Eiji Okada
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Eiji Okada (13 June 1920 Chōshi, Chiba, Japan – 14 September 1995 Japan) was a Japanese film actor. Okada served in the Japanese army during World War II, and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor.
Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him," in French) in the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959), directed by Alain Resnais, and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes (1964), an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel.
Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theatre company in Japan. He died on September 14, 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.867 |
Birthday | 1920-06-13 |
Place of Birth | Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan |
Also Known As | Okada Eiji, Эйдзи Окада, |
1961
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
0/0
The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
1968
Gambler's Farewell
6/1
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
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Gambler's Farewell
1973
Lady Snowblood
7.5/360
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother b...
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Lady Snowblood
1971
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
0/0
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Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1959
Hiroshima Mon Amour
7.7/811
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard...
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
1960
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
0/0
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is disturbed...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1974
The Yakuza
7.1/186
American private eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.
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The Yakuza
1952
Mother
6.882/17
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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Mother
1966
The Face of Another
7.784/252
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
1978
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
0/0
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The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1967
The X from Outer Space
5.2/45
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area...
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The X from Outer Space
1964
Woman in the Dunes
8.207/451
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and...
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Woman in the Dunes
1960
Shinran
0/0
A biographical movie about Shinran
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Shinran
1983
Antarctica
7.2/63
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
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Antarctica
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
1959
Hawk of the North
5.3/3
During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...
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Hawk of the North
1977
Utamaro's World
5.6/7
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-...
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Utamaro's World
1970
Rebel Against Glory
0/0
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Rebel Against Glory
1973
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
6.9/28
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nur...
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy
1963
The Ugly American
6.6/31
An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassad...
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The Ugly American
1985
Spring Bell
6/2
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, d...
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Spring Bell
1950
White Beast
6/9
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, un...
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White Beast
1964
Assassination
7.088/34
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring th...
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Assassination
1970
This Transient Life
7.5/41
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an as...
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This Transient Life
1970
Records of Bloodshed
0/0
Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of Kuraha...
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Records of Bloodshed
1975
I Am a Cat
3.3/3
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especi...
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I Am a Cat
1991
Heat Wave
5.8/11
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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Heat Wave
1976
Frozen River
0/0
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
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Frozen River
1963
She and He
6.7/10
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrink...
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She and He
1978
Lost Love
5.5/4
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local n...
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Lost Love
1978
The Glacier Fox
7.8/4
Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in northern Japan. First, Flep must fight for Leila before the tw...
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The Glacier Fox
1954
A Billionaire
5.7/3
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
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A Billionaire
1957
Showdown in Blood
0/0
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love...
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Showdown in Blood
1974
My Way
5.7/3
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy...
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My Way
1963
Rififi in Tokyo
5.611/9
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
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Rififi in Tokyo
1974
ESPY
5.6/5
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis...
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ESPY
1953
Hiroshima
7.5/25
The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history.
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Hiroshima
1955
Christ in Bronze
0/0
Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
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Christ in Bronze
1964
The Scent of Incense
7.2/9
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d...
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The Scent of Incense
1978
August without Emperor
7/3
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-wa...
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August without Emperor
1956
Avalanche
0/0
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Avalanche
1965
Sanshiro Sugata
7/6
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His...
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Sanshiro Sugata
1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
7/8
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a bor...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
1949
A Woman's Face
0/0
1949 drama film
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A Woman's Face
1980
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
0/0
A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE
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Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1960
Shinran, Part II
0/0
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class, w...
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Shinran, Part II
1978
Blood Type: Blue
5.917/6
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue...
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Blood Type: Blue
1955
Hirado Pirates
0/0
In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who earned huge amounts of gold by piracy. Along the way...
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Hirado Pirates
1995
Secret Liaisons
0/0
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.
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Secret Liaisons
1976
Lullaby of the Earth
6.5/13
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and decepti...
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Lullaby of the Earth
1977
The Gate of Youth Part 2
8/1
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
1978
Love and Faith
6.3/5
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an un...
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Love and Faith
1979
Dog of Fortune
4.5/2
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weap...
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Dog of Fortune
1977
The Alaska Story
6/1
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...
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The Alaska Story
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1971
Silence
7.2/38
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
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Silence
1969
Vixen
6.2/4
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swi...
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Vixen
1955
Here Is a Spring
7/1
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortl...
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Here Is a Spring
1976
Cobra 2
0/0
Japanese crime film.
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Cobra 2
1952
Vacuum Zone
7/1
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn ab...
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Vacuum Zone
1967
Rebellion of Japan
0/0
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair wit...
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Rebellion of Japan
1968
Tattooed Temptress
0/0
Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated fl...
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Tattooed Temptress
1950
Till We Meet Again
6.333/9
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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Till We Meet Again
1956
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
0/0
First film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
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The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
1956
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
0/0
Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
1957
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
0/0
A man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal atomic power.
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Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
1957
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
0/0
Fourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
1971
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
5.5/1
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1955
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
0/0
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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1980
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
0/0
Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
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The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1953
Tower of Lilies
6.8/8
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situat...
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Tower of Lilies
1968
Devil in My Flesh
0/0
Modern sex and thrill film about tattooed prostitute.
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Devil in My Flesh
1960
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
0/0
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1976
Love in the North
7/1
Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.
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Love in the North
1954
The End of a Day
0/0
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Ha...
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The End of a Day
1979
The Strangling
4.9/7
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromisi...
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The Strangling
1968
Secret Information
0/0
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to...
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Secret Information
1981
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
5.6/5
An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “spec...
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Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1961
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
0/0
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and c...
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1967
Portrait of Chieko
0/0
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her fami...
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Portrait of Chieko
1961
Festival of Swordsmen
6.1/7
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed samur...
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Festival of Swordsmen
1960
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
0/0
Aoi Shingo, a son of the Shogun, continues his travels seeking to further his mastery of the sword. In this final episode of the popular “Shingo’s Ori...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
1976
Permanent Blue
0/0
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he soo...
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Permanent Blue
1964
The Scarlet Camellia
5/4
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detec...
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The Scarlet Camellia
1976
Manhunt
6.475/20
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
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Manhunt
1972
Red Target
6/1
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a laboratory...
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Red Target
1959
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
0/0
These are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite w...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1981
Crazed Fruit
6.1/13
A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time,...
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Crazed Fruit
1956
Five Paths to Revenge
0/0
The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on hi...
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Five Paths to Revenge
1951
Weeping Doll
0/0
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
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Weeping Doll
1973
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
7.2/120
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1961
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
5.5/2
The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo resolv...
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A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
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
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
0/0
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
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A Ripple in a Morning
1983
Praying Mantis
3.5/2
A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective i...
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Praying Mantis
1975
Hadashi no seishun
0/0
Youth movie.
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Hadashi no seishun
1991
Traffic Jam
5/4
A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for th...
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Traffic Jam
1967
The Will to Live
0/0
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The Will to Live
1984
Agi, the Fury of Evil
7/1
A samurai warrior is terrorised by the demon Agi.
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Agi, the Fury of Evil
1957
The Eleventh Hour
7.2/6
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contempor...
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The Eleventh Hour
1952
The Yamabiko School
0/0
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
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The Yamabiko School
1980
Magnitude 7.9
4.7/3
A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
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Magnitude 7.9
1988
Green Requiem
0/0
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Green Requiem
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
1966
Pretty Devil Yoko
1/1
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is...
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Pretty Devil Yoko
1951
Karate Sanshiro
0/0
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst o...
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Karate Sanshiro
1960
The Pirates
7.2/4
Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period (Se...
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The Pirates
1966
Japan's Most Chivalrous
0/0
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Japan's Most Chivalrous
1969
Bullet Wound
6/1
Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to tak...
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Bullet Wound
1956
The Chop Professor
0/0
Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital afte...
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The Chop Professor
1982
Shi no dangai
0/0
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Shi no dangai
1951
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
0/0
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
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The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
1978
Take Me Away!
6/1
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Toky...
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Take Me Away!
1953
At the End of the Clouds
0/0
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
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At the End of the Clouds
1991
Summer of the Lion Kings
0/0
Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time, Kat...
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Summer of the Lion Kings
1952
Violence
0/0
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Violence
1958
Fearless Opposition
0/0
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
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Fearless Opposition
1975
Kyukei no Koya
0/0
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film...
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Kyukei no Koya
1973
The Killing Game
0/0
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The Killing Game
1971
The Earth is Born Again
0/0
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone developm...
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The Earth is Born Again
1984
Adultery: Can This Love Be Judged?
0/0
Junko's only son dies in an accident. Junko is exhausted by despair and grief, and her husband, who should be there to support her, instead blames her...
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