Fumiko Okamura

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Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the...

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Cast: Yoshirō Kitahara

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

1954 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

1948 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ichirō Ryūzaki

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

1939 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

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Cast: Denmei Suzuki

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Cast: Michiko Kuwano

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...

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Cast: Kaoru Futaba

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...

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Cast: Fumiko Katsuragi

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

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Cast: Hajime Asada

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...

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Cast: Shusuke Agata

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shūji Sano

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Yôko Namikawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fumitake Ōmura

A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hizuru Takachiho

Two people disappeared, engineers of the company Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

1950s Japanese comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

1949 drama film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Light-hearted samurai comedy. The second son of a feudal lord runs away from an arranged marriage. He saves the life of a princess whom he gets to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

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....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kieko Sawamura

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

Genre: Family

Cast: Ineko Arima

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ken Takakura

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Uehara

A man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Daijirō Natsukawa

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight...

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Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chisako Hara

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

Genre: Music

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Mitsuko Kusabue

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Fumiko Katsuragi

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high...

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Cast: Reiko Ike

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

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Cast: Tokuji Kobayashi

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Inoue

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Could I But Live

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bontarō Miake

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Adapted from the song " Tokyo Olympic Ondo " , which was the theme song for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics held in October 1964 . Song was composed by Masao...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

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Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.

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Cast: Jo Mizuki

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

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Cast: Mieko Takamine