1943

Dancing with a Mask

0/0

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

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Dancing with a Mask

1942

Moon of the Plateau

0/0

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

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Moon of the Plateau

1957

Night Butterflies

6.5/4

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

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Night Butterflies

1936

Mr. Thank You

7.058/43

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

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Mr. Thank You

1938

Hotaru no hikari

0/0

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who wil...

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Hotaru no hikari

1964

Muchana Yakko

0/0

A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up in...

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Muchana Yakko

1962

Princess and I

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Princess and I

1941

Ornamental Hairpin

6.696/23

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among the...

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Ornamental Hairpin

1938

Queen of the Wind

0/0

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for sp...

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Queen of the Wind

1965

The Forest of No Escape

9/1

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

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The Forest of No Escape

1955

The Romance of Yushima

8/2

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Haya...

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The Romance of Yushima

1968

High School Geisha

9/1

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High School Geisha

1958

The Precipice

9/1

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the...

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The Precipice

1959

The Cast-Off

8/2

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his w...

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The Cast-Off

1967

The Bogus Policeman

8/1

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doi...

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The Bogus Policeman

1930

Walk Cheerfully

6.143/21

Raucous small-time thief Kenji falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, but when she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him until h...

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Walk Cheerfully

1941

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

7.4/5

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now...

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Notes of an Itinerant Performer

1950

Town of Violence

6.5/2

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

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Town of Violence

1929

Parent

8/1

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Parent

1957

Kisses

6.727/22

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at...

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Kisses

1927

Sword of Penitence

10/1

Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Considered to be a lost film.

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Sword of Penitence

1941

Introspection Tower

6.7/7

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is ofte...

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Introspection Tower

1929

The Dawning Sky

6/3

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

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The Dawning Sky

1956

Warning from Space

5.308/39

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien ta...

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Warning from Space

1937

The Lights of Asakusa

6/6

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pr...

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The Lights of Asakusa

1939

Warm Current

5.25/4

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter...

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Warm Current

1942

There Was a Father

6.97/83

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

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There Was a Father

1943

Port of Flowers

7.038/12

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backf...

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Port of Flowers

1953

Brother and Sister

6.316/19

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

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Brother and Sister

1966

The Great White Tower

6.933/15

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant...

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The Great White Tower

1932

No Blood Relation

7.324/17

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years be...

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No Blood Relation

1937

Children in the Wind

7.417/12

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

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Children in the Wind

1934

My Elder Brother

6/1

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. J...

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My Elder Brother

1936

Men vs. Women

7/1

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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Men vs. Women

1931

Tokyo Chorus

6.772/46

During the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.

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Tokyo Chorus

1940

The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi

7.333/3

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

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The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi

1956

Children Seeking a Mother

0/0

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

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Children Seeking a Mother

1958

A Mother's Journey

5/1

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A Mother's Journey

1958

The Lowest Man

9/1

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kil...

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The Lowest Man

1958

Mother

0/0

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Mother

1958

The Women Divers

0/0

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

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The Women Divers

1958

A Grain of Wheat

0/0

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who wat...

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A Grain of Wheat

1951

Honoo no hada

0/0

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Honoo no hada

1964

Black Trump Card

6/1

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people...

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Black Trump Card

1962

The Whale God

7/6

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

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The Whale God

1960

Ashita kara otona da

0/0

1960 Japanese movie

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Ashita kara otona da

1938

Mother and Child

0/0

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mot...

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Mother and Child

1954

Victory or Defeat

0/0

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Victory or Defeat

1962

Their Legacy

10/1

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement...

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Their Legacy

1928

Symphony of Youth

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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Symphony of Youth

1929

The Blacksmith of the Forest

8/1

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The blacksmith's...

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The Blacksmith of the Forest

1930

Youth, Why Do You Cry?

0/0

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

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Youth, Why Do You Cry?

1931

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

7/1

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lum...

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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

1931

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

8/1

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lum...

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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

1963

Sentimental Mobsters

7/1

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during the...

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Sentimental Mobsters

1954

Rakka no mon

0/0

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Rakka no mon