Mitsuko Baisho
Mitsuko Baisho (born 22 November 1946 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) is a noted Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2002. Baisho has also been in films of Akira Kurosawa.
She also won the awards for best actress at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Love Letter and Ikiteru uchi ga hana nano yo shindara sore made yo to sengen.She also won the award for best supporting actress at the 8th Hochi Film Award for The Geisha and at the 22nd Hochi Film Award for Tokyo Lullaby. Her sister is actress-singer Chieko Baisho.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.951 |
| Birthday | 1946-11-22 |
| Place of Birth | Ibaraki, Japan |
| Also Known As | Mitsuko Baishô, 바이쇼 미츠코, Мицуко Байсё, |
1997
The Eel
7/107
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no on...
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The Eel
1980
Kagemusha
7.8/641
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid at...
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Kagemusha
1990
Dreams
7.7/467
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
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Dreams
2001
Turn
7/8
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home. Whe...
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Turn
1983
The Ballad of Narayama
7.5/163
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should ref...
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The Ballad of Narayama
1979
Vengeance Is Mine
7.5/132
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Vengeance Is Mine
2018
CINEMA FIGHTERS
0/0
Six stories based on six songs, the first project of Cinema Fighters.
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CINEMA FIGHTERS
1969
Tenchu!
7/38
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
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Tenchu!
2012
Blazing Famiglia
0/0
"Blazing Famiglia" centers around a family of former teenage gangsters. Tetsu Hino (Yoshimi Tokui) was once the leader of the most feared motorcycle...
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Blazing Famiglia
2010
The Lady Shogun and Her Men
6.1/15
In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the dras...
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The Lady Shogun and Her Men
2006
Tales from Earthsea
6.528/1307
Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people...
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Tales from Earthsea
1984
The Crazy Family
6.6/23
The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...
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The Crazy Family
1983
The Geisha
6.4/8
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it w...
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The Geisha
1976
Manhunt
6.4/19
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
1989
My Phoenix
0/0
Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix
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My Phoenix
1978
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
6.2/16
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1995
A Last Note
7/12
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring variou...
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A Last Note
2009
Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
4.7/3
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to h...
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Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
1983
P. P. Rider
5.4/7
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
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P. P. Rider
2022
Offbeat Cops
6.1/9
Tsukasa Naruse works as a detective. He is enthusiastic with his job. To catch criminals, he sometimes breaks rules that detectives should follow. Tsu...
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Offbeat Cops
1997
Tokyo Lullaby
6.2/5
Hamanaka Koichi returns to his wife Hisako and family in a sadder, run-down section of eastern Tokyo after having run away from home years before. He...
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Tokyo Lullaby
2015
Mr. Love Chemistry 2
0/0
Despite working as a matchmaker, Sosuke is an awkward person. He works with Shion and they bicker over their different beliefs of love and marriage.
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Mr. Love Chemistry 2
1985
Let Him Rest in Peace
8/2
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
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Let Him Rest in Peace
1970
Duel at Fort Ezo
5.4/5
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's...
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Duel at Fort Ezo
1998
Solitude Point
0/0
Yukie is a romance story about an American veteran (Bo Swenson) of the Korean War veteran and his undying love for a beautiful Japanese nurse named Yu...
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Solitude Point
1980
Wings of Icarus' Flight
0/0
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening acrobat...
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Wings of Icarus' Flight
2011
Rock: Wanko no Shima
0/0
A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind.
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Rock: Wanko no Shima
1978
The Blind Swordsman
5.7/3
A documentary about the character created for a series of Japanese films starring Shintaro Katsu. There are behind-the-scenes interviews on the set of...
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The Blind Swordsman
2004
Locomotive Teacher
0/0
Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to teac...
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Locomotive Teacher
2008
All Around Us
7.5/15
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure...
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All Around Us
2002
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
0/0
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their j...
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2009
Counterfeit
0/0
Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufact...
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Counterfeit
1971
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
0/0
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
2002
Out
5.3/7
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body...
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Out
1978
Winter's Flower
6.2/4
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...
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Winter's Flower
1981
Why Not?
6.4/15
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...
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Why Not?
2024
52-Hertz Whales
5.2/4
After her mother remarried, Kiko Mishima was abused mentally and physically by her family that included her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrothe...
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52-Hertz Whales
1987
Zegen
6.4/12
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level milit...
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Zegen
2014
Time Never Stops
10/1
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film depi...
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Time Never Stops
1998
Love Letter
0/0
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
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Love Letter
2001
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
6.5/46
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
1970
Charming Men
0/0
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Ba...
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Charming Men
1998
The Hidden Festival
0/0
Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small re...
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The Hidden Festival
2001
A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
6/1
The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian transla...
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A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
1981
Flames of Blood
7/1
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's a...
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Flames of Blood
1973
Miyamoto Musashi
7.1/10
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then b...
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Miyamoto Musashi
1977
A Scream from Nowhere
6/2
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy in...
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A Scream from Nowhere
2011
Dendera
9.7/3
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the...
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Dendera
2005
Shining Boy and Little Randy
4.8/4
Tetsumu, an introverted youth, realizes he has a natural ability of communicating with elephants. This prompts him to leave for Chiang Mai in Thailand...
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Shining Boy and Little Randy
2016
Sing My Life
6.5/2
Katsu (Mitsuko Baisho) is a 73-years-old woman. She often makes trouble with her biting remarks. While raising a daughter alone, Katsu was unable to l...
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Sing My Life
1972
Chase That Man
0/0
The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
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Chase That Man
2016
Big & Little
6.5/2
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Big & Little
1984
Curtain Call
6/1
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her rea...
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Curtain Call
2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
3/1
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with his...
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An Emblem Dedicated To You
1997
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
5/0
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2013
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
5.5/4
Arrangement instructor Makiko Norita (Yukie Nakama) displays a dignified smile, but she also makes bitting remarks. Nevertheless, with her magic arran...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
2006
Haru, Bânîzu de
0/0
Tsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that something is missing in the life...
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Haru, Bânîzu de
2015
Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange
0/0
Yamakura of the Kobe Fire Department aspires to wear the vaunted “orange” uniform of an elite rescue force that only 3% of all firefighters can attain...
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Risking it All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange
1987
Sure Death 4
6.6/8
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in t...
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Sure Death 4
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
1973
Flower and Dragon
10/1
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two othe...
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Flower and Dragon
1973
The Shinano River
0/0
Romantic drama based on the manga published in Young Comic.
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The Shinano River
1973
Daddy on a Rocking Boat
0/0
Based on the comic by Mitsutoshi Furuya
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Daddy on a Rocking Boat
1971
Follow the Girls
0/0
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
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Follow the Girls
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
1977
The Life of Chikuzan
8.3/3
A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
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The Life of Chikuzan
2012
Shichou Shisu
0/0
The mayor is found dead in the river in a small town known for its hot springs. It's assumed that he fell to his death, but his nephew just cannot und...
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Shichou Shisu
1986
Women Who Do Not Divorce
4.3/3
Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want t...
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Women Who Do Not Divorce
1985
Love Letter
7.9/7
A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and...
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Love Letter
2002
11’09”01—September 11
6.5/108
Filmmakers from all over the world provide short films – each of which is eleven minutes, nine seconds, and one frame of film in length – that offer d...
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11’09”01—September 11
1976
The Three Ginza Rascals
0/0
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
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The Three Ginza Rascals
2019
When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
7/2
When Satoshi was little, his mother Akiko always took good care of him. She was gentle, but mentally strong. However, two years ago she was diagnosed...
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When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes
1967
Lover's Duet
0/0
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
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Lover's Duet
2016
Bōkyō
0/0
Three stories from Shiratsuna Island: "Mikan no hana"
Shiratsuna Island is the only remaining island city in Japan, but it is being merged with a ci...
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Bōkyō
1970
Fun on the Run
0/0
Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
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Fun on the Run
1969
Our Miyo-chan
0/0
Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.
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Our Miyo-chan
1969
Women Can't Be Beaten
0/0
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
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Women Can't Be Beaten
2018
Snowman
0/0
A near future not far from now. A couple who are tied with deep love with, Roku and Miyuki. Miyuki decide to freeze Roku had an incurable disease and...
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Snowman
2020
Threads - Our Tapestry of Love
7.3/21
Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they separat...
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Threads - Our Tapestry of Love
1968
The Million Dollar Pursuit
5/1
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
1986
Cabaret
4.7/3
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist start...
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Cabaret
1985
Nuclear Gypsies
4/1
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her...
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Nuclear Gypsies
1971
The Instant Services Bureau
9/1
Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office.
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The Instant Services Bureau
1989
Sensei
0/0
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Sensei
2000
By Player
8/1
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the ca...
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By Player
2021
In the Wake
6.5/14
Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence f...
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In the Wake
2018
Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
6/1
Eiso Tsubaki, a former aristocrat, was suspected in a murder case in Ginza and committed suicide. Detective Kindaichi Kosuke, who is commissioned by T...
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Akuma ga Kitarite Fue wo Fuku
2010
Postcard
5/8
Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war...
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