Sadako Sawamura
Good Morning
as Kayoko FukuiA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as ToshikoKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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The Life of Oharu
as Sasaya's wife OwasaIn Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the...
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Street of Shame
as Tatsuko TayaThe lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Late Autumn
as FumikoA woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...
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Girls of the Night
as KitamuraIn the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently release from one of...
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Late Chrysanthemums
as NobuWith delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his...
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A Wife's Heart
as uncreditedKiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly...
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Mother
as OseiA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Zero Focus
as Mrs. Sotaro UharaOne week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business...
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The End of the Night
as uncreditedWalking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with...
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A Fugitive from the Past
as Motojima's WifeThree robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses...
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Hero of the Red Light District
as uncreditedA successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his...
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Women of the Night
as uncreditedIn early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from...
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Love Letter
as Bookstor's ownerA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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Untamed Woman
as Oshima's auntA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
as Tatsuko OnoYuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family...
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Souls in the Moonlight II
as OtsunoThis is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great...
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The Wandering Princess
as Kazuko SugawaraPu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of...
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Nunnery Confidential
as uncreditedErotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.
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The Rose on His Arm
as Akiyama's motherIgnoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world...
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Glory on the Summit
as uncreditedA treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the...
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Nami kage
as uncreditedAyako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
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The Catch
as KatsuTowards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural...
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A Sky Full of Tears
as Kikue SugisakiPopular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko...
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The Cast-Off
as uncreditedThe inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high...
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Our Marriage
as MotherWhen two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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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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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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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as uncreditedA screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following...
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Lady Sen and Hideyori
as YodogimiFrom the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as...
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Whistling in the morning
as uncreditedMinoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with...
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Next Door to Happiness
as uncreditedThe Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer...
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Hito mo arukeba
as Kin NarikinA drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as TaneUshinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. ...
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Four Sisters
as MakikoA story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
as uncreditedThe film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys...
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Little Peach
as uncreditedAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her...
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Awamori-kun uridasu
as uncreditedFirst of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi.
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Fearless Opposition
as uncreditedThis action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
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The Passionate Spinster
as Riki TonobeShe'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again,...
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Policeman's Diary
as uncreditedLending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...
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The Naked General
as uncreditedA film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
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Tale of Army Brutality
as Toki, Yahichi's motherDirector Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill...
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Elegy
as uncreditedWataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...
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Sweet Sweat
as MatsukoThis film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo),...
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The President Talks Bank
as uncreditedThe president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing...
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Keishichō monogatari gao no nai on'na
as uncredited1959 Japanese movie
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Here Is a Spring
as uncreditedThe story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...
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Youth in Fury
as Aki KatsuraA reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a...
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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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Tokyo Profile
as KiyokoA motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old...
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Flame of My Love
as uncreditedA woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo,...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as TaneUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...
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The Cock Crows Twice
as uncreditedThree young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
as uncreditedFourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as Jewelry shop proprietressFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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The Kii River
as Ichi, housekeeperEpic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and...
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Ejima and Ikushima
as 玉椿This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in...
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Souls in the Moonlight III
as uncreditedMaster swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be...
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Night Scandal in Japan
as Tetsu KawabeMayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in...
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When Winter Comes
as uncreditedAn old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late...
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The President's Boss
as uncreditedA new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former...
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Sky of Hope
as KiyoWhat is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited...
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Sisters
as uncreditedThree beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
as OtakeA geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.
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A Story from Echigo
as uncreditedA sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...
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Eddy Currents of Life
as Teacher IkegamiIt is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study...
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Dancing Girl
as MitsueThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved...
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son
as TakiA roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to...
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Ôban
as Tane, Ushinosuke's MotherA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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The Romance of Yushima
as uncreditedHayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much...
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Miniature
as uncreditedGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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Horse
as Kikuko YamashitaIne Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes...
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Night Bitch
as uncreditedA playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another...
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In Search of Mother
as OtoraPeriod piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a...
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Ofukuro
as uncreditedShizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading...
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Star of Hong Kong
as Sugimoto NatsukoWang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has...
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The Dangerous Kiss
as uncreditedStarring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
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The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
as uncreditedIn a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda...
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So Young, So Bright
as uncreditedTwo high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted...
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滝の白糸
as uncreditedThe middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the...
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Flower Cards Chivalry
as uncreditedAn absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young...
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Pineapple Butai
as OmineThe story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the...
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Itsuko to sono haha
as Fusako TashiroAn elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
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Twenty-One Fingerprints
as uncreditedThird film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
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喜劇 駅前飯店
as uncreditedThe fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
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Born in Sin
as uncreditedA dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
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The White Orchid
as uncreditedA Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
as uncreditedThe tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it...
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Dreaming People
as uncreditedShinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns...
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The Surf
as Tomi, Shinji's MotherLonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love....
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Spring Snow
as uncreditedThe Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's...
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Adolescence
as Natsu, Mayumi's motherParent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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Victory Song
as Captain's motherHisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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Broken Drum
as YasukoWhen the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his...
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Flower in a Storm
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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The Lovers
as Mrs. UshiyamaComedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son...
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A Pebble by the Wayside
as SumieTomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo...
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Snow Country
as Dance teacherThis movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of...
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Dancers of Awa
as uncreditedJurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the...
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Romance Express
as uncreditedComedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the...
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Police Precinct Part 13
as Madam next to HikarisoOn a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
as Tomiko SekiguchiDuring the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is...
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Kōfuku no genkai
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting...
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Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
as OtomiAnother adaptation of Tange Sazen.
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Someday I'll Know
as Fusako KanekoA modern love story involving different affairs.
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Young Tree
as Kuniko's mother (uncredited)A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying...
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Firefly Light
as uncreditedSet in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose...
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Bright Young Maidens
as Chie Shibata, Sumiko's MotherIn order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the...
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Ghosts Die at Dawn
as TakekoAt the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of...
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Green Earth
as uncreditedSet in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and...
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Life's Simple Pleasures
as uncreditedA masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that...
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The Human Wall
as uncreditedDrama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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No Advice Taken
as uncreditedA comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a...
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Hideko the Cheerleader
as Tomoko, Hideko's motherHideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a...
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Mahiru no wana
as KikuyoOn his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her...
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Towering Waves
as Mrs. TazawaBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Love on the Rainbow
as Masako YamashitaA seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
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Toilet Manager
as uncreditedThe life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
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Triangle Moods
as KameAyako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved...
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Young Lovers
as uncreditedThe story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and...
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Mother Never Dies
as uncreditedThe premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
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The Street Car Game
as Deguchi UmeComedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.
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Toyuki
as Apprentice GeishaShot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their...
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Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
as uncreditedFilm about poet Ishikawa Takuboku
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I'm a Bodyguard
as uncreditedKita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's...
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Geisha Hidekoma
as uncreditedAs a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the...
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Hikarugake
as uncreditedThe drama depicts the fateful meeting and falling in love between a man living in the glamorous...
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