Sue Mitobe

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Mizutani

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minori Terada

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Etoh

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzō Kawarasaki

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Genre: Family

Cast: Teruko Kishi

First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuhide Haruta

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirō Ehara

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinzō Shin

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Takaoka

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Real-Life stripper Madoka Mika plays the fictional ROSE RED, a former striptease queen who is now doing roadshow engagements while trying to raise...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Madoka Mika

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Nakao

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinjirō Ehara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

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Cast: Akira Kubo

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

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Cast: Aki Mizusawa

Karasudo, who charges 16 mon for his fortune-telling skill, asks for nothing when it comes to swordplay. His merciless blade is stained with the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Gorō Mutsumi