Kōji Mitsui
Mitsui Koji ( March 6, 1910 - April 20, 1979 ) was a Japanese actor. His real name was Mitsui Hikohide. After the war, he played an active role as a supporting actor in films directed by Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu . His former stage name was Mitsui Hideo.
Changed his stage name to Mitsui Koji in Ozu's Hen in the Wind (1948) . His role as the playboy Kisaburo in Kurosawa Akira 's The Lower Depths (1957) won him the Best Supporting Actor award at the 12th Mainichi Film Awards and the 8th Blue Ribbon Awards, solidifying his status as a supporting actor.
After going freelance in 1960, he worked not only in films but also in television dramas and on stage, but after undergoing surgery for a stomach ulcer in 1971, his health deteriorated and he scaled back his acting career.
He died of heart failure on April 20, 1979 at a hospital in Kamakura. He was 69 years old.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9247 |
| Birthday | 1910-03-06 |
| Place of Birth | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Also Known As | 三井秀男, Кодзи Мицуи, |
1951
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
8/1
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka stylishly...
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
1958
The Hidden Fortress
7.982/699
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who g...
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The Hidden Fortress
1961
Hikkoshi yatsure
0/0
Manao Horiuchi movie
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Hikkoshi yatsure
1932
No Blood Relation
7.324/17
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years be...
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No Blood Relation
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.132/279
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuri...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
7.701/278
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d...
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The Bad Sleep Well
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
7/1
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
1957
The Lower Depths
7.082/141
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that tur...
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The Lower Depths
1963
High and Low
8.359/1113
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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High and Low
1961
Epitaph to My Love
7.75/4
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose origin...
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Epitaph to My Love
1962
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1962
Otoko no Uta
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Otoko no Uta
1962
Zoku aizen katsura
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Zoku aizen katsura
1934
A Story of Floating Weeds
7.208/65
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mi...
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A Story of Floating Weeds
1964
Woman in the Dunes
8.21/512
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and...
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Woman in the Dunes
1959
Floating Weeds
7.495/201
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
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Floating Weeds
1946
Iki na fûraibô
0/0
A lost film by Masahiro Makino
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Iki na fûraibô
1968
Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
6.968/31
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
1951
Carmen Comes Home
6.25/26
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
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Carmen Comes Home
1956
I Will Buy You
7.125/16
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.
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I Will Buy You
1965
A Fugitive from the Past
7.354/48
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, prov...
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A Fugitive from the Past
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
1934
A Mother Should Be Loved
5.882/17
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for alway...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
1962
The Body
7.333/3
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
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The Body
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
1953
Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
0/0
At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi Shirakawa, Kurama Tengu was attacked by the Shinsen...
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
1954
慶安水滸傳
0/0
Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's body...
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慶安水滸傳
1954
Beautiful Tengu
0/0
During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from their hometown, Tanaka Genzo and Fujita K...
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Beautiful Tengu
1967
The Greatest Challenge of All
7/1
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.
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The Greatest Challenge of All
1955
Ejima and Ikushima
0/0
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku...
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Ejima and Ikushima
1948
A Hen in the Wind
7.138/58
Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to the doctor but has no means of paying, s...
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A Hen in the Wind
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
1954
Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery
0/0
Bored Hatamoto film #16.
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Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery
1959
Koko ni otoko ari
0/0
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Koko ni otoko ari
1962
Shin kitsune to tanuki
7/1
1962 Japanese movie
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Shin kitsune to tanuki
1939
Haha o tataeru uta
0/0
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
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Haha o tataeru uta
1954
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
0/0
Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named Onatsu...
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Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1954
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
0/0
The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child!...
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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
1935
A Hero of Tokyo
7/2
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is...
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A Hero of Tokyo
1962
A Roaring Trade
0/0
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A Roaring Trade
1933
Dragnet Girl
6.704/27
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
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Dragnet Girl
1933
The Boss's Son at College
7.5/2
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufa...
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The Boss's Son at College
1965
Red Beard
8.143/406
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
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Red Beard
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
1943
Our Planes Fly South
0/0
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Our Planes Fly South
1950
Scandal
6.896/96
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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Scandal
1934
Street Without End
6.636/11
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrig...
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Street Without End
1958
Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
9/1
1958 Japanese movie
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Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
1951
Five Men of Edo
6/2
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at eve...
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Five Men of Edo
1962
The Inheritance
7.214/28
A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
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The Inheritance
1960
Irohanihoheto
0/0
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...
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Irohanihoheto
1955
Here Is a Spring
8.2/5
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortl...
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Here Is a Spring
1958
Botchan
0/0
1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Botchan
1955
Chutaro of Banba
5/3
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story...
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Chutaro of Banba
1953
Love Letter
6.845/29
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
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Love Letter
1961
With Wife, Children, and Friends
0/0
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...
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With Wife, Children, and Friends
1958
Firefly Light
9/1
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small i...
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Firefly Light
1971
The Battle of Okinawa
7.821/14
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...
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The Battle of Okinawa
1961
Furimuita hanayome
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Furimuita hanayome
1955
The Vassal's Neck
10/1
Japanese film.
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The Vassal's Neck
1957
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
8/2
Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
1959
Thus Another Day
5.714/7
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out t...
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Thus Another Day
1961
Killers on Parade
6.464/14
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic compet...
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Killers on Parade
1934
The Genealogy of Women
10/1
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romanc...
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The Genealogy of Women
1955
Christ in Bronze
9/1
Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.
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Christ in Bronze
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
5.875/8
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1938
Children of the Sun
9/1
At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako’s past includes being sold into servitude and an unrecognised preg...
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Children of the Sun
1945
Victory Song
6/5
An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.
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Victory Song
1963
Young Swordsman
6.667/12
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the la...
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Young Swordsman
1935
Lumberjack and Lady
7/2
A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some gr...
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Lumberjack and Lady
1948
Great X
0/0
A 1948 Japanese film.
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Great X
1957
The Unbalanced Wheel
7/1
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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The Unbalanced Wheel
1962
Gang vs. Gang
7.333/3
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his form...
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Gang vs. Gang
1962
Tokyo Bay
7/1
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...
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Tokyo Bay
1962
Drunkard's Paradise
0/0
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses...
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Drunkard's Paradise
1964
How to Make Money
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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How to Make Money
1961
Incidental Murders
5/1
The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the h...
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Incidental Murders
1933
Happy Times
7/1
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
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Happy Times
1948
The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
9/1
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
0/0
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with...
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Tokyo Omnibus
1962
Hadashi no hanayome
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Hadashi no hanayome
1963
Legends of Honor
9/1
First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
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Legends of Honor
1960
Hot Corner Murder
0/0
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
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Hot Corner Murder
1951
Weeping Doll
0/0
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
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Weeping Doll
1952
Tange Sazen
10/1
Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an o...
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Tange Sazen
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
1969
Our Miyo-chan
0/0
Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.
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Our Miyo-chan
1953
Always in My Heart Part 2
6.5/4
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Always in My Heart Part 2
1953
Always in My Heart
6.8/4
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and...
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Always in My Heart
1958
Maria of the Ant Village
8/1
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been bapti...
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Maria of the Ant Village
1942
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
0/0
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The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1958
A Bridge for Two Alone
0/0
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A Bridge for Two Alone
1957
Times of Joy and Sorrow
9/2
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
1960
Only She Knows
0/0
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event cre...
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Only She Knows
1956
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
8/2
A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fiancé seeks revenge, he finds Namiji's cat helping...
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The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1957
A Case of Honor
0/0
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...
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A Case of Honor
1942
There Was a Father
6.97/83
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
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There Was a Father
1964
The Honest Fool
8/1
Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married,...
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The Honest Fool
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
5.429/7
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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Fireworks Over the Sea
1962
Mother Country
6.8/5
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married s...
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Mother Country
1933
The Layabout and Seabathing
8/1
The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store o...
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The Layabout and Seabathing
1956
Early Spring
7.521/96
A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.
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Early Spring
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
1964
Japan's No. 1 Braggart
8/1
When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old manuscript about self-confidence to join the best c...
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Japan's No. 1 Braggart
1955
Iroha Elegy
0/0
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Iroha Elegy
1952
Our Chief, Our Doctor
8/1
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the...
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Our Chief, Our Doctor
1963
Young Guy in Hawaii
6.5/2
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii.
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Young Guy in Hawaii
1975
Great Jailbreak
7/2
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and direct...
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Great Jailbreak
1956
Typhoon Furor
10/1
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new o...
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Typhoon Furor
1958
Police Precinct Part 8
0/0
Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol car, veers off and hits a tree. Three men run out an...
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Police Precinct Part 8
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
1940
Okinu and Banto
10/1
A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
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Okinu and Banto
1950
Crazy Uproar
9/1
Also known as Crazy Uproar.
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Crazy Uproar
1972
Beyond the Rainbow
0/0
One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with hi...
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Beyond the Rainbow
1959
Lucky Dragon No. 5
7.5/4
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacif...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
1965
Salaryman's Medal
0/0
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Salaryman's Medal
1956
刑事部屋
0/0
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刑事部屋
1961
Hijō no otoko
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Hijō no otoko
1958
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
0/0
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate...
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Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
1958
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
0/0
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.
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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1961
Koi no gashū
0/0
Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miyuki), but is having a hard time saving up the mone...
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Koi no gashū
1966
Ohana han
0/0
This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives a lively life while being swept up in the waves o...
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Ohana han
1958
Hibi no haishin
0/0
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyu...
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Hibi no haishin
1959
Fox and Raccoon
9/1
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and drea...
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Fox and Raccoon
1961
喜劇 金の実る樹に恋が咲く
0/0
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喜劇 金の実る樹に恋が咲く
1929
The Father and His Son
10/1
Japanese silent film from 1929.
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The Father and His Son
1950
Onna no ryūkō
9/1
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Onna no ryūkō
1944
Yasen gungakutai
7/1
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Yasen gungakutai
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
1933
Before the Wedding
0/0
Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Before the Wedding
1966
Punch Guy
7/1
Directed by Katsumi Iwauchi
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Punch Guy
1956
Seishun no oto
9/1
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Seishun no oto
1949
Jealousy
0/0
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Jealousy
1960
Banana
0/0
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