1955

Sisters

0/0

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city. The...

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Sisters

1929

Stick Girl

0/0

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Stick Girl

1929

Jinsei no uramichi

0/0

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Jinsei no uramichi

1937

Marching Song

0/0

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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Marching Song

1946

Utamaro and His Five Women

7.176/34

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him...

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Utamaro and His Five Women

1941

Ornamental Hairpin

6.696/23

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among the...

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Ornamental Hairpin

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

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

1939

Mother is Strong

0/0

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Mother is Strong

1939

Women at War

0/0

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to ma...

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Women at War

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

1931

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

7.5/2

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

1932

Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

8/2

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous S...

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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

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

1937

The Golden Demon

6/5

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becom...

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The Golden Demon

1955

All is Well

10/1

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All is Well

1936

The New Road: Akemi

8.5/2

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told...

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The New Road: Akemi

1930

Hard Times

8/1

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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Hard Times

1930

Walk Cheerfully

6.143/21

Raucous small-time thief Kenji falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, but when she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him until h...

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Walk Cheerfully

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

1934

Eclipse

0/0

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their home...

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Eclipse

1935

The Groom Talks in His Sleep

7.5/2

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes b...

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The Groom Talks in His Sleep

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

1942

Sumida River

0/0

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big st...

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Sumida River

1938

Half Virgin

0/0

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is also looking for a job for her, but Sabur...

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Half Virgin

1930

Love and Power

9/1

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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Love and Power

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

1945

Tengoku no hanayome

0/0

1945 Japanese movie

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Tengoku no hanayome

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

1933

Happy Times

7/1

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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Happy Times

1931

Silver Stream

7/1

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is no...

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Silver Stream

1939

Spring Thunder

0/0

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her c...

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Spring Thunder

1936

The New Road: Ryota

7.5/2

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the per...

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The New Road: Ryota

1939

New Woman Question and Answer

6/1

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko, one of the seven best fri...

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New Woman Question and Answer

1930

At a Crossroads

0/0

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At a Crossroads

1941

Dawn Chorus

0/0

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

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Dawn Chorus

1934

Living Things

8/1

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

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Living Things

1940

Namida no Sekinin

0/0

Based on Japanese author Toshitaro Takeda's novel of the same name, the film centers around Takako, who unveils a past relationship between her husban...

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Namida no Sekinin

1932

Tengoku ni musubu koi

9/1

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

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Tengoku ni musubu koi

1933

天龍下れば

0/0

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天龍下れば

1930

Song of Youth

0/0

Shirō Kuroki, the adopted son of the Yamada family, shares a deep and mutual love with his foster sister, Kinuko Yamada. His commitment to political a...

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Song of Youth

1930

The Big City: Explosion

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).

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The Big City: Explosion

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

ABC Lifeline

6.7/5

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

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ABC Lifeline

1932

Victory or Defeat

0/0

Japanese film from 1932, adapted from the novel by Kan Kikuchi. The first sound film from director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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Victory or Defeat

1932

Love in Tokyo

7/1

Japanese silent film from 1932.

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Love in Tokyo

1932

Storm Zone

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1932.

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Storm Zone

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

Sakura Ondo

7/1

Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to create...

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Sakura Ondo

1934

Constellations on Earth, Part One: Earth Chapter

10/1

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

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Constellations on Earth, Part One: Earth Chapter

1934

Constellations on Earth, Part 2: Constellations

9/1

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

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Constellations on Earth, Part 2: Constellations