Shinsuke Ashida
Shinsuke Ashida (芦田伸介, Ashida Shinsuke, 14 March 1914 – 10 January 1999) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1952 and 1996.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.485 |
| Birthday | 1917-03-14 |
| Place of Birth | Shimane Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Синскэ Асида, |
1959
Zattō ni hikarume
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1959 Japanese movie
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Zattō ni hikarume
1970
富士山頂
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富士山頂
1958
Kemono no iru gai
0/0
Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.
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Kemono no iru gai
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.1/236
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
1956
Crazed Fruit
7.2/37
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
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Crazed Fruit
1962
Hana to ryu
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Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
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Hana to ryu
1971
Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
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End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provi...
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Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
1989
Death of a Tea Master
5.3/8
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
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Death of a Tea Master
1962
Angel and the Outlaw
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Angel and the Outlaw
1978
Never Give Up
5.7/7
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for...
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Never Give Up
1966
Chivalry Broken from All Sides
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This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take up...
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
1981
The Tale of Genji
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The Tale of Genji
1964
Homecoming
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Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, du...
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Homecoming
1992
Tokugawa Ieyasu's Secret Treasure
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Tokugawa Ieyasu's Secret Treasure
1959
Machi ga nemuru toki
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Machi ga nemuru toki
1956
Cell No. 8
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A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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Cell No. 8
1962
Seinen no isu
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1962 Japanese movie
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Seinen no isu
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
1956
Confession
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Confession
1960
Take Aim at the Police Van
6.2/26
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
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Take Aim at the Police Van
1956
Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
0/0
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name...
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
1966
Red Angel
7.6/55
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr...
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Red Angel
1985
Spring Bell
6/2
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, d...
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Spring Bell
1962
零戦黒雲一家
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零戦黒雲一家
1959
Break Down that Wall
7/1
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Break Down that Wall
1979
Golden Partners
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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
1955
Such is Life
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Japanese drama film.
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Such is Life
1954
Cape Ashizuri
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1950s Japanese drama.
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Cape Ashizuri
1960
The Day of Youth
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At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away fro...
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The Day of Youth
1962
Sun and stars
0/0
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and pass...
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Sun and stars
1973
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
6/6
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through t...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1962
Jūdan no arashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Jūdan no arashi
1960
The Cards Will Tell
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A 1960 crime film
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The Cards Will Tell
1961
Whistling in the Darkness
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A 1961 crime film.
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Whistling in the Darkness
1954
Dancing Girls of Izu
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A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An a...
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Dancing Girls of Izu
1982
Lullaby of Death
5/2
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge....
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Lullaby of Death
1961
Hotbed of Crime
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Released in the UK as Hotbed of Crime
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Hotbed of Crime
1962
帰ってきた旋風児
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帰ってきた旋風児
1992
The Setting Sun
4.7/3
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
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The Setting Sun
1958
Wolves of the Night
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A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
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Wolves of the Night
1964
Punishment of a Lawless Villian
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In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacl...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
1960
Everything Goes Wrong
6.4/16
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...
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Everything Goes Wrong
1958
Underworld Beauty
5/12
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he retu...
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Underworld Beauty
1965
Chivalrous Life
0/0
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido Federati...
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Chivalrous Life
1966
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
0/0
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1964
Red Handkerchief
7/5
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only...
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Red Handkerchief
1959
Passport to Darkness
7/1
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search...
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Passport to Darkness
1960
The Sleeping Beast Within
6.7/10
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequenc...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
1978
Glowing Autumn
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A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer. Leche...
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Glowing Autumn
1970
The Rokumeikan
0/0
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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The Rokumeikan
1978
Blood Type: Blue
6.2/5
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue...
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Blood Type: Blue
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1990
Sea of Wandering
0/0
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel o...
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Sea of Wandering
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
1956
How Sorrowful
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The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...
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How Sorrowful
1987
Countryside Accountant's Government Reform
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Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his servant Gonsuke to the country from Edo. Along the wa...
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Countryside Accountant's Government Reform
1966
Woman of the Lake
7/30
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
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Woman of the Lake
1959
The Ghost of Iwojima
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The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Ji...
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The Ghost of Iwojima
1966
Cry for Sorrow
0/0
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.
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Cry for Sorrow
1976
Autumn Interlude
7/1
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to mar...
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Autumn Interlude
1958
Stakeout
6.9/18
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
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Stakeout
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
1981
Call from Darkness
5.7/6
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the d...
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Call from Darkness
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
1962
Keep Your Chin Up
6/1
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji he...
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Keep Your Chin Up
1989
Company Executives
6/4
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Company Executives
1959
Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
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An action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop of a large landfill full of intrigue and violence.
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Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
1956
Satan's Town
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A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual b...
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Satan's Town
1958
Voice Without a Shadow
5.8/6
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss...
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Voice Without a Shadow
1957
Mehyō to Narazu Mono
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A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose l...
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Mehyō to Narazu Mono
1971
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
5.8/6
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1978
The Incident
6.3/3
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shi...
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The Incident
1966
Thirst for Love
5.5/2
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
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Thirst for Love
1966
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
7/1
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the riva...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
6.9/7
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading pol...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
1971
Love and Death
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Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the circumsta...
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Love and Death
1996
Oishinbo
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Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya.
Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the...
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Oishinbo
1978
Shogun's Samurai
7.1/36
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the sho...
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Shogun's Samurai
1978
The Fall of Ako Castle
6.6/21
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
1966
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
0/0
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
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
1966
A Thousand Suspects
0/0
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
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A Thousand Suspects
1965
Killer Sword
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1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai sp...
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Killer Sword
1959
Kikenna onna
0/0
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
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Kikenna onna
1970
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
6.6/7
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1961
Lost in the Sun
0/0
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Lost in the Sun
1987
A Taxing Woman
6.8/32
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
1961
A Killer Without a Grave
6/1
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that...
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A Killer Without a Grave
1976
Skyscraper Murder Case
1/1
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control...
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Skyscraper Murder Case
1970
The Shadow Within
5.8/9
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
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The Shadow Within
1957
The Flesh Is Weak
6/2
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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The Flesh Is Weak
1959
The Human Cyclone
0/0
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The Human Cyclone
1959
Windy Street
6/1
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Windy Street
1955
Tales of Ginza
6.8/10
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who...
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Tales of Ginza
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
1968
Song of my Life
0/0
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Song of my Life
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
1963
Shichinin no keiji
0/0
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out f...
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Shichinin no keiji
1962
Children of Izu
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Children of Izu
1964
Shutsugeki
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An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo w...
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Shutsugeki
1956
Actress
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Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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Actress
1959
Abashiri Prison
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Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground
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Abashiri Prison
1992
Succession
6/1
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate.
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Succession
1955
Ai Sureba Koso
0/0
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Ai Sureba Koso
1977
Sugata Sanshiro
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The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means o...
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Sugata Sanshiro
1954
The Last Women
0/0
The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On Ju...
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The Last Women
1983
The Yoshida School
0/0
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history relea...
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The Yoshida School
1973
The Human Revolution
0/0
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The Human Revolution
1958
Crimson Wings
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At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received fr...
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Crimson Wings
1964
The Gambling Samurai
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The Gambling Samurai
1971
Farewell to the Code
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Farewell to the Code
1961
Rambling in the Sea
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Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
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Rambling in the Sea
1959
The Sky Is Mine
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The Sky Is Mine
1970
Hana no fushicho
0/0
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Hana no fushicho
1997
日本暴力地帯
0/0
The first directorial work of Kazuhiko Murakami, a master of gangster comics. Yano-gumi Wakato and Kito Kiyoji, whose leader was shot dead, boarded th...
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日本暴力地帯
1960
Lone Wolf
0/0
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Lone Wolf
1952
Modern People
2.5/2
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assi...
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Modern People
1963
The Incorrigible
6.3/3
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
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The Incorrigible
1987
The Story of Jiro
0/0
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
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The Story of Jiro
1961
Mahiru no yuugai
0/0
A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a c...
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Mahiru no yuugai
1992
Kyukei no Koya
0/0
Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the heroine Kumiko because she finds evidence that her father,...
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Kyukei no Koya
1960
Covered Wagon
0/0
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's majo...
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Covered Wagon
1975
Kyukei no Koya
0/0
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film...
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Kyukei no Koya
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
七人の刑事 女を探がせ
0/0
This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.
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七人の刑事 女を探がせ
1959
Merciless Bullet
0/0
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sa...
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