Haruko Sugimura
Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子 Sugimura Haruko, January 6, 1909 – April 4, 1997) was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the movies of Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953).
After the war, she was highly praised by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Shiro Toyoda, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Tadashi Imai for her natural and realistic acting. In particular, she was a regular in Yasujiro Ozu's films, appearing in nine of his films.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2721 |
| Birthday | 1909-01-07 |
| Place of Birth | Hiroshima, Japan |
| Also Known As | Харуко Сугимура, هاروکو سوگیمورا, |
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
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
1942
The Day England Falls
10/1
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The Day England Falls
1965
Red Beard
8.145/407
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
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Red Beard
1963
Jidanya
0/0
Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the i...
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Jidanya
1949
Late Spring
8.019/475
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukic...
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Late Spring
1956
Early Spring
7.521/96
A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.
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Early Spring
1965
Kwaidan
7.722/449
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
1948
G-Men of Japan
0/0
The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies and...
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G-Men of Japan
1963
Youth After School
0/0
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was br...
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Youth After School
1961
The End of Summer
7.523/109
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mis...
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The End of Summer
1959
Good Morning
7.711/310
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of...
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Good Morning
1962
Till Tomorrow Is
8/1
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery and years of struggle, her condition p...
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Till Tomorrow Is
1954
Late Chrysanthemums
7.297/37
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days c...
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Late Chrysanthemums
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
6.892/88
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
1950
Four Seasons of Women
7/1
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
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Four Seasons of Women
1962
Musume to watashi
10/1
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Musume to watashi
1951
Repast
7.552/48
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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Repast
1956
Flowing
7.176/34
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...
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Flowing
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
1959
Floating Weeds
7.495/201
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
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Floating Weeds
1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
6.545/11
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined t...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1965
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
7/1
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-establ...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1953
Tokyo Story
8.169/1213
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder so...
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Tokyo Story
1951
Early Summer
7.847/206
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about...
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Early Summer
1957
Tokyo Twilight
7.703/153
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
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Tokyo Twilight
1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
6.716/67
In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolid...
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Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1962
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1964
Night Scandal
8/1
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Night Scandal
1965
Samurai Assassin
7.355/62
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assass...
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Samurai Assassin
1995
A Last Note
7.071/14
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring variou...
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A Last Note
1962
The Broken Commandment
6.75/10
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...
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The Broken Commandment
1955
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
7/16
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
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You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1946
Morning for the Osone Family
6.7/10
A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.
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Morning for the Osone Family
1958
Summer Clouds
7.633/15
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns ou...
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Summer Clouds
1969
Only Child
0/0
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Only Child
1973
The Petrified Forest
6.231/13
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estr...
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The Petrified Forest
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
6.6/15
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely d...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949
Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
6.571/14
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1941
White Heron
9/1
OSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But there is another young man, the son of a moneylender f...
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White Heron
1941
A Diary of Our Love
0/0
Drama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story.
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A Diary of Our Love
1947
Spring Awakens
6.833/6
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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Spring Awakens
1954
The Story of Shunkin
6.333/3
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
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The Story of Shunkin
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
1945
Umi no tora
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Umi no tora
1961
The Conspirator
6.667/6
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provi...
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The Conspirator
1945
Kanchō umi no bara
10/1
1945 Japanese movie
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Kanchō umi no bara
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
1951
愛情の旋風
0/0
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愛情の旋風
1968
Slave Factory
9/1
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
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Slave Factory
1944
Army
6.75/16
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
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Army
1961
The Gambler's Code
7.2/5
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a...
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The Gambler's Code
1951
Freedom School
7/1
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Co...
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Freedom School
1957
Hadaka no Machi
0/0
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Hadaka no Machi
1946
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
7.5/2
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes popu...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1948
Temptation
8/2
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
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Temptation
1956
Samurai of the Great Earth
7/1
A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".
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Samurai of the Great Earth
1995
The Written Face
8/1
In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in...
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The Written Face
1957
The Crowded Train
6.8/5
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...
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The Crowded Train
1960
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
7.3/10
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-law...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
1945
Umi o yobu koe
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Umi o yobu koe
1959
The Rokumeikan
0/0
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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The Rokumeikan
1961
The Rokumeikan
0/0
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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The Rokumeikan
1961
Buddha
10/1
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C...
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Buddha
1974
Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
7/2
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business....
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
5.429/7
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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Fireworks Over the Sea
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
Listen to the Voices of the Sea
7.5/2
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The fi...
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
1950
Till We Meet Again
6.7/10
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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Till We Meet Again
1950
The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1/2
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish t...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
1992
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
7.75/4
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha name...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1960
Deep River Melody
6/1
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
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Deep River Melody
1955
Life of Geisha
10/1
The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.
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Life of Geisha
1958
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
6.5/2
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
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The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1962
The Wiser Age
7.25/8
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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The Wiser Age
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
7/2
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story abo...
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The Woman Who Touched Legs
1940
Spring on Leper's Island
7.25/4
A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.
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Spring on Leper's Island
1948
Great X
0/0
A 1948 Japanese film.
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Great X
1960
Goodbye to Glory
0/0
A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.
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Goodbye to Glory
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...
1963
Mother
6.833/6
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
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Mother
1960
Runway to Hell
7/5
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.
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Runway to Hell
1953
Reminiscence
7/1
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cr...
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Reminiscence
1948
Children Hand in Hand
7/1
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
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Children Hand in Hand
1959
The Three Treasures
5.5/14
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...
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The Three Treasures
1975
The Fossil
7/12
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him t...
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The Fossil
1959
Beauty the Enemy
9/1
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
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Beauty the Enemy
1966
The Daphne
10/1
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffer...
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The Daphne
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
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
1963
The Navy
0/0
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...
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The Navy
1988
Sakura-tai Chiru
6.75/4
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for th...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
1952
Forbidden Path
8/1
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Forbidden Path
1953
Sunflower Girl
10/1
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...
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Sunflower Girl
1932
Namiko
0/0
An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western sources...
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Namiko
1947
Three-Fingered Detective
7/1
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large trac...
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Three-Fingered Detective
1965
With Beauty and Sorrow
5.7/17
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and le...
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With Beauty and Sorrow
1971
Onna no hanamichi
0/0
A film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by Matsutaro Kawaguchi for Hibari Misora to celebrate her 25th...
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Onna no hanamichi
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
6.25/8
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
1938
Nightingale
10/1
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
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Nightingale
1954
The Glorious Days
0/0
The Glorious Days
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The Glorious Days
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
0/0
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a weal...
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The Wind Blows Twice
1951
Beauty of Life
10/1
Inochi uruwashi
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Beauty of Life
1941
The Tale of Jiro
9/1
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The Tale of Jiro
1940
Ōhinata-mura
9/1
The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes from the...
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Ōhinata-mura
1958
Flower's Yearning
7/1
Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while navigating the pressures of family expectation and...
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Flower's Yearning
1946
Kigeki wa owarinu
0/0
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Kigeki wa owarinu
1955
Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
0/0
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Kokoro ni hana no saku hi made
1960
Banana
0/0
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