Mitsuko Miura

It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to...

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Cast: Yuriko Hamada

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000...

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman...

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

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

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Miura

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

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...

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Cast: Kaneko Fujiwara

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

At the Fugenji temple in Koishikawa, Edo, a memorial service for the 49th day after the passing of Kyogoku Takanori, the lord of the Tanba-Miyazu...

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Cast: Shinobu Asaji

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

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Cast: Akira Kishii

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

Genre: History

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

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Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

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

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

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

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuniko Igawa

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Horror film about a killer dwarf.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A drama depicting a girl's suffering from prenatal radiation damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Asuka

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Fifth delivery in the Tarao Bannai series, following the "master detective with seven faces" who uses his signature disguise to solve crimes with a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Japanese mystery film.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Miura

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kusuo Abe

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Genre: History

Cast: Kusuo Abe

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Genre: Action

Cast: Michiko Ai

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Japanese Warmovie

Genre: War

Cast: Masao Inoue

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michiko Namiki

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Kōtarō Satomi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Mihara

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...

Genre: Family

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka