1960

Cruel Story of Youth

6.567/67

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

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Cruel Story of Youth

1951

Carmen Comes Home

6.25/26

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

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Carmen Comes Home

1951

Boyhood

6.923/13

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

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Boyhood

1956

The Thick-Walled Room

7.167/21

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

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The Thick-Walled Room

1955

Beautiful Days

6.75/8

A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.

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Beautiful Days

1955

The Tattered Wings

6.2/10

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense chi...

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The Tattered Wings

1953

New Tokyo March

9/1

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose roman...

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New Tokyo March

1957

Danger Stalks Near

5.5/10

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

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Danger Stalks Near

1958

The Eternal Rainbow

7.25/4

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

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The Eternal Rainbow

1952

Modern People

3.25/4

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assi...

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Modern People

1952

Carmen's Innocent Love

5.25/14

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

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Carmen's Innocent Love

1959

Kaze no uchi so to

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1956

Fountainhead

6/9

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

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Fountainhead

1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

8.132/279

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuri...

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1954

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

6.571/7

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

1953

Always in My Heart

6.8/4

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and...

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Always in My Heart

1953

Always in My Heart Part 2

6.5/4

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

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Always in My Heart Part 2

1954

Always in My Heart Part 3

7/1

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

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Always in My Heart Part 3

1955

You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

7/16

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

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You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

1951

The Good Fairy

5.75/8

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

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The Good Fairy

1949

Broken Drum

6.714/7

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in ord...

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Broken Drum

1959

Thus Another Day

5.714/7

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out t...

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Thus Another Day

1963

Bad Girl

7.667/5

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

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Bad Girl

1968

Black Lizard

6.897/29

A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

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Black Lizard

1951

Fireworks Over the Sea

5.429/7

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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Fireworks Over the Sea

1972

Summer Soldiers

6.8/5

During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the c...

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Summer Soldiers

1960

The River Fuefuki

7.654/13

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over...

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The River Fuefuki

1951

The Den of Beasts

7/1

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The Den of Beasts

1957

The Story of Pure Love

6.833/6

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately tr...

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The Story of Pure Love

1954

Twenty-Four Eyes

7.696/92

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and p...

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Twenty-Four Eyes

1955

A Woman's Life

0/0

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.

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A Woman's Life

1957

Shūkin ryokō

0/0

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Shūkin ryokō

1956

Midori naru hito: kōhen ai no honryū

0/0

1956 Japanese movie

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Midori naru hito: kōhen ai no honryū

1956

Midori naru hito: zenpen wakare no yogisha

0/0

1956 Japanese movie

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Midori naru hito: zenpen wakare no yogisha

1955

The Refugee

0/0

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

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The Refugee

1959

High Teen

0/0

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this wor...

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High Teen

1953

処女雪

0/0

Minako, Sadae, and Momoyo were all in love with their filial art teacher, Sasaki Shinya, but when Momoyo realized that Shinya loved Minako, she gave u...

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処女雪

1958

Hibi no haishin

0/0

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyu...

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Hibi no haishin

1967

The Rose Colored Two

0/0

The film is based on the theme song of the same name sung by Hashi Yukio.

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The Rose Colored Two

1959

People Waiting for Spring

0/0

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and self-i...

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People Waiting for Spring

1958

Hanayome no o noroke

0/0

A multifaced portrayal of ordinary life, revealing its hidden aspects! The second film in the "Bride Series" following "The Embraced Bride" is an Ofu...

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Hanayome no o noroke

1951

Tekirei san'nin musume

0/0

The Matsukawa family lived modestly as a close-knit trio of mother and daughters, relying on the income from the younger daughter, Motoko, who worked...

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Tekirei san'nin musume

1956

Rakuten fujin

0/0

In a corner of Tokyo, an old apartment housed the couple Sakaguchi Koyasu, a construction engineer, and Midori. According to Midori, Koyasu was a blan...

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Rakuten fujin

1953

学生社長

0/0

The story centers on three students from Jiyu University who set up a part-time limited partnership, with Jotaro Yamaji (Koji Tsuruta) becoming its pr...

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学生社長

1956

Seishun no oto

9/1

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Seishun no oto

1957

Haha to ko no mado

0/0

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Haha to ko no mado