Shoichi Ozawa
Shōichi Ozawa (小沢 昭一, Ozawa Shōichi, April 6, 1929 – December 10, 2012) was a Japanese actor, radio host, singer, and prominent researcher and expert on Japanese folk art. He also founded the Shabondama-za theater company.
Ozawa, who was born in Tokyo, graduated from Waseda University. He began acting after college, beginning with his debut stage role in 1951. He also appeared in television and film roles, acting quite frequently in films directed by Shohei Imamura and Yūzō Kawashima. In 1971, Ozawa launched his long running radio show.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 26.115 |
| Birthday | 1929-04-06 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Shôichi Ozawa , Соити Одзава, Сёити Одзава, |
1997
The Eel
7/109
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
1961
Pigs and Battleships
7.069/58
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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Pigs and Battleships
1963
A Modern Samurai Village
0/0
Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined...
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A Modern Samurai Village
1967
Explosion Course
0/0
Auto-racing crews prepare for the Indy car race near Fuji in this Japanese documentary. Award-winning director Hiroshi Teshigahara compares the celebr...
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Explosion Course
1983
The Ballad of Narayama
7.5/167
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
1966
The Pornographers
7.33/44
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, H...
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The Pornographers
1963
The Insect Woman
7.4/68
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imam...
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The Insect Woman
1958
Stolen Desire
6.6/12
A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
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Stolen Desire
1968
Neon taiheiki
0/0
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Neon taiheiki
1962
Foundry Town
7.6/9
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
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Foundry Town
1962
Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki
0/0
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Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki
1966
The River Yokobori
0/0
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just trie...
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The River Yokobori
1960
Take Aim at the Police Van
6.2/26
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
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Take Aim at the Police Van
1965
Pleasures of the Flesh
5.7/23
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence...
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Pleasures of the Flesh
1961
Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
1963
Badge of the Night
0/0
A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nig...
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Badge of the Night
1971
Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
0/0
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Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai
1982
Nuclear Scrapbook
0/0
A film essay about nuclear energy in Japan, composed of newspaper clippings collected in scrapbooks
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Nuclear Scrapbook
1966
Silence Has No Wings
7/17
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki...
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Silence Has No Wings
1968
Japan for Sale
0/0
The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
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Japan for Sale
1968
The Human Bullet
6.1/12
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the...
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The Human Bullet
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
7.2/32
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various task...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1962
Elegant Beast
7.1/15
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover ther...
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Elegant Beast
1968
How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
0/0
A salaryman comedy.
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How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
1969
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
0/0
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1958
Forbidden Lips
0/0
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
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Forbidden Lips
1965
Seisaku's Wife
7.3/22
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of po...
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Seisaku's Wife
1986
Gonza the Spearman
7/16
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bann...
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Gonza the Spearman
1989
A Sandcastle Model Family Home
0/0
An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their ho...
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A Sandcastle Model Family Home
1970
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
6.8/10
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1968
Wild Ducks and Green Onions
0/0
The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant a...
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Wild Ducks and Green Onions
1962
Fresh Leaves
0/0
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....
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Fresh Leaves
1962
Eigo ni yowai otoko azuma wa azuma, nishi wa nishi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Eigo ni yowai otoko azuma wa azuma, nishi wa nishi
1974
Kaoru Kiri: The Best Lesbian In Japan, Authentic Account
4.5/2
A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.
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Kaoru Kiri: The Best Lesbian In Japan, Authentic Account
1967
Quick-Draw Dog
0/0
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series.
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Quick-Draw Dog
1961
Whistling in the Darkness
0/0
A 1961 crime film.
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Whistling in the Darkness
1979
Vengeance Is Mine
7.5/135
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
1956
Frankie the Milkman
9/1
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a di...
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Frankie the Milkman
1962
Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure
1962
Ponkotsu oyaji
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ponkotsu oyaji
1960
He's the Witness
0/0
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he d...
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He's the Witness
1993
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
0/0
A man fed up with city life moves to a village in the mountains
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I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1958
Wolves of the Night
0/0
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
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Wolves of the Night
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?
1972
Ichijo's Wet Lust
6.2/4
Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrest...
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Ichijo's Wet Lust
1967
Love for an Idiot
6/11
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
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Love for an Idiot
1977
Boxer
6.8/4
In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and sta...
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Boxer
1989
Black Rain
7.538/117
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic b...
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Black Rain
1960
The Sleeping Beast Within
6.7/10
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequenc...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
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
1961
Dai shusse monogatari
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Dai shusse monogatari
1959
おヤエの家つき女中
0/0
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おヤエの家つき女中
1960
Smashing the 0-Line
6.2/10
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But...
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Smashing the 0-Line
1972
The Golden Bat Shows Up
0/0
A comedy featuring The Golden Bat
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The Golden Bat Shows Up
1967
Classmates
6.5/4
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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Classmates
1965
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
6.4/5
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1967
Express Train
6/1
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to...
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Express Train
1960
The War Without Weapons
0/0
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amend...
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The War Without Weapons
1958
The Girl from Osaka
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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The Girl from Osaka
1956
Our Town
6.8/7
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover...
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Our Town
1965
The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
0/0
Japanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.
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The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
1964
The Glamorous Ghost
6/1
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, th...
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The Glamorous Ghost
1965
A Smell of Money
0/0
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
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A Smell of Money
1958
Endless Desire
6.5/12
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...
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Endless Desire
1965
Story of a Prostitute
6.6/34
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal...
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Story of a Prostitute
1981
Tora-san's Promise
8/2
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all hi...
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Tora-san's Promise
1966
Once a Rainy Day
0/0
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
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Once a Rainy Day
1958
A Slope in the Sun
5.5/6
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receiv...
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A Slope in the Sun
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
1961
The Song of the Season
0/0
A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.
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The Song of the Season
1963
Bad Girl
7.8/5
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...
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Bad Girl
1961
Tokyo Knights
6.9/9
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
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Tokyo Knights
1964
Revenge
7.5/19
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situa...
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Revenge
1956
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
7/24
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pourin...
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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
1958
Young Breasts
0/0
A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Mis...
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Young Breasts
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
1959
Room for Let
6/1
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection...
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Room for Let
1964
Our Happiness Alone
0/0
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder bro...
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Our Happiness Alone
1964
Female Ninja Magic
6.9/8
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of fi...
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Female Ninja Magic
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
1962
The Temple of Wild Geese
6.3/11
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lasciv...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
1968
Scrap Collectors
0/0
Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
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Scrap Collectors
1965
The Black Cat
0/0
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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The Black Cat
1961
A Killer Without a Grave
6/1
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that...
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A Killer Without a Grave
1963
The Maid Story
0/0
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...
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The Maid Story
1967
Traveling in Party
6/1
A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
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Traveling in Party
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
1972
Summer Soldiers
6/4
The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese who...
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Summer Soldiers
1961
Living by Karate
6/1
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
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Living by Karate
1957
Inn of the Floating Weeds
0/0
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Inn of the Floating Weeds
1964
Intentions of Murder
7.1/44
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect o...
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Intentions of Murder
1965
Trigger Happy Romeo
0/0
Fifth film in the "Inu" series.
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Trigger Happy Romeo
1964
Sweet Sweat
0/0
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to ke...
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Sweet Sweat
1968
Young Challengers
0/0
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japa...
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Young Challengers
1960
Jungle Block
7/1
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a resu...
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Jungle Block
1962
Nippon no obaachan
0/0
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
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Nippon no obaachan
1966
Till We Meet Again
0/0
College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club that performs canzone, a genre they are both in l...
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Till We Meet Again
1964
The Spying Sorceress
0/0
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connecti...
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The Spying Sorceress
1963
The Gambling Monk
0/0
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand fun...
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The Gambling Monk
1955
Burden of Love
6.8/6
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after th...
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Burden of Love
1975
The Gate of Youth
9/1
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every...
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The Gate of Youth
1969
The Girl I Abandoned
0/0
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he reme...
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The Girl I Abandoned
1964
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
0/0
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
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
1961
That Guy and I
10/1
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
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That Guy and I
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
1956
Hungry Soul, Part II
6.4/7
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...
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Hungry Soul, Part II
1972
The Pirates of Buban
6.5/6
By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...
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The Pirates of Buban
1956
Twice on a Certain Night
0/0
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...
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Twice on a Certain Night
1962
Cat Changed Into Tiger
0/0
A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his surpri...
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Cat Changed Into Tiger
1958
Crimson Wings
0/0
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received fr...
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Crimson Wings
1957
Temptation
8/4
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student...
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Temptation
1968
The Shy Deceiver
5/1
A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.
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The Shy Deceiver
1967
Song of Love
6/1
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.
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Song of Love
1958
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
0/0
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his re...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1968
Sun Above, Death Below
6/1
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.
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Sun Above, Death Below
1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
0/0
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overse...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1958
Nishi Ginza Station
5.6/16
This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.
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Nishi Ginza Station
1960
The Tokyo Mighty Guy
6.8/4
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
1958
Tōkyō no basugāru
0/0
1958 Japanese movie
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Tōkyō no basugāru
1965
Color
0/0
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Color
1967
Zoku izuko e
0/0
Sequel to "真実の愛情を求めて 何処へ" (1954). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.
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Zoku izuko e
1959
青春蛮歌
0/0
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青春蛮歌
1964
鉄火場破り
0/0
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