1939

The Day Before

10/1

A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of violence...

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The Day Before

1968

Rogue

7/1

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pai...

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Rogue

1949

Rinchi

0/0

Japanese noir.

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Rinchi

1960

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

7/1

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

1952

Love's Cheerleader

0/0

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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Love's Cheerleader

1950

When We Came Back

0/0

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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When We Came Back

1950

Golden Beast

0/0

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped Weste...

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Golden Beast

1961

Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２

0/0

1961 Toei comedy

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Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２

1957

Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

8/1

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

1966

Women Doing Time

0/0

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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Women Doing Time

1960

Beyond the Hills

0/0

Story of young love in the hills.

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Beyond the Hills

1965

Seisaku's Wife

7.308/26

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of po...

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Seisaku's Wife

1962

Kiriko no unmei

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Kiriko no unmei

1936

The Road I Travel with You

6.667/9

Otherwise promising young man Asaji and his younger brother Yuji face blighted lives due of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé fa...

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The Road I Travel with You

1936

Morning's Tree-Lined Street

6.714/7

After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza,...

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Morning's Tree-Lined Street

1939

The Old Man of the Propeller

0/0

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark is hounded by his relati...

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The Old Man of the Propeller

1940

Wife of a Lily

0/0

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and wo...

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Wife of a Lily

1962

Kyū-chan ondo

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Kyū-chan ondo

1962

Sutekina 16-sai

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Sutekina 16-sai

1951

Under the Blossoming Peach

0/0

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief hap...

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Under the Blossoming Peach

1940

A Gentle Breeze With Father

9/1

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

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A Gentle Breeze With Father

1959

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

9/1

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. O...

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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

1962

Gakusei geisha koi to kenka

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Gakusei geisha koi to kenka

1942

Currents of Youth

9/1

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latt...

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Currents of Youth

1967

Love for an Idiot

5.964/14

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

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Love for an Idiot

1956

大当り男一代

0/0

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid Oyasu. S...

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大当り男一代

1958

直八子供旅

0/0

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直八子供旅

1952

Third Class Executives

7/1

1950s Japanese comedy.

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Third Class Executives

1949

Odoroki ikka

0/0

1949 Japanese film

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Odoroki ikka

1950

Blue Sky Angel

8/1

1950 drama film

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Blue Sky Angel

1962

Danchi fujin

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Danchi fujin

1962

Mama, I Need You!

0/0

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...

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Mama, I Need You!

1938

Pastoral Symphony

9/1

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

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Pastoral Symphony

1960

The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo

0/0

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

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The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo

1950

Akogare no Hawaii kôro

0/0

Akogare no Hawaii kôro

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Akogare no Hawaii kôro

1962

My Geisha

6.762/21

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version...

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My Geisha

1941

Kodakara fūfu

7/1

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Kodakara fūfu

1942

Green Earth

0/0

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japa...

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Green Earth

1939

The Fighting Firemen

0/0

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

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The Fighting Firemen

1951

Ginza Cosmetics

6.5/14

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs,...

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Ginza Cosmetics

1941

Hideko the Bus Conductor

7.333/9

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dw...

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Hideko the Bus Conductor

1940

明朗五人男

0/0

1940 Japanese movie

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明朗五人男

1949

Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo

6/1

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their lead...

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Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo

1964

Song of Happiness

9/1

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

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Song of Happiness

1950

A Mother's Love

0/0

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

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A Mother's Love

1953

Love Letter

6.845/29

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

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Love Letter

1961

Marriageable Age

7/1

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father’s roo...

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Marriageable Age

1950

Beyond the Hills

0/0

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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Beyond the Hills

1952

Geisha Waltz

0/0

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

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Geisha Waltz

1950

Amakara chindōchū

0/0

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...

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Amakara chindōchū

1954

A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival

0/0

Japanese musical.

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A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival

1936

I Am a Cat

6/1

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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I Am a Cat

1961

Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki

0/0

Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi Fuku...

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Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki

1952

Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo

1961

Boss Takes to the Road

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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Boss Takes to the Road

1937

Karayuki-san

0/0

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed...

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Karayuki-san

1945

A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

6.143/7

Young, timid bowmaster Kazuma seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumoured, drove the previous c...

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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

1944

This Happy Life

6.333/6

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

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This Happy Life

1943

The Song Lantern

7.286/7

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leadin...

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The Song Lantern

1955

Nonki saiban

0/0

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty,...

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Nonki saiban

1954

Ditch

7.5/4

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

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Ditch

1941

Yukiko and Natsuyo

6/1

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

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Yukiko and Natsuyo

1951

Nightshade Flower

8/1

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

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Nightshade Flower

1968

Age of Japanese Guerrillas

8/1

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for vagran...

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Age of Japanese Guerrillas

1968

Snake Woman's Curse

6/8

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died...

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Snake Woman's Curse

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!

1951

Tsuki yori no haha

0/0

Japanese drama film.

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Tsuki yori no haha

1968

I Sell My Husband

9/1

Japanese comedy film.

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I Sell My Husband

1957

The Blue Sky Maiden

6.935/23

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

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The Blue Sky Maiden

1949

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

6.5/4

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommen...

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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

1951

Wakai musumetachi

0/0

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Wakai musumetachi

1962

Red Love, Green Love

0/0

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Red Love, Green Love

1937

A Woman's Sorrows

6.714/7

Young Hiroko’s conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted to her mother’s choice of man for any ma...

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A Woman's Sorrows

1940

Wedding Day

0/0

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of...

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Wedding Day

1935

Drifting

0/0

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Drifting

1937

Learn from Experience, Part Two

6.333/6

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adve...

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Learn from Experience, Part Two

1940

China Night

10/1

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese mercha...

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China Night

1960

Wait for Tomorrow

0/0

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the...

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Wait for Tomorrow

1955

Mother and Son

8/1

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Mother and Son

1957

Good Luck to These Two

8/2

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

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Good Luck to These Two

1941

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

7/2

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A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

1958

The Boy Who Came Back

7.571/7

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

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The Boy Who Came Back

1937

Learn from Experience, Part One

6.667/6

Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family....

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Learn from Experience, Part One

1957

Employee Full of Fight

4/1

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Employee Full of Fight

1958

The Snowy Heron

5/4

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catc...

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The Snowy Heron

1960

Tsukinode no ketto

7/1

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Tsukinode no ketto

1956

Jacks and Jills

7/1

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Jacks and Jills

1957

On This Earth

7/1

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Un...

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On This Earth

1967

Five Star Private

7/1

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Five Star Private

1940

Hideko the Cheerleader

9/1

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

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Hideko the Cheerleader

1953

Tokyo Profile

6.5/2

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the cr...

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Tokyo Profile

1951

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

10/1

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer fest...

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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

1946

Lord for a Night

8/2

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a loca...

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Lord for a Night

1947

Invitation to Happiness

10/1

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

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Invitation to Happiness

1949

Kekkon Sanjûshi

0/0

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Kekkon Sanjûshi

1959

Image of a Mother

8.5/2

The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of he...

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Image of a Mother

1958

Megitsune Buro

0/0

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Megitsune Buro

1958

Love, Fireworks and Fire Bombs

0/0

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Love, Fireworks and Fire Bombs

1956

Marathon Samurai

0/0

The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda...

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Marathon Samurai

1950

Guntō nanban-sen

8/1

1950 Japanese movie

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Guntō nanban-sen

1965

Chained Bitch

0/0

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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Chained Bitch

1961

Botchan yarō seizoroi

0/0

1961 Japanese movie

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Botchan yarō seizoroi

1958

The Judo Champ

0/0

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his br...

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The Judo Champ

1960

Rumble Festival

0/0

1960 Toei film

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Rumble Festival

1954

Wakai hito-tachi

8/1

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Wakai hito-tachi

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

Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei

0/0

1958 Japanese movie

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Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei

1961

The Ginza Three Boys

0/0

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met...

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The Ginza Three Boys

1954

Five Sisters

8/4

The story of five sisters.

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Five Sisters

1958

Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

0/0

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...

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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring

1956

Will-o'-the-Wisp

9/1

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Will-o'-the-Wisp

1958

The Young Boss is Third Generation

0/0

A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing with gangsters and his old-fashioned g...

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The Young Boss is Third Generation

1959

A Young Boss Tries Really Hard

0/0

A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s season and his family’s honor—until a last-minute...

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A Young Boss Tries Really Hard

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

1946

Hinoki Butai

0/0

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for t...

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Hinoki Butai

1952

Mōjū Tsukai no Shōjo

0/0

Moju Tsukai no Shojois a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film

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Mōjū Tsukai no Shōjo

1949

Goodbye

8/1

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Goodbye

1937

Young Lady

8/1

The story deas with the experiences of an exceptionally strong-willed, middle class Tokyo "ojōsan" who comes to teach in a middle school in the countr...

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Young Lady

1936

The Responsibility of Kissing

0/0

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The Responsibility of Kissing

1949

Hills of a Foreign Country

0/0

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Hills of a Foreign Country

1963

Onsen Geisha

0/0

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Onsen Geisha