1946

An Enemy of the People

9/1

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

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An Enemy of the People

1956

Crazed Fruit

6.862/47

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

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Crazed Fruit

1964

The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

0/0

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become...

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The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

1962

Keshin

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Keshin

1940

Enoken's Bow-Wow General

0/0

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

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Enoken's Bow-Wow General

1941

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

7/2

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A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

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

1936

Sisters of the Gion

7.107/84

A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. Howeve...

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Sisters of the Gion

1950

White Beast

5.636/11

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

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White Beast

1939

The Town

0/0

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The Town

1942

The Man Who Waited

8/1

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snoop...

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The Man Who Waited

1937

Hometown

0/0

Set in a rural area of Shinshu, a drama in which a woman who graduated from a women's college in Tokyo with her brother's efforts opens up a new life...

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Hometown

1956

Semyonov's Gold Ingots

0/0

Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his go...

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Semyonov's Gold Ingots

1950

Escape at Dawn

6/4

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love wi...

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Escape at Dawn

1940

Keshô yuki

0/0

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Keshô yuki

1956

Jigoku no hatoba

0/0

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witness...

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Jigoku no hatoba

1937

Singing Yaji and Kita in Kyoto and Osaka

0/0

Musical movie depicting adventures of Yaji and Kita (from the famous novel) in Kyoto and Osaka

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Singing Yaji and Kita in Kyoto and Osaka

1938

Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip

0/0

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an...

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Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip

1957

Eight Hours of Terror

7.533/15

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

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Eight Hours of Terror

1940

Travelling Actors

6.375/8

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

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Travelling Actors

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

1947

Snow Trail

7/24

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojir...

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Snow Trail

1962

Hatoba de akuma ga warau toki

0/0

Japanese action film distributed by Taiho.

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Hatoba de akuma ga warau toki

1937

Yoru no hato

7/1

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

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Yoru no hato

1937

Nangoku taiheiki

10/1

Japanese film.

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Nangoku taiheiki

1939

Ichiyo Higuchi

8/1

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

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Ichiyo Higuchi

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

1962

The Fencing Master

5.875/4

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives fo...

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The Fencing Master

1941

A Fond Face from the Past

6/8

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-mi...

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A Fond Face from the Past

1942

Mother Never Dies

6.167/6

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

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Mother Never Dies

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

1940

The Burning Sky

0/0

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruite...

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The Burning Sky

1958

Red Pier

6.6/5

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cove...

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Red Pier

1941

The Battle of Kawanakajima

7/1

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the mai...

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The Battle of Kawanakajima

1957

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

0/0

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

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Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

1960

The Guitarist from the Sea

3.5/6

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...

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The Guitarist from the Sea

1960

Wind of Volcano

0/0

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the r...

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Wind of Volcano

1951

Dispersed Clouds

7/3

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Ose...

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Dispersed Clouds

1956

Song of the Underworld

0/0

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshi...

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Song of the Underworld

1960

Mahiru no wana

0/0

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job afte...

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Mahiru no wana

1964

The Flower and the Sword

0/0

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gan...

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The Flower and the Sword

1939

Old Songs

0/0

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends to...

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Old Songs

1941

Iemitsu and Hikoza

0/0

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewh...

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Iemitsu and Hikoza

1955

Passion and Rifle Bullets

0/0

Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.

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Passion and Rifle Bullets

1963

The Third Will

7.667/3

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.

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The Third Will

1952

Ikiru

8.3/1336

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...

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Ikiru

1947

Chikagai nijuyojikan

10/1

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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Chikagai nijuyojikan

1954

The Street Without Sun

7/1

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers' stead...

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The Street Without Sun

1957

Temptation

8/4

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student...

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Temptation

1960

Lone Wolf

0/0

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Lone Wolf

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

1937

The Woman Aiming for the Shogun

0/0

A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...

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The Woman Aiming for the Shogun

1941

Story of Leadership

9/1

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

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Story of Leadership

1939

Numazu Officer School

7/1

Japanese war movie

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Numazu Officer School

1942

Sky of Hope

8/1

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

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Sky of Hope

1966

Young Boss: Invitation to Fight

0/0

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Young Boss: Invitation to Fight

1938

Itahachi shima

9/1

Japanese movie

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Itahachi shima

1961

Quick Draw Joe

0/1

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the arm...

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Quick Draw Joe

1958

Ama Reef

0/0

1958 Japanese movie

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Ama Reef

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

1960

The Brawler

0/0

Taro Uno, nicknamed "Fighting Taro," has joined Hyakusho Trading Company, which is currently busy with bidding for Southeast Asian reparations supplie...

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The Brawler

1940

A World of Two

10/1

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A World of Two

1967

Shroud of Snow

7.75/4

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

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