1950

Rashomon

8/2096

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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Rashomon

1956

Early Spring

8/71

A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

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Early Spring

1961

Yojimbo

8/1364

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

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Yojimbo

1961

The End of Summer

8/83

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

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The End of Summer

1952

Mother

7/16

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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Mother

1952

The Life of Oharu

8/164

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

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The Life of Oharu

1962

47 Ronin

7/41

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

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47 Ronin

1941

The 47 Ronin

7/61

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.

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The 47 Ronin

1955

Floating Clouds

8/91

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

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Floating Clouds

1952

Vendetta of a Samurai

7/14

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Akira and starring Mifune Toshiro as the famed swordsman who must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member. Told mostly in flashback as the avengers await the arrival of their quarry, this film displays true heroism in the face of fear as most of the combatants, while of the samurai class are not skilled swordsmen. They contrast sharply with the true warriors involved in this battle. Araki Mataemon (Mifune), who was not only a direct student of Yagyu Munenori, but the founder of his own sword style under the Yagyu name is a powerful force ready to assist his brother-in-law against the murderer's allies that include not only another noted sword teacher, but the deadly spear of Katsumi no Hanbei.

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Vendetta of a Samurai

1960

Hito mo arukeba

0/0

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

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Hito mo arukeba

1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

7/11

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

1958

Little Peach

6/11

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.

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Little Peach

1955

Here Is a Spring

0/0

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.

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Here Is a Spring

1956

The Storm

9/1

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

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The Storm

1968

Admiral Yamamoto

8/8

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.

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Admiral Yamamoto

1956

Fountainhead

6/8

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

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Fountainhead

1960

The Approach of Autumn

7/11

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.

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The Approach of Autumn

1952

Ikiru

8/1059

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

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Ikiru

1956

Flowing

7/30

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

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Flowing

1954

Late Chrysanthemums

7/32

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

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Late Chrysanthemums

1956

Sudden Rain

7/12

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

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Sudden Rain

1960

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

7/8

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

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Daughters, Wives and a Mother

1958

Summer Clouds

8/12

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.

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Summer Clouds

1956

A Wife's Heart

7/10

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.

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A Wife's Heart

1962

A Wanderer's Notebook

7/10

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

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A Wanderer's Notebook

1966

The Thin Line

7/13

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.

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The Thin Line

1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

7/10

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.

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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

1955

Foul Play

6/1

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.

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Foul Play

1955

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

7/32

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.

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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

1960

The Gambling Samurai

6/6

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.

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The Gambling Samurai

1955

Twilight Saloon

8/3

Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm for a group portrait of Japan. One by one, the regulars of the bar appear: the pianist who dreams of becoming a composer but has disappeared from the music world after a knifing; a stripper who had planned to be a ballet dancer; an elderly painter trying to make a living at pachinko, and who rues his art having been used for militarist propaganda during the war; a young waitress considering elopement; a colonel turned real estate broker who attempts to rouse the crowd in military song until he realizes the tune has been transformed by marchers in the street into a leftist chant. The "twilight" is more than just a time of day; here, it is a state of being, a suspension between past and present, between the camaraderie of the saloon and the harsh world outside.

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Twilight Saloon

1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

8/102

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1966

Moment of Terror

6/11

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.

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Moment of Terror

1962

The Wiser Age

7/7

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

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The Wiser Age

1963

A Woman's Life

7/12

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

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A Woman's Life

1963

Nonsense Boys

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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Nonsense Boys

1964

Nippon Paradise

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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Nippon Paradise

1953

Mr. Pu

7/2

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

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Mr. Pu

1966

Once a Rainy Day

0/0

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

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Once a Rainy Day

1967

Two in the Shadow

8/39

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

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Two in the Shadow

1961

Snow in the South Seas

0/0

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

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Snow in the South Seas

1961

A Night in Hong Kong

0/0

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.

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A Night in Hong Kong

1967

Assignment Dragon No. 3

0/0

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car was blown up. The General Staff Headquarters in Japan, sends Lieutenant Shiina, a graduate of the famed Nakano School of Spies inaugurated by Colonel Kusanagi, to investigate the matter. Arriving in Shanghai, he disguises himself as a Chinese coolie and sets out to watch for developments, the only clue being a silver dollar found beside what was left of the victim.

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Assignment Dragon No. 3

1968

The Night before Pearl Harbor

10/1

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.

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The Night before Pearl Harbor

1966

Assignment Cloud

0/0

A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.

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Assignment Cloud

1967

Secret Assignment

10/1

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

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Secret Assignment

1964

How to Make Money

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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How to Make Money

1966

The School of Spies

7/4

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.

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The School of Spies

1955

Seven Masks of Revenge

0/0

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome Town. Next day the man is found brutally murdered and the mystery starts to unravel.

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Seven Masks of Revenge

1961

Awamori-kun kanpai!

0/0

Second of the three Awamori-kun movies.

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Awamori-kun kanpai!

1957

Snow Country

7/10

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?

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Snow Country

1962

Born in Sin

0/0

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

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Born in Sin

1957

Untamed Woman

7/8

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

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Untamed Woman

1964

Superexpress

8/3

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express

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Superexpress

1965

The Radish and the Carrot

10/1

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…

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The Radish and the Carrot

1959

I Want to Be a Shellfish

0/0

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.

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I Want to Be a Shellfish

1966

Rise Against the Sword

7/8

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.

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Rise Against the Sword

1952

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

0/0

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.

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The Woman Who Touched the Legs

1958

The Naked General

0/0

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

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The Naked General

1951

The Bitch

0/0

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

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The Bitch

1951

The Killing of Otsuya

0/0

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The Killing of Otsuya

1962

An Autumn Afternoon

8/269

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

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An Autumn Afternoon

1966

The Daphne

0/0

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.

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The Daphne

1958

Futari dake no hashi

0/0

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Futari dake no hashi

1961

The Masterless 47 – Part II

0/0

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The Masterless 47 – Part II

1955

The Lone Journey

0/0

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.

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The Lone Journey

1953

Jirocho's Home-Coming

0/0

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Jirocho's Home-Coming

1953

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

0/0

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

1959

Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers

0/0

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers

1937

Humanity and Paper Balloons

8/42

In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married.

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Humanity and Paper Balloons

1962

Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

0/0

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Three Gentlemen from Tokyo

1954

Seven Samurai

8/3495

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

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Seven Samurai

1957

Itohan Monogatari

0/0

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

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Itohan Monogatari

1952

Shanghai Rose

0/0

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Shanghai Rose

1953

Yasugorō shusse

0/0

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Yasugorō shusse

1936

Priest of Darkness

7/12

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

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Priest of Darkness

1955

A Woman's Life

0/0

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A Woman's Life

1956

Swordsman of the Two Sword Style

5/6

The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island.

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Swordsman of the Two Sword Style

1968

Gamblers: The Raid

0/0

5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

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Gamblers: The Raid

1965

Sanshiro Sugata

7/5

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.

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Sanshiro Sugata

1953

The Blue Revolution

0/0

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The Blue Revolution

1955

五十円横町

0/0

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五十円横町

1954

The Surf

0/0

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

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The Surf

1965

Five Gents' Trick Book

0/0

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

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Five Gents' Trick Book

1968

Rose Buds in the Rainbow

0/0

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Rose Buds in the Rainbow

1949

The Man Who Laughs Last

0/0

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers gets injured and a substitute needs to be found. Rumors start to float around concerning the circus clown and his grandiose acrobat career which ended tragically. Will he be able to reconcile with his tumultuous past and get the show running?

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The Man Who Laughs Last

1958

The Third President

0/0

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

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The Third President

1959

社長太平記

0/0

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

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社長太平記

1959

Zoku shachōtaiheiki

0/0

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

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Zoku shachōtaiheiki

1967

Japan's Longest Day

7/25

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

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Japan's Longest Day

1950

The Motherland Far Far Away

0/0

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The Motherland Far Far Away

1962

Pachinko

0/0

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Pachinko

1949

Goblin Courier

6/1

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

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Goblin Courier

1954

Dorodarake no seishun

0/0

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.

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Dorodarake no seishun

1949

Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood

0/0

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood

1956

Dotanba

6/1

Dotanba - Last Minute

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Dotanba

1952

Forty-Eight Man

0/0

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Forty-Eight Man

1952

恐妻時代

0/0

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恐妻時代

1953

An Edoite Judge

0/0

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

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An Edoite Judge

1949

The Flower That Crossed the Mountain

0/0

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The Flower That Crossed the Mountain

1964

Hail the 3 Gents

0/0

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Hail the 3 Gents

1962

Salaryman Shimizu Minato

0/0

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Salaryman Shimizu Minato

1950

A Man from Akagi

0/0

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A Man from Akagi

1954

Mako Osorubeshi

0/0

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Mako Osorubeshi

1964

The Naked Executive

0/0

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest person in Japan." He lost his wife ten years ago and has been living as a widower ever since. He plotted to marry off his 22-year-old daughter Keiko for political gain, but Keiko is in love with Okuda, who is her father's subordinate. A story full of sadness and joy, depicting a man gripped by different thoughts, as an employee of the company and a father.

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The Naked Executive

1960

Beyond the Hills

0/0

Story of young love in the hills.

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Beyond the Hills

1958

Yaji and Kita on the Road

0/0

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)

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Yaji and Kita on the Road

1962

Star of Hong Kong

0/0

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The two meet again and fall in love in Hokkaido when Wang and her best friend Sugimoto Kanako are going on a holiday. Urged by her friend Zhang Yingming to concentrate on her studies, Wang remains ambivalent about the relationship, and is even more upset to realise that Sugimoto is in love with her fellow countryman. Feigning an engagement with Zhang, Wang initiates a break-up with Hasegawa and finds work in Singapore after graduation. Hasegawa learns the real cause of the break-up from Sugimoto in Hong Kong. A frenzy search finally leads to a reunion and a proposal in Kuala Lumpur. However, their love is doomed by a twist of fate as Wang must leave to see her desperately ill father in Hong Kong while Hasegawa has to leave for America to pursue his career.

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Star of Hong Kong

1958

Assistant President

0/0

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1967

Greatest Challenge of All

0/0

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

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Greatest Challenge of All

1955

The Romance of Yushima

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Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.

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The Romance of Yushima

1954

爆笑天国　とんち教室

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1938

The Abe Clan

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“19 vassals of Lord Hosokawa ask permission to commit harakiri with him, as a demonstration of their loyalty. Only Yaichiemon Abe is refused permission, forced instead into the vassalage of his lord’s successor. Humiliated and derided, Yaichiemon eventually commits harakiri without permission. His eldest son is then punished for Yaichiemon’s suicide, and when he resists, is sentenced to death. The entire Abe clan rebels upon the son’s execution, and the clan is annihilated.” --Alan Poul, Japan Society

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The Abe Clan

1967

The Bogus Policeman

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Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that someone has run off with his gun and later uses it to kill. Then he breaks up a group of hoodlums attacking a young girl named Mieko, and the police, his former friends, deciding he has gone too far, decide to sue him. On top of this the girl gets hurt and, consequently, a child from the kindergarten where Mieko teaches is kidnapped on his way home. Impersonating a policeman he tracks down the gangsters and rescues the boy. Due to this he also uncovers a scandal which allows the police to make a long due clean up in the political world. As a reward for all of this he wins the regard of the girl but now faces a stiff prison sentence for impersonating the policeman he had been and which, at heart, he truly remains.

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The Bogus Policeman

1960

This Greedy Old Skin

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A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.

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This Greedy Old Skin

1952

Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil

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Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato.

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Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil

1964

Zoku shachō shinshiroku

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Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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Zoku shachō shinshiroku

1951

The Inner Palace Conspiracy

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A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka stylishly plays a constantly intoxicated geisha in this all-star entertainment film.

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The Inner Palace Conspiracy

1948

G-Men of Japan

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The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies and car gangs... This is the first film in the Nippon G-Men series, of which four more films were later released.

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G-Men of Japan

1962

Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

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1962 Japanese movie

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Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

1952

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

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Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

1950

G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape

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The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious radio signal, the coast Guard discovers that a smuggling transaction is taking place and goes to the place. It was supposed to be a big catch, but they lose sight of the smugglers by finding and rescuing a woman drowning in the sea. The rescued woman says she jumped into the sea while escaping from a slaver's boat... A luxury version featuring the two main stars of the Toei company – Chiezo Kataoka and Utaemon Ichikawa.

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G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape

1962

続サラリーマン清水港

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1962 Japanese movie

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1956

Outlaw island

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The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous for its bullfights. Today there is also a bull market in the village, and there are extremely many people here. The black bull "Great Tengu", which Gonzo from Misaki offered, cost 50,000, but was forcibly taken away by a Bakuro soldier, who possessed extraordinary strength and physique, for less than half the price. However, the violent soldier was in love with Tsunayo, the hostess of the inn and the organizer of the bullfight. One day, a young man from the city, an Ihara police officer, arrives in the village. And soon the real problems will begin…

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Outlaw island

1962

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

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1962 Japanese movie

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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

1937

Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn

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Story of a bandit king part 2.

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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn

1957

Ôban

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A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.

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Ôban

1957

Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

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Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.

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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

1957

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

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Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

1958

Oban kanketsu hen

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Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

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Oban kanketsu hen

1962

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

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Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong

1962

Ottamage ningyo monogatari

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1962 Japanese movie

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Ottamage ningyo monogatari

1958

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

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1958 Japanese movie

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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1961

Kigeki ekimae bentô

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Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...

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Kigeki ekimae bentô

1955

Ejima and Ikushima

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This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.

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Ejima and Ikushima

1956

Street of Shame

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The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

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Street of Shame

1960

The Masterless 47

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Part one of The Masterless 47.

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1971

Morning for Two

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While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keisuke was a sophomore college graduate, a honest and passionate young man, but his brother Jiro was only a student of a ronin who failed in taking the university and was playing. Such two people had a dream. Keisuke traveled wandering at his own trailer house, Jiro became a racer, had a dream of surrounding the world.

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Morning for Two

1951

The Tale of Genji

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Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.

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The Tale of Genji

1962

Shin kitsune to tanuki

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1962 Japanese movie

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Shin kitsune to tanuki

1955

Mune yori mune ni

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Japanese drama

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Mune yori mune ni

1960

Chikûho no kodomotachi

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A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines

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Chikûho no kodomotachi

1951

A Spectacular Murder

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When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all were fake. That same night, a dancer in the troupe went missing and a police officer was shot with the same caliber gun. Kawano suspects they are all related to a gun smuggling case.

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A Spectacular Murder

1956

Will-o'-the-Wisp

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Will-o'-the-Wisp

1952

Fuun Senryobune

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1952 Japanese movie

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