Rentaro Mikuni
Rentaro Mikuni (三國 連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, born January 20, 1923) was a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. Kōichi Satō is his son. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rentaro Mikuni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Harakiri
as Kageyu SaitoDown-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi....
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Kwaidan
as Husband (segment "The Black Hair")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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Vengeance Is Mine
as Shizuo EnokizuA thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as MatahachiStruggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to...
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The Old Man and the Sea
as (voice)An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.
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The Burmese Harp
as Captain InouyeIn Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises...
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Profound Desires of the Gods
as Nekichi FutoriTokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori...
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
as AsagoroWhen a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a...
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
as Hajime SandaijiA high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes...
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Zatoichi at Large
as Boss TetsugoroBlind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman,...
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Mount Hakkoda
as Major YamadaTwo infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the...
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The Rendezvous
as Detective YamamuroThe brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and...
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Himiko
as NashimeThe myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern...
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August without Emperor
as Tameichiro EmiTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...
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The Friends
as Kihachi DenpoA delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing...
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A Story from Echigo
as Gonsuke SabuA sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...
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Chronicle of My Mother
as HayatoBest-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his...
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The Inugamis
as Sahei InugamiWhen a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the...
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The Broken Commandment
as Rentaro InokoUshimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
as Shigata KomijiroSecond part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Glorious Fights
as Genichiro GunjiA young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor....
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A Taxing Woman's Return
as Teppei OnisawaRyōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
as Tsuyoshi YabukiA fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains...
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Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death
as Baiken ShishidoIn the sixth and final episode Rentaro Mikuni steals the show as Baiken Shishido, Musashi's...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as Shigata KomijiroThe upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...
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A Fugitive from the Past
as Takichi InukaiThree robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses...
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Never Give Up
as Kazunari OhbaSpecial forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted...
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Rikyu
as RikyuLate in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through...
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Free and Easy 4
as Ichinosuke SuzukiHama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's...
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Tale of Army Brutality
as Yahichi InumaruDirector Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill...
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Free and Easy 18
as uncreditedHama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up...
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Free and Easy 9
as Ichinosuke SuzukiHama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very...
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Shadow of Deception
as Keitaro NishidaIt was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband....
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The Last Dance
as Buhei MukaiA successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on...
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Free and Easy 11
as uncreditedHama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but...
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The Wind Carpet
as Kinta NakataJapan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as Kamo SerizawaNear the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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Basara: Princess Goh
as JunsaiFuruta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as Muneaki TakuanThe remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to...
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The Murderer Must Die
as Tetsuo YazakiA year ago, Tetsuo Yazaki was unemployed and wanted money, attacked a police box in Kobe, robbed...
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Free and Easy 17
as uncreditedYumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting...
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Coup d'Etat
as Kazuki Kitamura / Ikki KitaA freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
as Muneaki Takuan - PriestThe fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and...
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The Street of Desire
as Tadao ShimodaA valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
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Night Drum
as Hikokurô OguraFollowing a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...
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Eagle of the Pacific
as Staff Officer (uncredited)Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
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Free and Easy 19
as uncreditedHama-chan joins a company excursion to Oita with the rest of his department including his new...
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The Threat
as MisawaTwo escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an...
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Stepbrothers
as Hantaro KidoIn a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal,...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Muneaki TakuanIn this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the...
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My Sons
as Akio AsanoTetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has...
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Oishinbo
as Yuzan KaibaraBased on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai...
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Free and Easy 5
as Ichinosuke SuzukiHama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and...
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Boyhood
as Teacher ShimomuraWhen a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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Solar Eclipse
as Conservative MPWhen bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion,...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as TakuanIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Wife
as Tadashi TanimuraTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
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Turning Point
as UranoA middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the...
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Will to Live
as YasukichiIt is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the...
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The Life of a Horse-Trader
as 片山米太郎Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Newspaperman AKiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
as uncreditedA young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the...
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Journey Into Solitude
as Kunitaro MatsudaBored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific...
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Free and Easy 10
as Ichinosuke SuzukiSu-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar...
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Luminous Moss
as Headmaster / Captain (dual role)A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before...
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Till We Meet Again
as Jiro SoneSonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is...
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Escape from Hell
as ShinpeiThis suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a...
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
as uncreditedTaro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with...
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Wuthering Heights
as TakamaruYoung Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his...
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Free and Easy
as Ichinosuke SuzukiDensuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main...
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The Flesh Is Weak
as Ichiro KurakoshiA woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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Sweet Revenge
as Kinzo OtsukaMasao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of...
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A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
as uncreditedThe story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for...
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A Hole of My Own Making
as uncreditedNobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The...
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Rennyo and His Mother
as uncreditedRennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in...
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Making of Daibyonin
as SelfA behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The...
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Confessions Among Actresses
as MinakawaIn this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from...
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Free and Easy Special
as uncreditedApproached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking...
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Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
as Ichinosuke SuzukiA traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and...
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Dorodarake no seishun
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
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The Bear Storm
as uncreditedAn adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of...
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Free and Easy 3
as Ichinosuke SuzukiSu-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about...
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The Christian Revolt
as UemonsakuIn the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against...
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Free and Easy 16
as SuzukiHama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to...
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Free and Easy 14
as Suzuki IchinosukeHama-chan's supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward,...
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Beyond the Shining Sea
as Takeya OumiHeartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she...
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Doctor's Day Off
as uncreditedHaving completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day...
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The Possessed
as uncreditedOshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply....
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Captive's Island
as DaigokuSeeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
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Sword for Hire
as Tachibana JurataSoldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind...
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The Catch
as Kazumasa TakanoTowards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural...
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River of Fireflies
as uncreditedDuring the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his...
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Nomugi Pass
as uncreditedThe story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early...
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Vanished Glory
as uncreditedIn the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader...
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The Stragglers
as uncreditedThe last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived
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The Eagle and the Hawk
as Keizo SasakiIn a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who...
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Thirst for Love
as Tetsuya EzakiNatsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an...
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Free and Easy 15
as uncreditedHama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company...
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Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
as Hachiro MunakataTwo men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
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Husband and Wife
as Ryota TakemuraA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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Free and Easy 6
as Ichinosuke SuzukiHama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on...
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Making of Marusa No Onna 2
as SelfA behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a....
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Itsuko to sono haha
as Yasukazu SugiAn elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
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Aijô ni tsuite
as uncreditedMichiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as uncreditedMr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to...
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Story of Lightning
as uncreditedGensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was...
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Striving to Live
as uncreditedYasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly...
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Deeper Than Blue
as Yukiyoshi TamiyaAbout a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging...
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Policeman's Diary
as Patrolman HanakawaLending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
as uncreditedEvery year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
as uncreditedJapanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the...
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Evil Reward
as uncreditedAfter finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was...
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Koibito-tachi no iru machi
as uncreditedMr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of...
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Duel at Fort Ezo
as Shimbei Usa1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots...
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Free and Easy 2
as Ichinosuke SuzukiHama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful...
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Crossroad
as Shōgo IseIse, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having...
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
as MasaokaAkira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
as uncreditedIn the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...
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Beauty and the Thief
as Kuroki no JiroThe picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and...
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The Good Fairy
as Rentaro Mikuni, news reporterThe wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to...
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Free and Easy 8
as Ichinosuke SuzukiWhen Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in...
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Devotion to Railway
as Yoshito MatsuzakiA human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to...
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Women's House
as uncreditedAfter Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno,...
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The Lovers
as SugawaComedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son...
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The King
as uncreditedThe film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an...
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The Outsiders
as Takeshi OhiwaA drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the...
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Hi no tori
as (Uncredited)Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the...
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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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Farewell Rabaul
as Captain KataseA squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they...
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
as Ichiro Kuroki, The eldest brotherSabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home,...
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Adolescence
as Teacher HaradaParent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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Red-Light Bases
as Koichi KawanabeStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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The Go Masters
as 松波麟作Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his...
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The Beautiful Nuns
as uncreditedA samurai who slashes a young girl's mage appears in Edo, and she is never caught.
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Gisuke HayashidaGisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a...
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Thus Another Day
as Kenzô AkadaA father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in...
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Bodyguard from Hell
as uncreditedKitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the...
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Free and Easy 7
as uncreditedHama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days...
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Someday
as uncreditedThe annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However,...
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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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Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
as ChubeiDetective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however,...
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The Samurai of Edo
as uncreditedThis historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during...
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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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Wind, Woman and Road
as SentaroA chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the...
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Three Faces
as uncreditedFive years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma...
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The Tattered Banner
as Shozo TanakaFilm about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
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Reunion
as uncreditedIf two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly...
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Kimi ga kagayaku toki
as uncreditedA one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
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The Great Road
as uncreditedThe story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National...
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A Human Promise
as Ryôsaku MorimotoAn old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the...
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The Song of the Cart
as uncreditedA lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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Good Son-in-Law
as uncreditedAsahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's...
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Escape Zone
as uncreditedShiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a...
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The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao
as Sunao KikutakeAn exploration of the nature of journalism that focuses on Fukuoka Nichi Nichi newspaper...
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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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Sekigahara
as Masanobu HondaBlockbuster drama based on the novel Sekigahara by Ryotaro Shiba, a program dedicated to the...
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