1944

Thus the Divine Wind Blows

0/0

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

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Thus the Divine Wind Blows

1952

Mother

6.95/20

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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Mother

1962

誘拐

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1962 Japanese movie

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誘拐

1962

情熱の詩人啄木

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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情熱の詩人啄木

1952

Love's Cheerleader

0/0

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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Love's Cheerleader

1952

Riverside Fish Market Empire

0/0

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

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Riverside Fish Market Empire

1962

Her Hidden Past

7/3

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geis...

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Her Hidden Past

1952

Vendetta of a Samurai

6.625/16

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

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Vendetta of a Samurai

1960

Black Sea of Trees

0/0

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her sister...

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Black Sea of Trees

1962

Otoko to onna no sei no naka

9/1

1962 Japanese movie

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Otoko to onna no sei no naka

1955

元祿美少年記

10/1

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence. When...

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元祿美少年記

1956

花笠太鼓

0/0

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works as a de...

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花笠太鼓

1960

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

6.545/11

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

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Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

1960

Anchin and Kiyohime

4.75/4

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spi...

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Anchin and Kiyohime

1954

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

0/0

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

1948

Kōfuku no genkai

0/0

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other hand,...

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Kōfuku no genkai

1945

Saigo no kikyō

0/0

1945 Japanese movie

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Saigo no kikyō

1951

The Lady of Musashino

6.167/18

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

1945

Umi o yobu koe

0/0

1945 Japanese movie

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Umi o yobu koe

1956

こゝに幸あり・後篇 花咲く朝

8/1

1956 Japanese movie

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こゝに幸あり・後篇 花咲く朝

1970

The Ambitious

7.308/13

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan...

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The Ambitious

1956

こゝに幸あり・前篇 誘惑の都

7/1

1956 Japanese movie

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こゝに幸あり・前篇 誘惑の都

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

1938

A Pebble by the Wayside

6.333/3

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a youn...

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A Pebble by the Wayside

1941

Submarine Number One

7/1

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film t...

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Submarine Number One

1953

The Battleship Yamato

0/0

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshid...

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The Battleship Yamato

1951

Akatsuki no Kyūshū

0/0

Japanese drama film.

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Akatsuki no Kyūshū

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

1954

The Bronze Monster

0/0

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal...

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The Bronze Monster

1955

The Vassal's Neck

10/1

Japanese film.

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The Vassal's Neck

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

1950

I Saw a Phantom Fish

0/0

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

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I Saw a Phantom Fish

1958

Hobo Village

0/0

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

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Hobo Village

1968

The Pit of Death

9/1

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named...

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The Pit of Death

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

1949

Delinquent Girl

7/1

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is presum...

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Delinquent Girl

1955

Next Door to Happiness

0/0

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

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Next Door to Happiness

1963

She Came For Love

9/1

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a sec...

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She Came For Love

1967

Journey

7/1

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Journey

1960

The Rockabilly Lady

9/1

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The Rockabilly Lady

1959

The Path I Remember

0/0

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

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The Path I Remember

1954

Dancing Girls of Izu

9/1

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An a...

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Dancing Girls of Izu

1963

Teinen Taishoku

0/0

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Teinen Taishoku

1940

Kaze no Matasaburô

10/1

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind sprite.

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Kaze no Matasaburô

1939

Explosion!

6.5/2

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama whic...

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Explosion!

1937

Unending Advance

10/1

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of...

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Unending Advance

1967

Ginza for Two

0/0

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the com...

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Ginza for Two

1966

Shojo jutai

9/1

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Shojo jutai

1960

Ah Special Attack Corps

0/0

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

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Ah Special Attack Corps

1963

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

0/0

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom,...

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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

1961

Bara to ryū

0/0

1961 Japanese movie

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Bara to ryū

1954

The Bronze Devil

0/0

A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a prized clock, leading to a uranium deposi...

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The Bronze Devil

1966

わが愛を星に祈りて

0/0

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わが愛を星に祈りて

1952

風の噂のリル

0/0

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his disc...

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風の噂のリル

1953

Half Virgin

0/0

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Half Virgin

1961

Wakai nakama

0/0

1961 Japanese movie

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Wakai nakama

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

1961

夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ

0/0

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夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ

1956

Seishun no oto

9/1

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Seishun no oto

1957

Monkey Business

0/0

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Monkey Business