Keiju Kobayashi
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Keiju Kobayashi (23 November 1923–16 September 2010) was a Japanese actor. Born in Gunma Prefecture, he began acting at the Nikkatsu studio after dropping out of Nihon University and made his film debut in 1942. In a career that spanned 65 years, he appeared in over 250 films, most famously in the "Company President" (Shachō) comedy films made at Toho, where he worked alongside Hisaya Morishige, Daisuke Kato, Norihei Miki, and others. There he helped define the popular image of the postwar salaryman. He also won many awards for his acting, including best actor awards at the Mainichi Film Awards for The Naked General in 1958 (where he played Kiyoshi Yamashita), for Kuroi gashū in 1960, and for The Elegant Life of Mr Everyman in 1963. Kobayashi appeared in films made by such notable directors as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Kihachi Okamoto. He continued to give powerful performances after largely moving to television in the late 1960s.
He died on 16 September 2010 of heart failure at the age of 86.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12.343 |
| Birthday | 1923-11-23 |
| Place of Birth | Gunma, Japan |
| Also Known As | Кэйдзю Кобаяси, |
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
0/0
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1962
Sanjuro
7.945/616
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
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Sanjuro
1961
The End of Summer
7.5/93
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mis...
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The End of Summer
1995
Whisper of the Heart
8/2011
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previousl...
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Whisper of the Heart
1952
Love's Cheerleader
0/0
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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Love's Cheerleader
1962
Chûshingura
7.3/41
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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Chûshingura
1962
続サラリーマン清水港
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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続サラリーマン清水港
1952
恐妻時代
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恐妻時代
1953
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
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Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
1969
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
6.9/21
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a ne...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
1962
女難コースを突破せよ
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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女難コースを突破せよ
1951
Repast
7.5/40
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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Repast
1962
Salaryman Shimizu Minato
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Salaryman Shimizu Minato
1985
Godzilla 1985
6.8/179
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of...
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Godzilla 1985
1997
To Love
5.5/2
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsuto...
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To Love
1952
Third Class Executives
0/0
1950s Japanese comedy.
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Third Class Executives
1963
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
5.9/11
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1957
Ôban
0/0
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S...
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Ôban
1965
Samurai Assassin
7.315/54
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assass...
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Samurai Assassin
1958
Yaji and Kita on the Road
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Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wi...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
1973
Submersion of Japan
6.7/18
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic erupt...
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Submersion of Japan
1969
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
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A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1969
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
0/0
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju...
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
1960
The Storm of the Pacific
5.6/8
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1...
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The Storm of the Pacific
1977
Mount Hakkoda
6.429/14
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
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Mount Hakkoda
1960
Master Fencer Sees the World
0/0
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...
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Master Fencer Sees the World
1986
Tree Without Leaves
7.75/8
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
1971
The Battle of Okinawa
7.5/12
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...
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The Battle of Okinawa
1958
Summer Clouds
7.5/14
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns ou...
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Summer Clouds
1956
Sudden Rain
6.6/13
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Sudden Rain
1966
The Thin Line
7.3/13
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Ta...
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The Thin Line
1962
Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
5.8/2
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Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
1958
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
0/0
1958 Japanese movie
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1986
For Business
0/0
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.
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For Business
1968
Judge and Jeopardy
0/0
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a su...
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Judge and Jeopardy
1965
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
0/0
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-establ...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1943
The Man From Chungking
0/0
Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
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The Man From Chungking
1970
The Ambitious
7.208/12
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan...
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The Ambitious
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
1960
The Masterless 47
0/0
Part one of The Masterless 47.
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The Masterless 47
1956
Settlement of Love
0/0
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an annive...
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Settlement of Love
1962
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
1971
幻の殺意
0/0
Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
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幻の殺意
1951
のど自慢三羽烏
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のど自慢三羽烏
2003
Take the 'A' Train, Someday
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Take the 'A' Train, Someday
1949
The Rainbow Man
6.7/4
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their inve...
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The Rainbow Man
1961
Wakarete ikiru toki mo
0/0
A Hiromichi Horikawa movie
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Wakarete ikiru toki mo
1999
One Summer's Day
0/0
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relatio...
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One Summer's Day
1981
The Imperial Navy
6.6/12
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship duri...
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The Imperial Navy
1956
A Wife's Heart
6.8/10
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for...
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A Wife's Heart
1962
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
1990
Tasmania Story
9/1
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the...
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Tasmania Story
1953
Husband and Wife
6.6/8
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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Husband and Wife
1964
Zoku shachō shinshiroku
0/0
Shûe Matsubayashi movie
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Zoku shachō shinshiroku
1961
Happiness of Us Alone
9/5
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
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Happiness of Us Alone
1955
Life's Simple Pleasures
0/0
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos, focu...
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Life's Simple Pleasures
1958
Little Peach
5.8/12
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryok...
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Little Peach
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook
7.2/11
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – P...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
1962
My Hobo
0/0
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who beco...
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My Hobo
1972
The Golden Bat Shows Up
0/0
A comedy featuring The Golden Bat
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The Golden Bat Shows Up
1979
White Love
5/1
Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teache...
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White Love
1955
Here Is a Spring
7/1
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortl...
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Here Is a Spring
1947
Diary of a Nurse
0/0
Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.
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Diary of a Nurse
1970
The Militarists
8/1
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The Militarists
1952
Dimple of Tokyo
0/0
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (t...
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Dimple of Tokyo
1962
The Wiser Age
7.3/7
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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The Wiser Age
1955
The First Kiss
6.3/3
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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The First Kiss
1984
The Return of Godzilla
7.2/264
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the...
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The Return of Godzilla
1960
The Lost Alibi
5.2/6
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lo...
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The Lost Alibi
1953
Mr. Pu
6.5/2
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Mr. Pu
1955
Nonki saiban
0/0
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty,...
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Nonki saiban
1989
Yawara!
0/0
Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jig...
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Yawara!
1986
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
0/0
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.
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The Gentlemen’s Alliance
1964
こんにちは赤ちゃん
10/3
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こんにちは赤ちゃん
1971
I Hear the Whistle
0/0
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
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I Hear the Whistle
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
1952
Mr. Lucky
0/0
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Mr. Lucky
1961
Acchan no bebi gyangu
0/0
Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
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Acchan no bebi gyangu
1951
Tsuki yori no haha
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Tsuki yori no haha
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
8/1
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
0/0
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
1961
3 Dolls and Baby Gang
0/0
Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.
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3 Dolls and Baby Gang
1976
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
0/0
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an es...
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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
1958
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
0/0
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
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Makeraremasen katsumadewa
1965
Beast Alley
7/1
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based...
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Beast Alley
1963
Pressure of Guilt
7/1
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Pressure of Guilt
1962
Born in Sin
0/0
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
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Born in Sin
1983
L・O・V・I・N・G
0/0
Murder case.
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L・O・V・I・N・G
1957
Price of Beauty
0/0
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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Price of Beauty
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
7/3
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
1998
The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
0/0
An attorney from Yokohama is found murdered at Lake Toya in Hokkaido. Uematsu (Noi Yasuo), of the Hokkaido police goes to Yokohama in search of Konno...
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The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
1966
Challenge for Glory
0/0
A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally injured...
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Challenge for Glory
1983
Okinawan Boys
0/0
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Okinawan Boys
1958
The Naked General
0/0
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
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The Naked General
1953
Adolescence Part II
0/0
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
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Adolescence Part II
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
1966
The Daphne
0/0
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffer...
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The Daphne
1956
Night School
0/0
An Ishiro Honda Film.
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Night School
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
1961
The Masterless 47 – Part II
0/0
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The Masterless 47 – Part II
2001
Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
0/0
A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the mu...
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Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
1943
The Tiger of Malaya
0/0
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
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The Tiger of Malaya
1962
Mother Country
6.5/4
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married s...
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Mother Country
1987
A Taxing Woman
6.857/35
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a t...
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A Taxing Woman
1962
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
0/0
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Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
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
1953
The Eagle of the Pacific
7.8/6
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car
6/1
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My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
Their Father's Wife
0/0
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Their Father's Wife
1953
Red-Light Bases
0/0
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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Red-Light Bases
1953
Youth of Heiji Senigata
0/0
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Youth of Heiji Senigata
2005
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
0/0
August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of...
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Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
1956
The President Talks Bank
0/0
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
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The President Talks Bank
1956
The President's Boss
0/0
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
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The President's Boss
1958
Assistant President
0/0
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Assistant President
1964
Hail the 3 Gents
0/0
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Hail the 3 Gents
1953
Girls in the Orchard
0/0
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Girls in the Orchard
1950
Resurrection
0/0
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Resurrection
1951
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
0/0
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer fest...
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1956
はりきり社長
0/0
The third instalment in the Shacho Series.
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はりきり社長
1965
Five Gents' Trick Book
0/0
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Five Gents' Trick Book
1964
Could I But Live
0/0
Could I But Live
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Could I But Live
1959
社長太平記
0/0
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
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社長太平記
1959
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
0/0
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
1958
The Third President
0/0
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
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The Third President
1947
The Hopeful Family
0/0
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The Hopeful Family
1967
Japan's Longest Day
7.1/28
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...
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Japan's Longest Day
1950
Mado Kara Tobidase
0/0
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an ag...
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Mado Kara Tobidase
1942
Horror of the Fifth Columnist
0/1
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Horror of the Fifth Columnist
1954
Student Double Suicide
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Student Double Suicide
1948
The Dead Beauty Incident
0/0
A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investiga...
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The Dead Beauty Incident
1954
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
0/0
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
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Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
1948
Music's Twenty Doors
0/0
A love story about a dressing room attendant and a dancer who work at theater.
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Music's Twenty Doors
1961
Shusse kōsu ni shinro o tore
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Shusse kōsu ni shinro o tore
1975
Tidal Wave
0/0
Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller continent...
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