Natsuko Kahara
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as FujieKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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Floating Weeds
as YaeWhen a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of...
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Flowing
as OtoyoOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter...
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The Bad Sleep Well
as Mrs. FuruyaIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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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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Tenchu!
as uncreditedA ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the...
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Lullaby of the Earth
as GrandmotherThe story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as uncreditedConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Black River
as (uncredited)A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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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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Tomorrow
as MidwifeOn August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story...
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Untamed Woman
as OtokuA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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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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The Approach of Autumn
as Sakae YamadaA single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live...
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To Trap a Kidnapper
as uncreditedHideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from...
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Moment of Terror
as FumieWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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Little Peach
as Enko MuraiAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her...
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Spring Dreams
as OkoWhen a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their...
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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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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as MikoKiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...
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Summer Clouds
as YasueA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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Blind Devotion
as OsonoLate romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
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The Night of the Seagull
as uncreditedA woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder...
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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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Broken Drum
as UmeWhen the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his...
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The Song Lantern
as uncreditedThe title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The...
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Morning for the Osone Family
as Sachiko OsoneA Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them...
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The Daphne
as Asako (Ooka's mother)Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two...
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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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The Other Woman
as JochuIn "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have...
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Kandagawa
as uncreditedBased on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs...
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Red-Light Bases
as uncreditedStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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Bridge of Japan
as uncreditedIchikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until...
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Okoto and Sasuke
as OshigeOne of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
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The Snowy Heron
as uncreditedThe story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a...
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Family of Three
as uncreditedThe drama features two families, the all-male Shibata family and the all-female Inaba family,...
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Kokugo Gannen
as uncreditedSet in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was...
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