Chōko Iida
Chôko Iida (飯田 蝶子, 15 April 1897 - 26 December 1972) was a Japanese actress. Her real name was Shigehara Tefu. She played working class women and grandmothers, and appeared in more than 300 films. Her husband was cameraman Shigehara Hideo.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9564 |
| Birthday | 1897-04-15 |
| Place of Birth | Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Iida Choko, Iida Chôko, Choko Iida, Тёко Иида, چوکو ایدا, Chôko Lida, |
1932
Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story
0/0
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Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story
1969
Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
7/1
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.
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Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
1955
Three Faces
10/1
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...
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Three Faces
1948
Drunken Angel
7.606/308
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the...
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Drunken Angel
1963
Itsudemo yume o
0/0
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
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Itsudemo yume o
1956
Dotanba
6/1
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contempor...
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Dotanba
1958
The Rickshaw Man
7.179/39
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
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The Rickshaw Man
1952
Love's Cheerleader
0/0
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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Love's Cheerleader
1962
The Crimson Sky
9/1
1962 Japanese movie
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The Crimson Sky
1934
A Story of Floating Weeds
7.208/65
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mi...
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A Story of Floating Weeds
1950
Sanshiro of Ginza
7/1
An early film by Kon Ichikawa
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Sanshiro of Ginza
1952
The Stand in Hakone
7/1
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
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The Stand in Hakone
1962
Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
7/1
1962 Japanese movie
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Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
1943
Middle-Aged Man
10/1
The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.
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Middle-Aged Man
1936
The Only Son
7.405/111
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...
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The Only Son
1947
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
7.203/59
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1933
Apart from You
7.043/23
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...
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Apart from You
1940
Nobuko
6.2/4
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
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Nobuko
1932
Arashi no naka no shojo
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Arashi no naka no shojo
1961
Wind and waves of the South
0/0
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school...
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Wind and waves of the South
1935
An Inn in Tokyo
7.078/32
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends...
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An Inn in Tokyo
1937
What Did the Lady Forget?
6.338/34
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
1933
Every-Night Dreams
7.214/21
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walke...
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Every-Night Dreams
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
1960
Yami wo saku kuchibue
0/0
A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an...
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Yami wo saku kuchibue
1926
Useless Button
0/0
A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over somethi...
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Useless Button
1953
The Wild Geese
6.667/12
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
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The Wild Geese
1933
Passing Fancy
6.586/29
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...
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Passing Fancy
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
1934
A Mother Should Be Loved
5.882/17
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for alway...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
1959
Flower Shop Curtain
10/1
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
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Flower Shop Curtain
1962
The Body
7.333/3
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
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The Body
1940
Utsukushiki Rinjin
0/0
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Utsukushiki Rinjin
1952
Divorce
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Divorce
1969
Your Favourite
0/0
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Your Favourite
1944
Sailor
0/0
Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the fami...
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Sailor
1962
Pig and Goldfish
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Pig and Goldfish
1936
Woman in the Mist
8/1
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel...
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Woman in the Mist
1934
The Genealogy of Women
10/1
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romanc...
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The Genealogy of Women
1936
Housewife Camellia
7/1
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to loo...
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Housewife Camellia
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
1939
Mother is Strong
0/0
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Mother is Strong
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
1941
Flower
0/0
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes mar...
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Flower
1937
The Trio's Engagements
7/1
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
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The Trio's Engagements
1949
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
6.2/5
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
1955
Forever a Woman
7.645/31
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her success...
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Forever a Woman
1933
Two Lanterns
7/1
A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke
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Two Lanterns
1950
Kagebōshi
0/0
On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and decided...
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Kagebōshi
1950
Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san
0/0
1950 Japanese movie
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Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san
1965
Young Guy at Sea
7.5/2
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, boar...
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Young Guy at Sea
1951
情艶一代女
0/0
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro...
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情艶一代女
1966
Gamblers' Luck
7.25/4
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge thems...
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Gamblers' Luck
1929
I Graduated, But...
5.76/25
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the fact...
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I Graduated, But...
1952
Fighting Yasubei
0/0
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of...
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Fighting Yasubei
1955
All is Well
10/1
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All is Well
1966
It Started In The Alps
8/2
Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.
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It Started In The Alps
1959
Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
0/0
Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
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Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
1967
Young Guy in the South Pacific
7/1
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the resc...
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Young Guy in the South Pacific
1970
Bravo, Young Guy
7/2
A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.
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Bravo, Young Guy
1970
Okinawa
0/0
A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.
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Okinawa
1962
Shin kitsune to tanuki
7/1
1962 Japanese movie
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Shin kitsune to tanuki
1954
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
0/0
Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named Onatsu...
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Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1968
The Million Dollar Pursuit
7.333/3
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
1931
The Lady and the Beard
6/10
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
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The Lady and the Beard
1932
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
6.5/22
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
1935
Okoto and Sasuke
6.75/4
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Jun...
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Okoto and Sasuke
1932
The Loyal 47 Ronin
0/0
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their f...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
1949
Stray Dog
7.558/351
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog
1942
A Certain Woman
7/1
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who...
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A Certain Woman
1958
Hana no yukyo-den
8/1
1958 Japanese movie
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Hana no yukyo-den
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook
7.167/12
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her a...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
1935
Burden of Life
6.625/8
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
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Burden of Life
1933
The Dancing Girl of Izu
6.667/3
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
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
1933
The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
7/1
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of earl...
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
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
1942
South Wind 2
0/0
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who propose...
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South Wind 2
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
1932
Until the Day We Meet Again
8/3
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...
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Until the Day We Meet Again
1959
おヤエの女中と幽霊
0/0
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おヤエの女中と幽霊
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
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
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
1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
6.889/9
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1956
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
6.333/6
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the ka...
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya
1955
The Motherless
9/1
Japanese drama film.
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The Motherless
1956
Tonari no yome
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Tonari no yome
1948
Ghosts Die at Dawn
0/0
At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of wind. As if manipulated by the mysterious voice, Kohe...
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Ghosts Die at Dawn
1944
Sinking the Unsinkable
0/0
Japanese Warmovie
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Sinking the Unsinkable
1961
The Other Woman
6.333/9
The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family fre...
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The Other Woman
1958
Detective Duel
6/1
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating th...
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Detective Duel
1957
Yellow Crow
6.714/7
Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been...
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Yellow Crow
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
1949
Flirtation in Spring
10/1
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
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Flirtation in Spring
1944
Jubilation Street
6.125/8
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
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Jubilation Street
1949
Akireta musumetachi
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Akireta musumetachi
1932
First Steps Ashore
7.5/2
The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.
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First Steps Ashore
1967
Las Vegas Free-For-All
10/1
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of thei...
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
1940
Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
0/0
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Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru
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
1954
The Cock Crows Twice
7/1
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
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The Cock Crows Twice
1937
Moon Over the Ruins
6.667/3
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
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Moon Over the Ruins
1956
Darkness at Noon
6.9/5
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
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Darkness at Noon
1962
Pride of the Campus
8.333/3
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing t...
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Pride of the Campus
1961
Sir Galahad in Campus
7/2
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
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Sir Galahad in Campus
1933
Happy Times
7/1
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
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Happy Times
1965
Campus A Go-Go
8/5
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.
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Campus A Go-Go
1937
Goodbye to the Front
0/0
A 1937 Japanese film.
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Goodbye to the Front
1958
The Naked Sun
7/1
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they ha...
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The Naked Sun
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
8/6
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
1934
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
7.385/13
Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic...
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Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
1959
Diary of Forsaken Love
9/1
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
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Diary of Forsaken Love
1955
Growing Up
7.167/6
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
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Growing Up
1935
An Innocent Maid
7/1
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neig...
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An Innocent Maid
1929
Treasure Mountain
10/1
A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current girlf...
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Treasure Mountain
1928
Physical Beauty
10/1
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge b...
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Physical Beauty
1962
Nippon no obaachan
7/1
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
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Nippon no obaachan
1951
Wakôdo no uta
0/0
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Wakôdo no uta
1964
Hot Spring Doctress
8/1
A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.
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Hot Spring Doctress
1967
Let's Go! Young Guy
7.5/2
College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuichi has his sights...
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Let's Go! Young Guy
1957
The Beauty Expert
0/0
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The Beauty Expert
1962
College Champ
7.5/2
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his h...
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College Champ
1958
Maria of the Ant Village
8/1
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been bapti...
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Maria of the Ant Village
1941
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
6.941/34
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1936
Family Meeting
0/0
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
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Family Meeting
1958
A Bridge for Two Alone
0/0
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A Bridge for Two Alone
1959
Echo Mountain
9/1
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Echo Mountain
1966
Come Marry Me
7/2
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despi...
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Come Marry Me
1945
The Young Women of Izu
8/1
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The Young Women of Izu
1957
The Eleventh Hour
7.429/7
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contempor...
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The Eleventh Hour
1964
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
9/1
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1929
Days of Youth
5.591/22
University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.
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Days of Youth
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
7/1
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
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
1957
On Wings of Love
10/0
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film...
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On Wings of Love
1936
College Is a Nice Place
9/1
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
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College Is a Nice Place
1951
Still I Live On
6/4
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical troupe...
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Still I Live On
1956
Twice on a Certain Night
10/1
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...
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Twice on a Certain Night
1957
Stepbrothers
7.429/7
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to re...
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Stepbrothers
1964
Japan's No. 1 Braggart
8/1
When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old manuscript about self-confidence to join the best c...
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Japan's No. 1 Braggart
1965
Sanshiro Sugata
7.1/10
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up...
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Sanshiro Sugata
1951
Who Knows a Woman's Heart
10/1
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
7.5/2
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1963
Young Guy in Hawaii
6.5/2
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii.
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Young Guy in Hawaii
1956
Typhoon Furor
10/1
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new o...
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Typhoon Furor
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
1933
Love
8/1
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the li...
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Love
1934
With a Single Sword Bale
7/1
Period film from 1934.
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With a Single Sword Bale
1963
The Hill is Full of Flowers
0/0
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
1950
Peko-chan and Densuke
0/0
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Peko-chan and Densuke
1961
Lovers of Ginza
7/1
1961 Japanese movie
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Lovers of Ginza
1955
The Samurai of Edo
6/1
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restora...
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The Samurai of Edo
1955
Rikidozan: Man of Fury
0/0
The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
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Rikidozan: Man of Fury
1967
Circuit-A-Go-Go
6/1
Rally themed entry in the Wakadaisho series
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Circuit-A-Go-Go
1970
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
6/1
Yuzo Kayama does skydiving.
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Get Your Sky, Young Guy
1969
Young Guy on Mt. Cook
6.5/2
Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand
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Young Guy on Mt. Cook
1969
Young Guy Graduates
6.5/2
Young Guy graduates from University.
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Young Guy Graduates
1968
Young Guy in Rio
6/1
Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his professor. There he meets his beautiful daughter (Mie N...
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Young Guy in Rio
1950
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
0/0
A continuation of the prior film (影法師).
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Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1958
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
9/1
1958 Japanese movie
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Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
1950
Guntō nanban-sen
8/1
1950 Japanese movie
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Guntō nanban-sen
1951
Over That Hill
0/0
Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to Japan....
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Over That Hill
1961
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1958
The Undefeated Woman
0/0
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The Undefeated Woman
1961
The Wind and Waves
0/0
A film by Shinobu Hashimoto.
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The Wind and Waves
1958
Holiday in Japan
0/0
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
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Holiday in Japan
1932
Tengoku ni musubu koi
9/1
Based on the Sakatayama double suicide
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Tengoku ni musubu koi
1943
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
0/0
Japanese war movie.
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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
1960
New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
8/1
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an acad...
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New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
1961
Playboy President
10/1
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.
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Playboy President
1952
Four Asakusa Sisters
0/0
Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.
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Four Asakusa Sisters
1966
A Company President's Life Story
7/1
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a...
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A Company President's Life Story
1971
やるぞみておれ為五郎
0/0
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やるぞみておれ為五郎
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
1929
Scenes of Love
0/0
Japanese film from 1929.
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Scenes of Love
1925
Brave Love
0/0
Japanese film from 1925.
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Brave Love
1925
No Need for Your Opinion
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1925 featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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No Need for Your Opinion
1926
Townspeople
8/1
Early Japanese silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
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Townspeople
1926
Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
0/0
Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from Kam...
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Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
1926
Young Master
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.
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Young Master
1959
おヤエの女中の大将
0/0
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おヤエの女中の大将
1926
Torrent
9/1
Japanese silent film from 1926, directed by Heinosuke Gosho and featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Torrent
1926
Her
9/1
1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.
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Her
1928
If Only She...
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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If Only She...
1928
A Wife Quits
0/0
Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend Hanako...
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A Wife Quits
1929
Echigo Lion
0/0
Japanese silent film from 1929.
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Echigo Lion
1929
The Father and His Son
10/1
Japanese silent film from 1929.
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The Father and His Son
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
1932
My Brother's a Fool
10/1
Japanese film from 1932.
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My Brother's a Fool
1932
The Sun Rises from the East
7/1
The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.
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The Sun Rises from the East
1933
The Cheerleading Captain's Love
8/1
Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.
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The Cheerleading Captain's Love
1933
Before the Wedding
0/0
Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Before the Wedding
1948
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
0/0
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
1949
Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
0/0
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
1933
Daphne
0/0
Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.
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Daphne
1934
Mother of the East
7/1
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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Mother of the East
1934
Honeymoon
0/0
Japanese film from 1934.
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Honeymoon
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
8/1
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
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The Valley Between Love and Death
1955
His Highness Surabaya
0/0
Hisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to pretend...
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