1958

The Hidden Fortress

7.951/587

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who g...

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The Hidden Fortress

1949

Stray Dog

7.5/289

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...

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Stray Dog

1955

I Live in Fear

7.3/106

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to saf...

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I Live in Fear

1954

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

7.1/162

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

1951

The Idiot

7.014/104

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kame...

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The Idiot

1957

The Lower Depths

7.093/123

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that tur...

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The Lower Depths

1959

Good Morning

7.681/262

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of...

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Good Morning

1946

No Regrets for Our Youth

6.8/70

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of...

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No Regrets for Our Youth

1959

Samurai Saga

6.7/16

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady....

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Samurai Saga

1952

Ikiru

8.31/1080

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...

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Ikiru

1957

Throne of Blood

7.9/800

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...

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Throne of Blood

1952

Mother

6.813/16

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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Mother

1956

A Wife's Heart

6.8/10

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for...

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A Wife's Heart

1941

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

6.8/4

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now...

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Notes of an Itinerant Performer

1954

An Inn at Osaka

7.3/12

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka offi...

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An Inn at Osaka

1953

Where Chimneys Are Seen

6.4/12

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and insigh...

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Where Chimneys Are Seen

1953

Bot-chan

10/1

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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Bot-chan

1958

Firefly Light

0/0

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small i...

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Firefly Light

1956

女大学野球狂時代

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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女大学野球狂時代

1952

Okuni and Gohei

6.4/10

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

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Okuni and Gohei

1959

A Whistle in My Heart

6.4/5

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

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A Whistle in My Heart

1953

Mr. Pu

6.5/2

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

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Mr. Pu

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

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

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

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

1955

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

7.2/108

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...

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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

1957

Black River

7/27

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell t...

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Black River

1952

Carmen's Innocent Love

5.8/12

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

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Carmen's Innocent Love

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

1954

The Cock Crows Twice

0/0

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

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The Cock Crows Twice

1958

The Days of Evil Women

0/0

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

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The Days of Evil Women

1952

The Skin of the South

0/0

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one en...

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The Skin of the South

1959

The Beast Shall Die

6.2/6

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot...

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The Beast Shall Die

1952

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

0/0

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going t...

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The Woman Who Touched the Legs

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

1953

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

0/0

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

1957

Tokyo Twilight

7.6/120

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

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Tokyo Twilight

1957

A Case of Honor

0/0

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...

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A Case of Honor

1954

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

6/5

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

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

1955

The Big Ambition

0/0

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The Big Ambition

1956

Jacks and Jills

0/0

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Jacks and Jills

1953

My Wonderful Yellow Car

6/1

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My Wonderful Yellow Car

1953

Their Father's Wife

0/0

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Their Father's Wife

1953

Youth of Heiji Senigata

0/0

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Youth of Heiji Senigata

1955

Love Never Fails

0/0

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the othe...

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Love Never Fails

1952

Forbidden Path

0/0

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Forbidden Path

1953

Sunflower Girl

0/0

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

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Sunflower Girl

1951

Elegy

0/0

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

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Elegy

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

1959

Zoku shachōtaiheiki

0/0

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

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Zoku shachōtaiheiki

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

White Fish

0/0

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon th...

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White Fish

1953

First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband

0/0

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband

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

1958

Assistant President

0/0

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Assistant President

1951

Clothes of Deception

6.5/4

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

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Clothes of Deception

1958

A Holiday in Tokyo

0/0

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o...

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A Holiday in Tokyo

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

1957

Jigoku bana

0/0

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

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Jigoku bana

1952

Third Class Executives

0/0

1950s Japanese comedy.

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Third Class Executives

1950

Escape from Prison

0/0

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Escape from Prison

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

1958

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

0/0

1958 Japanese movie

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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1951

Who Knows a Woman's Heart

0/0

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...

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Who Knows a Woman's Heart

1955

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

0/0

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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

1958

A Boy and Three Mothers

0/0

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A Boy and Three Mothers

1951

The Blue Pearl

0/0

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coasta...

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The Blue Pearl