Kiyoshi Atsumi
Kiyoshi Atsumi (渥美 清 Atsumi Kiyoshi), born Yasuo Tadokoro (田所 康雄 Tadokoro Yasuo, 10 March 1928 in Tokyo – 4 August 1996 in Tokyo), was a Japanese film actor. He started his career in 1951 as a comedian at a strip-show theater in Asakusa. After two years of fighting pulmonary tuberculosis, he made his debut on TV in 1956 and on film in 1957. His vivid performance of a lovable, innocent man in a film “Dear Mr. Emperor” (Haikei Tenno-Heika-Sama) in 1963 established his reputation as an actor.
Later he became the star of the highly popular Tora-san series of films, from the original Otoko wa Tsurai yo (translated in English as 'It's Tough being a Man') in 1969 to the 48th film released in 1995, the year before his death.
The enduring success of the series made him synonymous with the Tora-san character, and many Japanese regarded his death as the death of Tora-san, not the death of Yasuo Tadokoro or Kiyoshi Atsumi.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.065 |
| Birthday | 1928-03-10 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Yasuo Tadokoro, 寅さん, Киёси Ацуми, |
1977
The Yellow Handkerchief
6.677/31
The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a...
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The Yellow Handkerchief
1968
In Broad Daylight
0/0
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends start...
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In Broad Daylight
1962
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
1968
Neon taiheiki
0/0
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Neon taiheiki
1963
Okashina yatsu
0/0
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Okashina yatsu
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.2/524
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1968
The Man Without a Map
6.5/17
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man...
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The Man Without a Map
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
1969
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
6.786/7
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1973
Tora-san Loves an Artist
8/6
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
1976
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
9/3
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
1970
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
7.4/5
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he o...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1972
Home from the Sea
7.1/7
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deep...
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Home from the Sea
1993
A Class to Remember
7.5/4
A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.
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A Class to Remember
1973
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
8/6
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1962
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ottamage ningyo monogatari
1983
Tora-san Goes Religious?
8/2
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
1970
Tora-san, His Tender Love
7/6
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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Tora-san, His Tender Love
1963
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
0/0
1963 Japanese movie
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Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
1971
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
7.25/4
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his s...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1979
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
8/3
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1970
Tora-san's Runaway
7.833/6
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest...
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Tora-san's Runaway
1971
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
7.8/5
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1966
Kutsukake Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza
6.6/5
Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when afforded a night’s stay and meals at the home of...
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Kutsukake Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza
1972
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
7.5/4
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1984
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
8/2
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san t...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1971
Tora-san's Love Call
8/5
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Tora-san's Love Call
1972
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
7.6/5
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1975
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
8/2
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1974
Tora-san's Lovesick
7.333/3
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
1987
Children on the Island
0/0
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.
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Children on the Island
1974
Tora-san's Lullaby
7.5/4
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again....
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Tora-san's Lullaby
1975
Tora-san, the Intellectual
7.7/3
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to s...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
1976
Tora-san's Pure Love
8.5/2
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...
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Tora-san's Pure Love
1986
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
6.1/7
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. Afte...
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Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1977
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
8.5/2
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
0/0
A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and detec...
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田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
1977
Tora-san Plays Cupid
7.7/3
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
1962
Tōkyō sanosa musume
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Tōkyō sanosa musume
1968
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
0/0
This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit reca...
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It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
1978
August without Emperor
6/2
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
1989
Tora-san, My Uncle
8.667/3
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
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Tora-san, My Uncle
1992
Tora-san Makes Excuses
8/2
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Tora-san Makes Excuses
1965
The Song of the Bwana Toshi
0/0
Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction wi...
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The Song of the Bwana Toshi
1978
Stage-Struck Tora-san
8/2
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
1980
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
8/2
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1961
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
0/0
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji, Y...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
1978
Talk of the Town Tora-san
9/2
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
1969
It's Tough Being a Man
8.1/17
Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora...
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It's Tough Being a Man
1979
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
8.5/2
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1964
Dear Mr. Prime Minister
0/0
Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner, gain...
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Dear Mr. Prime Minister
1991
Tora-san Confesses
8/2
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izum...
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Tora-san Confesses
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
1966
Our Wonderful Years
0/0
The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from th 1920's to the 1960's.
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Our Wonderful Years
1963
Attack Squadron
6/2
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...
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Attack Squadron
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
1968
New Year Trip
0/0
A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.
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New Year Trip
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
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
1960
若社長と爆発娘
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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若社長と爆発娘
1987
Tora-san Goes North
8.667/3
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter,...
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Tora-san Goes North
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
1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
8/2
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living Nati...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1993
Tora-san's Matchmaker
8/1
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring...
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Tora-san's Matchmaker
1988
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
8.5/2
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1987
Tora-san Plays Daddy
9/2
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mothe...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
1984
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
8/2
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1990
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
8/2
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in...
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Tora-san Takes a Vacation
1985
Tora-san's Island Encounter
8/2
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
8/2
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
1982
Tora-san, the Expert
8.5/2
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Sabur...
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Tora-san, the Expert
1983
Tora-san's Song of Love
8/2
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...
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Tora-san's Song of Love
1986
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
7.5/2
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1994
Tora-san's Easy Advice
8/2
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an injure...
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Tora-san's Easy Advice
1985
Tora-san, the Go-Between
6.5/3
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a n...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
1995
Tora-san to the Rescue
7/2
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
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Tora-san to the Rescue
1981
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
8.5/2
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his fam...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1980
Foster Daddy, Tora!
7.5/2
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
1965
風来忍法帖
0/0
The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
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風来忍法帖
1968
風来忍法帖 八方破れ
0/0
The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
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風来忍法帖 八方破れ
1967
Green Light to Joy
0/0
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
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Green Light to Joy
1968
The Day the Sun Rose
7/1
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned cust...
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The Day the Sun Rose
1962
The Ambitious Youth
0/0
As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flourish his employer’s food business.
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The Ambitious Youth
1968
Age of Japanese Guerrillas
0/0
Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for vagran...
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Age of Japanese Guerrillas
1997
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
8/1
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1976
The Village
6.7/6
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, b...
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The Village
1980
A Distant Cry from Spring
7.25/24
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the hear...
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A Distant Cry from Spring
1961
Snow in the South Seas
0/0
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
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Snow in the South Seas
1966
The Betrayers Out!
0/0
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and...
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The Betrayers Out!
1963
Sing, Young People
5.8/4
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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Sing, Young People
1962
A Country Boss
0/0
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
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A Country Boss
1977
Village of Eight Gravestones
6.6/8
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of nov...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
1964
How to Make Money
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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How to Make Money
1988
Hope and Pain
8.4/8
The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
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Hope and Pain
1968
Scrap Collectors
0/0
Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
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Scrap Collectors
1962
Good Rascals
6/2
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
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Good Rascals
1961
Obon, The Moll Dipper
0/0
Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.
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Obon, The Moll Dipper
1970
Where Spring Comes Late
7.269/13
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the min...
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Where Spring Comes Late
1966
Gamblers' Luck
7/3
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge thems...
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Gamblers' Luck
2019
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
8/1
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
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
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
1962
A Carpenter and Children
0/1
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning comb...
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A Carpenter and Children
1964
The Honest Fool
0/0
Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married,...
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The Honest Fool
1962
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
0/0
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1972
My Voiceless Friends
0/0
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
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My Voiceless Friends
1974
The Castle of Sand
7.31/42
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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The Castle of Sand
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
1963
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
0/0
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
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