Eijirō Tōno
Eijirō Tōno (東野英治郎 Tōno Eijirō, 17 September 1907 – 8 September 1994) was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). He also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.074 |
| Birthday | 1907-09-17 |
| Place of Birth | Gunma, Japan |
| Also Known As | Tōno Eijirō, Эйдзиро Тоно, 东野英治郎, |
1954
Seven Samurai
8.458/3820
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
1967
Shogun and His Mistress 2
3.5/2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. Wh...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
1965
Red Beard
8.1/373
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
1956
Early Spring
7.6/83
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
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Early 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
1955
I Live in Fear
7.3/112
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
1961
Pigs and Battleships
7.1/59
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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Pigs and Battleships
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.1/246
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1961
Yojimbo
8.1/1495
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the loca...
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Yojimbo
1957
The Lower Depths
7.1/129
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
1989
Death of a Tea Master
5.4/11
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
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Death of a Tea Master
1963
High and Low
8.339/953
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
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High and Low
1950
Heat and Mud
0/0
With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.
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Heat and Mud
1960
Police Precinct Part 13
0/0
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined...
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Police Precinct Part 13
1952
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
0/0
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
1959
Good Morning
7.7/287
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of...
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Good Morning
1949
Rinchi
0/0
Japanese noir.
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Rinchi
1957
Untamed Woman
7.3/9
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...
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Untamed Woman
1962
Lady Sen and Hideyori
8/3
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation. Pri...
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Lady Sen and Hideyori
1964
Pale Flower
7.4/105
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young wo...
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Pale Flower
1951
Yasubei Nakayama
0/0
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's fa...
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Yasubei Nakayama
1962
続サラリーマン清水港
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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続サラリーマン清水港
1952
Beauty and the Thief
0/0
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic...
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Beauty and the Thief
1952
Farewell to Spring
0/0
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
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Farewell to Spring
1979
Hunter in the Dark
6.5/16
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to...
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Hunter in the Dark
1962
Musume to watashi
0/0
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Musume to watashi
1968
Kill!
7/73
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer...
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Kill!
1962
Salaryman Shimizu Minato
0/0
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Salaryman Shimizu Minato
1965
Sword of the Beast
7.478/67
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his minist...
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Sword of the Beast
1962
Seinen no isu
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Seinen no isu
1953
Tokyo Story
8.2/1091
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder so...
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Tokyo Story
1963
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
6.6/11
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all t...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1962
Foundry Town
7.6/9
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
1950
A Man from Akagi
0/0
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A Man from Akagi
1962
The Great Wall
6/2
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted au...
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The Great Wall
1953
Hiroba no kōdoku
0/0
Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta
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Hiroba no kōdoku
1966
Dynamite Doctor
0/0
Film by director Kenji Misumi
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Dynamite Doctor
1951
Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
0/0
1951 Japanese movie
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Zoku Sasaki Kojiro
1968
Horus: Prince of the Sun
6.3/100
Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun from a rock giant, he learns he must travel to the...
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Horus: Prince of the Sun
1967
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
7.3/38
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling...
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
7/23
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice the...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1961
The Estuary
0/0
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The Estuary
1951
Sasaki Kojiro
5/3
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak...
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Sasaki Kojiro
1963
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
6.1/12
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1964
The Naked Executive
0/0
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest per...
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The Naked Executive
1952
Children of Hiroshima
7.1/38
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing...
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Children of Hiroshima
1962
Facing to the Clouds
0/0
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Naka...
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Facing to the Clouds
1958
Oban kanketsu hen
0/0
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions.
Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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Oban kanketsu hen
1957
Ôban
0/0
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S...
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Ôban
1957
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
0/0
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful.
Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shis...
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1959
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
0/0
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
1965
Samurai Assassin
7.3/54
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assass...
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Samurai Assassin
1961
The Last War
6.2/10
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
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The Last War
1957
Black River
6.9/30
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell t...
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Black River
1949
Flame of My Love
5.6/9
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls i...
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Flame of My Love
1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
7/4
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1956
I Will Buy You
7/14
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
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I Will Buy You
1946
Morning for the Osone Family
6.9/8
A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.
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Morning for the Osone Family
1955
Twilight Saloon
8/3
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of mu...
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Twilight Saloon
1953
The Wild Geese
6.5/11
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
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The Wild Geese
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
5.3/6
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1956
Farewell to Dream
6.9/8
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmonger...
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Farewell to Dream
1981
The King and His Vassal
0/0
This is a story of "Takechiyo," the previous name of Iemitsu Tokunaga, the third Shogun (General). Takechiyo got sick of daily run-of-the-mill tasks,...
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The King and His Vassal
1982
The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
0/0
The fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble. Hikosaemon Ookubo (Eijiro Tono) heard of it from Tasuke, an...
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The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
1965
Blood and Sea
0/0
The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her grandmother...
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Blood and Sea
1959
Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha
0/0
1959 Japanese movie
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Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha
1958
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
0/0
1958 Japanese movie
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1968
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
0/0
The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant a...
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Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1961
早射ち無頼 大平原の男
0/0
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早射ち無頼 大平原の男
1966
The Great White Tower
6.7/14
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant...
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The Great White Tower
1989
Days with Harasu
0/0
The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog.
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Days with Harasu
1960
The Masterless 47
0/0
Part one of The Masterless 47.
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The Masterless 47
1943
Navy
0/0
Japanese war film.
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Navy
1961
The Crimson Plains
0/0
The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...
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The Crimson Plains
1966
Dash to the Sun
0/0
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo wi...
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Dash to the Sun
1961
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
0/0
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
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The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1956
The Forest Is Alive
0/0
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"
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The Forest Is Alive
1959
Kaze no uchi so to
0/0
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Kaze no uchi so to
1950
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
0/0
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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
0/0
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Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1943
Port of Flowers
7.2/11
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backf...
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Port of Flowers
1951
Freedom School
0/0
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Co...
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Freedom School
1967
Journey to the North
0/0
Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. Howe...
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Journey to the North
1961
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
0/0
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji, Y...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1962
Mount Hakone
0/0
Japanese drama.
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Mount Hakone
1953
Jūdai no seiten
0/0
Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako
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Jūdai no seiten
1951
風雲児
0/0
Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...
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風雲児
1958
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
0/0
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls f...
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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
6.5/25
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
1953
Wife
7/9
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and th...
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Wife
1961
An Edo Magistrate
5.8/4
When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion...
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An Edo Magistrate
1960
俺の故郷は大西部
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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俺の故郷は大西部
1971
The Battle of Okinawa
7.5/12
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
1968
Song of Vengeance
5/1
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of t...
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Song of Vengeance
1970
Will to Conquer
0/0
The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the 18...
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Will to Conquer
1966
Four and A Half Mats
0/0
Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who...
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Four and A Half Mats
1951
Ginza Cosmetics
5.8/8
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
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Ginza Cosmetics
1968
Monument to the Girl's Corps
0/0
In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa No...
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
1961
Buddha
0/0
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C...
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Buddha
1952
Fuun Senryobune
0/0
1952 Japanese movie
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Fuun Senryobune
1962
A Carpenter and Children
0/1
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning comb...
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A Carpenter and Children
1956
Night River
6.2/11
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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Night River
1955
Here Is a Spring
7/1
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
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
1955
The Wolves
6.8/8
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
1958
A Grain of Wheat
0/0
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who wat...
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A Grain of Wheat
1961
Run, Genta, Run!
7.5/2
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.
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Run, Genta, Run!
1965
Illusion of Blood
6.2/9
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
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Illusion of Blood
1956
The Vampire Moth
4/4
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
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The Vampire Moth
1948
Apostasy
5.8/4
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
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Apostasy
1956
How Sorrowful
0/0
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
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How Sorrowful
1958
Firefly Light
0/0
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
1960
The War Without Weapons
0/0
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amend...
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The War Without Weapons
1958
Night Drum
6.1/12
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
1965
The Spy
0/0
Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.
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The Spy
1962
The Man From the Sea
0/0
Japanese action film.
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The Man From the Sea
1956
The Legend of the White Serpent
5.6/7
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
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The Legend of the White Serpent
1949
Late Night Confession
0/0
Japanese mystery thriller.
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Late Night Confession
1961
Boss Takes to the Road
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Boss Takes to the Road
1960
The Twilight Story
8/1
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at...
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The Twilight Story
1960
The Gambling Samurai
6.3/6
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's...
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The Gambling Samurai
1963
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
6.5/10
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1964
ホラ吹き太閤記
0/0
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ホラ吹き太閤記
1961
Immortal Love
7.5/16
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a...
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Immortal Love
1963
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
7.1/8
[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even har...
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
1965
An Innocent Witch
7.1/7
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of h...
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An Innocent Witch
1959
The Human Wall
5/3
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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The Human Wall
1959
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
5.7/6
The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1947
Marriage
7/2
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
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Marriage
1956
裸足の青春
0/0
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裸足の青春
1956
White Fan
0/0
Horror film directed by Toshikazu Kôno.
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White Fan
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
5.7/7
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
1944
Jubilation Street
6.3/6
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
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Jubilation Street
1960
The Man of Seven Faces
6/2
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
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The Man of Seven Faces
1964
A Story from Echigo
7.2/4
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...
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A Story from Echigo
1957
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
7.5/2
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre...
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Shimizu Port of Chivalry
1954
旗本退屈男 どくろ屋敷
0/0
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旗本退屈男 どくろ屋敷
1963
Tange Sazen
0/0
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...
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Tange Sazen
1957
Rice
6.4/9
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community cre...
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Rice
1948
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
5/1
Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and assa...
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A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1988
So What
0/0
In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.
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So What
1954
The Black Current
0/0
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
1958
The Ballad of Narayama
7.5/82
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in...
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The Ballad of Narayama
1963
A House in the Quarter
6/6
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to serve...
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A House in the Quarter
1964
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
7/11
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. A...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
1957
An Osaka Story
5.4/5
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and...
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An Osaka Story
1962
Our Marriage
6.7/6
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
1968
The Saga of Tanegashima
5/3
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped...
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The Saga of Tanegashima
1952
Sword for Hire
7/8
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care...
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Sword for Hire
1965
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
7/1
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a pas...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1963
Life of Hishakaku 2
8.2/2
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To recipro...
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Life of Hishakaku 2
1962
The Bandits
0/0
Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.
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The Bandits
1983
I Lived, But...
6.5/8
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both i...
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I Lived, But...
1961
Fine Man
0/0
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the evil...
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Fine Man
1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
7.193/119
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.261/117
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1964
Our Happiness Alone
0/0
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder bro...
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Our Happiness Alone
1963
The Sunshine Girl
5.7/6
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
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The Sunshine Girl
1977
Island of Hell
7/2
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
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Island of Hell
1963
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
7/1
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent stor...
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Ukyunosuke on Patrol
1967
Three Faces of Love
0/0
When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama....
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Three Faces of Love
1954
The Cock Crows Twice
0/0
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
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The Cock Crows Twice
1983
Choji Snack Bar
7/3
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.
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Choji Snack Bar
1963
Pressure of Guilt
7/1
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Pressure of Guilt
1962
Born in Sin
0/0
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
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Born in Sin
1958
The Days of Evil Women
0/0
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
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The Days of Evil Women
1964
Eddy Currents of Life
0/0
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...
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Eddy Currents of Life
1955
Murder on The Last Train
0/0
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
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Murder on The Last Train
1959
The Third Dead Angle
0/0
Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst Kaji works in the underground world for Aoyama, a...
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The Third Dead Angle
1958
The Naked Sun
0/0
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they ha...
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The Naked Sun
1959
The Three Treasures
5.4/11
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...
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The Three Treasures
1959
The Beast Shall Die
5.6/7
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot...
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The Beast Shall Die
1978
Lord Mito
9.5/1
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to...
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Lord Mito
1961
The Orphan Brother
6.125/8
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mothe...
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The Orphan Brother
1956
Flowery Brothers
0/0
Early film by Kenji Misumi.
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Flowery Brothers
1961
Challenge to Live
0/0
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during th...
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Challenge to Live
1944
Army
7.2/12
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
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Army
1960
The Master Spearman
5.2/4
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to h...
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The Master Spearman
1966
Lost Sex
0/0
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the...
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Lost Sex
1966
Silence Has No Wings
7/17
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki...
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Silence Has No Wings
1960
Wait for Tomorrow
0/0
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the...
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Wait for Tomorrow
1969
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
6.8/7
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1958
The Naked General
0/0
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
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The Naked General
1963
Girls Born in August
0/0
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Girls Born in August
1962
An Autumn Afternoon
7.845/294
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest...
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An Autumn Afternoon
1961
The Red Shadow
6.4/5
Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes...
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The Red Shadow
1963
Fight of the Gamblers
6/1
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeed...
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Fight of the Gamblers
1963
The Navy
0/0
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...
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The Navy
1944
Sinking the Unsinkable
0/0
Japanese Warmovie
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Sinking the Unsinkable
1956
Tears
0/0
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
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Tears
1959
Diary of Forsaken Love
0/0
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
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Diary of Forsaken Love
1961
The Masterless 47 – Part II
0/0
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The Masterless 47 – Part II
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.16/550
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1967
Monsieur Zivaco
0/0
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.
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Monsieur Zivaco
1957
The Story of Pure Love
6.8/5
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately tr...
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The Story of Pure Love
1964
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
0/0
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1990
Tales of a Golden Geisha
6.3/13
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
1945
Izu no musumetachi
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Izu no musumetachi
1952
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
0/0
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Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
1955
Burden of Love
6.8/6
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after th...
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Burden of Love
1957
The Eleventh Hour
7.2/6
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contempor...
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The Eleventh Hour
1983
Adrift at Sea
0/0
The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and lan...
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Adrift at Sea
1963
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
9/2
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart,...
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1962
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
0/0
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Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1984
Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
5.8/3
A documentary about French illustrator Georges Bigot, who lived in Japan for 17 years and left behind many drawings depicting life and social conditio...
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Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
1952
The Yamabiko School
0/0
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
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The Yamabiko School
1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
6.8/5
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
1956
Actress
0/0
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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Actress
1963
Double Wedding
0/0
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Double Wedding
1969
Goyokin
7.5/58
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Goyokin
1962
This Madding Crowd
0/0
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This Madding Crowd
1950
Devil's Gold
0/0
1950 film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Devil's Gold
1958
Theater of Life
0/0
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Theater of Life
1961
Wind and waves of the South
0/0
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school...
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Wind and waves of the South
1953
Shishun no izumi
0/0
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Shishun no izumi
1954
The Street Without Sun
0/0
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The Street Without Sun
1960
The Great Road
0/0
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .
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The Great Road
1960
The Pirates
7.2/4
Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period (Se...
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The Pirates
1945
Otome no iru kichi
0/0
Japanese war movie.
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Otome no iru kichi
1967
Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
0/0
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Young Boss: Leader's Flesh
1965
Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko
0/0
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Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko
1959
The Stream of Youth
0/0
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The Stream of Youth
1953
Girls in the Orchard
0/0
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Girls in the Orchard
1965
The Last Judgment
0/0
The last judgment.
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The Last Judgment
1954
The Surf
0/0
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
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The Surf
1965
Five Gents' Trick Book
0/0
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Five Gents' Trick Book
1955
Floating Weeds Diary
4.3/3
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, however,...
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Floating Weeds Diary
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
1954
The Glorious Days
0/0
The Glorious Days
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The Glorious Days
1964
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
0/0
Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying...
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Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1979
The Last Game
0/0
After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game befo...
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The Last Game
1956
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
0/0
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Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1954
Women's House
0/0
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashir...
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Women's House
1959
Ripe and Marriageable
0/0
1959 youth comedy.
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Ripe and Marriageable
1965
Salaryman's Medal
0/0
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Salaryman's Medal
1970
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
0/0
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipel...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
1961
Botchan yarō seizoroi
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Botchan yarō seizoroi
1960
The Cards Will Tell
0/0
A 1960 crime film
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The Cards Will Tell
1964
Hanayome wa jū go-sai
0/0
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Hanayome wa jū go-sai
1947
Rira no hana wasureji
0/0
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities. Howe...
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Rira no hana wasureji
1959
High Teen
0/0
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this wor...
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