1960

The Angry Rambler

0/0

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

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The Angry Rambler

1970

Rebel Against Glory

0/0

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Rebel Against Glory

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

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

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

1937

Japanese Women's Textbook

9/1

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Japanese Women's Textbook

1937

The Beautiful Hawk

7/1

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version

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The Beautiful Hawk

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

1958

The Outsiders

7/1

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Ta...

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The Outsiders

1947

Once More

6.8/5

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over...

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Once More

1936

I Am a Cat

6/1

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

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I Am a Cat

1940

Bellflower

10/1

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poo...

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Bellflower

1939

Ichiyo Higuchi

8/1

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

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Ichiyo Higuchi

1959

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

8/1

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

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

1970

Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor

10/1

The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun Ichikaw...

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Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor

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

1941

The Poppy

0/0

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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The Poppy

1968

The House of the Sleeping Virgins

8/1

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

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The House of the Sleeping Virgins

1946

Those Who Make Tomorrow

10/1

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them stri...

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Those Who Make Tomorrow

1950

Red Peony of Night

0/0

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around the...

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Red Peony of Night

1938

Winter Inn

7/1

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...

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Winter Inn

1939

The Town

0/0

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The Town

1975

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Continuation

0/0

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being pe...

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The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Continuation

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

1935

Kaguya Hime

7/1

Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.

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Kaguya Hime

1939

Shanghai Landing Party

5/1

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a document...

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Shanghai Landing Party

1952

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

9/1

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I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

1957

The Story of Pure Love

6.833/6

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately tr...

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The Story of Pure Love

1947

Actress

7/1

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a s...

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Actress

1940

Flowers Blooming In the Storm

8/1

Jidaigeki from 1940

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Flowers Blooming In the Storm

1975

Let's Go, Grandma!

10/1

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling he...

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Let's Go, Grandma!

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

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

1967

Japan's Longest Day

7.242/31

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...

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Japan's Longest Day

1938

Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March

0/0

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese Navy...

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Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March

1960

Young Nude

0/0

1960 Japanese movie

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Young Nude

1976

Ninjutsu: Sasuke Saruhi

0/0

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

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Ninjutsu: Sasuke Saruhi

1957

Atarashii Sebiro

0/0

This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love.

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Atarashii Sebiro

1957

Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2

8/1

After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but proves his integrity, winning respect and a return...

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Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2

1957

Diary of a Successful Salaryman

9/1

Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry but winning his way in through persistence—and a mix...

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Diary of a Successful Salaryman

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

1951

Lady Takarazuka

0/0

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Lady Takarazuka

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

1954

An Inn at Osaka

7.538/13

Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries...

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An Inn at Osaka

1936

The Responsibility of Kissing

0/0

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The Responsibility of Kissing

1955

The Immortal Pitcher

0/0

Baseball movie about Eiji Sawamura.

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The Immortal Pitcher

1940

A World of Two

10/1

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A World of Two