Kwaidan

as Mother (segment "The Black Hair")

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...

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Red Angel

as Head Nurse Iwashima

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during...

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Intentions of Murder

as Tadae Takahashi

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with...

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Bad Girl

as uncredited

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom....

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Composition Class

as The teacher's wife

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

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The Street Without Sun

as uncredited

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All My Children

as Junichi's mother

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings...

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The Ditch

as uncredited

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid...

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A Visage to Remember

as uncredited

During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late...

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Four Seasons of Women

as 妻・こと

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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Phoenix

as uncredited

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the...

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Drifting

as Okimi

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Wood and Stone

as Hatsu

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki"...

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Morning's Tree-Lined Street

as Shigeyo (Hisako)

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of...

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Actress

as Mrs. Itsuko

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought...

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