1961

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

8.4/177

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life,...

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1960

The Samurai Markets

0/0

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

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The Samurai Markets

1951

Sasaki Kojiro

5/3

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak...

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Sasaki Kojiro

1939

Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki

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Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

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Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki

1954

Cape Ashizuri

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1950s Japanese drama.

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Cape Ashizuri

1936

Man of the House

6/2

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played shamisen...

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Man of the House

1936

Morning's Tree-Lined Street

6.7/6

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus le...

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Morning's Tree-Lined Street

1937

Learn from Experience, Part One

6/5

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguc...

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Learn from Experience, Part One

1954

Hanran

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Hanran

1938

Subterranean Heat

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Subterranean Heat

1939

Enoken’s Shrewd Period

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Enoken’s Shrewd Period

1953

Murahachibu

0/0

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

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Murahachibu

1949

A Woman's Face

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1949 drama film

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A Woman's Face

1938

Pastoral Symphony

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A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

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Pastoral Symphony

1939

The Fighting Firemen

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Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

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The Fighting Firemen

1955

The Wolves

6.8/8

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

1954

Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki

8/1

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in...

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Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki

1956

The Ghosts of Yotsuya

5.6/5

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the ka...

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The Ghosts of Yotsuya

1958

Island of Fury

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Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

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Island of Fury

1940

Bellflower

0/0

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poo...

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Bellflower

1937

Karayuki-san

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"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed...

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Karayuki-san

1940

Wedding Day

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Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of...

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Wedding Day

1937

A Woman's Sorrows

6.7/6

Japanese domestic drama.

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A Woman's Sorrows

1940

Travelling Actors

6.1/7

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

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Travelling Actors

1935

The Girl in the Rumor

5.9/7

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is...

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The Girl in the Rumor

1959

Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy

0/0

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

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Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy

1935

Five Men in a Circus

5.4/4

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two...

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Five Men in a Circus

1955

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

7.2/112

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...

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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

1941

Schoolgirl Records

0/0

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

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Schoolgirl Records

1935

Drifting

0/0

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Drifting

1940

China Night

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Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese mercha...

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China Night

1957

On Wings of Love

0/0

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film...

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On Wings of Love

1938

Nightingale

0/0

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

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Nightingale

1952

The Wind Blows Twice

0/0

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a weal...

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The Wind Blows Twice

1938

The Giant

6/1

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

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The Giant

1939

Song of the White Orchid

0/0

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the...

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Song of the White Orchid

1961

The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku

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A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as a...

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The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku

1942

Sky of Hope

0/0

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

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Sky of Hope

1938

Rainbow Hill

0/0

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named Hasegawa...

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Rainbow Hill

1936

I Am a Cat

6/1

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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I Am a Cat

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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Actress

1959

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

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A Killed Stewardess: White or Black