Nobuko Otowa
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Nobuko Otowa (1 October 1925 – 22 December 1994) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō. She posthumously won the award for best supporting actress at the 19th Japan Academy Prize for A Last Note, having been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer during its production.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 26.901 |
| Birthday | 1925-10-01 |
| Place of Birth | Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Nobuko Kaji, 오토와 노부코, Нобуко Отова, |
1964
Onibaba
7.674/391
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever val...
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Onibaba
1960
The Naked Island
8/128
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
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The Naked Island
1968
Kuroneko
7.421/191
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returni...
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Kuroneko
1951
Miss Oyu
7.152/55
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry...
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Miss Oyu
1952
Children of Hiroshima
7/35
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
1971
The Ceremony
7/32
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to...
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The Ceremony
1981
Edo Porn
6.044/34
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Ba...
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Edo Porn
1961
The Last War
6.3/9
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
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The Last War
1995
A Last Note
6.818/11
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring variou...
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A Last Note
1962
Human
6.8/6
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate a...
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Human
1969
Red Lion
6.354/24
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...
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Red Lion
1959
Lucky Dragon No. 5
8/1
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacif...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
1986
Tree Without Leaves
7.8/8
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
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
5.3/6
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disas...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1970
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
6.7/7
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1985
Demon
7.7/4
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal...
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Demon
1954
An Inn at Osaka
7.3/12
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka offi...
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An Inn at Osaka
1972
The Iron Crown
6.1/9
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
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The Iron Crown
1986
Black Board
4/1
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns ou...
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Black Board
1974
My Way
5.7/3
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy...
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My Way
1961
Love's Family Tree
0/0
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Love's Family Tree
1954
The Ditch
7/3
Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his fr...
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The Ditch
1951
Story of a Beloved Wife
7/3
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
1977
The Life of Chikuzan
8.3/3
A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
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The Life of Chikuzan
1964
The Scent of Incense
6.9/8
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d...
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The Scent of Incense
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
10/1
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life...
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The Radish and the Carrot
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
1951
The Tale of Genji
5.4/5
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his hea...
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The Tale of Genji
1972
Hymn
6.333/6
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel b...
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Hymn
1950
Wedding Ring
6.6/10
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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Wedding Ring
1969
Heat Wave Island
6/1
Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with th...
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Heat Wave Island
1960
The Approach of Autumn
6.9/11
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery sto...
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The Approach of Autumn
1968
Monument to the Girl's Corps
0/0
In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa No...
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
1986
Lost in the Wilderness
0/0
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of M...
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Lost in the Wilderness
1955
The Wolves
6.7/7
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a pla...
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The Wolves
1980
Nurse's Husband
0/0
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on th...
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Nurse's Husband
1952
The Ataka Family
5.5/1
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to h...
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The Ataka Family
1953
Before Dawn
0/0
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Before Dawn
1973
The Heart
7.8/4
Adaptation of Natsume Soseki's classic novel in a modern setting.
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The Heart
1960
The Twilight Story
8/1
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at...
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The Twilight Story
1961
Immortal Love
7.5/15
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a...
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Immortal Love
1961
Hunting Rifle
7/1
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on...
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Hunting Rifle
1966
Once a Rainy Day
0/0
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
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Once a Rainy Day
1965
Conquest
5/1
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...
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Conquest
1963
Rush to Our Sweetheart
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Rush to Our Sweetheart
1967
Libido
0/0
aka Libido.
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Libido
1984
Location
0/0
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book...
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Location
1973
The Twilight Years
0/0
A woman looks after her father in law.
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The Twilight Years
1980
The Long Way 'Round
0/0
1980 Japanese film.
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The Long Way 'Round
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
1959
When a Woman Loves
0/0
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
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When a Woman Loves
2000
By Player
8/1
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the ca...
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By Player
1962
Seikurabe
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Seikurabe
1963
Mother
6.8/4
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
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Mother
1992
Free and Easy 5
7.5/3
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.
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Free and Easy 5
1979
The Strangling
4.7/6
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromisi...
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The Strangling
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
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
1953
Reminiscence
0/0
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cr...
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Reminiscence
1958
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
0/0
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
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Makeraremasen katsumadewa
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
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
1956
Love is Lost
7/1
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
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Love is Lost
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
1979
The Three Undelivered Letters
6/5
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household...
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The Three Undelivered Letters
1966
Lost Sex
0/0
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the...
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Lost Sex
1966
Rise Against the Sword
6.5/8
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...
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Rise Against the Sword
1958
The Shop Curtain
0/1
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
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The Shop Curtain
1956
Shin ono ga tsumi
0/0
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).
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Shin ono ga tsumi
1952
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
0/0
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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
1961
The Youth and His Amulet
0/0
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy'...
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The Youth and His Amulet
1970
Strange Affinity
0/0
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Strange Affinity
1984
The Island Closest to Heaven
6/7
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
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The Island Closest to Heaven
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
1956
Actress
0/0
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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1989
Dream Street
0/0
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
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Dream Street
1961
The Shrikes
0/0
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The Shrikes
1962
This Madding Crowd
0/0
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This Madding Crowd
1988
Sakura-tai Chiru
5.7/3
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for th...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
1992
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
8/3
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha name...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
1956
Twice on a Certain Night
0/0
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...
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Twice on a Certain Night
1955
Ai Sureba Koso
0/0
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Ai Sureba Koso
1953
Yokubo
0/0
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Yokubo
1953
Onna no issho
0/0
Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant
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Onna no issho
1982
Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 3
0/0
The final part takes Shingo into a confrontation with his friend Yagyu Katsunoshin’s uncle in a duel that could change the destiny of Japan.
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 3
1958
The Child Writers
0/0
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The Child Writers
1955
The Beauty and the Dragon
0/0
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.
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The Beauty and the Dragon
1984
The Horizon
0/0
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...
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The Horizon
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
0/0
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to ma...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
1951
Lantern Under a Full Moon
0/0
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Lantern Under a Full Moon
1955
Women of Ginza
0/0
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....
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Women of Ginza
1954
Dorodarake no seishun
0/0
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayash...
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Dorodarake no seishun
1982
傑作推理劇場 不安な階段
0/0
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傑作推理劇場 不安な階段
1956
Ryûri no kishi
0/0
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Ryûri no kishi
1981
Asshii-tachi no machi
0/0
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Asshii-tachi no machi
1951
Who Will Judge Me?
0/0
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Who Will Judge Me?
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
1959
Flower Shop Curtain
0/0
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
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Flower Shop Curtain
1965
Nami kage
0/0
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
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Nami kage
1982
Arashi Tatsunari
0/0
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. A...
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Arashi Tatsunari
1951
Izayoi kaidō
0/0
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Izayoi kaidō
1960
「通夜の客」より わが愛
0/0
Heinosuke Gosho movie
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「通夜の客」より わが愛
1962
Till Tomorow Comes
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Till Tomorow Comes
1962
Dolls floating down the river
0/0
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...
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Dolls floating down the river
1962
Long Way to Okinawa
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Long Way to Okinawa
1968
Operation Negligee
0/0
After a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko and becomes a hostess.
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Operation Negligee
1962
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
1954
Koina no Ginpei
0/0
1954 Japanese movie
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Koina no Ginpei
1990
Don't Mind
0/0
Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there.
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Don't Mind
1959
Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
0/0
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi
1958
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
0/0
1958 Japanese movie
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
1987
Children on the Island
0/0
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.
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Children on the Island
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
1953
Murahachibu
0/0
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
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Murahachibu
1982
Ekisutora
0/0
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Ekisutora
1981
Ore to aitsu no monogatari
0/0
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Ore to aitsu no monogatari
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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Geisha in the Old City
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
1975
Onna no Natsu
0/0
It depicts the emotional ups and downs of a designer who runs a clothing store and her husband over the course of a summer.
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