Ruriko Asaoka
Ruriko Asaoka (浅丘 ルリ子 Asaoka Ruriko), born 2 July 1940 in Xinjing, Manchukuo (now Changchun, Jilin, China), is a Japanese actress.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 15.131 |
| Birthday | 1940-07-02 |
| Place of Birth | Xinjing, Manchukuo, China |
| Also Known As | 浅丘 ルリ子, Рурико Асаока, |
1970
Incident at Blood Pass
6.8/22
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of ch...
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Incident at Blood Pass
1994
47 Ronin
7.5/19
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal fo...
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47 Ronin
1969
Goyokin
7.5/54
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Goyokin
1971
To Love Again
0/0
A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one a...
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To Love Again
1963
Alone Across the Pacific
6.917/12
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful p...
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Alone Across the Pacific
1972
Shadow Hunters
6.5/4
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hun...
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Shadow Hunters
1967
Thirst for Love
6.9/12
A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.
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Thirst for Love
1962
I Hate But Love
6.8/11
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote vill...
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I Hate But Love
1967
Velvet Hustler
6.2/5
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always ma...
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Velvet Hustler
1973
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
8/5
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1975
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
8/2
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
2006
The Professor and His Beloved Equation
6.9/15
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.
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The Professor and His Beloved Equation
1969
The Girl I Abandoned
0/0
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he reme...
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The Girl I Abandoned
1964
The Flame of Devotion
6.8/5
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of w...
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The Flame of Devotion
1969
Safari 5000
7.3/3
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...
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Safari 5000
1980
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
8/1
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1960
Return of the Vagabond
5/3
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...
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Return of the Vagabond
1971
Confessions Among Actresses
6/10
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid b...
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Confessions Among Actresses
1965
A Story Written with Water
6.688/16
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the l...
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A Story Written with Water
1960
The Rambler Rides Again
0/0
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...
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The Rambler Rides Again
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
1969
Vixen
6.2/4
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swi...
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Vixen
1959
The Rambling Guitarist
6.2/5
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of...
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The Rambling Guitarist
1967
Asia-Pol
5.9/4
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives a...
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Asia-Pol
1960
The Tokyo Mighty Guy
6.75/4
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
2011
Gene Waltz
0/0
Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down d...
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Gene Waltz
2011
Dendera
9.7/3
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the...
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Dendera
1966
The Tale of Genji
0/0
An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...
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The Tale of Genji
1962
Danger Pays
6.6/5
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs wi...
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Danger Pays
1997
Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
0/0
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1995
Tora-san to the Rescue
6/1
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
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Tora-san to the Rescue
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
1975
Wings of Love
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Wings of Love
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
1958
The Boy Who Came Back
7.8/5
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
1955
The Green Music Box
0/0
Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the res...
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The Green Music Box
1957
The Eagle and the Hawk
5.7/7
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1970
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
6/6
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
1968
Dice and Swords
7/2
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime synd...
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Dice and Swords
1960
The Guitarist from the Sea
3.5/6
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...
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The Guitarist from the Sea
1960
Wind of Volcano
0/0
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the r...
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Wind of Volcano
1961
The Plateau Man
0/0
Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
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The Plateau Man
1960
The Rambler in the Sunset
0/0
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...
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The Rambler in the Sunset
1960
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
0/0
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is empl...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1967
A Warm Misty Night
0/0
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously...
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A Warm Misty Night
1963
I Fly for Kicks
0/0
A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.
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I Fly for Kicks
1962
Love in Ginza
5/1
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and...
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Love in Ginza
1960
The Gun Like Lightning
0/0
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a...
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The Gun Like Lightning
1961
Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
0/0
The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.
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Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
1959
The Human Cyclone
0/0
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The Human Cyclone
1967
My Sweetheart
0/0
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to st...
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My Sweetheart
1961
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
0/0
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, fr...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
1962
The Rambler Goes North
0/0
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, fr...
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The Rambler Goes North
1962
Fresh Leaves
0/0
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....
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Fresh Leaves
1962
Ai to shi no katami
0/0
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Ai to shi no katami
1972
Shadow of Love
0/0
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Shadow of Love
1958
Fangs of Night
5/1
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...
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Fangs of Night
1960
The Lost Diamond
0/0
Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.
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The Lost Diamond
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
1964
Four Young Sisters
6/1
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very y...
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Four Young Sisters
1968
Man of a Stormy Era
0/0
The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable e...
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Man of a Stormy Era
1959
Farewell to Southern Tosa
0/0
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
1966
Love Eternal
0/0
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pret...
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Love Eternal
1965
In Tears
0/0
Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hi...
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In Tears
1957
Dancing Sisters
0/0
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daughte...
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Dancing Sisters
2019
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
8/1
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo, Tora...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
1958
The Nun
0/0
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The Nun
1967
The Man of Victory
0/0
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The Man of Victory
1978
Invitation from the Beach
0/0
A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
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Invitation from the Beach
1955
Tales of Ginza
6.85/10
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
1959
Abashiri Prison
0/0
Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground
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Abashiri Prison
1959
Friendship of Jazz
0/0
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of...
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Friendship of Jazz
1970
The Walking Major
2/1
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds to...
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The Walking Major
1984
Again
0/0
An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to find...
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Again
1960
The Guitarist and the Rancher
0/0
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from tu...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
1961
Rambling in the Sea
0/0
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
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Rambling in the Sea
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
1959
Downhill Youth
0/0
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Downhill Youth
1958
Osaka no kaze
0/0
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Osaka no kaze
1968
Sun Above, Death Below
6/1
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.
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Sun Above, Death Below
1976
Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
0/0
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers l...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
1986
The Hall of the Crying Deer
0/0
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The Hall of the Crying Deer
1957
Jûnana-sai no teikô
0/0
Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the...
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Jûnana-sai no teikô
2002
Mokuyo Kumikyoku
0/0
A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on the n...
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Mokuyo Kumikyoku
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
1963
The Hill is Full of Flowers
0/0
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
1958
Zesshou
0/0
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Zesshou
1963
Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki
0/0
Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.
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Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki
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
1958
Forbidden Lips
0/0
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
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Forbidden Lips
1961
Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
0/0
Strife between competing lumber mills.
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Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
1969
Exiled to Hell
0/0
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and perfor...
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Exiled to Hell
1963
Prince of Wolves
0/0
As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of wolv...
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Prince of Wolves
1959
A Man Explodes
0/0
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, w...
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A Man Explodes
1966
The Harbor of No Return
0/0
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see...
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The Harbor of No Return
1959
Who is in the Background?
0/0
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Who is in the Background?
1960
He's the Witness
0/0
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he d...
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He's the Witness
1962
Hana to ryu
0/0
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
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Hana to ryu
1960
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
0/0
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
1965
Song of Dawn
0/0
Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears...
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Song of Dawn
1962
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
1967
Hawk of the Harbour
0/0
A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza.
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Hawk of the Harbour
1960
The Angry Rambler
0/0
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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The Angry Rambler
1962
Yume ga ippai abarenbō
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Yume ga ippai abarenbō
1962
Facing to the Clouds
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Facing to the Clouds
1962
Hitori tabi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Hitori tabi
1969
Gorgeous Leopardess
0/0
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Gorgeous Leopardess
1958
Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
0/0
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle f...
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
1966
Asiapol Secret Service
0/0
A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police org...
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Asiapol Secret Service
1964
Punishment of a Lawless Villian
0/0
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
1959
I Will Challenge
0/0
Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during tra...
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I Will Challenge
1967
Immortal Guy
0/0
Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months later...
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Immortal Guy
1957
This Day's Life
0/0
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This Day's Life
1981
The Woman Next Door
0/0
A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A housewife is slowly tempted by a mysterious man who...
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The Woman Next Door
1966
A World For Two
0/0
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...
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