1952

The Whisper of Spring

10/1

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt s...

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The Whisper of Spring

1949

Stray Dog

7.59/363

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...

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Stray Dog

1965

Kwaidan

7.72/460

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...

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Kwaidan

1955

I Live in Fear

7.319/124

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared i...

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I Live in Fear

1951

The Idiot

7.004/131

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgrac...

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The Idiot

1948

Drunken Angel

7.607/314

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the...

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Drunken Angel

1950

Scandal

6.87/100

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

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Scandal

1949

Island of Horrors

10/1

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolate...

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Island of Horrors

1962

Hagure kigeki mandara

7/2

1962 Japanese movie

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Hagure kigeki mandara

1963

Fifty-Fifty

10/1

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

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Fifty-Fifty

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

1950

Four Seasons of Women

7/1

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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Four Seasons of Women

1956

Dotanba

6/1

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contempor...

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Dotanba

1956

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship

10/1

Bored Hatamoto film #20

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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship

1990

Virgin Story 5 Only You Want to Be Cuddled

0/0

Original Video film.

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Virgin Story 5 Only You Want to Be Cuddled

1994

The Most Terrible Time in My Life

7.5/13

Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing bro...

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The Most Terrible Time in My Life

1952

Third Class Executives

7/1

1950s Japanese comedy.

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Third Class Executives

1950

Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord

0/0

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

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Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord

1985

Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-

0/0

Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows...

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Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-

1990

Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!

0/0

5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine

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Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!

1962

A Woman's Identity

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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A Woman's Identity

1953

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker

10/1

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

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Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker

1987

Whisper of the Spirits

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Whisper of the Spirits

1961

Sararīman yajikita dōchū

0/0

1961 Japanese movie

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Sararīman yajikita dōchū

1961

Love's Family Tree

0/0

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Love's Family Tree

1949

Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen

0/0

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

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Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen

1996

The Trap

6.8/11

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string...

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The Trap

1969

Blind Beast

6.525/102

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a d...

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Blind Beast

2003

Karaoke Terror

5.692/13

One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and...

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Karaoke Terror

1957

Evening Calm

9/1

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

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Evening Calm

1964

The Shape of Night

6.6/5

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing dem...

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The Shape of Night

1968

Eternal Love

8/1

The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.

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Eternal Love

2007

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

6.9/17

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn...

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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

1995

The Stairway to the Distant Past

7.2/9

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a bor...

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The Stairway to the Distant Past

1986

The Sea and Poison

7.1/15

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American ai...

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The Sea and Poison

1955

Floating Clouds

7.704/108

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 do...

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Floating Clouds

1965

Invasion of Astro-Monster

6.814/255

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world f...

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Invasion of Astro-Monster

1992

Okoge

6/9

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

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Okoge

1949

The Quiet Duel

7.346/91

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in...

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The Quiet Duel

1954

Seven Samurai

8.45/4291

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...

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Seven Samurai

1951

The Lady of Musashino

6.263/19

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become cl...

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The Lady of Musashino

1964

Dear Mr. Prime Minister

0/0

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner, gain...

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Dear Mr. Prime Minister

1962

The Inheritance

7.276/29

A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

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The Inheritance

1956

The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

7/1

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

1955

Policeman's Diary

7/5

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the office...

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Policeman's Diary

1950

The Munekata Sisters

7.1/38

Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose wh...

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The Munekata Sisters

1967

Rebellion of Japan

8/1

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair wit...

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Rebellion of Japan

1980

Nurse's Husband

7/1

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on th...

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Nurse's Husband

1987

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl

6/2

Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because o...

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There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl

1950

Battle of Roses

6.2/10

Following the death of Mr Masago, his wife Satomi loses the family's cosmetics company to Mr Mogy due to huge amount of withdrawal debt caused by her...

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Battle of Roses

1957

Geisha in the Old City

10/1

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and res...

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Geisha in the Old City

1982

Seducer of the Night: Terror in the summer resort, bloodsucking fangs for blonde beauties

0/0

A vampire stalks a female editor as she pursues a case in Kofu that took place at the villa of a writer of bizarre novels in Karuizawa.

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Seducer of the Night: Terror in the summer resort, bloodsucking fangs for blonde beauties

1954

Clan Revival

0/0

After the Onin War ended in 1477, Kyoto was left in ashes and the nation was in complete disorder. Bands of roving samurai called the "nobushi" terror...

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Clan Revival

Donden Family (Pretend Divorce)

0/0

A housewife whose memoir of divorce is selected becomes an editorial staff member, something she has always dreamed of. However, her divorce is a fabr...

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Donden Family (Pretend Divorce)

1962

The Weed of Crime

7/1

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

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The Weed of Crime

1954

The Devil comes and plays the Flute

7/1

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying melod...

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The Devil comes and plays the Flute

1964

Sweet Sweat

8.333/3

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to ke...

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Sweet Sweat

1989

Roppongi Banana Boys

9/1

A stylish light comedy about the “Banana boys”— two boys who were born and raised in Roppongi who are still growing up. It is based on the light novel...

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Roppongi Banana Boys

2002

Out

5.625/8

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body...

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Out

1952

Foghorn

10/1

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

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Foghorn

1969

Bonds of Love

9/1

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires...

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Bonds of Love

1973

Stray Dog

7.857/7

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior,...

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Stray Dog

1957

Snow Country

6.727/11

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 t...

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Snow Country

1957

The Face

0/0

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming m...

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The Face

1977

Suddenly, Like a Storm

9/1

21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the ju...

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Suddenly, Like a Storm

1952

Shi no machi wo nogarete

8/1

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

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Shi no machi wo nogarete

1950

White Beast

5.636/11

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

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White Beast

1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

7.953/127

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 ar...

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1983

Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass

0/0

Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin' barely escapes with his life after being shot. N...

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Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass

1982

The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn

9/1

After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wanted man! Accused of being a thief by those that trie...

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The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn

1961

The Youth and His Amulet

9/1

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy'...

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The Youth and His Amulet

1981

School in the Crosshairs

6.4/26

Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to...

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School in the Crosshairs

1961

The Big Wave

10/1

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on...

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The Big Wave

1957

Rebellion

7/2

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

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Rebellion

2003

Time Limit

7/2

Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Ka...

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Time Limit

1956

Shin ono ga tsumi

0/0

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

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Shin ono ga tsumi

1951

Weeping Doll

0/0

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

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Weeping Doll

1986

Leave My Girl Alone

7.5/2

Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan h...

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Leave My Girl Alone

1959

Echo Mountain

9/1

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Echo Mountain

1956

Women in Prison

4/3

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

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Women in Prison

1961

Girls of the Night

6.48/25

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build...

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Girls of the Night

1962

This Madding Crowd

7/1

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This Madding Crowd

1947

Actress

7/1

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a s...

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Actress

1951

The White Orchid

0/0

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

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The White Orchid

1956

Twice on a Certain Night

10/1

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...

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Twice on a Certain Night

1954

Itsuko to sono haha

8/1

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

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Itsuko to sono haha

1982

Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood

8/1

Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...

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Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood

1983

Legend of the Cat Monster

5/1

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which lea...

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Legend of the Cat Monster

1956

Police Precinct Part 2

0/0

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Police Precinct Part 2

1955

五十円横町

0/0

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五十円横町

1957

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

0/0

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

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Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

1965

Beast Alley

7/2

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entang...

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Beast Alley

1949

A Woman's Life

9/1

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A Woman's Life

2001

Hotoke

10/1

Rai pedals his bike and trailer about town, collecting old iron and sowing flower seeds. Because his face never seems to show emotion, everybody calls...

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Hotoke

1949

Utako's Story

0/0

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Utako's Story

1961

Aces Wild

8/1

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother o...

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Aces Wild

1956

Masura o hashutsu fukai

8/1

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

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Masura o hashutsu fukai

1958

The Undefeated Woman

0/0

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The Undefeated Woman

1960

Jiyūgaoka fujin

10/1

1960 Japanese movie

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Jiyūgaoka fujin

1960

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

0/0

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

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Chikuhō no kodomotachi

1961

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

8/1

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko a...

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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

1980

The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation

0/0

A despicable boss uses a husband's “promotion” as bait to assault his subordinate's wife (Chieko Matsubara). The wife finally kills him, but...

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The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation

1960

New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

8/1

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to Beppu,...

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New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking

1955

Here Is a Spring

8.2/5

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

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Here Is a Spring

1956

Summer in Eclipse

0/0

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while fi...

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Summer in Eclipse

1964

Trap of Suicide Kilometer

7.2/4

Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materials for the water dam construction. Kitami, who ca...

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Trap of Suicide Kilometer

1959

Fox and Raccoon

9/1

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and drea...

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Fox and Raccoon

1964

Ken

7.7/15

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity a...

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Ken

1962

College Champ

7.5/2

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his h...

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College Champ

1957

Hateful Things

0/0

The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying goods directly from wholesalers. During his stay,...

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Hateful Things

1951

Yatsuhaka-mura

8/1

Original work by Yokomizo Seishi. The third part of Kindaichi Kosuke's story, which was collected by Chie Kataoka.

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Yatsuhaka-mura

1950

獄門島 総集篇

0/0

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獄門島 総集篇

1964

Mr. Giant's Victory Flag

8/1

Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) and teammate Oh-known collectively as ON-from the...

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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag

1979

The Bride of the Ghost Lake

0/0

Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai investigate another strange mystery.

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The Bride of the Ghost Lake

1964

Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins

0/0

An omnibus comedy set in a newly built housing complex, the film follows seven interconnected stories about the everyday vices simmering behind thin a...

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Housing Estates: The Seven Deadly Sins

1950

Kumo no Machi

0/0

Inspired by the "Shimoyama Incident," which caused a great stir in society in 1949, the year before its release, this masterpiece suspense film thrill...

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Kumo no Machi

1952

Zoku santō jūyaku

0/0

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Zoku santō jūyaku

1956

The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji

0/0

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The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji

1967

Great Incidents

0/0

Comedy starring the manzai team of Chick and Tack, and set in the world of salarymen.

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Great Incidents