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Fountainhead
as Ikushima's father (uncredited)A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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A Good Man, A Good Day
as uncreditedThe university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his...
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The Gambling Samurai
as NiuemonChuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...
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Blood Is Dry
as uncreditedAn employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a...
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Frankie the Milkman
as Tax Collector 2Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out...
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Island of Fury
as uncreditedFive boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked...
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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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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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Eight Hours of Terror
as StationmasterA bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
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Fateful Birthplace
as uncreditedA sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
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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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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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Whistling in the morning
as Minoru's fatherMinoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with...
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Snow in the South Seas
as uncreditedJapanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as uncreditedKiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...
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Love and the Shop Curtain
as uncreditedOtami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they...
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Shinran, Part II
as uncreditedContinuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji...
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Fine Man
as uncreditedA young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he...
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Beyond the Green Hills
as uncreditedShinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance...
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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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Itsudemo yume o
as uncreditedThis is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the...
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The Twilight Story
as uncreditedIn this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing...
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The River Fuefuki
as uncreditedIn a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very...
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Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
as uncreditedOda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history....
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Run, Genta, Run!
as uncreditedA touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of...
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The Invisible Wall
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Rififi in Tokyo
as KanVan Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very...
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Lead Tombstone
as uncreditedLEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2,...
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Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
as uncreditedA laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
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The Baby Carriage
as uncreditedUpon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and...
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Harbor Rats
as uncreditedA scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir...
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Sotobori murder case
as uncreditedA taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While...
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Our Failures
as uncreditedTells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his...
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Tokyo Bay
as uncreditedAn investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets...
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Woman of Design
as InuiStory of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a...
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Roadside Stone
as TadasukeThe Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a...
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Akutoku
as Osaka YozaburoA movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a...
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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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Mark of Blood
as SajibeiThree young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
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The Desperate
as uncreditedA noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
as uncreditedThe adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is...
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The Angry Sea
as uncreditedA semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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Police Precinct Part 13
as Yasuko's FatherOn a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after...
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Tomoshibi
as uncreditedStudents in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma...
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Beautiful Calendar
as uncreditedYajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school,...
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Phoenix
as uncreditedEmi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the...
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Mahiru no wana
as uncreditedOn his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her...
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Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
as uncreditedIn World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western...
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