Masami Shimojō
Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 100 films. Hoping to become a film director, Shimojō traveled to Tokyo in 1935 but ended up joining a theater troupe, debuting on stage in 1936. He made his film debut in 1940, but continued on stage well after World War II, primarily as a member of Gekidan Mingei. He was most known, however, for playing the uncle of Torajiro Kuruma in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9426 |
| Birthday | 1915-08-26 |
| Place of Birth | Busan, South Korea |
| Also Known As | 下条正巳, 下絛正巳, |
1993
Tora-san's Matchmaker
9/3
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring...
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
1970
City of Beasts
6/4
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely gett...
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City of Beasts
1954
Turbid Youth
9/1
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayash...
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Turbid Youth
1995
Tora-san to the Rescue
7.75/4
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
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Tora-san to the Rescue
1960
Jungle Block
7/1
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a resu...
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Jungle Block
1996
Kids Return
6.902/336
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer,...
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Kids Return
1966
I Love The Sun
0/0
A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.
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I Love The Sun
1959
Break Down that Wall
7.5/2
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Break Down that Wall
1971
Morning Fog
0/0
Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a p...
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Morning Fog
1962
A Torrent of Life
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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A Torrent of Life
1969
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
8/1
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju...
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
1976
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
8.5/4
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1965
Blood and Sea
0/0
The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her grandmother...
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Blood and Sea
1961
Standing Towards the Great Forest
0/0
Strife between competing lumber mills.
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Standing Towards the Great Forest
1982
Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen
8/1
Sequel to "Nomugi Pass"
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Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen
1974
Tora-san's Lullaby
7.8/5
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again....
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Tora-san's Lullaby
1962
Last Round
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Last Round
1975
Tora-san, the Intellectual
8.25/4
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to s...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
1995
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
0/0
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1992
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2
0/0
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Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2
1976
Tora-san's Pure Love
9/3
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...
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Tora-san's Pure Love
1977
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
9/3
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1962
Asu no hanayome
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Asu no hanayome
1977
Tora-san Plays Cupid
7.5/4
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
1967
Lost Love
7/1
Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the...
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Lost Love
1989
Tora-san, My Uncle
8.25/4
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
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Tora-san, My Uncle
1992
Tora-san Makes Excuses
8/3
Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo comes to care for him and see Izumi. Meanwhile, Izumi...
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
1978
Stage-Struck Tora-san
8.333/3
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
1964
Punishment of a Lawless Villian
0/0
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacl...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
1990
Tsugumi
7.5/2
Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a f...
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Tsugumi
1978
Talk of the Town Tora-san
8/3
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
1992
Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts
7/1
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
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Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts
1979
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
8.667/3
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
7/7
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1966
The Great White Tower
6.933/15
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant...
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The Great White Tower
1963
I Have the Sun in My Back
0/0
Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But...
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I Have the Sun in My Back
1993
Many Happy Returns
6.9/5
A young man named Kazuo Takayama runs across a religious group whose founder cures an old woman in a wheelchair, restoring her power to walk by a simp...
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Many Happy Returns
1981
This Is Noriko
10/1
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...
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This Is Noriko
1975
Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
6/5
Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone i...
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Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
1958
Skinny and Fatty
10/1
Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
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Skinny and Fatty
1968
The Day the Sun Rose
8/2
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned cust...
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The Day the Sun Rose
1955
The Wolves
6.889/9
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a pla...
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The Wolves
1961
Hana to musume to shiroi michi
0/0
One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
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Hana to musume to shiroi michi
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
1962
Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
0/0
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Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
1975
The Village
7/11
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, b...
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The Village
1966
I'll Never Cry!
0/0
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in...
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I'll Never Cry!
1966
Youth A Go Go!
0/0
Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."
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Youth A Go Go!
1984
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
8/3
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san t...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1977
Village of Eight Gravestones
7/10
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of nov...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
1964
Whirlpool of Flesh
10/1
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
1958
The Seasons of Love
3/3
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...
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The Seasons of Love
1980
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
8.333/3
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1955
The Heart
7/14
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship...
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The Heart
1962
Love in Ginza
5/1
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and...
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Love in Ginza
1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
8/3
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
2001
Rokushukan Private Moment
0/0
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Rokushukan Private Moment
1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
8/3
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living Nati...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1988
Oración
6.667/3
Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or "prayer". When Oracion is grown,...
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Oración
1980
Foster Daddy, Tora!
8/3
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
1975
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
7.75/4
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1981
Tora-san's Promise
8.667/3
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all hi...
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Tora-san's Promise
1981
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
9/3
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his fam...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1982
Tora-san, the Expert
8.667/2
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Sabur...
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Tora-san, the Expert
1979
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
8.25/4
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1974
Moscow, My Love
5.227/11
A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success, for...
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Moscow, My Love
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
8.333/3
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
1983
Tora-san Goes Religious?
7.667/3
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
1986
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
7.333/3
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1985
Tora-san's Island Encounter
8.333/3
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985
Tora-san, the Go-Between
6.875/4
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a n...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
1987
Tora-san Plays Daddy
8.333/3
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mothe...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987
Tora-san Goes North
9/4
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter,...
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Tora-san Goes North
1988
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
8.333/3
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
8.667/3
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1956
The Shadow of Fear
0/0
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors abou...
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The Shadow of Fear
1958
Forever, My Love
0/0
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Forever, My Love
1961
Pacific Porters
10/1
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the edit...
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Pacific Porters
1955
Ishigassen
0/0
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a...
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Ishigassen
1970
It's a Man's Way of Life
8/1
Comedy about a lewd man (Fujita) learning to enjoy life's little pleasures.
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It's a Man's Way of Life
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
1964
The Bride is Fifteen
0/0
Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and casual...
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The Bride is Fifteen
1959
A Love that Wagers the World
0/0
The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaoka) was at a contemporary art exhibition at the Uen...
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A Love that Wagers the World
1968
An Angel's Temptation
8/1
1968 Japanese movie
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An Angel's Temptation
1958
Goodbye Teenage Love
0/0
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Goodbye Teenage Love
1985
The Fascination
0/0
After winning a national essay contest, Sakura travels to Europe and meets photographer Mark at the Acropolis. They settle in France, where her presen...
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The Fascination
1990
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
7.667/3
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1991
Tora-san Confesses
8.333/3
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izum...
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Tora-san Confesses
1994
Tora-san's Easy Advice
8.5/4
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an injure...
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Tora-san's Easy Advice
1997
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
8.5/2
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1965
The Witness' Chair
6.5/2
Murder case and trial.
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The Witness' Chair
1996
The Rainbow Seeker
7/2
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...
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The Rainbow Seeker
1986
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
6.625/8
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. Afte...
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1965
青春のお通り
0/0
1965 Nikkatsu movie.
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青春のお通り
1984
Lovely Days
10/1
The film depicts the life of a man who works at a crematorium he inherited from his father. An adaptation of Yoshiko Shigekane's novel Smoke of Mounta...
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Lovely Days
1958
Omoni to shounen
0/0
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