Shizue Natsukawa
Kwaidan
as Tokiko (segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as Ôishi Sensei no HahaFrom 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese...
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Love Letter
as Reikichi's motherA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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A Carpenter and Children
as uncreditedA carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an...
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Maria of the Ant Village
as uncreditedAlongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a...
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Fountainhead
as Motoko's motherA botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
as uncreditedThe story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's...
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Night Drum
as uncreditedFollowing a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...
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The Golden Demon
as Mrs. MinowaTokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the...
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Roughneck From Asama
as ShimaWhen Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
as Mrs. NatoriThe story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
as OsumiA young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that...
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Little Peach
as Rieko Hirayama, the motherAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her...
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Yakuza of Seki
as Okane SawaiyaA young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister,...
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The Boy Who Came Back
as uncreditedNobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break...
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Tokyo March
as 道代（後に折枝）A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The...
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Nutcracker Fantasy
as Aunt Gerda (voice)Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker",...
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The Tattered Wings
as uncreditedA young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor...
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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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The Hidden Treasure
as uncreditedShochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
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Tears
as uncreditedA young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
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Thus Another Day
as Yasuko's motherA father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in...
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Tattoo of Love
as uncreditedThe great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save...
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Metropolitan Symphony
as OsomeA young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic...
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Jūdai no yūwaku
as uncreditedFilm directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
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Unripe Fruit
as uncreditedA youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on...
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No Time for Tears
as KinueCoach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher...
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The Swan Elegy
as uncreditedOne day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she...
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大当り男一代
as 女房おくらShinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn...
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The Burning Prison
as uncreditedIn Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With...
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
as OtamiTaking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling...
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Edo no yubae
as 妻むらIn the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate...
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Hanzaki Daimyojin, Gorosuke no uta
as Narrator (voice)1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
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情艶一代女
as 菊五郎夫人Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her...
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The Glow of Life
as 照子の妹A country girl Teruko falls in love with the aristocrat Yanagisawa. When she once asks him what...
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City of Love
as Kiyoko MurataAiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and...
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Good Luck to These Two
as uncreditedA young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
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In Search of Mother
as OmuraPeriod piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a...
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The Black Current
as uncreditedA reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company,...
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Koi no rantō
as uncredited"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to...
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The King of Rowing
as uncreditedA pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta....
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Young People
as Teacher HashimotoBased on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school...
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Chorus of a Million People
as Yoshiko AokiChorus of a Million People
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Spring on Leper's Island
as uncreditedA female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.
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White Blaze
as uncreditedA masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel...
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Ohanahan
as 溝呂木の妻・しげThe 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a...
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Yumechiyo Nikki
as uncreditedYumechiyo is the madam of a geisha house in a remote hot spring in the San'in region. When...
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