Jun Hamamura
Jun Hamamura was born on 7 February 1906 in Fukuoka, Japan. He was an actor, known for High and Low (1963), Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965) and Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963). He died on 21 June 1995 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2329 |
| Birthday | 1906-02-07 |
| Place of Birth | Fukuoka, Japan |
| Also Known As | 武内武, Дзюн Хамамура, 浜村纯, Jun Hamamura, |
1968
Women's Prison
10/1
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and th...
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Women's Prison
1965
Kwaidan
7.722/449
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan
1965
Gamera, the Giant Monster
5.962/145
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wre...
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Gamera, the Giant Monster
1966
Zatoichi's Vengeance
6.917/42
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
1996
Sleeping Man
7.8/9
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
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Sleeping Man
1962
The Lucky General
0/0
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was r...
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The Lucky General
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
1956
The Burmese Harp
7.8/170
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
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The Burmese Harp
1963
High and Low
8.36/1114
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
1963
An Actor's Revenge
6.634/71
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
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An Actor's Revenge
1962
Hitotsu no inochi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Hitotsu no inochi
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
Otoko no Uta
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Otoko no Uta
1966
The Pornographers
7.183/52
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, H...
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The Pornographers
1965
The Abalone Gals
0/0
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playlan...
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The Abalone Gals
1962
Ken ni kakeru
0/0
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Ken ni kakeru
1960
Sixteen years old
0/0
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and len...
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Sixteen years old
1965
Samurai Spy
6.434/53
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high...
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Samurai Spy
1966
Dynamite Doctor
0/0
Film by director Kenji Misumi
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Dynamite Doctor
1961
Gunman's Alley
0/0
Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the...
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Gunman's Alley
1968
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
6.563/32
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in ba...
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
1959
Break Down that Wall
7.5/2
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Break Down that Wall
1960
Intimidation
7.152/23
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, a...
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Intimidation
1974
Himiko
6.867/30
The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
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Himiko
1958
Conflagration
7.1/30
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distre...
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Conflagration
1960
Cruel Story of Youth
6.567/67
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
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Cruel Story of Youth
1970
Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte!
0/0
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Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte!
1960
Her Brother
7.059/17
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a...
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Her Brother
1962
The Broken Commandment
6.75/10
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...
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The Broken Commandment
1994
Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints
9/1
At the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope locked her in a "painting". Visualization based on Ra...
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Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints
1975
Preparation for the Festival
5.444/9
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
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Preparation for the Festival
1977
Mount Hakkoda
6.625/16
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
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Mount Hakkoda
1969
Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
6.857/7
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her,...
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
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
1986
Gonza the Spearman
7/17
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appearances are very important. Gonza competes with Bann...
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Gonza the Spearman
1963
A Legend or Was It?
6.929/14
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
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A Legend or Was It?
1978
Lost Love
6.4/5
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local n...
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Lost Love
1962
Being Two Isn't Easy
6.875/16
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
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Being Two Isn't Easy
1969
Your Favourite
0/0
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Your Favourite
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
1957
Who's the Real Killer
10/1
Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
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Who's the Real Killer
1960
Black Sea of Trees
0/0
Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her sister...
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Black Sea of Trees
1957
Hole in One
8/2
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.
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Hole in One
1984
For Kayako
6.4/5
A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.
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For Kayako
1974
Evening Primrose
7.333/3
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam G...
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Evening Primrose
1975
Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip
4/6
Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but...
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Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip
1960
The Sun's Burial
6.414/29
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
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The Sun's Burial
1962
Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
9/1
1962 Japanese movie
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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
1959
The Wild Reporter
0/0
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suici...
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The Wild Reporter
1965
The Forest of No Escape
9/1
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
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The Forest of No Escape
1979
The Inferno
6.917/12
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
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The Inferno
1962
Ai to kanashimi to
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ai to kanashimi to
1962
New Bad Reputation Continues
7/1
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New Bad Reputation Continues
1960
Bonchi
7.667/3
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give t...
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Bonchi
1963
Bad Girl
7.667/5
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...
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Bad Girl
1963
Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
0/0
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Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
1958
Fangs of Night
5/1
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...
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Fangs of Night
1957
The Temptress and the Monk
8/1
A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts.
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The Temptress and the Monk
1963
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
9/2
Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without succes...
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Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1
0/0
This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii.
Contains films 1 to 4 in the "Mysteriou...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1
1962
Fūshinraishin
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Fūshinraishin
1960
He's the Witness
0/0
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he d...
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He's the Witness
1984
Main Theme
6.375/20
A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love.
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Main Theme
1969
Red Lion
6.518/28
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...
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Red Lion
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
1962
Anything For Success
7/1
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a for...
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Anything For Success
1984
MacArthur's Children
5.5/10
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the su...
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MacArthur's Children
1966
Koto—The Lake of Tears
7.2/5
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings,...
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Koto—The Lake of Tears
1981
Island of the Evil Spirits
6.2/5
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
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Island of the Evil Spirits
1971
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb
0/0
Fourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb
1962
A Flame at the Pier
6.1/10
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand b...
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A Flame at the Pier
1983
Dark Room
5.625/8
A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.
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Dark Room
1960
My Hometown is the Wild West
0/0
George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had...
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My Hometown is the Wild West
1961
Dai shusse monogatari
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Dai shusse monogatari
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
1970
Charming Men
9/1
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Ba...
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Charming Men
1962
Stolen Pleasure
7.2/5
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him i...
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Stolen Pleasure
1978
Horror of the Giant Vortex
7/1
Japanese horror move from 1978.
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Horror of the Giant Vortex
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
1965
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
7/6
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1981
Play it, Boogie-Woogie
8/2
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
1959
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
8.222/216
Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He al...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1981
Tetsugen
0/0
Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
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Tetsugen
1971
The Battle of Okinawa
7.8/14
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
1964
The Glamorous Ghost
7/2
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, th...
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The Glamorous Ghost
1964
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
0/0
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
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Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
7.833/12
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a courtesan who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
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
1959
Fires on the Plain
7.581/123
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Le...
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Fires on the Plain
1959
Odd Obsession
6.235/34
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introducti...
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Odd Obsession
1983
Kitsune
0/0
It is early summer in the Nekushiro Plains of Hokkaido. A scientist, Ogata, who was dispatched to the same research institute, meets a 14-year-old gir...
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Kitsune
1973
A Mummy’s Love
8/1
In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was r...
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A Mummy’s Love
1974
The Tattered Banner
10/1
Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
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The Tattered Banner
1963
Interpol Code 8
7.667/3
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
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Interpol Code 8
1967
Green Light to Joy
8/1
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
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Green Light to Joy
1961
The Catch
6.5/13
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to p...
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The Catch
1961
Ten Dark Women
5.8/12
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...
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Ten Dark Women
1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
7.1/163
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
1960
Volunteering for Villainy
0/0
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
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Volunteering for Villainy
1977
Case of the Disjointed Murder
7.5/2
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists,...
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
1961
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
10/1
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coas...
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel
1962
Our Marriage
7.125/8
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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Our Marriage
1962
Season of Farewell
0/0
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
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Season of Farewell
1977
Ame no meguri ai
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Ame no meguri ai
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
1973
Deeper Than Blue
8/1
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her...
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Deeper Than Blue
1973
Time Within Memory
4.667/6
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru reca...
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Time Within Memory
1964
The Money Dance
9/1
Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for...
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The Money Dance
1984
Ohan
7/1
A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.
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Ohan
1981
Samurai Reincarnation
5.89/41
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Sata...
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Samurai Reincarnation
1954
The Black Current
10/1
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Aki...
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The Black Current
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
1978
New - No Longer Human
4/1
Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern J...
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New - No Longer Human
1961
The Man with a Shotgun
6.5/16
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of troubl...
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The Man with a Shotgun
1970
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
7.091/11
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1968
Lone Wolf Isazo
6.818/11
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilli...
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Lone Wolf Isazo
1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
7.025/40
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1959
Woman from the Sea
8/2
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a...
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Woman from the Sea
1974
Love Is in the Green Wind
6.978/23
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with...
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Love Is in the Green Wind
1964
Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
5.75/14
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthle...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
1961
A Killer Without a Grave
7/2
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that...
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A Killer Without a Grave
1981
Lonely Heart
7.5/2
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
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Lonely Heart
1957
The Naked Woman and the Gun
7/1
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed...
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
1969
Double Suicide
6.915/59
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
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Double Suicide
1979
Faraway Tomorrow
3.667/3
A young man walks through the streets holding a sign that reads, “The trial for the Tobata Incident 19 years ago was a frame-up!” He has taken up the...
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Faraway Tomorrow
1962
Glory on the Summit
9/1
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentle...
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Glory on the Summit
1961
The Storm over Arabia
8/1
A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbrea...
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The Storm over Arabia
1961
Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
0/0
The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.
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Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
1961
That Guy and I
8.5/2
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
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That Guy and I
1967
Samurai Rebellion
8.238/263
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision...
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Samurai Rebellion
1970
The Vampire Doll
6.885/61
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but thei...
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The Vampire Doll
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
7.2/10
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of...
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Samurai from Nowhere
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
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
1963
The Black Trademark
0/0
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals tha...
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The Black Trademark
1975
Without Complaint
10/1
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Without Complaint
1967
The River - Poem of Wrath
0/0
A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.
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The River - Poem of Wrath
1991
Traffic Jam
5.6/5
A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for th...
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Traffic Jam
1966
Fighting Elegy
7/37
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...
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Fighting Elegy
1967
Burning Nature
8/1
Film from 1967.
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Burning Nature
1967
The Black Sheep
0/0
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...
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The Black Sheep
1980
Koto: The Ancient City
7/3
Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned...
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Koto: The Ancient City
1975
The Gate of Youth
9/2
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every...
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The Gate of Youth
1980
Child of the Sun
0/0
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interact...
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Child of the Sun
1960
The Angry Sea
7/1
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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The Angry Sea
1983
Lanterns on Blue Waters
5.2/4
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 an...
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Lanterns on Blue Waters
1961
Bitter End of a Sweet Night
6/16
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
1970
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
7.667/6
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he o...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1978
August Without Emperor
7.25/4
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-wa...
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August Without Emperor
1983
The Makioka Sisters
7.449/49
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid...
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The Makioka Sisters
1992
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
7.75/4
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha name...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1988
Sakura-tai Chiru
6.75/4
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for th...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
1978
The Demon
6.474/38
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children wit...
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The Demon
1954
The Street Without Sun
7/1
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers' stead...
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The Street Without Sun
1962
Woman of Design
6.667/3
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
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Woman of Design
1995
Sharaku
6.773/11
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtur...
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Sharaku
1979
Demon Pond
6.429/35
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a near...
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Demon Pond
1957
Temptation
8/4
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student...
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Temptation
1982
Lovers Lost
6.364/11
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year...
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Lovers Lost
1959
The Stream of Youth
0/0
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The Stream of Youth
1959
Gun Number Zero
0/0
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immedia...
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Gun Number Zero
1974
The Castle of Sand
7.368/53
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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The Castle of Sand
1991
Crossroads in Tokyo
7/1
A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals.
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Crossroads in Tokyo
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
1986
The Hall of the Crying Deer
9/1
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The Hall of the Crying Deer
1965
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
0/0
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been comme...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
1976
Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den
7/1
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Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den
1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
0/0
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overse...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964
Could I But Live
8/1
Could I But Live
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Could I But Live
1968
Profound Desires of the Gods
7.375/68
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
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Profound Desires of the Gods
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
1960
Afraid to Die
6.318/11
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of hi...
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Afraid to Die
1959
Across the Darkness
9/1
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
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Across the Darkness
1961
Love and Life
9/1
Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
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Love and Life
1962
A Woman's Life
8/1
Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually find...
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A Woman's Life
1985
Yume-Chiyo
8/2
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Tho...
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Yume-Chiyo
1956
Actress
8/1
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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Actress
1957
The Crowded Train
6.8/5
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...
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The Crowded Train
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
1963
Kiri ni Kieta Hito
0/0
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
1960
The Cards Will Tell
0/0
A 1960 crime film
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The Cards Will Tell
1964
The Sharks
9/1
A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and starring Nakamura Kinnosuke. This literary epic tell...
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The Sharks
1969
The Curse of the Ghost
6.8/5
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to th...
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The Curse of the Ghost
1957
Joshiryōsai
0/0
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Joshiryōsai
1966
Oyuki
0/0
A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and jo...
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Oyuki
1954
Wakai hito-tachi
8/1
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Wakai hito-tachi
1964
The Scarred Crest
0/0
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the s...
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The Scarred Crest
1964
Jinsei Gekijo
7/1
1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo
1965
While Yet a Wife
7/1
A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is to...
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While Yet a Wife
1979
The Shogun Assassins
5.4/10
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Shogun Assassins
1957
Frankie's Aliens
0/0
Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super speed....
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Frankie's Aliens
1961
For This We Fight
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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For This We Fight
1960
Keiji monogatari Tōkyō no meiro
6/1
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Keiji monogatari Tōkyō no meiro
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
1983
Lover, Come Back to Me
0/0
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on he...
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Lover, Come Back to Me
1961
Structure of Hate
7/1
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
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Structure of Hate
1963
We Are Salarymen
7/1
Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying skill an...
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We Are Salarymen
1963
Daybreak Chorus
0/0
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Saburō, the company president’s playful younger brot...
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Daybreak Chorus
1965
Start Here
7/1
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected remarriage lead...
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Start Here
1985
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
7/1
After her mother’s death, junior high student Yoshiyama Kazuko lives in Yokohama with her father and little sister. One summer night, while stargazing...
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1988
Yamada Village Waltz
10/1
In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulation, four young men from the village decide to go o...
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Yamada Village Waltz
1962
Human
6.875/8
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate a...
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Human
1959
My Second Brother
6.625/8
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-...
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My Second Brother
1992
Mr. Baseball
5.802/144
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one...
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Mr. Baseball
1957
The Men of Toho-ku
9/1
Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.
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The Men of Toho-ku
山椿
0/0
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山椿
1995
Himeyuri no To
10/1
The Girls' Division of Okinawa Normal School and the First Okinawa Prefectural High School for Girls were also known as "Himeyuri no Gakuen". In July...
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Himeyuri no To
1960
The Last Trump Card
0/0
The actions and downfall of a man who lives a life of cold calculation, adapted from a Hideo Shirasaki novel.
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