Hisashi Igawa
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Hisashi Igawa (井川比佐志 born 17 November 1936) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Dodesukaden, Ran and Madadayo. He starred in Abe Kōbō's production of The Man Who Turned Into A Stick, a surrealist play, in 1969.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.142 |
Birthday | 1936-11-17 |
Place of Birth | |
Also Known As | Хисаси Игава, |
1991
Rhapsody in August
7.116/141
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...
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Rhapsody in August
1985
Tampopo
7.849/358
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tam...
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Tampopo
1994
47 Ronin
7.5/21
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal fo...
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47 Ronin
1987
Hachiko
7.7/162
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
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Hachiko
1990
Boiling Point
6.884/202
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There...
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Boiling Point
1970
Dodes'ka-den
7/135
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances...
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Dodes'ka-den
1998
Bullet Ballet
6.9/124
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
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Bullet Ballet
1971
The Wolves
7.4/20
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang...
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The Wolves
1993
Madadayo
7.4/121
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset o...
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Madadayo
1989
Rikyu
7.5/30
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes...
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Rikyu
1962
八幡鳩九郎
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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八幡鳩九郎
2010
Villain
6.55/40
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and g...
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Villain
1969
Goyokin
7.5/57
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Goyokin
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.167/538
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!
1962
Pitfall
7.325/100
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost...
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Pitfall
1966
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
7.037/41
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
1991
Nakibokuro
0/0
Junko Mizuta, who is returning from juvenile training school, is a former motorcycle gang. Even though he now works, he still goes to his father Junji...
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Nakibokuro
1972
The Long Darkness
6.8/10
A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the...
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The Long Darkness
1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.156/16
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1966
Cash Calls Hell
7.6/10
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assass...
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Cash Calls Hell
2008
Beauty
0/0
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Beauty
1981
Fifth Movement
0/0
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinis...
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Fifth Movement
1971
Kataashi no ēsu
0/0
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Kataashi no ēsu
2005
For the coming day
0/0
Miyo Hanayama works as a home care nurse, supporting the home care of patients who are close to death. Shigeaki Noguchi complains that his wife has s...
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For the coming day
2002
Letter from the Mountain
8.2/10
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
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Letter from the Mountain
1968
Young People
0/0
"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of his parents, the older brother, Taro, who works in c...
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Young People
2007
Kitokito!
0/0
Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.
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Kitokito!
2009
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
6/7
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2014
A Samurai Chronicle
7.4/8
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.
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A Samurai Chronicle
1992
The Oil-Hell Murder
6/11
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
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The Oil-Hell Murder
1972
Home from the Sea
7.143/7
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deep...
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Home from the Sea
1992
Luminous Moss
5.5/4
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
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Luminous Moss
1986
Black Board
4/1
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns ou...
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Black Board
2003
Farewell, Kuro
6.75/4
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the...
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Farewell, Kuro
1963
Police Department Story Pt.20: Backing Investigation
0/0
This time, the investigation division is investigating the case of a man who confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago, adhering to the...
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Police Department Story Pt.20: Backing Investigation
1979
Gassan
0/0
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fa...
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Gassan
1971
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
5.8/6
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1970
Where Spring Comes Late
7.536/14
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the min...
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Where Spring Comes Late
1964
The Desperate
7/2
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo (H...
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The Desperate
1964
Homicide
0/0
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26 an...
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Homicide
2000
After the Rain
7.193/83
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...
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After the Rain
1995
Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
0/0
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1957
The Living Koheiji
0/0
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.
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The Living Koheiji
1968
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
0/0
This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit reca...
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It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
2014
Climbing to Spring
7.2/5
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountai...
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Climbing to Spring
2004
Half a Confession
7.6/5
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its chara...
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Half a Confession
2006
Star Reformer
7.3/3
Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchan...
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Star Reformer
1978
Double Suicide of Sonezaki
6.8/8
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a...
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki
1992
Basara: The Princess Goh
6.8/11
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit sui...
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Basara: The Princess Goh
1961
Big Shots Die at Dawn
6.2/4
An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively kno...
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
1993
Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
0/0
During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.
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Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
1991
War and Youth
3.5/1
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up,...
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War and Youth
2001
The Firefly
7/1
Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was a...
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The Firefly
1985
Ran
8.1/1558
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...
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Ran
1990
Dreams
7.7/474
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
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Dreams
1991
Harikomi
2/1
When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage.
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Harikomi
1962
Harakiri
8.4/1019
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a plac...
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Harakiri
1978
Glowing Autumn
0/0
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer. Leche...
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Glowing Autumn
1975
Song of the Devil
5/3
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Ro...
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Song of the Devil
1986
Lost in the Wilderness
0/0
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of M...
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Lost in the Wilderness
2015
Foujita
5.8/5
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese...
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Foujita
1959
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
8.2/188
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts ag...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1977
The Far Road
7.5/2
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in...
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The Far Road
1972
The Class of the Sewage Canal
0/0
The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.
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The Class of the Sewage Canal
1998
Friendship
0/0
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when...
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Friendship
2016
Midnight Diner 2
7.3/28
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.
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Midnight Diner 2
1996
Lost in Time
6.5/2
A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special...
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Lost in Time
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
1976
The Village
6.7/6
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, b...
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The Village
2005
Yamato
5.4/36
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of...
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Yamato
1966
The Face of Another
7.792/253
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
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The Face of Another
2005
Christmas in August
0/0
A Japanese remake of the South Korean film of the same name.
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Christmas in August
1975
Main Line to Terror
6/14
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospit...
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Main Line to Terror
1964
Three Outlaw Samurai
7.5/95
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him...
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Three Outlaw Samurai
1979
Demon Pond
6.1/27
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a near...
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Demon Pond
1986
House on Fire
4.6/5
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
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House on Fire
1977
Village of Eight Gravestones
6.6/8
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of nov...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
1966
A Thousand Suspects
0/0
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
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A Thousand Suspects
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den'
0/0
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den'
1965
A Trap
7.2/13
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in K...
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A Trap
1991
Kamigata Kugaizoshi
1/1
"Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the thre...
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Kamigata Kugaizoshi
1963
Zoku ôsho
0/0
Adaptation of novel.
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Zoku ôsho
1967
Organized Violence
6/1
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
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Organized Violence
1959
Jose Torres
8/6
A documentary about the eponymous Puerto Rican boxer
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Jose Torres
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
1972
Summer Soldiers
6/4
The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese who...
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Summer Soldiers
2015
Have a Song on Your Lips
6.5/22
Yuri Kashiwaga was once known as a genius pianist. One day, she returns to her hometown in Goto Islands from Tokyo. There, she begins to work as a tem...
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Have a Song on Your Lips
1982
Eternal Monument
10/1
A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
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Eternal Monument
1963
Pressure of Guilt
7/1
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Pressure of Guilt
1993
Fusa
5.8/5
Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
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Fusa
1984
Hole in the Pants
5/1
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut...
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Hole in the Pants
1996
Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
0/0
A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.
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Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
1980
An Ocean to Cross
0/0
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The fil...
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An Ocean to Cross
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
1989
Yun’s Town
2/0
A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.
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Yun’s Town
1981
Willful Murder
7.3/3
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutd...
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Willful Murder
1998
Sada
6.8/14
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis.
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Sada
1975
The Gate of Youth
9/1
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every...
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The Gate of Youth
1977
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
7.3/3
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her tr...
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1995
Last Friends
5/3
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefi...
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Last Friends
1970
Tora-san's Runaway
7.8/6
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest...
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Tora-san's Runaway
1987
Actress
7/2
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
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1962
This Madding Crowd
0/0
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This Madding Crowd
1971
The Cliff of Time
0/0
A film adaptation of the second play from "The Man Who Turned Into A Stick" by Kōbō Abe himself.
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The Cliff of Time
2006
The Professor and His Beloved Equation
6.688/16
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.
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The Professor and His Beloved Equation
2006
TANNKA
6/1
Kaori, a professional thirty-something caught between her passion for an older married man and the indulgence of an energetic, but less-fulfilling, yo...
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TANNKA
1993
Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
0/0
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Koya Choken-bou oboegaki
1976
The Corporation
1/0
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The Corporation
1995
Deep River
7.2/4
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
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Deep River
1986
The Hall of the Crying Deer
0/0
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The Hall of the Crying Deer
1987
The Story of Jiro
0/0
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
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The Story of Jiro
1995
Goodbye for Tomorrow
0/0
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...
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Goodbye for Tomorrow
1983
Konnichiwa Hânesu
0/0
A female college student who aims to become a pianist meets a boy who raises a guide dog.
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Konnichiwa Hânesu
2022
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
7.1/7
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The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
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
2001
Hotoke
0/0
Rai pedals his bike and trailer about town, collecting old iron and sowing flower seeds. Because his face never seems to show emotion, everybody calls...
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Hotoke
1973
Woman buying a local Newspaper
0/0
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Woman buying a local Newspaper
1984
The Cold-Hearted Sea
0/0
A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).
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