Hiroko Machida

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.

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Cast: Tatsuya Ishiguro

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima. The movie...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

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Cast: Shiho Fujimura

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Comedy drama film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Usami

Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chiharu Inayoshi

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Utsui

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Taki

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuneo Aoki

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Nakata

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwa Takada

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kazuo Kitamura

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Ôtake

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisano Yamaoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Chiaki

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Abe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadashi Date

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

1959 youth comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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Cast: Fumio Nakae

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

A bright and cheerful story about a young girl who comes to Tokyo from the countryside, relying on her aunt to become a maid, and willingly aspires...

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Cast: Michiko Sugata

Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiemi Eri

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

1959 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

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Cast: Ken Utsui