Seiji Nishimura
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as KashiwayaAn errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor...
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I Was Born, But...
as TeacherTwo young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming...
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A Story of Floating Weeds
as KichiAn aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and...
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There Was a Father
as PriestShuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite...
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Passing Fancy
as ProfessorIn Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a...
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After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced...
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The Lights of Asakusa
as SasakiPre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking...
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Men vs. Women
as uncreditedA musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
as uncreditedAfter Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their...
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Dragnet Girl
as PolicemanA gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his...
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Every-Night Dreams
as uncreditedIn Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the...
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Children in the Wind
as PolicemanOn vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is...
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Temptation
as uncreditedA young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor...
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Morning for the Osone Family
as uncreditedA Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them...
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Introspection Tower
as Mr. KawabeA reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The...
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Hotaru no hikari
as uncreditedApproaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight...
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Sumida River
as uncreditedInoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to...
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Four Seasons of Children
as RokaiThe brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when...
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Dancing with a Mask
as uncreditedJapanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
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