1974

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

5/1

About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business....

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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon

1960

Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane

4/1

Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she...

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Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane

1962

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

0/0

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from hom...

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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

1960

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

7.976/103

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar...

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1960

The Demon of Mount Oe

5.6/7

A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and...

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The Demon of Mount Oe

1962

The Temple of Wild Geese

6.318/11

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lasciv...

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The Temple of Wild Geese

1963

Sentimental Mobsters

0/0

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during the...

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Sentimental Mobsters

1959

The Three Treasures

5.1/9

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...

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The Three Treasures

1959

Gambler and the Princess

0/0

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Gambler and the Princess

1961

A Lustful Man

5.857/7

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pu...

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A Lustful Man

1958

The Shop Curtain

0/1

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

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The Shop Curtain

1964

Hot Spring Doctress

0/0

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients.

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Hot Spring Doctress

1961

Triangle Moods

0/0

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, bus...

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Triangle Moods

1960

A Woman's Testament

5.833/6

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the s...

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A Woman's Testament

1963

The Third Will

8/2

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

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The Third Will

1980

Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai

0/0

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Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai

1955

Revenge of Jorurizaka 1: Attack at Onibushi Pass

0/0

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Revenge of Jorurizaka 1: Attack at Onibushi Pass

1958

Ambush at Iga Pass

5/1

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Ambush at Iga Pass

1957

An Osaka Story

5.4/5

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and...

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An Osaka Story

1958

Summer Clouds

7.5/13

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

1957

Floating Vessel

0/0

Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn from parts of the famous Genji monogatar...

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Floating Vessel

1959

Odd Obsession

6.241/27

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introducti...

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Odd Obsession

1958

Conflagration

7.036/28

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distre...

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Conflagration

1959

Floating Weeds

7.48/178

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

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Floating Weeds

1975

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

6.8/12

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the life...

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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

1957

The Lower Depths

7.092/125

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that tur...

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The Lower Depths

1961

The End of Summer

7.529/87

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

1963

An Actor's Revenge

6.542/59

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

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An Actor's Revenge

1965

Kwaidan

7.705/364

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...

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Kwaidan

1966

The Pornographers

7.28/41

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

1966

Koto—The Lake of Tears

6.5/4

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings,...

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Koto—The Lake of Tears

1959

Enchanted Princess

6.25/4

Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as parasol...

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Enchanted Princess

1961

Buddha

0/0

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C...

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Buddha

1964

Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege

6.167/9

[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be t...

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Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege

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

1962

The Fencing Master

5.5/3

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives fo...

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The Fencing Master

1962

Love Under the Crucifix

6.9/7

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a...

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Love Under the Crucifix

1962

The Great Wall

6/2

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted au...

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The Great Wall

1962

170 Leagues to Edo

0/0

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170 Leagues to Edo

1962

The Broken Commandment

6.2/8

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

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The Broken Commandment

1961

Bad Reputation Returns

2.5/1

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Bad Reputation Returns

1960

Lord Tadanao

9.8/2

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Lord Tadanao

1962

仲良し音頭・日本一だよ

0/0

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仲良し音頭・日本一だよ

1958

Travels of Lord Mito

0/0

Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students Sukesaburo...

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Travels of Lord Mito

1966

The River Yokobori

0/0

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just trie...

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The River Yokobori

1982

The Rape

4/6

Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice sy...

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The Rape

1960

What Price Love?

0/0

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke O...

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What Price Love?

1960

Bonchi

7/2

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give t...

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Bonchi

1958

Princess Tsuki

0/0

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Princess Tsuki

1958

The Gay Masquerade

0/0

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Awa...

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The Gay Masquerade

1958

Musume no boken

0/0

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Musume no boken

1962

Yoru no keisha

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Yoru no keisha

1957

Last Days of the Samurai

0/0

Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted a...

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Last Days of the Samurai

1958

Shogun's Holiday

0/0

1958 Japanese movie

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Shogun's Holiday

1958

The Loyal 47 Ronin

6/9

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target...

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The Loyal 47 Ronin

1962

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven

0/0

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Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven

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