Chikage Awashima
Chikage Awashima (淡島 千景, Awashima Chikage, born Keiko Nakagawa, 24 February 1924 – 16 February 2012) was a Japanese film and stage actress. Her stage name drew inspiration from Japanese poetry, and her legacy continues to resonate within the world of entertainment.
A graduate from Takarazuka Music and Dance School and member of the Takarazuka Revue, Chikage Awashima entered the Shochiku film studios and made her film debut in 1950. She appeared in films of numerous prominent directors like Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Imai and Heinosuke Gosho. She received the Blue Ribbon Award twice and the Mainichi Film Award twice for her performances.
Awashima retired from stage in 2009. She died on 16 February 2012, aged 87, from cancer.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.133 |
| Birthday | 1924-02-24 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Keiko Nakagawa, 淡島千景 , Тикагэ Авасима, |
1961
An Urban Affair
0/0
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real esta...
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An Urban Affair
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
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
1962
The King
0/0
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional sho...
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The King
1963
The Life of Rikisha-Man
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The Life of Rikisha-Man
1962
Aru kankei
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Aru kankei
1962
Hagure kigeki mandara
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Hagure kigeki mandara
1960
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
0/0
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
1962
Doburoku no Tatsu
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Doburoku no Tatsu
1961
Kaei
0/0
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Kaei
1952
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
7.6/88
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
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The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
1966
Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
0/0
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Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
1957
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
0/0
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer.
Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
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
1955
The Mask and Destiny
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Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of trag...
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The Mask and Destiny
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
2010
Haru's Journey
6.5/11
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.
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Haru's Journey
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...
1994
The Friends
7.2/4
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a hou...
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The Friends
1958
Summer Clouds
7.5/14
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns ou...
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Summer Clouds
1959
Flower Shop Curtain
0/0
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
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Flower Shop Curtain
1983
Children of Nagasaki
6.2/6
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
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Children of Nagasaki
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
1962
Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa
1961
The Other Woman
6.3/7
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Gi...
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The Other Woman
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
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
1962
Kigeki ekimae onsen
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kigeki ekimae onsen
1952
武蔵と小次郎
0/0
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by Lord...
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武蔵と小次郎
1952
武蔵と小次郎
0/0
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by Lord...
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武蔵と小次郎
1953
Hana no shôgai
0/0
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His friend...
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Hana no shôgai
1954
Edo no yubae
0/0
In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku...
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Edo no yubae
1961
Kigeki ekimae bentô
0/0
Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for adv...
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Kigeki ekimae bentô
1955
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
0/0
Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen. Oma...
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八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
1955
Ejima and Ikushima
0/0
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku...
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Ejima and Ikushima
1961
Aces Wild
0/0
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
1952
Carmen's Innocent Love
5.8/12
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
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Carmen's Innocent Love
1955
Marital Relations
5.2/6
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for be...
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Marital Relations
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
1957
Yellow Crow
5.8/5
Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been...
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Yellow Crow
1959
Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
0/0
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. O...
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
1962
喜劇 駅前飯店
0/0
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
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喜劇 駅前飯店
1952
Doctor's Day Off
6/3
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a ma...
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Doctor's Day Off
1955
The Further Adventures of Genta
0/0
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The Further Adventures of Genta
1961
Love and the Shop Curtain
0/0
Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 To...
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Love and the Shop Curtain
1956
春のみづうみ
0/0
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春のみづうみ
1956
Bridge of Japan
7.3/3
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—a...
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Bridge of Japan
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
1957
Hadaka no Machi
0/0
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Hadaka no Machi
1954
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
0/0
A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
1964
Roadside Stone
6.5/4
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The yea...
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Roadside Stone
1953
Always in My Heart
6.8/4
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and...
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Always in My Heart
1953
Always in My Heart Part 2
6.5/4
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Always in My Heart Part 2
1954
Always in My Heart Part 3
7/1
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
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Always in My Heart Part 3
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
1957
Secret of Naruto
6.9/26
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the...
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Secret of Naruto
1961
Furimuita hanayome
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Furimuita hanayome
1959
An Actor's Revenge
6/3
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid ex...
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An Actor's Revenge
1960
Runway to Hell
6.5/4
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.
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Runway to Hell
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
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
6/9
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
The Foster Mother
0/0
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in Kyoto,...
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The Foster Mother
1961
Rascals! Go to Hell
0/0
A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.
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Rascals! Go to Hell
1961
Edo Purebreed
0/0
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the v...
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Edo Purebreed
1957
The Unbalanced Wheel
0/0
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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The Unbalanced Wheel
1962
Four Sisters
6/1
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
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Four Sisters
2001
Siberian Express 2
0/0
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Siberian Express 2
1959
Room for Let
6/1
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection...
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Room for Let
1952
The Waves
5/3
Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Waves
1958
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
0/0
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by...
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
1958
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
0/0
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
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Makeraremasen katsumadewa
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
1960
Honno-Ji in Flames
5/3
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the...
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Honno-Ji in Flames
1963
The Maid Story
0/0
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...
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The Maid Story
1951
Early Summer
7.837/184
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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Early Summer
1957
Dancing Girl
6/1
In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment...
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Dancing Girl
1961
The Shrikes
0/0
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The Shrikes
1952
Tange Sazen
0/0
Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an o...
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Tange Sazen
1958
The Hotelman's Holiday
0/0
A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
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The Hotelman's Holiday
1963
Pressure of Guilt
7/1
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Pressure of Guilt
1954
Love and Duty
0/0
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth an...
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Love and Duty
1965
A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
0/0
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 2...
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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner
1953
Yassamossa
0/0
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Yassamossa
1959
Pilgrimage at Night
0/0
Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya...
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Pilgrimage at Night
1955
A Woman's Life
0/0
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A Woman's Life
1950
Crazy Uproar
0/0
Also known as Crazy Uproar.
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Crazy Uproar
1961
Restoration Fire
7/1
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall...
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Restoration Fire
1959
Image of a Mother
0/0
The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn to form a re...
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Image of a Mother
1986
Metamorphosis
5.2/5
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
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Metamorphosis
1968
Tales of the Inner Chamber
4.3/3
Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.
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Tales of the Inner Chamber
1954
Chushingura
0/0
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Chushingura
1965
The Last Judgment
0/0
The last judgment.
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The Last Judgment
1956
Zangiku monogatari
7/1
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Zangiku monogatari
2005
Until the Lights Come Back
6/6
A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.
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Until the Lights Come Back
1951
Beauty of Life
0/0
Inochi uruwashi
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Beauty of Life
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
0/0
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to ma...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
1963
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
0/0
Ensemble comedy.
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Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
1953
Ganpeki
0/0
1953 Japanese movie
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Ganpeki
1952
Merry Migratory Birds
0/0
Midori (Misora), the adopted daughter of Kinnosuke (Kawamura), a ship carpenter in a port town, was born a good singer. Her mother is dead, her father...
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