Mariko Okada
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Mariko Okada (岡田 茉莉子, Okada Mariko, born 11 January 1933) is a Japanese stage and film actress who starred in films of directors Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita and others. She was married to film director Yoshishige Yoshida.
Okada was born the daughter of silent film actor Tokihiko Okada (real name Eiichi Takahashi), who died the year following her birth, and raised by her mother's sister in her early childhood. She gave her film debut in Mikio Naruse's 1951 Dancing Girl, for whom she worked again in Husband and Wife, Floating Clouds and Nagareru. Unsatisfied with the roles she was assigned to, she left Toho studios after her contract expired, and signed with Shochiku. In the following years, she starred in Yasujirō Ozu's Late Autumn and An Autumn Afternoon, Keisuke Kinoshita's Spring Dreams and The Scent of Incense, and Heinosuke Gosho's Hunting Rifle.
Between 1965 and 1971, she starred in all of Yoshida's films, independently produced melodramas narrated in an avant-garde fashion. In later years, she appeared in films like Juzo Itami's Tampopo and Shinji Aoyama's My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005), her last film role to date. She also regularly performed on stage and on television.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4074 |
| Birthday | 1933-01-11 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Марико Окада, ماریکو اوکادا, |
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
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
9/1
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1956
Runaway Bride
0/0
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Runaway Bride
1960
Late Autumn
7.746/175
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
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Late Autumn
1954
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
7.167/207
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
7.146/140
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.149/138
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1985
Tampopo
7.8/427
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tam...
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Tampopo
1963
Futari dake no toride
9/1
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Futari dake no toride
1953
An Edoite Judge
0/0
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
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An Edoite Judge
1953
White Fish
7/1
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon th...
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White Fish
1962
Flower in a Storm
0/0
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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Flower in a Storm
1962
Zoku aizen katsura
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Zoku aizen katsura
1956
Flowing
7.176/34
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Flowing
1962
A Roaring Trade
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A Roaring Trade
1965
Illusion of Blood
6.364/11
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
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Illusion of Blood
1962
An Autumn Afternoon
7.868/318
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look af...
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An Autumn Afternoon
1961
The Estuary
0/0
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The Estuary
1956
Shirai Gonpachi
0/0
The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the beautiful courtesan Komurasaki.
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Shirai Gonpachi
1969
Eros + Massacre
7.327/49
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second cen...
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Eros + Massacre
1955
Floating Clouds
7.689/106
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
1954
Yakuza bayashi
10/1
Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
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Yakuza bayashi
1959
Bridge
0/0
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
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Bridge
1963
Tale of Scarlet Love
0/0
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...
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Tale of Scarlet Love
1968
Farewell to the Summer Light
6.853/17
A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic...
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Farewell to the Summer Light
1970
Heroic Purgatory
6.961/38
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pret...
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Heroic Purgatory
1968
Affair in the Snow
6.867/15
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had pl...
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Affair in the Snow
1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
6.5/6
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1976
Frozen River
3/1
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
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Frozen River
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
5.375/8
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1965
A Story Written with Water
6.263/19
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the l...
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A Story Written with Water
1962
Kiriko no unmei
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kiriko no unmei
1967
The Affair
6.524/21
As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herse...
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The Affair
1960
Spring Dreams
6/8
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous frien...
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Spring Dreams
1961
Enraptured
0/0
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a class...
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Enraptured
1976
Niizuma no shitatari
0/0
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Niizuma no shitatari
1961
Love's Family Tree
0/0
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Love's Family Tree
1961
Hunting Rifle
8/2
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on...
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Hunting Rifle
1962
Ai to kanashimi to
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ai to kanashimi to
1967
Impasse
6.429/14
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by a...
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Impasse
1966
Woman of the Lake
7/33
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
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Woman of the Lake
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
6.615/26
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
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Akitsu Hot Springs
1971
Confessions Among Actresses
5.962/13
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid b...
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Confessions Among Actresses
2003
Women in the Mirror
7.857/7
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
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Women in the Mirror
1961
Women of Tokyo
0/0
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Women of Tokyo
1951
Dancing Girl
6.364/11
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the famil...
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Dancing Girl
1962
Records of loyal vassals
0/0
In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their master Asano Takumi-no-kami. Shogun Tsunayos...
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Records of loyal vassals
1964
The Scent of Incense
7.2/10
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d...
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The Scent of Incense
2005
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
7.35/20
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected,...
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
1956
Rebels on the High Sea
9/1
A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
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Rebels on the High Sea
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
8/1
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1977
Proof of the Man
7.8/17
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a Ne...
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Proof of the Man
1959
Ai no Noutan
0/0
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Ai no Noutan
1957
When It Rains, It Pours
6/1
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fac...
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When It Rains, It Pours
1954
Wedding Season
0/0
Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a num...
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Wedding Season
1955
House of Many Pleasures
9/1
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the...
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House of Many Pleasures
1953
Husband and Wife
6.889/9
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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Husband and Wife
1970
Waterfront Blues
7/1
Based on Shinichi Mori song
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Waterfront Blues
2004
Hakuro no Shibijin
0/0
The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools down it's because she's been murdered!
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Hakuro no Shibijin
1975
I Am a Cat
4/5
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especi...
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I Am a Cat
1967
Two Wives
7.286/7
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexu...
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Two Wives
1961
Uzu
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Uzu
1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
9/1
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1953
Bot-chan
10/2
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Bot-chan
1984
Appassionata
7.5/2
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awa...
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Appassionata
1968
The Time of Reckoning
7.5/2
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving...
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The Time of Reckoning
1953
The End of the Night
10/1
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will...
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The End of the Night
1982
Domineering
6/6
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
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Domineering
1953
The Lovers
9/1
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
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The Lovers
2008
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
0/0
An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of the Japanese New Wave.
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Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
1987
A Taxing Woman
6.738/42
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a t...
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A Taxing Woman
1955
No Time for Tears
9/1
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic relations...
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No Time for Tears
1954
Farewell Rabaul
8.5/6
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little...
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Farewell Rabaul
1963
Sing, Young People!
6.2/5
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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Sing, Young People!
1983
I Lived, But...
6.778/9
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both i...
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I Lived, But...
1999
The Geisha House
7.7/10
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprenticeship within the traditional community of geiko an...
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The Geisha House
1978
The Fall of Ako Castle
6.75/26
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
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
1963
Escape from Hell
6.833/6
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...
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Escape from Hell
1958
The Days of Evil Women
7/1
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
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The Days of Evil Women
1998
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
0/0
Akane is the young mistress of Notoraku Inn in Ishikawa Prefecture. She is trained by her mother-in-law, Takako, daily. One day, as Yohei, Akane's hus...
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The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
1957
The Adorable Trio
0/0
Japanese romantic comedy film.
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The Adorable Trio
1972
Cross-Currents
6.333/3
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
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Cross-Currents
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
0/0
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with...
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Tokyo Omnibus
1960
Hot Corner Murder
0/0
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
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Hot Corner Murder
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
9/2
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life...
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The Radish and the Carrot
1979
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
6.286/7
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known bein...
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1952
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
8/1
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 t...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1990
1750 Days of Turbulence
8.25/4
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
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1750 Days of Turbulence
1955
To Love and Forgive
0/0
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To Love and Forgive
1955
The Lone Journey
9/1
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 s...
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The Lone Journey
2000
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
0/0
Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in an...
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Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
1955
Lovetide
8/1
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Lovetide
1977
Japanese Humanity and Justice
7/2
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
1962
This Year's Love
6.75/4
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Alt...
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This Year's Love
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
1963
Double Wedding
0/0
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Double Wedding
1956
Scoundrel
0/1
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Scoundrel
1952
Adolescence
10/1
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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Adolescence
1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car
7/2
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My Wonderful Yellow Car
1955
A Man Among Men
8/1
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match i...
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A Man Among Men
1953
Girls in the Orchard
8/1
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Girls in the Orchard
1956
Rainy Night Duel
8/1
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo...
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Rainy Night Duel
1971
Price of Life
0/0
Comedy of a phony doctor.
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Price of Life
1959
Umi no Chizu
0/0
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant schola...
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Umi no Chizu
1956
Morishige, where are you going?
0/0
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow, i...
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Morishige, where are you going?
1986
Eavesdropping Woman
0/0
Yoko Shintani, an instructor at an aerobics school, secretly enjoys eavesdropping on the rooms next door. She eavesdrops on the frequent comings and g...
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Eavesdropping Woman
1957
Shūkin ryokō
0/0
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Shūkin ryokō
1965
喜劇 各駅停車
0/0
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喜劇 各駅停車
1959
ある落日
0/0
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ある落日
1961
Netsuai sha
9/1
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Netsuai sha
1958
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
0/0
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.
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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1957
Talkative Company President
9/1
A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms that shake up its corporate culture. Just...
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Talkative Company President
1959
Okinawa Interlude
0/0
1959 Japanese movie
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Okinawa Interlude
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 Stronger Sex
0/0
1967 Japanese movie
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The Stronger Sex
1967
女たちの庭
0/0
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女たちの庭
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
1955
Young Love Conquers All
7/1
In a seaside town, local boys run each morning to glimpse wealthy Miyako, sparking a prank-filled rivalry with the shopgirls. Hoping to impress her id...
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Young Love Conquers All
1967
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
0/0
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Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
1963
The House Where Flowers Bloom
0/0
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The House Where Flowers Bloom
1957
Monkey Business
0/0
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Monkey Business
1959
Kiri aru jyoji
0/0
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Kiri aru jyoji
1960
Banana
0/0
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