1965

Kwaidan

7.7/397

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

1975

Aoi sanmyaku

0/0

Remake of 1949 film

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Aoi sanmyaku

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

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

7.7/257

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d...

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The Bad Sleep Well

1963

Youth After School

0/0

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was br...

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Youth After School

1958

Stakeout

6.9/18

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

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Stakeout

1963

Mother

6.8/4

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

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Mother

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

1964

Fumiko's Five Benefactors

0/0

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.

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Fumiko's Five Benefactors

1945

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

6/54

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the for...

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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

1967

Japan's Longest Day

7.1/28

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

1965

Samurai Spy

6.6/43

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

1976

Melodies of a White Night

4.5/9

A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.

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Melodies of a White Night

1951

Early Summer

7.837/184

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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Early Summer

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

1962

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi

1964

Night Scandal

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Night Scandal

1963

Escape from Hell

6.2/5

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

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Escape from Hell

1967

Pomegranate Time

0/0

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

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Pomegranate Time

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

1964

Samurai from Nowhere

7.1/8

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

1962

The Broken Commandment

6.6/9

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

1971

Hajimete no Tabi

0/0

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Hajimete no Tabi

1984

Mermaid Legend

6.9/14

After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.

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Mermaid Legend

1964

Night Scandal in Japan

0/0

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market,...

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Night Scandal in Japan

1970

The Militarists

8/1

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The Militarists

1957

A Dangerous Hero

0/0

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

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A Dangerous Hero

1957

悪魔の顔

0/0

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悪魔の顔

1967

River of Forever

0/0

Pure love story

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River of Forever

1962

Gekkyū dorobō

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1962 Japanese movie

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Gekkyū dorobō

1959

A Secret Rendezvous

5.2/5

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.

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A Secret Rendezvous

1982

The Challenge

6/46

Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between t...

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The Challenge

1952

Ikiru

8.3/1180

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...

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Ikiru

1957

Throne of Blood

7.9/884

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...

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Throne of Blood

1956

Samurai of the Great Earth

0/0

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

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Samurai of the Great Earth

1956

Will-o'-the-Wisp

0/0

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Will-o'-the-Wisp

1984

Farewell to the Ark

7/21

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among th...

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Farewell to the Ark

1964

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

5.2/18

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Neth...

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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

1956

Flowing

7.1/31

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

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Flowing

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

1983

White Snake Enchantment

6.5/2

Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and hi...

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White Snake Enchantment

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

1971

To Love Again

0/0

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one a...

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To Love Again

1960

Irohanihoheto

0/0

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

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Irohanihoheto

1957

Night Butterflies

6.3/3

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

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Night Butterflies

1964

Raised in a Palace

6/1

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a ge...

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Raised in a Palace

1951

The Good Fairy

5.5/6

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

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The Good Fairy

1959

Farewell to Spring

6.2/8

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

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Farewell to Spring

1960

Deep River Melody

6/1

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

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Deep River Melody

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

1958

The Spell of the Hidden Gold

6/1

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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The Spell of the Hidden Gold

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

1953

The Last Embrace

0/0

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...

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The Last Embrace

1961

Enraptured

0/0

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a class...

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Enraptured

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

1956

Punishment Room

6.9/6

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

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Punishment Room

1965

Song of Farewell

0/0

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part wa...

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Song of Farewell

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

1960

Goodbye to Glory

0/0

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.

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Goodbye to Glory

1964

Warrior of the Wind

6.7/8

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find the...

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Warrior of the Wind

1984

Antonio Gaudí

7.2/32

Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi T...

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Antonio Gaudí

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

1961

Miyamoto Musashi

7.3/11

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicio...

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Miyamoto Musashi

1962

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

7.4/11

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle aft...

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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

1972

Tora-san's Dear Old Home

7.5/4

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

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Tora-san's Dear Old Home

2002

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'

10/1

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

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1956

The Underworld

0/0

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuy...

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The Underworld

1958

Accomplice

0/0

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

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Accomplice

1960

Get 'em All

6/1

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

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Get 'em All

1959

Tokyo Omnibus

0/0

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with...

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Tokyo Omnibus

1965

The Start of Life

0/0

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and t...

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The Start of Life

1946

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

6/1

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes popu...

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A Descendant of Urashima Taro

1965

The Radish and the Carrot

10/1

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life...

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The Radish and the Carrot

1974

The Fossil

6.8/11

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes hi...

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The Fossil

1959

Someday I'll Know

0/0

A modern love story involving different affairs.

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Someday I'll Know

1963

The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji

0/0

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks...

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The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji

1968

My Brother, My Love

0/0

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My Brother, My Love

1964

Intentions of Murder

7.1/45

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect o...

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Intentions of Murder

1959

The Most Valuable Wife

7.5/4

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The Most Valuable Wife

1964

The Enforcer

0/0

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The Enforcer

1957

Tokyo Twilight

7.7/136

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

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Tokyo Twilight

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

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

1958

The Rickshaw Man

7.206/34

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

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The Rickshaw Man

1951

Fireworks Over the Sea

5/5

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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Fireworks Over the Sea

1961

That Guy and I

10/1

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

1954

Seven Samurai

8.5/3819

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

1974

Tora-san's Lovesick

7.3/3

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...

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Tora-san's Lovesick

1982

Lake of Illusions

1.5/2

A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white do...

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Lake of Illusions

1965

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon

5.9/9

The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an e...

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Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon

1968

Admiral Yamamoto

8.3/8

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet....

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Admiral Yamamoto

1954

The Street Without Sun

0/0

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The Street Without Sun

1956

Early Spring

7.554/83

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

1947

Three-Fingered Detective

0/0

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large trac...

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Three-Fingered Detective

1953

An Inlet of Muddy Water

6.1/7

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

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An Inlet of Muddy Water

1951

Beauty of Life

0/0

Inochi uruwashi

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Beauty of Life

1965

The Dedicated Gunman

0/0

Third film in the "Inu" series.

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The Dedicated Gunman

1960

Ah Special Attack Corps

0/0

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

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Ah Special Attack Corps

1959

Jōen

0/0

1959 Japanese movie

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Jōen