1955

Forever a Woman

7.3/16

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her success...

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Forever a Woman

1946

Utamaro and His Five Women

7.172/29

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around...

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Utamaro and His Five Women

1941

Ornamental Hairpin

6.421/19

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among the...

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Ornamental Hairpin

1951

Dispersed Clouds

6.5/2

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Ose...

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Dispersed Clouds

1931

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

7/1

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

1932

Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

6/1

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous S...

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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

1937

The Golden Demon

6/5

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becom...

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The Golden Demon

1936

The New Road: Akemi

7/1

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told...

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The New Road: Akemi

1930

Hard Times

0/0

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Hard Times

1934

Eclipse

0/0

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their home...

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Eclipse

1932

The Loyal 47 Ronin

0/0

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their f...

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The Loyal 47 Ronin

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

1935

The Groom Talks in His Sleep

6/1

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of earl...

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The Groom Talks in His Sleep

1930

Walk Cheerfully

6.1/18

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...

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Walk Cheerfully

1932

Until the Day We Meet Again

7.5/2

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

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Until the Day We Meet Again

1931

The Lady and the Beard

5.9/8

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

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The Lady and the Beard

1933

Happy Times

0/0

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

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Happy Times

1931

Silver Stream

0/0

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is no...

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Silver Stream

1939

Spring Thunder

0/0

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her c...

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Spring Thunder

1936

The New Road: Ryota

8/1

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the per...

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The New Road: Ryota

1939

New Woman Question and Answer

6/1

Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim....

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New Woman Question and Answer

1930

Kiro Ni Tachite

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Kiro Ni Tachite

1941

Dawn Chorus

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Dawn Chorus

1934

Living Things

0/0

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

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Living Things

1929

Stick Girl

0/0

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Stick Girl

1929

Jinsei no uramichi

0/0

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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Jinsei no uramichi

1937

Marching Song

0/0

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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Marching Song

1936

Housewife Camellia

0/0

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to loo...

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Housewife Camellia

1939

Mother is Strong

0/0

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Mother is Strong

1939

Women at War

0/0

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to ma...

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Women at War

1941

Flower

0/0

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes mar...

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Flower

1942

Sumida River

0/0

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big st...

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Sumida River

1955

Sisters

0/0

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Sisters

1955

All is Well

0/0

Daichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but the company changed its name to Toyo Denki Seisakusho,...

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All is Well

1938

Half Virgin

0/0

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is also looking for a job for her, but Sabur...

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Half Virgin

1930

Love and Power

0/0

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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Love and Power

1945

Tengoku no hanayome

0/0

1945 Japanese movie

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Tengoku no hanayome