Rentaro Mikuni
Rentaro Mikuni (三國 連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, born January 20, 1923) was a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. Kōichi Satō is his son.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.224 |
| Birthday | 1923-01-20 |
| Place of Birth | Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Рэнтаро Микуни, 三國 連太郎, 佐藤 政雄, 三国连太郎, さとう まさお, みくに れんたろう, |
1980
The Bear Storm
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An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in search...
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The Bear Storm
1971
3,000 Kilometer Trap
0/0
A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers acro...
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
1954
Good Son-in-Law
0/0
Asahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's father has already cleared up his eldest daughter Keiko...
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Good Son-in-Law
1963
The Life of a Horse-Trader
0/0
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick woma...
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The Life of a Horse-Trader
1953
Escape Zone
0/0
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...
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Escape Zone
1953
Aijô ni tsuite
0/0
Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her paren...
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Aijô ni tsuite
1953
Koibito-tachi no iru machi
0/0
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, i...
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Koibito-tachi no iru machi
1965
Kwaidan
7.701/379
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan
1954
Turbid youth
0/0
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayash...
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Turbid youth
1955
Striving to Live
0/0
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in troubl...
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Striving to Live
1953
Omatsuri hanjiro
0/0
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather t...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
1955
Three Faces
0/0
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...
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Three Faces
1955
The Beautiful Nuns
0/0
A samurai who slashes a young girl's mage appears in Edo, and she is never caught.
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The Beautiful Nuns
1955
Bodyguard from Hell
0/0
Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama.
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Bodyguard from Hell
1954
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
7.152/174
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1956
The Burmese Harp
7.9/150
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
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The Burmese Harp
1956
Phoenix
0/0
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she perform...
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Phoenix
1956
Dotanba
6/1
Dotanba - Last Minute
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Dotanba
1956
Ryûri no kishi
0/0
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Ryûri no kishi
1958
The Undefeated Woman
0/0
The Undefeated Woman
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The Undefeated Woman
1956
Evil Reward
0/0
After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of the...
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Evil Reward
1958
Yoku
0/0
Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku
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Yoku
1959
A Dead Drifter
0/0
A Dead Drifter / Hyoryû shitaî
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A Dead Drifter
1961
Like Fire is My Life
0/0
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Like Fire is My Life
1960
The Stragglers
0/0
The last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived
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The Stragglers
1962
Umineko ga tonde
0/0
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Umineko ga tonde
1962
The King
0/0
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional sho...
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The King
1961
Fateful Birthplace
0/0
A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
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Fateful Birthplace
1963
The Life of Rikisha-Man
0/0
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The Life of Rikisha-Man
1963
Futari dake no toride
0/0
Futari dake no toride
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Futari dake no toride
1978
Never Give Up
5.7/7
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for...
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Never Give Up
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
1962
Harakiri
8.4/992
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
1989
Rikyu
7.4/29
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
Tokyo Untouchable
0/0
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Tokyo Untouchable
1968
Neon taiheiki
0/0
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Neon taiheiki
1969
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
6.7/18
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a ne...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
1981
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
6.896/48
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
1968
Profound Desires of the Gods
7.4/59
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
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Profound Desires of the Gods
1993
The Last Dance
6.7/10
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. Though his family, friends, and doctor...
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The Last Dance
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
1967
Zatoichi the Outlaw
6.4/32
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
1961
The Catch
6.3/11
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions a...
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The Catch
1974
Himiko
7.1/23
The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
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Himiko
1962
The Christian Revolt
6.2/7
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian...
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The Christian Revolt
1958
The Outsiders
0/0
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Ta...
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The Outsiders
1973
Coup d'Etat
6.6/19
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
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Coup d'Etat
1962
The Broken Commandment
6.2/8
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...
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The Broken Commandment
1951
Boyhood
6.7/9
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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Boyhood
1971
Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death
6.5/7
In the sixth and final episode Rentaro Mikuni steals the show as Baiken Shishido, Musashi's nemesis. Mikuni is the nominal villain of the film, but he...
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Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death
1977
Mount Hakkoda
6.8/13
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
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Mount Hakkoda
1994
The Friends
7.3/3
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a hou...
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The Friends
1961
Miyamoto Musashi
7.3/11
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicio...
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Miyamoto Musashi
1965
A Fugitive from the Past
7.5/46
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, prov...
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A Fugitive from the Past
1988
The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
4.2/3
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman's Return".
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The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
1975
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
7/1
Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1980
Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
6/1
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
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Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
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
1988
Wuthering Heights
6.2/10
Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffer...
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Wuthering Heights
1951
The Good Fairy
5.5/6
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.
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The Good Fairy
1959
Thus Another Day
5.6/5
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out t...
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Thus Another Day
2011
Someday
0/0
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the perform...
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Someday
1993
Making of Daibyonin
0/0
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Dance".
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Making of Daibyonin
2011
Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
8/1
Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of...
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Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
1972
The Rendezvous
6.3/11
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
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The Rendezvous
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
1953
Husband and Wife
6.6/8
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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Husband and Wife
1994
Free and Easy 7
7.5/2
Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later, Hama-chan sees her again at a dentist's office.
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Free and Easy 7
1986
A Human Promise
6.5/6
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to...
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A Human Promise
1964
Wolves, Pigs & Men
8.3/6
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is...
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
1982
The Go Masters
6.2/4
Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely...
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The Go Masters
1972
Journey Into Solitude
6.5/8
Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific Ocean. After meeting with a theatre group she falls sic...
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Journey Into Solitude
1999
Will to Live
6.3/6
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for...
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Will to Live
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
1988
A Taxing Woman's Return
6.2/22
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
1970
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
6.6/7
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1971
Shadow of Deception
6.3/3
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who ow...
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Shadow of Deception
1952
Doctor's Day Off
6/3
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a ma...
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Doctor's Day Off
1958
Wind, Woman and Road
7/1
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they are...
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Wind, Woman and Road
1963
Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
0/0
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Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
1994
Free and Easy Special
7.5/2
Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but Michik...
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Free and Easy Special
2012
Chronicle of My Mother
6.6/17
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the spir...
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Chronicle of My Mother
1987
Shinran: Path to Purity
5/4
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex a...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
2004
Free and Easy 15
7.5/2
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
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Free and Easy 15
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
2001
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
7.5/2
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and H...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
1953
Wife
6.9/8
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and th...
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Wife
1966
Captive's Island
6.5/13
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for ven...
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Captive's Island
1991
My Sons
7.9/8
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, bu...
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My Sons
1971
Confessions Among Actresses
6.1/11
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid b...
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Confessions Among Actresses
1977
The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao
0/0
An exploration of the nature of journalism that focuses on Fukuoka Nichi Nichi newspaper reporter Kikutake Sunao, with reenactments of scenes from his...
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The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao
2008
Free and Easy 19
7.5/2
Hama-chan joins a company excursion to Oita with the rest of his department including his new junior Daisuke. Beautiful Namiko, the organizer of the t...
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Free and Easy 19
2006
Free and Easy 17
5.8/6
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.
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Free and Easy 17
1981
Rennyo and His Mother
0/0
Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortun...
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Rennyo and His Mother
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
1960
Devotion to Railway
6.5/2
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
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Devotion to Railway
2003
Free and Easy 14
7.5/2
Hama-chan's supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward, fishing-obsessed underling, and Hama-chan's new boss naively tries t...
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Free and Easy 14
1975
Solar Eclipse
6.8/6
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
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Solar Eclipse
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
5/5
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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Fireworks Over the Sea
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
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
1961
Run, Genta, Run!
7.5/2
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.
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Run, Genta, Run!
1976
The Possessed
0/0
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do...
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The Possessed
1976
Barefoot Gen
7/2
First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.
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Barefoot Gen
1959
The Song of the Cart
6.6/9
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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The Song of the Cart
1999
The Old Man and the Sea
7.6/153
An old fisherman makes the biggest catch of his life.
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The Old Man and the Sea
1958
Night Drum
6.1/12
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially gree...
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Night Drum
1955
A Hole of My Own Making
6/1
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she...
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A Hole of My Own Making
1956
Nikoyon monogatari
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Nikoyon monogatari
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
6.8/6
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some commun...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
2009
Through the Mist
6.4/17
A biopic of the late musician Dédé Fortin, the singer, songwriter, and founder of a very popular Québécois band called "Les Colocs".
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Through the Mist
1984
The Fugitive Samurai
0/0
Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the h...
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The Fugitive Samurai
1966
Glorious Fights
7/3
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan...
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Glorious Fights
1983
The Women of Osaka Castle
0/0
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th...
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The Women of Osaka Castle
1974
The Tattered Banner
0/0
Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
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The Tattered Banner
1987
River of Fireflies
0/0
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcomi...
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River of Fireflies
1953
The Lovers
0/0
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
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The Lovers
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
5.7/7
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1997
Free and Easy 9
7.3/3
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veter...
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Free and Easy 9
1989
Free and Easy 2
8/2
Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woman saves Su-san when he collapses while fishing.
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Free and Easy 2
1964
A Story from Echigo
7.2/4
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...
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A Story from Echigo
1988
Free and Easy
7.3/3
Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along...
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Free and Easy
1993
Free and Easy 6
7.5/2
Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.
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Free and Easy 6
1952
Beauty and the Thief
0/0
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic...
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Beauty and the Thief
1952
Sword for Hire
7/8
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care...
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Sword for Hire
1966
The Threat
6.8/5
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family....
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The Threat
1954
Farewell Rabaul
9/3
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little...
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Farewell Rabaul
1966
Thirst for Love
5.5/2
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
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Thirst for Love
1972
Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
6/5
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1976
The Inugami Family
6.9/31
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pittin...
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The Inugami Family
1977
Sweet Revenge
6.6/5
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, spec...
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Sweet Revenge
1996
Oishinbo
0/0
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya.
Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the...
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Oishinbo
1973
Deeper Than Blue
0/0
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her...
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Deeper Than Blue
1996
Free and Easy 8
7.5/2
When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.
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Free and Easy 8
1990
Free and Easy 3
7.5/2
Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems.
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Free and Easy 3
1991
Free and Easy 4
7.5/2
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.
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Free and Easy 4
1992
Free and Easy 5
7.5/3
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.
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Free and Easy 5
1998
Free and Easy 10
6.7/4
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.
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Free and Easy 10
2005
Free and Easy 16
7.5/2
Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.
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Free and Easy 16
2003
The Wind Carpet
6.7/3
Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets were used in the festival of Takayama, a historic ci...
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The Wind Carpet
1962
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
7.4/11
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle aft...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1964
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
7/11
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. A...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
1957
The Eagle and the Hawk
5.7/7
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1963
Escape from Hell
6.2/5
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...
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Escape from Hell
1962
The Escape
7/2
Film about the 2-26 Incident.
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The Escape
1965
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
7.3/11
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters maki...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1957
Stepbrothers
7/6
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to re...
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Stepbrothers
1958
Face in the Dark
0/0
Japanese suspense film.
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Face in the Dark
1971
The Earth is Born Again
0/0
Japanese movie.
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The Earth is Born Again
1963
Zoku ôsho
0/0
Adaptation of novel.
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Zoku ôsho
1963
Tale of Army Brutality
10/1
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World...
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Tale of Army Brutality
1986
Beyond the Shining Sea
5/1
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cou...
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Beyond the Shining Sea
1957
The Flesh Is Weak
6/2
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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The Flesh Is Weak
1956
Crossroad
4.7/3
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt...
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Crossroad
1955
Till We Meet Again
6.7/3
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted...
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Till We Meet Again
1995
Mitabi no kaikyô
0/0
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Mitabi no kaikyô
1984
The Street of Desire
0/0
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
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The Street of Desire
1994
Turning Point
6/1
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
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Turning Point
1979
Nomugi Pass
6.3/3
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which...
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Nomugi Pass
2007
Free and Easy 18
7.5/2
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
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Free and Easy 18
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
2000
Free and Easy 11
7/3
Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.
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Free and Easy 11
1953
Eagle of the Pacific
7.8/5
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w...
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Eagle of the Pacific
1952
Shanghai Rose
0/0
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Shanghai Rose
1952
Adolescence
0/0
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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Adolescence
1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car
6/1
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My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
Red-Light Bases
0/0
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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Red-Light Bases
1954
Itsuko to sono haha
0/0
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
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Itsuko to sono haha
1960
The Great Road
0/0
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .
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The Great Road
1998
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
6.7/3
A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.
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Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
1970
City of Beasts
5.667/3
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely gett...
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City of Beasts
1962
Hell's Kitchen
0/0
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Hell's Kitchen
1953
The Blue Revolution
0/0
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The Blue Revolution
1955
Policeman's Diary, Part 2
6/1
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
1955
The Samurai of Edo
6/1
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restora...
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The Samurai of Edo
1951
Beauty of Life
0/0
Inochi uruwashi
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Beauty of Life
1985
Kimi ga kagayaku toki
0/0
A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
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Kimi ga kagayaku toki
2009
Free and Easy 20: Final
7.7/3
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Free and Easy 20: Final
1955
Vanished Glory
0/0
In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training....
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Vanished Glory
1959
The Murderer Must Die
0/0
A year ago, Tetsuo Yazaki was unemployed and wanted money, attacked a police box in Kobe, robbed a policeman of his pistol, attacked Hamamatsu OS Thea...
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The Murderer Must Die
1953
Reunion
0/0
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials of...
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Reunion
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
0/0
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
The Whisper of Spring
0/0
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt s...
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The Whisper of Spring
1951
Story of Lightning
0/0
Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his fathe...
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Story of Lightning
1954
Women's House
0/0
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashir...
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Women's House
1960
Hunting Opium-Eaters
0/0
The Chase after Opium Dealers
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Hunting Opium-Eaters
1961
City
0/0
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