1981

Fifth Movement

7/1

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinis...

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Fifth Movement

1962

Kono ni uruwashi

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Kono ni uruwashi

1962

Foundry Town

7.8/10

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

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Foundry Town

1952

Children of Hiroshima

7.143/42

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing...

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Children of Hiroshima

1959

Break Down that Wall

7.5/2

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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Break Down that Wall

1961

Don't Ever Die, Mama!

0/0

Yoshiuki and his older brother Yoshihisa are in school. They live with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet while their father is in the hosp...

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Don't Ever Die, Mama!

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

1954

Cape Ashizuri

9/1

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist dise...

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Cape Ashizuri

1959

Yuganda tsuki

0/0

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Yuganda tsuki

1955

Mune yori mune ni

10/1

Japanese drama

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Mune yori mune ni

1965

The Song of the Bwana Toshi

7/1

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction wi...

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The Song of the Bwana Toshi

1956

Fountainhead

6/9

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

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Fountainhead

1960

The Sleeping Beast Within

6.833/12

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown.

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The Sleeping Beast Within

1952

Vacuum Zone

8.5/2

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn ab...

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Vacuum Zone

1956

How Sorrowful

0/0

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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How Sorrowful

1960

The War Without Weapons

0/0

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amend...

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The War Without Weapons

1963

Beyond the Green Hills

7/1

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

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Beyond the Green Hills

1965

Story of a Prostitute

6.538/39

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal...

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Story of a Prostitute

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

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

The Song of the Season

0/0

A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.

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The Song of the Season

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

1987

"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2

7.5/2

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".

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"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2

1963

Gone in the Rain

0/0

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from t...

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Gone in the Rain

1993

The Tomb & the Divorce

0/0

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male fr...

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The Tomb & the Divorce

1994

Crest of Betrayal

5.417/12

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beauti...

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Crest of Betrayal

1959

Kikenna onna

0/0

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

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Kikenna onna

1964

The Beautiful Teenager

0/0

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

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The Beautiful Teenager

1963

Distant Love

6/1

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

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Distant Love

1965

A Chain of Islands

6.833/6

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncov...

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A Chain of Islands

1961

The Matsukawa Incident

10/1

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

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The Matsukawa Incident

1986

Desperate Pursuit

10/1

In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's lawy...

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Desperate Pursuit

1986

House on Fire

4.556/9

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

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House on Fire

1984

Jugyo Sankan no Onna

0/0

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised t...

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Jugyo Sankan no Onna

1966

The Swan Elegy

0/0

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering between...

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The Swan Elegy

1953

Miniature

7.75/4

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope i...

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Miniature

1962

Akitsu Hot Springs

6.615/26

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

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Akitsu Hot Springs

1956

The Thick-Walled Room

7.167/21

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

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The Thick-Walled Room

1969

Tenchu!

6.915/41

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

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Tenchu!

1989

Kaze no Sumu Ie

0/0

A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and child whose paths have crossed.

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Kaze no Sumu Ie

1954

Wakai hito-tachi

8/1

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Wakai hito-tachi

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

1965

The Four Loves

0/0

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of...

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The Four Loves

1959

High Teen

0/0

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this wor...

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High Teen

1962

Ningen Gari

0/0

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

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Ningen Gari

1980

Dead Beauty at the Bottom of the Sea, Hit Song is a Killing Tape

0/0

Set in the glamorous world of songwriting, this is the story of a failed songwriter who kills his mistress, a witness to a hit-and-run accident.

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Dead Beauty at the Bottom of the Sea, Hit Song is a Killing Tape

1983

Female Doctor in the Surgical Ward

0/0

Izumi Kayo, who works as a surgeon at a university medical school affiliated hospital in the Sanin region, is in love with Katano Shuji, a lecturer wh...

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Female Doctor in the Surgical Ward

1958

Omoni to shounen

0/0

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Omoni to shounen

1993

Rainbow Bridge

8/1

Set in Edo-era Kyoto, this drama depicts the adolescent battles and the love between parents and children who are born and raised in the same tenement...

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Rainbow Bridge