
Taiji Tonoyama
Taiji Tonoyama (殿山 泰司, Tonoyama Taiji, 1915–1989) was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.653 |
Birthday | 1915-10-17 |
Place of Birth | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
Also Known As | 殿山 泰司, Танояма Тайи, Тайдзи Тонояма, |

1972

祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!
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祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!

1964

Onibaba
7.7/425
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever val...
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Onibaba

1960

The Naked Island
8/131
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
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The Naked Island

1948

Shachō to onna tenin
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Shachō to onna tenin

1981

Fifth Movement
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When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinis...
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Fifth Movement

1954

Turbid Youth
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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

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

1949

Ishimatsu of the Forest
0/0
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
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Ishimatsu of the Forest

1987

Hachiko
7.7/162
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
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Hachiko

1948

Drunken Angel
7.6/274
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convi...
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Drunken Angel

1983

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
0/0
A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

1953

Reminiscence
0/0
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cr...
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Reminiscence

1968

Kuroneko
7.4/203
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returni...
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Kuroneko

1959

Good Morning
7.7/285
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

1971

King of Pornography
5.9/5
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimensions (obviously a role tailor made for star Umemiy...
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King of Pornography

1983

The Ballad of Narayama
7.5/171
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should ref...
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The Ballad of Narayama

1979

Vengeance Is Mine
7.5/136
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

1971

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
3.5/2
Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "the sensation of worms wiggling about"... that won h...
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Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha

1962

I am the Judge
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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I am the Judge

1972

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
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Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

1966

Violence at Noon
6.2/32
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
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Violence at Noon

1956

Dotanba
6/1
Dotanba - Last Minute
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Dotanba

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

1968

Strong Women, Weak Men
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After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
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Strong Women, Weak Men

1952

Today is Payday
0/0
Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
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Today is Payday

1973

Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
4/2
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's loo...
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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer

1960

Sixteen years old
0/0
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and len...
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Sixteen years old

1962

大吉ぼんのう鏡
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大吉ぼんのう鏡

1978

Empire of Passion
7/115
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
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Empire of Passion

1967

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
5.6/17
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

1959

My Second Brother
6.4/7
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-...
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My Second Brother

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

1981

Fruits of Passion
5.4/60
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him...
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Fruits of Passion

1966

Drunken Harbor
0/0
Third film of the yoidore hakase series
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Drunken Harbor

1966

Dynamite Doctor
0/0
Film by director Kenji Misumi
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Dynamite Doctor

1954

Koina no Ginpei
0/0
1954 Japanese movie
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Koina no Ginpei

1947

Record of a Tenement Gentleman
7.2/44
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman

1983

Oiran
4.8/3
Ayame, a courtesan, attracts the attention of street vendor Kisuke and decides to run away with him to America. Unfortunately, a crazed tattoo artist...
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Oiran

1970

Evil Spirits of Japan
6/4
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical th...
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Evil Spirits of Japan

1977

Seasonal Wind
0/0
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her. However, a harsh reality awaits him in...
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Seasonal Wind

1952

Children of Hiroshima
7.1/38
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing...
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Children of Hiroshima

1981

Edo Porn
6.1/35
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Ba...
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Edo Porn

1979

Golden Partners
0/0
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it...
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Golden Partners

1974

Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
0/0
Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades one of his former performers to join his troupe and...
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Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya

1973

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
6/1
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corru...
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Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

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

1962

Human
6.8/6
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate a...
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Human

1969

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
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Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!

1957

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
7.191/34
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

1981

Muddy River
7.3/29
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends.
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Muddy River

1970

Attack at Daylight
5/5
A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
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Attack at Daylight

1968

Three Resurrected Drunkards
5.5/15
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develo...
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Three Resurrected Drunkards

1956

快傑耶茶坊
0/0
1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
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快傑耶茶坊

1974

Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
6.2/4
It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells...
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Red Light District: Gonna Get Out

1973

Hell Riders in Kyoto
0/0
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even wi...
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Hell Riders in Kyoto

1974

The Castle of Sand
7.4/45
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

1977

Ballad of Orin
7/20
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
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Ballad of Orin

1957

Who's The Real Killer
0/0
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
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Who's The Real Killer

1986

Jazz Daimyo
5.7/6
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
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Jazz Daimyo

1959

Whistling in the morning
0/0
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bi...
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Whistling in the morning

1970

Yukyo-retsuden
5/1
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Yukyo-retsuden

1959

Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi
0/0
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Keishichō monogatari iryū-hin nashi

1972

The Iron Crown
5.6/8
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
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The Iron Crown

1973

Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
0/0
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa

1974

Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
0/0
The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their manager must contend with pesky customers and a determ...
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Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama

1974

The Key
4/3
A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, whi...
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The Key

1971

The Ceremony
7/35
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to...
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The Ceremony

1960

One Passed Through Hell
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One Passed Through Hell

1975

Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment
0/0
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Housewife's Experience: New Tenement Apartment

1975

Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement Apartment 2

1975

Housewife's Experience: Tenement
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Housewife's Experience: Tenement

1975

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
6.1/16
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner’s wife.
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A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

1968

East China Sea
0/0
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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East China Sea

1974

My Way
5.7/3
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy...
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My Way

1952

Sisters of Nishijin
8/1
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
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Sisters of Nishijin

1961

Love's Family Tree
0/0
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Love's Family Tree

1964

The Desperate
7/2
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo (H...
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The Desperate

1973

Sex and Fury
6.2/91
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and...
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Sex and Fury

1977

Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow
2/1
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Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow

1982

A Ghost Love Story of Japan
0/0
A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi) fe...
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan

1969

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
0/0
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Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting

1968

The House of the Sleeping Virgins
0/0
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins

1978

Junko's Bliss
2/1
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Junko's Bliss

1989

Thousand Cranes
7/1
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winnin...
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Thousand Cranes

1951

Izayoi kaidō
0/0
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Izayoi kaidō

1960

Secret
0/0
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Secret

1957

Birth of a Jazz Maiden
0/0
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by worki...
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden

1989

War and Flowers
0/0
Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.
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War and Flowers

1953

Murahachibu
0/0
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
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Murahachibu

1950

Spring Snow
0/0
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not e...
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Spring Snow

1962

Hageshī kawa
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Hageshī kawa

1977

Eros Eterna
4.4/5
Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.
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Eros Eterna

1962

Song of a Traveller
0/0
A crime film released in 1962
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Song of a Traveller

1978

幽霊列車
0/0
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幽霊列車

1981

Why Not?
6.4/16
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?

1951

限りなき情熱
0/0
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry abou...
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限りなき情熱

1976

In the Realm of the Senses
6.6/635
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship...
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In the Realm of the Senses

1980

Child of the Sun
0/0
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interact...
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Child of the Sun

1966

Captive's Island
6.5/15
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

1950

Scandal
6.9/86
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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Scandal

1982

Irezumi
5.7/11
To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has...
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Irezumi

1987

Zegen
6.5/13
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level milit...
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Zegen

1962

Akitsu Hot Springs
6.5/25
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction...
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Akitsu Hot Springs

1983

The Bored Samurai
0/0
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...
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The Bored Samurai

1972

Dear Summer Sister
4.3/3
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met....
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Dear Summer Sister

1963

18 Roughs
6.6/5
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its run...
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18 Roughs

1981

Day Dream
4.4/11
Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he i...
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Day Dream

1954

The Ditch
7/3
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...
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The Ditch

1983

Legend of the Eight Samurai
5.9/27
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Sh...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai

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

1989

Black Rain
7.5/119
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

1970

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
6.9/8
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.1/245
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1953

Gate of Hell
7.1/86
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but...
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Gate of Hell

1985

Nuclear Gypsies
4/1
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her...
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Nuclear Gypsies

1972

Hymn
6.3/6
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel b...
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Hymn

1971

Silence
7.2/38
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
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Silence

1960

Irohanihoheto
0/0
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...
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Irohanihoheto

1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
0/0
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argum...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

1973

Stray Dog
7/4
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior,...
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Stray Dog

1966

The Little Runaway
1/2
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated i...
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The Little Runaway

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

1955

The Wolves
6.8/8
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a pla...
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The Wolves

1963

Black Report
6.3/9
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
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Black Report

1958

Underwater Murder
0/0
The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.
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Underwater Murder

1974

The Last Swordsman
5.7/3
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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The Last Swordsman

1977

The Far Road
7.5/2
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in...
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The Far Road

1954

Cape Ashizuri
0/0
1950s Japanese drama.
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Cape Ashizuri

1981

Tetsugen
0/0
Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
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Tetsugen

1980

Nurse's Husband
0/0
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on th...
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Nurse's Husband

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

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

1959

Four Hours of Terror
5.7/3
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
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Four Hours of Terror

1953

Before Dawn
0/0
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Before Dawn

1971

Evil Spirits in the Darkness
5.5/1
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness

1973

The Heart
7.8/4
The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be attracted...
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The Heart

1982

On the Road
10/1
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima's supervisor refuses his request to apologize to R...
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On the Road

1963

Bamboo Doll of Echizen
7.6/11
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen

1963

Beyond the Green Hills
0/0
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...
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Beyond the Green Hills

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

An Innocent Witch
7.1/7
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of h...
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An Innocent Witch

1959

The Human Wall
5/3
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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The Human Wall

1983

Dark Room
5.6/5
A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.
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Dark Room

1977

Tomorrow Evening
0/0
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts s...
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Tomorrow Evening

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

1957

Harbor Rats
0/0
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed...
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Harbor Rats

1988

Tokyo Pop
7.3/13
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you were here". She takes what little money she has in...
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Tokyo Pop

1951

Story of a Beloved Wife
7/3
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa...
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Story of a Beloved Wife

1986

Tree Without Leaves
7.8/8
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin...
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Tree Without Leaves

1965

Conquest
5/1
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...
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Conquest

1970

The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
0/0
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

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

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

1973

Love Lost in Tears
0/0
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
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Love Lost in Tears

1959

Tokyo no Kodoku
0/0
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
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Tokyo no Kodoku

1950

Street of Violence
6.5/2
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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Street of Violence

1973

A Woman’s Road
0/0
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.
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A Woman’s Road

1967

Libido
0/0
aka Libido.
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Libido

1958

Hobo Village
0/0
Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
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Hobo Village

1961

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
0/0
A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

1960

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
0/0
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

1984

Location
0/0
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book...
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Location

1948

Great X
0/0
A 1948 Japanese film.
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Great X

1947

The Ball at the Anjo House
6.8/18
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the f...
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The Ball at the Anjo House

1977

Case of the Disjointed Murder
0/0
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists,...
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Case of the Disjointed Murder

1974

Evening Primrose
6.5/2
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam G...
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Evening Primrose

1962

Chibusa o daku musume tachi
0/0
Japanese drama.
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Chibusa o daku musume tachi

1956

The Shadow of Fear
0/0
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors abou...
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The Shadow of Fear

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

1962

Season of Farewell
0/0
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
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Season of Farewell

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

1972

The Lucky Status Symbol
0/0
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buyin...
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The Lucky Status Symbol

1971

King of the Widow-Killers
0/0
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by...
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King of the Widow-Killers

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!

1979

The Strangling
4.9/7
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromisi...
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The Strangling

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

1961

Blind Devotion
0/0
Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
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Blind Devotion

1973

Time Within Memory
5/4
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru reca...
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Time Within Memory

1963

Mother
6.8/4
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
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Mother

1987

Hawaiian Dream
0/0
Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a...
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Hawaiian Dream

1960

Internees of Kampili
0/0
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied w...
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Internees of Kampili

1941

The Battle of Kawanakajima
0/0
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the mai...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima

1954

The End of a Day
0/0
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Ha...
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The End of a Day

1957

The Champion
6/4
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost...
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The Champion

1956

Darkness at Noon
6.6/4
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
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Darkness at Noon

1970

Hooligans on Buggies
0/0
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
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Hooligans on Buggies

1970

The Revelation of a Geisha
2/1
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring...
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The Revelation of a Geisha

1961

Pigs and Battleships
7.085/59
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

1948

The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
0/0
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

1956

Love is Lost
7/1
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
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Love is Lost

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

1972

Turtle Geisha
4.5/4
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a...
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Turtle Geisha

1965

The Start of Life
0/0
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and t...
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The Start of Life

1985

The Seburi Story
6.333/6
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially...
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The Seburi Story

1980

Daughter of Time
0/0
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwa...
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Daughter of Time

1979

Faraway Tomorrow
2/1
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Faraway Tomorrow

1982

A Pool Without Water
5.4/14
The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two hoodlums...
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A Pool Without Water

1973

Did the Red Bird Escape?
6.3/3
A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.
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Did the Red Bird Escape?

1962

Stolen Pleasure
6.8/4
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women fo...
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Stolen Pleasure

1955

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
0/0
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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

1963

Kanto Wanderer
6.3/10
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...
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Kanto Wanderer

1966

Lost Sex
0/0
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the...
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Lost Sex

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

1981

Yokohama BJ Blues
7.2/6
When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ gets the blame. He must start his own investig...
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Yokohama BJ Blues

1980

Until Evening
0/0
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.
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Until Evening

1960

Wait for Tomorrow
0/0
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the...
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Wait for Tomorrow

1964

Intentions of Murder
7.1/45
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

1962

Tales of President Mito
0/0
Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a l...
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Tales of President Mito

1970

Strange Affinity
0/0
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Strange Affinity

1974

The Homeless
7.5/4
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the a...
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The Homeless

1962

The Young and Bad
0/0
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suici...
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The Young and Bad

1963

The School Cap
0/0
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...
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The School Cap

1956

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
0/0
A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by...
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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

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

1953

Tower of Lilies
6.8/8
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situat...
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Tower of Lilies

1953

Miniature
8/3
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope i...
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Miniature

1979

The Fall of Teenager
2/1
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, mar...
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The Fall of Teenager

1958

The Boy Who Came Back
7.8/6
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
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The Boy Who Came Back

1972

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
7.2/4
For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a...
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

1956

Shiawase wa doko ni
0/0
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Shiawase wa doko ni

1977

The Gate of Youth Part 2
8/1
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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The Gate of Youth Part 2

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

1964

The Irresponsible Fool
7/1
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his home...
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The Irresponsible Fool

1978

Love and Faith
6.3/5
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an un...
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Love and Faith

1956

Nikoyon monogatari
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Nikoyon monogatari

1964

Samurai from Nowhere
7.1/8
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of...
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Samurai from Nowhere

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

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

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

1951

The White Orchid
0/0
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
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The White Orchid

1951

Who Will Judge Me?
0/0
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Who Will Judge Me?

1972

The Erotomaniac Daimyo
4.3/3
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan. However, the lord's sexual inexperience and Kiyoh...
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The Erotomaniac Daimyo

1988

Sakura-tai Chiru
5.7/3
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for th...
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Sakura-tai Chiru

1955

Ai Sureba Koso
0/0
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Ai Sureba Koso

1954

The Street Without Sun
0/0
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The Street Without Sun

1988

Tomorrow
7.5/4
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of peopl...
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Tomorrow

1985

Song of the Spring Pony
7/1
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...
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Song of the Spring Pony

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

1957

On This Earth
0/0
Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty with...
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On This Earth

1966

The Pornographers
7.3/44
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

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

1976

Hobo General
0/0
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Hobo General

1948

Temptation
6/1
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
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Temptation

1952

Dedication of the Great Buddha
0/0
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Dedication of the Great Buddha

1953

Yokubo
0/0
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Yokubo

1960

Knock Down
0/0
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Knock Down

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

1971

Onna no Iji
0/0
2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko,...
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Onna no Iji

1955

The Beauty and the Dragon
0/0
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.
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The Beauty and the Dragon

1966

Kokoro no sanmyaku
0/0
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
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Kokoro no sanmyaku

1984

The Horizon
0/0
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...
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The Horizon

1959

Lucky Dragon No. 5
7.3/3
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacif...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5

1956

Actress
0/0
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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Actress

1952

Violence
0/0
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Violence

1959

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
0/0
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A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

1957

Muhō Ichidai
0/0
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
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Muhō Ichidai

1963

Kiri ni Kieta Hito
0/0
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito

1978

Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo
0/0
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Hashire tomato Nippon ôdan sanbyaku kilo

1976

Two Harmonicas
0/0
In 1945, a boy evacuated to Miyagi Prefecture befriends a local child, and the two begin to play harmonica near the local military base. Then, one day...
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Two Harmonicas

1961

Shōjo
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Shōjo

1960

The Cards Will Tell
0/0
A 1960 crime film
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The Cards Will Tell

1960

A Woman’s Uphill Slope
0/0
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope

1954

Wakai hito-tachi
0/0
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Wakai hito-tachi

1960

Duel of Akiba
0/0
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Duel of Akiba

1951

The Tale of Genji
5.5/6
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his hea...
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The Tale of Genji

1969

Gokudô Petenshi
0/0
A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They ove...
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Gokudô Petenshi

1976

A Cheerful Yakuza
0/0
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