
Noriko Sengoku
Reiko Mori, known by her stage name Noriko Sengoku, was a Japanese film and television actress active primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. She made her film debut in 1947 and starred in several of Akira Kurosawa's early films such as Drunken Angel, The Quiet Duel, Stray Dog, Scandal, The Idiot and Seven Samurai.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.005 |
Birthday | 1922-05-29 |
Place of Birth | Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan |
Also Known As | 千石规子, |

1952

The Whisper of Spring
0/0
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt s...
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The Whisper of Spring

1949

Stray Dog
7.5/313
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog

1965

Kwaidan
7.7/399
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

1955

I Live in Fear
7.27/113
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to saf...
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I Live in Fear

1951

The Idiot
6.943/114
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kame...
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The Idiot

1948

Drunken Angel
7.6/276
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convi...
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Drunken Angel

1950

Scandal
6.9/88
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

1949

Island of Horrors
0/0
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolate...
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Island of Horrors

1962

Hagure kigeki mandara
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1962 Japanese movie
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Hagure kigeki mandara

1963

Ichi ka bachi ka
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The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.
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Ichi ka bachi ka

1952

恐妻時代
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恐妻時代

1953

An Edoite Judge
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Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
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An Edoite Judge

1950

Four Seasons of Women
0/0
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
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Four Seasons of Women

1956

Dotanba
6/1
Dotanba - Last Minute
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Dotanba

1956

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship
0/0
Bored Hatamoto film #20
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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship

1990

Virgin Story 5 Only You Want to Be Cuddled
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Original Video film.
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Virgin Story 5 Only You Want to Be Cuddled

1994

The Most Terrible Time in My Life
7.1/11
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing bro...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life

1952

Third Class Executives
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1950s Japanese comedy.
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Third Class Executives

1950

Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord
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Bored Hatamoto movie #11
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Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord

1985

Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-
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Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows...
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Sotsugyou -GRADUATION-

1990

Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
0/0
5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine
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Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!

1962

Josei jishin
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1962 Japanese movie
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Josei jishin

1953

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
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1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
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Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker

1987

Whisper of the Spirits
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Whisper of the Spirits

1961

Sararīman yajikita dōchū
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1961 Japanese movie
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Sararīman yajikita dōchū

1961

Love's Family Tree
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Love's Family Tree

1949

Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
0/0
Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).
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Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen

1996

The Trap
6.8/9
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string...
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The Trap

1969

Blind Beast
6.5/90
A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a d...
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Blind Beast

2003

Karaoke Terror
6/10
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and...
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Karaoke Terror

1957

Evening Calm
0/0
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
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Evening Calm

1964

The Shape of Night
6.6/5
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing dem...
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The Shape of Night

1968

Eternal Love
0/0
The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.
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Eternal Love

2007

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
6.9/14
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn...
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Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad

1995

The Stairway to the Distant Past
7/8
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a bor...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past

1986

The Sea and Poison
6.9/13
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American ai...
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The Sea and Poison

1955

Floating Clouds
7.7/96
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He do...
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Floating Clouds

1965

Invasion of Astro-Monster
6.8/223
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world f...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster

1992

Okoge
6.3/5
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
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Okoge

1949

The Quiet Duel
7.319/83
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patien...
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The Quiet Duel

1954

Seven Samurai
8.458/3828
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
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Seven Samurai

1951

The Lady of Musashino
6.4/15
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in h...
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The Lady of Musashino

1964

Dear Mr. Prime Minister
0/0
Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner, gain...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister

1962

The Inheritance
7.2/24
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and associates...
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The Inheritance

1956

The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
7/1
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

1955

Policeman's Diary
6.5/4
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the office...
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Policeman's Diary

1950

The Munekata Sisters
6.983/29
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them fa...
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The Munekata Sisters

1967

Rebellion of Japan
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Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair wit...
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Rebellion of Japan

1980

Nurse's Husband
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“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on th...
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Nurse's Husband

1987

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
6/1
Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because o...
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There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl

1950

Battle of Roses
6/9
A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.
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Battle of Roses

1957

Geisha in the Old City
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Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and res...
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Geisha in the Old City

1982

Yoru no yūwaku-sha hisho-chi no kyōfu kinpatsu bijo o nerau kyūketsu no kiba
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Japanese horror movie from 1982.
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Yoru no yūwaku-sha hisho-chi no kyōfu kinpatsu bijo o nerau kyūketsu no kiba

1954

Clan Revival
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After the Onin War ended in 1477, Kyoto was left in ashes and the nation was in complete disorder. Bands of roving samurai called the "nobushi" terror...
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Clan Revival


Donden Family (Pretend Divorce)
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A housewife whose memoir of divorce is selected becomes an editorial staff member, something she has always dreamed of. However, her divorce is a fabr...
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Donden Family (Pretend Divorce)

1962

The Weed of Crime
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Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
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The Weed of Crime

1954

The Devil comes and plays the Flute
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The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying melod...
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The Devil comes and plays the Flute

1964

Sweet Sweat
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This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to ke...
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Sweet Sweat

1989

Roppongi Banana Boys
0/0
A stylish light comedy about the “Banana boys”— two boys who were born and raised in Roppongi who are still growing up. It is based on the light novel...
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Roppongi Banana Boys

2002

Out
5.3/7
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body...
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Out

1952

Foghorn
0/0
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
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Foghorn

1969

Bonds of Love
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Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires...
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Bonds of Love

1973

Stray Dog
7/4
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior,...
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Stray Dog

1957

Snow Country
6.7/10
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous t...
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Snow Country

1957

The Face
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A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming m...
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The Face

1977

Suddenly, Like a Storm
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21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the ju...
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Suddenly, Like a Storm

1952

Shi no machi wo nogarete
0/0
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
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Shi no machi wo nogarete

1950

White Beast
6/9
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, un...
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White Beast

1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
8/111
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1982

The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
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After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wanted man! Accused of being a thief by those that trie...
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The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn

1983

Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
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Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin' barely escapes with his life after being shot. N...
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Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass

1961

The Youth and His Amulet
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Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy'...
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The Youth and His Amulet

1981

School in the Crosshairs
5.7/21
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to...
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School in the Crosshairs

1961

The Big Wave
0/0
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on...
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The Big Wave

1957

Rebellion
6/1
In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.
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Rebellion

2003

Time Limit
5/1
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Ka...
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Time Limit

1956

Shin ono ga tsumi
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20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).
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Shin ono ga tsumi

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

1986

Leave My Girl Alone
6/1
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan h...
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Leave My Girl Alone

1959

Echo Mountain
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Echo Mountain

1956

Women in Prison
1/1
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
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Women in Prison

1961

Girls of the Night
6.9/14
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build...
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Girls of the Night

1962

This Madding Crowd
0/0
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This Madding Crowd

1947

Actress
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Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The rela...
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Actress

1951

The White Orchid
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A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
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The White Orchid

1956

Twice on a Certain Night
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Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...
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Twice on a Certain Night

1954

Itsuko to sono haha
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An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
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Itsuko to sono haha

1982

Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood
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Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...
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Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood

1983

Legend of the Cat Monster
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A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which lea...
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Legend of the Cat Monster

1956

Police Precinct Part 2
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Police Precinct Part 2

1955

五十円横町
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五十円横町

1957

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
0/0
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...
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Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

1965

Beast Alley
7/1
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based...
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Beast Alley

1949

A Woman's Life
0/0
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A Woman's Life

2001

Hotoke
0/0
Rai pedals his bike and trailer about town, collecting old iron and sowing flower seeds. Because his face never seems to show emotion, everybody calls...
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Hotoke

1949

Konna onna ni dare ga shita
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Konna onna ni dare ga shita

1961

Aces Wild
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Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother o...
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Aces Wild

1956

Masura o hashutsu fukai
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Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.
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Masura o hashutsu fukai

1958

The Undefeated Woman
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The Undefeated Woman
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The Undefeated Woman

1960

Jiyūgaoka fujin
0/0
1960 Japanese movie
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Jiyūgaoka fujin

1960

Chikuhō no kodomotachi
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A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines
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