1959

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

8/229

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

1959

Fires on the Plain

7.598/107

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Le...

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Fires on the Plain

1961

Yojimbo

8.104/1387

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the loca...

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Yojimbo

1963

High and Low

8.32/859

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped

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High and Low

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

1961

The Catch

6.3/11

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions a...

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The Catch

1958

Giants and Toys

6.79/31

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

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Giants and Toys

1962

Elegant Beast

7.1/15

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover ther...

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Elegant Beast

1956

I Will Buy You

7.077/13

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

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I Will Buy You

1959

A Whistle in My Heart

6.4/5

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

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A Whistle in My Heart

1956

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

6.2/8

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

1960

The Bad Sleep Well

7.7/241

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d...

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The Bad Sleep Well

1964

Manji

6.397/34

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

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Manji

1959

The Makioka Sisters

8/1

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

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The Makioka Sisters

1956

The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

7/1

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

1956

Story of Second Class Private, Sequel

0/0

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

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Story of Second Class Private, Sequel

1953

親馬鹿花合戦

0/0

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

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親馬鹿花合戦

1958

Detective Duel

6/1

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating th...

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Detective Duel

1955

Song Festival, Full Moon, and the Battle of the Raccoon Dogs

0/0

Hibari Misora musical.

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Song Festival, Full Moon, and the Battle of the Raccoon Dogs

1961

Tale of a Company Boss 3

0/0

A story about the nature of office workers today.

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Tale of a Company Boss 3

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

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

1963

Nonsense Boys

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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Nonsense Boys

1955

A Warrior's Flute

6/1

Tale of tragic love between samurai and princess during Heian period.

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A Warrior's Flute

1955

Spring Voyage

0/0

Japanese youth film.

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Spring Voyage

1958

First Love of Okon

5/1

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

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First Love of Okon

1957

Warm Current

7.7/3

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich g...

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Warm Current

1969

Bonds of Love

0/0

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires...

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Bonds of Love

1961

A Geisha's Diary

7.2/10

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as...

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A Geisha's Diary

1960

Internees of Kampili

0/0

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

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Internees of Kampili

1959

Room for Let

6/1

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection...

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Room for Let

1954

浮かれ狐千本櫻

0/0

Japanese comedy film.

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浮かれ狐千本櫻

1964

Pale Flower

7.3/103

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young wo...

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Pale Flower

1956

Darkness at Noon

6.8/3

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

1965

Hoodlum Soldier

7.3/3

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an e...

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Hoodlum Soldier

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

1958

Chance Meeting

0/0

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is R...

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Chance Meeting

1963

Black Dividend

0/0

Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with...

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Black Dividend

1963

The Maid Story

0/0

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

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The Maid Story

1961

Tough Guy

0/0

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is...

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Tough Guy

1966

Silence Has No Wings

7/17

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki...

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Silence Has No Wings

1964

Sweet Sweat

0/0

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Sweet Sweat

1963

Pressure of Guilt

7/1

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Pressure of Guilt

1968

Woman Gambler Is Coming

0/0

Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Woman Gambler Is Coming

1965

A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

0/0

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 2...

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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

1964

The Enforcer

0/0

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The Enforcer

1962

47 Ronin

7.256/41

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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47 Ronin

1955

The Swordsman and the Actress

5/1

A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost lov...

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The Swordsman and the Actress

1957

Travel Romances

0/0

Romantic comedy.

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Travel Romances

1960

The Sand City in Manchuria

6.5/2

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

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The Sand City in Manchuria

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

1960

The Wayside Pebble

0/0

In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well...

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The Wayside Pebble

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

1956

Case of a Young Lord 3

0/0

Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had se...

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Case of a Young Lord 3

1957

On This Earth

0/0

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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On This Earth

1961

Bad Reputation Returns

2.5/1

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Bad Reputation Returns

1956

Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita

0/0

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Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita

1957

Demonfire Palanquin

0/0

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Demonfire Palanquin

1964

The Sandal Keeper

0/0

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The Sandal Keeper

1959

The Adventures of Kantaro

0/0

Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.

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The Adventures of Kantaro

1963

Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin

0/0

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Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin

1960

Cruel Story of Youth

6.7/54

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

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Cruel Story of Youth

1956

Sisters of Destiny

0/0

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Sisters of Destiny

1962

Sazen Tange: Heavenly Clouds, Earthly Dragon

10/1

This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. A Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece s...

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Sazen Tange: Heavenly Clouds, Earthly Dragon

1957

Oshidori kenkagasa

0/0

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Oshidori kenkagasa

1963

Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai

0/0

Ensemble comedy.

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Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai

1961

Love and Life

0/0

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

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Love and Life

1958

Megitsune Buro

0/0

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Megitsune Buro

1959

Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord

6/1

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Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord

1956

Fighting Fire Fighter

0/0

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Fighting Fire Fighter

1956

Night River

6.182/11

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

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Night River

1958

The Precipice

0/0

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the...

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The Precipice

1956

The Fiery Magistrate

0/0

Film adaption by Kenji Misumi

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The Fiery Magistrate

1962

Ayako

0/0

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who st...

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Ayako

1958

Yaji and Kita on the Road

0/0

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

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

1965

Nami kage

0/0

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

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Nami kage

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

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

0/0

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. O...

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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

1952

大当り黄金狂時代　

0/0

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大当り黄金狂時代　

1956

Sisters of Gion

0/0

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Sisters of Gion

1955

ふり袖侠艶録

0/0

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ふり袖侠艶録

1964

Black Challenger

0/0

Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming fr...

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Black Challenger

1957

Hadaka no Machi

0/0

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Hadaka no Machi

1960

This Greedy Old Skin

0/0

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, incl...

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This Greedy Old Skin

1952

Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil

0/0

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato.

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Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil

1952

Chronicle of the Bulbul

0/0

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato

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Chronicle of the Bulbul

1960

抱寝の長脇差

0/0

Tatsuo Osone movie

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抱寝の長脇差

1948

Shachō to onna tenin

0/0

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Shachō to onna tenin

1958

The Shop Curtain

0/1

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

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The Shop Curtain

1962

Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

1963

Ichi ka bachi ka

0/0

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

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Ichi ka bachi ka

1962

Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

1955

A Doting Parent’s Lullaby

0/0

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A Doting Parent’s Lullaby

1958

Accomplice

0/0

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

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Accomplice

1948

Haru ranman tanuki matsuri

0/0

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Haru ranman tanuki matsuri

1962

Heso no taisho

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Heso no taisho

1960

Police Precinct Part 12

0/0

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Police Precinct Part 12

1968

High School Geisha

0/0

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High School Geisha

1962

喜劇 駅前飯店

0/0

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

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喜劇 駅前飯店

1960

The Masterless 47

0/0

Part one of The Masterless 47.

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The Masterless 47

1962

Yume de aimasho

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Yume de aimasho

1962

Shin kitsune to tanuki

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Shin kitsune to tanuki

1963

The Red Water

0/0

Comedy drama film

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The Red Water

1955

ふり袖小天狗

0/0

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ふり袖小天狗

1962

Sora to umi no kekkon

0/0

1962 Japanese movie

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Sora to umi no kekkon

1951

風雲児

0/0

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...

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風雲児

1947

聟入り豪華船

0/0

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聟入り豪華船

クレージーだよ 奇想天外

0/0

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クレージーだよ 奇想天外

1957

Geisha in the Old City

0/0

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and res...

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