Tomoko Naraoka
Tomoko Naraoka (奈良岡 朋子 Naraoka Tomoko, born December 1, 1929) is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongō (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design.
Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel Naomi. In 1981 she appeared in Rengō Kantai (lit. "Combined Fleet", United States title: The Imperial Navy). She also appeared in Torajirō Sarada Kinenbi (a 1988 movie in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series) as well as eight films in the Tsuribaka Nisshi series. Naraoka has appeared in several NHK Taiga dramas. Her first was the 1969 Ten to Chi to, in the role of the wife of Uesugi Sadazane. She portrayed Kita no Mandokoro (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) in Haru no Sakamichi (1971). Her next Taiga drama appearance was in 1976 in Kaze to Kumo to Niji to. She narrated the 1986 Inochi and 1989 Kasuga no Tsubone. She is the narrator of the 2008 drama Atsuhime. Other noteworthy narration roles include the 1983 serialized morning television drama Oshin. She also narrated Onna wa Dokyō (1992) and Haru Yo Koi (1994–1995). A nonfiction voice role was in the series Kiwameru: Nihon no Bi to Kokoro.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0269 |
| Birthday | 1929-12-01 |
| Place of Birth | Komagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 奈良岡 朋子, |
1980
Wings of Icarus' Flight
0/0
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening acrobat...
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Wings of Icarus' Flight
2020
THE LAST GOZE
0/0
A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a go...
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THE LAST GOZE
2008
Ponyo
7.754/4782
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for...
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Ponyo
1963
Beautiful Calendar
0/0
Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...
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Beautiful Calendar
1962
Nuki uchi fūraibō
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Nuki uchi fūraibō
1999
Railroad Man
7.089/45
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is...
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Railroad Man
1985
Spring Bell
7/3
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, d...
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Spring Bell
2022
The Zen Diary
7.154/13
An essayist, he finds peace in his mountain life. His routine is pleasantly disturbed by occasional visits from Machiko, his editor and love interest,...
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The Zen Diary
1957
Ikebana
6.4/14
The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director...
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Ikebana
1971
Morning Fog
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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
1970
Apart from Life
6.2/5
A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
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Apart from Life
1985
Demon
7.5/6
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal...
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Demon
1960
Everything Goes Wrong
6.688/16
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...
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Everything Goes Wrong
1977
Ballad of Orin
7.136/22
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
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Ballad of Orin
1968
Hymn to a Tired Man
8/5
During WWII, Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son has fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.
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Hymn to a Tired Man
1970
Gambling Den Desire
0/0
In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Ise...
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Gambling Den Desire
1955
Yukiko
0/0
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Yukiko
1966
Your Life
0/0
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
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Your Life
2014
Disconcerto
6.4/7
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school cl...
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Disconcerto
1962
Asu no hanayome
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Asu no hanayome
2004
Half a Confession
7.889/9
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its chara...
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Half a Confession
2004
Free and Easy 15
8.333/3
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
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Free and Easy 15
2010
Railways
7/7
A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911. Ha...
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Railways
1959
I Will Challenge
0/0
Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during tra...
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I Will Challenge
2001
The Firefly
7.5/2
Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a provin...
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The Firefly
1970
Dodes'ka-den
7.101/153
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and s...
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Dodes'ka-den
1969
Ruthless Gambler
8/1
Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young m...
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Ruthless Gambler
2006
Free and Easy 17
5.8/6
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.
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Free and Easy 17
1961
Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
0/0
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and so...
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
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
1958
Night Drum
5.929/14
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially gree...
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Night Drum
1966
Cry for Sorrow
0/0
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.
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Cry for Sorrow
2013
Izakaya Moheji 2
0/0
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro...
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Izakaya Moheji 2
2015
Izakaya Moheji 4
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A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro...
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Izakaya Moheji 4
2014
Izakaya Moheji 3
0/0
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The pro...
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Izakaya Moheji 3
2017
Tatara Samurai
6.667/3
In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samur...
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Tatara Samurai
1987
River of Fireflies
9/1
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcomi...
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River of Fireflies
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
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
1997
Free and Easy 9
7.5/4
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veter...
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Free and Easy 9
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
1962
Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
0/0
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Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
1965
The Song of Love
0/0
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
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The Song of Love
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!
1972
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
6.333/6
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
2001
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
7.25/4
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and H...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
1998
Free and Easy 10
7/5
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.
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Free and Easy 10
2005
Free and Easy 16
8/3
Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.
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Free and Easy 16
2014
300 Million Yen Robbery
6.5/2
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300 Million Yen Robbery
1964
Eddy Currents of Life
0/0
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...
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Eddy Currents of Life
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
1965
The Stars and I Decided...
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The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.
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The Stars and I Decided...
1980
May Love Be Restored
0/0
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
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May Love Be Restored
1980
Twenty-Four Eyes
0/0
TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes.
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Twenty-Four Eyes
1949
A Fool's Love
9/1
Adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel whit the same name. It is perversely erotic relationship between a young salaryman and his teenage wife whom...
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A Fool's Love
2016
Izakaya Moheji 5
0/0
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Izakaya Moheji 5
2017
Izakaya Moheji 6
7/1
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Izakaya Moheji 6
2011
Izakaya Moheji
6/1
A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment…for their bodies and their souls. The pro...
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Izakaya Moheji
1978
Take Me Away!
8/3
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Toky...
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Take Me Away!
1991
War and Youth
6.833/3
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up,...
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War and Youth
1968
The Sweet Interns
8/1
The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
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The Sweet Interns
1964
The Scent of Incense
7.2/10
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d...
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The Scent of Incense
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
1981
The Imperial Navy
6.6/16
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship duri...
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The Imperial Navy
2007
Free and Easy 18
7.5/2
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
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Free and Easy 18
1991
Noh Mask Murders
6.333/6
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater...
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Noh Mask Murders
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
1969
Gambler's Dilemma
0/0
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.
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Gambler's Dilemma
2019
The Takatsu River
0/0
Set along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river, this drama portrays various people living in an area bur...
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The Takatsu River
1958
Osaka no kaze
0/0
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Osaka no kaze
1961
Mahiru no yūkai
0/0
A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a c...
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Mahiru no yūkai
1988
マルゴォの杯
0/0
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マルゴォの杯
1965
The Witness' Chair
6.5/2
Murder case and trial.
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The Witness' Chair
1966
Kokoro no sanmyaku
9/1
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
1961
Pigs and Battleships
7.125/64
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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Pigs and Battleships
1959
The Song of the Cart
6.9/10
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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The Song of the Cart
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
1991
My Sons
7.818/11
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, bu...
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My Sons
1971
The Earth is Born Again
0/0
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone developm...
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The Earth is Born Again
1961
Aoime no Sugao
0/0
A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of youth.
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Aoime no Sugao
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
1964
The Flame of Devotion
6.8/5
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of w...
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The Flame of Devotion
1990
Ningen no sabaku
0/0
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Ningen no sabaku
1967
Let's find your sweetheart
0/0
Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts working to earn money for his mother's surgery afte...
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Let's find your sweetheart
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
1990
Sea of Wandering
9/1
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel o...
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Sea of Wandering
1969
Ex Convict: Sword Storm
0/0
1969 yakuza movie.
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Ex Convict: Sword Storm
1964
Call My Black Dice
0/0
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