1947

One Wonderful Sunday

7.274/82

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small...

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One Wonderful Sunday

1936

Woman in the Mist

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Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel...

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Woman in the Mist

1937

The Trio's Engagements

7/1

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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The Trio's Engagements

1930

Hard Times

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Hard Times

1930

Marching On

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A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local...

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Marching On

1934

Osayo koisugata

0/0

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble payin...

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Osayo koisugata

1938

So Goes My Love

7/1

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns...

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So Goes My Love

1933

Apart from You

6.9/18

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

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Apart from You

1931

The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

6.5/13

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

1933

The Dancing Girl of Izu

6.5/2

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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The Dancing Girl of Izu

1935

Burden of Life

6.4/7

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unw...

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Burden of Life

1933

The Bride Talks in Her Sleep

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This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of earl...

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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep

1935

The Groom Talks in His Sleep

6/1

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of earl...

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The Groom Talks in His Sleep

1956

The Rose on His Arm

5.8/5

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

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The Rose on His Arm

1934

My Elder Brother

6/1

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. J...

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My Elder Brother

1937

Lady Doctor Kinuyo

4.6/4

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

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Lady Doctor Kinuyo

1958

Stakeout

6.9/17

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

1961

Hattari Seinen Shinshi

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Japanese comedy film.

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Hattari Seinen Shinshi

1933

Happy Times

0/0

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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Happy Times

1950

Snow-Flake

8/1

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Snow-Flake

1933

Love

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Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the li...

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Love

1960

The River Fuefuki

7.542/12

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over...

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The River Fuefuki

1929

Treasure Mountain

0/0

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current girlf...

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Treasure Mountain

1958

Maria of the Ant Village

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Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been bapti...

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Maria of the Ant Village

1942

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

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The Spy Has Not Died Yet

1936

Family Meeting

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A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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Family Meeting

1954

Twenty-Four Eyes

7.7/80

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and p...

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Twenty-Four Eyes

1957

Hearts A-Flutter

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Hearts A-Flutter

1937

The Lights of Asakusa

6/4

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pr...

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The Lights of Asakusa

1953

A Japanese Tragedy

5.8/11

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with...

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A Japanese Tragedy

1958

Equinox Flower

7.449/138

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adaman...

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Equinox Flower

1961

Happiness of Us Alone

9/5

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

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Happiness of Us Alone

1955

The Big Ambition

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The Big Ambition

1930

Reijin

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Reijin

1936

Men vs. Women

0/0

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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Men vs. Women

1939

A Brother and His Younger Sister

5.8/4

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting t...

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A Brother and His Younger Sister

1932

The Loyal 47 Ronin

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This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their f...

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The Loyal 47 Ronin

1936

College is a Nice Place

0/0

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

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College is a Nice Place

1955

A Woman's Life

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A Woman's Life

1924

Beyond The Pass

0/0

Debut film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Beyond The Pass

1931

Nikutai no bōfū

0/0

The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire

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Nikutai no bōfū

1928

The Age of Emotion

0/0

A young man torn between love and friendship.

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The Age of Emotion

1931

Silver Stream

0/0

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is no...

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Silver Stream

1949

Odoru ryûgûjô

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Odoru ryûgûjô

1951

Haha machi gusa

0/0

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the o...

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Haha machi gusa

1951

Elegy

0/0

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl...

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Elegy

1951

Beauty of Life

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Inochi uruwashi

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Beauty of Life

1950

Mado Kara Tobidase

0/0

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an ag...

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Mado Kara Tobidase

1934

Living Things

0/0

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

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Living Things

1956

I Will Buy You

7.077/13

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

1938

Hotaru no hikari

0/0

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who wil...

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Hotaru no hikari

1932

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki

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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki

1928

Kare to Tokyo

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Kare to Tokyo

1932

Moth-eaten Spring

0/0

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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Moth-eaten Spring

1928

Riku no ôja

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Riku no ôja

1958

White Blaze

0/0

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

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White Blaze

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

1964

Day-Dream

5.538/13

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the of...

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Day-Dream

1957

悪魔の顔

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悪魔の顔

1954

Haru no Wakakusa

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Haru no Wakakusa

1954

Dancing Girls of Izu

0/0

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An a...

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Dancing Girls of Izu

1958

Don't get in your hands

0/0

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away...

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Don't get in your hands

1952

Sono yoru no tsuma

0/0

Hiroo Ikeda movie

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Sono yoru no tsuma

1961

Hikkoshi yatsure

0/0

Manao Horiuchi movie

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Hikkoshi yatsure

1935

Mother's Love Letter

0/0

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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Mother's Love Letter

1955

Next Door to Happiness

0/0

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

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Next Door to Happiness

1958

The Ballad of Narayama

7.448/77

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

1962

Kigeki ekimae onsen

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Kigeki ekimae onsen

1956

涙の花道

0/0

Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke and become a...

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涙の花道

1939

Haha o tataeru uta

0/0

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

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Haha o tataeru uta

1962

Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi

1935

Okoto and Sasuke

6.7/3

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Jun...

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Okoto and Sasuke

1943

Our Planes Fly South

0/0

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Our Planes Fly South

1932

Crying to the Blue Sky

0/0

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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Crying to the Blue Sky