Hisaya Morishige
Hisaya Morishige (森繁久彌, Morishige Hisaya, May 4, 1913 – November 10, 2009) was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Manchukuo. He became famous in films first for comedy roles, appearing in series such as the "Company President" (Shacho) and "Station Front" (Ekimae) series, produced by Toho. He appeared in nearly 250 films, both contemporary and jidaigeki. He was also famous on stage playing Tevye in the Japanese version of Fiddler on the Roof. He also appeared in television series and specials, and was the first guest on the television talk show Tetsuko's Room in 1975. He was long-time head of the Japan Actors Union. Among many honors, Morishige received the Order of Culture from the Emperor of Japan in 1991.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 14.112 |
| Birthday | 1913-05-04 |
| Place of Birth | Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Хисая Морисигэ, |
1997
Princess Mononoke
8.336/7912
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he...
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Princess Mononoke
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
1982
The Longest Tunnel
0/0
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...
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The Longest Tunnel
1994
47 Ronin
7.4/20
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
1958
Yoku
0/0
Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku
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Yoku
1961
The End of Summer
7.551/89
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mis...
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The End of Summer
1979
The Rivals
0/0
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The Rivals
1958
The Undefeated Woman
0/0
The Undefeated Woman
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The Undefeated Woman
1951
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
0/0
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新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
1951
新遊侠伝
0/0
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新遊侠伝
1951
Koibito
5.4/5
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Koibito
1951
Bengawan Solo
0/0
War film by Kon Ichikawa
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Bengawan Solo
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
1953
Mole Alley
0/0
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating f...
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Mole Alley
1962
Salaryman Shimizu Minato
0/0
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Salaryman Shimizu Minato
1969
Travels of Lord Mito
0/0
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesabu...
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Travels of Lord Mito
1988
Goryokaku
0/0
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the...
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Goryokaku
1962
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
1972
Zatoichi at Large
6.5/29
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the ba...
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Zatoichi at Large
1954
Mako Osorubeshi
0/0
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Mako Osorubeshi
2004
Shinibana
0/0
After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal 1...
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Shinibana
1952
Third Class Executives
0/0
1950s Japanese comedy.
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Third Class Executives
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
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
1986
The White Tiger Battalion
0/0
The Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battle of...
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The White Tiger Battalion
1962
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
0/0
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Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
1962
Mount Hakone
0/0
Japanese drama.
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Mount Hakone
1956
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
6.2/8
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1984
Sayonara Jupiter
4.8/6
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far corners of the solar system, where they discover an...
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Sayonara Jupiter
1962
Kigeki ekimae onsen
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kigeki ekimae onsen
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
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
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
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
1960
The Masterless 47
0/0
Part one of The Masterless 47.
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The Masterless 47
1976
Two Iida
0/0
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in the...
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Two Iida
1962
Shin kitsune to tanuki
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Shin kitsune to tanuki
1972
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
0/0
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garn...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
1981
The Imperial Navy
6.6/10
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship duri...
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The Imperial Navy
1971
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
0/0
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
1983
Fiddler on the Roof
0/0
Special 50th anniversary recording of the Tokyo Imperial Theater production of the Fiddler on the Roof. Set in the little village of Anatevka, the st...
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Fiddler on the Roof
1957
Hadaka no Machi
0/0
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Hadaka no Machi
1955
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
0/0
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the...
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
1960
This Greedy Old Skin
0/0
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, incl...
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This Greedy Old Skin
1964
Zoku shachō shinshiroku
0/0
Shûe Matsubayashi movie
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Zoku shachō shinshiroku
1990
Sea of Wandering
0/0
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel o...
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Sea of Wandering
1984
Kukai
9/0
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined infl...
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Kukai
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
Chutaro of Banba
5/3
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story...
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Chutaro of Banba
1953
Bot-chan
10/1
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Bot-chan
1953
親馬鹿花合戦
0/0
Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
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親馬鹿花合戦
1950
Amakara chindōchū
0/0
Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...
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Amakara chindōchū
1952
Lil's Return from Shanghai
0/0
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries...
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Lil's Return from Shanghai
1956
Called to the Stand
0/0
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. T...
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Called to the Stand
1955
Such is Life
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Such is Life
1958
The Tale of the White Serpent
6.182/33
As a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake is actually a young snake goddess named Bai-Niang and...
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The Tale of the White Serpent
1953
Tokyo Profile
6.5/2
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the cr...
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Tokyo Profile
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
1986
Surgical Designs in Flames
0/0
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
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Surgical Designs in Flames
1955
Nonki saiban
0/0
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty,...
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Nonki saiban
1959
Temptation on Glamour Island
6/1
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of Worl...
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Temptation on Glamour Island
1960
Life of a Country Doctor
0/0
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first ti...
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Life of a Country Doctor
1973
The Twilight Years
0/0
A woman looks after her father in law.
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The Twilight Years
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
1961
Snow in the South Seas
0/0
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
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Snow in the South Seas
1978
The Incident
6.3/3
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shi...
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The Incident
1956
Morishige's Honeymoon
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Morishige's Honeymoon
1962
A Country Boss
0/0
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
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A Country Boss
1972
Theater Of Life
10/1
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashik...
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Theater Of Life
1957
Snow Country
6.7/10
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous t...
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Snow Country
1958
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
0/0
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
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Makeraremasen katsumadewa
1971
Follow the Girls
0/0
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
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Follow the Girls
2001
Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
7.4/37
Doraemon and his friends have to rescue the people of Birdopia from the wrongdoing of vengeful former bird troopers before they unleash a wicked ancie...
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
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
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
6.5/2
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
1958
The Shop Curtain
0/1
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
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The Shop Curtain
1955
Tales of Ginza
6.8/10
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who...
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Tales of Ginza
1957
The Beauty Expert
0/0
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The Beauty Expert
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
1961
The Masterless 47 – Part II
0/0
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The Masterless 47 – Part II
1980
Port Arthur
7.8/9
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (...
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Port Arthur
1953
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
0/0
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
1953
Her Captive Gamblers
0/0
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Her Captive Gamblers
1953
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
0/0
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
1953
Jirocho, the Hunted
0/0
A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
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Jirocho, the Hunted
1953
Jirocho's Home-Coming
0/0
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Jirocho's Home-Coming
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
1954
Last of the Wild Ones
0/0
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Last of the Wild Ones
1962
47 Ronin
7.3/41
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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47 Ronin
1962
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
0/0
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Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
1960
The Angry Sea
0/0
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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The Angry Sea
1960
The Wayside Pebble
0/0
In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well...
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The Wayside Pebble
1956
Jacks and Jills
0/0
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Jacks and Jills
1962
This Madding Crowd
0/0
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This Madding Crowd
1958
Theater of Life
0/0
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Theater of Life
1953
Yasugorō shusse
0/0
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Yasugorō shusse
1977
Sugata Sanshiro
0/0
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means o...
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Sugata Sanshiro
1983
The Yoshida School
0/0
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history relea...
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The Yoshida School
1971
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
7.25/4
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his s...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1956
The President's Boss
0/0
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
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The President's Boss
1956
The President Talks Bank
0/0
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
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The President Talks Bank
1974
Machi no Hi
0/0
Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerag...
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Machi no Hi
1959
The Adventures of Kantaro
0/0
Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.
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The Adventures of Kantaro
1958
Assistant President
0/0
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Assistant President
1964
Hail the 3 Gents
0/0
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Hail the 3 Gents
1953
Princess Finds Her Prince
0/0
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Princess Finds Her Prince
1958
The Tale of the White Serpent
6.182/33
As a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake is actually a young snake goddess named Bai-Niang and...
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The Tale of the White Serpent
1951
Pirates
0/0
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Pirates
1956
はりきり社長
0/0
The third instalment in the Shacho Series.
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はりきり社長
1965
Five Gents' Trick Book
0/0
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Five Gents' Trick Book
1958
The Child Writers
0/0
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The Child Writers
1987
Tabaruzaka
0/0
Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s anti-Western...
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Tabaruzaka
1964
Could I But Live
0/0
Could I But Live
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Could I But Live
1959
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
0/0
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
1958
The Third President
0/0
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
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The Third President
1959
社長太平記
0/0
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
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社長太平記
1954
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
0/0
Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
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Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
1955
Morishige no demakase shinshi
0/0
Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
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Morishige no demakase shinshi
1951
Koi no rantō
0/0
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she...
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Koi no rantō
1963
Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai
0/0
Ensemble comedy.
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