Kumeko Urabe
Kumeko Urabe (Japanese: 浦辺粂子), born Kimura Kume ((木村 くめ)), (October 5, 1902 – October 26, 1989) was a Japanese movie actress, one of the first in the country. She worked on stage and in film and television. Urabe was born in a rural part of the Shizuoka Prefecture. She lived in several homes while growing up, as she relocated with her father, a Buddhist priest, among the temples to which he was assigned. Urabe completed her education in Numazu, and left school in 1919 to join a theatre company, touring under various stage names as an actor and dancer.
In 1923, Urabe auditioned at the film studio Nikkatsu, and adopted the name Kumeko Urabe, by which she was known for the rest of her life. She appeared in her first film the following year, and continued to act until 1987. She worked with such directors as Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse, and performed in over 320 films, including Ikiru, Older Brother, Younger Sister, Portrait of Madame Yuki, She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum, and Street of Shame. She also starred in television dramas, including thirteen episodes of Toshiba Sunday Theatre between 1958 and 1980. In the following decade, she carved a niche as a Grandma idol, until her death in 1989.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5279 |
| Birthday | 1902-10-05 |
| Place of Birth | Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 浦邊粂子, |
1956
Early Spring
7.5/99
A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.
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Early Spring
1987
Hachiko
7.8/203
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
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Hachiko
1960
Scarred Yosaburo
9/1
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and emotiona...
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Scarred Yosaburo
1966
Nocturnal Lights
0/0
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Nocturnal Lights
1962
The Salaryman's Carefree Life: What a Relaxed Job This Is!
0/0
The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit m...
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The Salaryman's Carefree Life: What a Relaxed Job This Is!
1962
Haru no sanmyaku
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Haru no sanmyaku
1962
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Teppo Yasu no Shogai
1927
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
6/1
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue is a 1927 black and white Japanese silent film directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.[1] This comedy film showcases the comic tale...
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Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
1956
Street of Shame
7.726/159
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
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Street of Shame
1962
Koshū
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Koshū
1960
Victory and Defeat
8/1
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in t...
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Victory and Defeat
1951
Wedding March
10/1
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
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Wedding March
1962
Kono ni uruwashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kono ni uruwashi
1950
Duel in the Sun
0/0
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Duel in the Sun
1950
Golden Beast
0/0
On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped Weste...
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Golden Beast
1960
The Song Lantern
9/1
The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns.
The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...
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The Song Lantern
1956
Bridge of Japan
7.75/3
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—a...
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Bridge of Japan
1959
Floating Weeds
7.5/207
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
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Floating Weeds
1962
Irresponsible Rascal of Japan
8.5/2
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
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Irresponsible Rascal of Japan
1965
Dupe
9/1
A man who hunts for women and sells them to bars and cabarets. This film depicts the lives of men and women who breathe the dark side of the city and...
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Dupe
1954
Koina no Ginpei
0/0
1954 Japanese movie
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Koina no Ginpei
1931
The 26 Martyrs of Japan
7/1
Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.
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The 26 Martyrs of Japan
1948
Women of the Night
7.141/32
In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into prostitution,...
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Women of the Night
1946
Aru yo no seppun
0/0
The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.
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Aru yo no seppun
1966
Women Doing Time
0/0
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Women Doing Time
1964
Night Scandal
8/1
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Night Scandal
1969
Girl in College
0/0
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Girl in College
1962
The Broken Commandment
6.773/11
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...
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The Broken Commandment
1964
Yearning
8.109/78
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly bui...
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Yearning
1955
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
7/16
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1953
The Wild Geese
6.7/12
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.
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The Wild Geese
1962
The Body
7.333/3
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
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The Body
1938
Ah, My Hometown
9/1
A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
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Ah, My Hometown
1980
Before Spring
5.714/7
Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.
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Before Spring
1962
Being Two Isn't Easy
6.875/16
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
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Being Two Isn't Easy
1937
The Straits of Love and Hate
7.4/11
A servant girl is seduced and abandoned by her lover, a man from a higher social class, forcing her to navigate a harsh world as an itinerant performe...
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The Straits of Love and Hate
1951
Hibari no komoriuta
6/1
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Hibari no komoriuta
1962
Kyū-chan ondo
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kyū-chan ondo
1924
Moken no himitsu
8/1
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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Moken no himitsu
1963
18 Roughs
6.667/6
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its run...
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18 Roughs
1954
The Story of Shunkin
6.3/3
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
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The Story of Shunkin
1965
Secret Club 000
0/0
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Secret Club 000
1952
Escape from the City of Death
8/1
Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
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Escape from the City of Death
1960
When a Woman Loves
8/1
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
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When a Woman Loves
1956
Sound in the Mist
7.5/2
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Ka...
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Sound in the Mist
1930
Mistress of a Foreigner
6.286/7
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published...
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Mistress of a Foreigner
1943
The Man From Chungking
0/0
Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
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The Man From Chungking
1947
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
0/0
A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.
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Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1924
Osumi and Her Mother
6.5/1
Directed by Minoru Murata.
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Osumi and Her Mother
1962
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
1952
Haha yamahiko
0/0
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Haha yamahiko
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
8/1
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1958
The Precipice
9/1
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the...
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The Precipice
1958
Confronting Fear
0/0
Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is being...
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Confronting Fear
1956
俺は死なない
0/0
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俺は死なない
1972
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
0/0
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garn...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
1970
喜劇 右向けェ左！
0/0
Mamoru Hirayama, the sales manager of Clover Shoji, a women's underwear manufacturer, was selected by President Usui to be the manager of the foreign...
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喜劇 右向けェ左！
1953
An Heir's Place
10/1
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasega...
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An Heir's Place
1955
House of Many Pleasures
9/1
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the...
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House of Many Pleasures
1962
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
1934
Tsuki yori no shisha
0/0
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Tsuki yori no shisha
1952
Ikiru
8.316/1390
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru
1954
A Certain Woman
7/1
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A Certain Woman
1931
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
7/1
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Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1945
Saigo no kikyō
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Saigo no kikyō
1966
Four and A Half Mats
0/0
Shino, a resilient young woman sold into prostitution must navigate the gritty realities of the red-light district to survive. Within the confines of...
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Four and A Half Mats
1951
Repast
7.6/48
In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for...
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Repast
1952
Lightning
7.317/30
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 marria...
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Lightning
1953
Brother and Sister
6.316/19
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...
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Brother and Sister
1949
Ginza Cancan Girls
10/1
Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips i...
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Ginza Cancan Girls
1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen
6.607/14
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
1966
The Pretty Jade
0/0
Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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The Pretty Jade
1945
Who Is the Criminal?
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Who Is the Criminal?
1946
A Face Glowing at Night
0/0
Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole t...
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A Face Glowing at Night
1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
6.75/8
A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1959
The Makioka Sisters
8.5/2
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka.
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The Makioka Sisters
1950
A Mother's Love
0/0
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
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A Mother's Love
1953
Bot-chan
10/2
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Bot-chan
1959
The Song of the Cart
6.9/10
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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The Song of the Cart
1954
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
0/0
Japanese war film.
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Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
1957
続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
0/0
Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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続二等兵物語 決戦体制の巻
1956
Training Ship of Yearning
0/0
A youthful film filled with youth and passion, set against the backdrop of the ocean and filled with admiration for a dynamic young man and the heart...
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Training Ship of Yearning
1958
Stakeout
7.075/20
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
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Stakeout
1985
Lonely Heart
7.2/28
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche,...
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Lonely Heart
1965
An Innocent Witch
7.2/8
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of h...
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An Innocent Witch
1966
Moment of Terror
5.923/13
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victi...
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Moment of Terror
1954
The Golden Demon
9/1
Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of...
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The Golden Demon
1962
Eriko
0/0
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
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Eriko
1952
Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
0/0
Romantic comedy about a love triangle between two girls who fall in love with a reliable young doctor.
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Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
1960
The Woman Who Touched Legs
7/2
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story abo...
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The Woman Who Touched Legs
1951
The Life of a Horse Trader
6.8/5
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...
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The Life of a Horse Trader
1957
Elegy of the North
6.111/9
Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obses...
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Elegy of the North
1969
The Bad Guy Blues
7/1
A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
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The Bad Guy Blues
1967
Two in the Shadow
7.8/49
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves,...
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Two in the Shadow
1933
The Feast of Gion
7.5/2
A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.
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The Feast of Gion
1964
Jakoman and Tetsu
7.5/4
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
1961
Love's Family Tree
0/0
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Love's Family Tree
1949
Akireta musumetachi
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Akireta musumetachi
1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
6.75/30
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
1957
Snow Country
6.727/11
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous t...
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Snow Country
1973
Stray Dog
7.857/7
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior,...
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Stray Dog
1955
Fantasy of Youth
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
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Fantasy of Youth
1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
7.2/14
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the life...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1971
Adults Games
0/0
The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.
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Adults Games
1931
And Yet They Go On
9/1
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.
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And Yet They Go On
1971
The Secret Ceremony
8/1
Erotic drama.
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The Secret Ceremony
1968
I Sell My Husband
9/1
Japanese comedy film.
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I Sell My Husband
1950
Snow-Flake
7.5/2
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Snow-Flake
1961
Refresher Course for Wives
0/0
One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and in...
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Refresher Course for Wives
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
0/0
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with...
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Tokyo Omnibus
1957
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
6.214/14
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named No...
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Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1967
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
7.5/2
A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a volleyball tournament as long-shot underdogs.
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Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
1962
Nippon no obaachan
7/1
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
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Nippon no obaachan
1952
Hahakozuru
0/0
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Hahakozuru
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
7/2
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
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A Ripple in a Morning
1966
Game of Chance
6.5/2
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, driftin...
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Game of Chance
1957
Young Lovers
0/0
The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them,...
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Young Lovers
1960
A Woman's Testament
6.429/7
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the s...
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A Woman's Testament
1958
A Bridge for Two Alone
0/0
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A Bridge for Two Alone
1943
The Tiger of Malaya
7/1
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
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The Tiger of Malaya
1957
Tokyo Twilight
7.722/160
Two sisters learn about the existence of their long-lost biological mother, but the younger is unable to accept the fact that she was abandoned as a c...
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Tokyo Twilight
1962
Night Mist Makes Women Cry
8/1
A love melodrama.
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Night Mist Makes Women Cry
1963
Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
9/2
Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without succes...
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Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
1954
Twenty-Four Eyes
7.72/93
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and p...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
1965
The Passionate Spinster
0/0
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn...
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The Passionate Spinster
1949
The Rainbow Man
6.2/5
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their inve...
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The Rainbow Man
1960
Tsukinode no ketto
7/1
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Tsukinode no ketto
1976
Tora-san's Pure Love
9.2/4
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...
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Tora-san's Pure Love
1933
The Water Magician
7.25/20
Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphane...
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The Water Magician
1957
Itohan Monogatari
7/1
Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.
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Itohan Monogatari
1956
Twice on a Certain Night
10/1
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...
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Twice on a Certain Night
1955
A Woman's Life
0/0
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.
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A Woman's Life
1955
A Man Among Men
8/1
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match i...
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A Man Among Men
1960
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
0/0
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Storm on the Silvery Peaks
1964
Destroyer Yukikaze
0/0
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream i...
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Destroyer Yukikaze
1967
Flower Cards Chivalry
10/1
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is stay...
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Flower Cards Chivalry
1967
Yanagase Blues
0/0
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
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Yanagase Blues
1948
Nocturnal Gate
0/0
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Nocturnal Gate
1957
Inazuma Kaidō
0/0
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Inazuma Kaidō
1957
Fighting Letter for 29 People
0/0
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Fighting Letter for 29 People
1955
The Magistrate
0/0
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The Magistrate
1924
Seisaku no tsuma
0/0
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Seisaku no tsuma
1963
Teinen Taishoku
0/0
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Teinen Taishoku
1956
Yaneura no Onna-tachi
0/0
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Yaneura no Onna-tachi
1942
New Snow
8/1
Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...
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New Snow
1941
Passion to Soar
0/0
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Passion to Soar
1956
Children Seeking a Mother
0/0
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.
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Children Seeking a Mother
1959
Goodbye, Hello
7.5/2
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Thei...
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Goodbye, Hello
1959
Diary of a Substitute Doctor
0/0
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Diary of a Substitute Doctor
1958
Mother
0/0
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Mother
1958
A Grain of Wheat
0/0
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who wat...
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A Grain of Wheat
1965
Chained Bitch
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Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Chained Bitch
1965
Color
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Color
1970
The Final Gamble
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The Final Gamble
1960
White Cliffs
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1960 Toei film.
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White Cliffs
1984
The Cold-Hearted Sea
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A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).
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The Cold-Hearted Sea
1955
The Refugee
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A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...
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The Refugee
1963
Uogashi no senpū musume
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1963 Japanese movie
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Uogashi no senpū musume
1958
Tokyo Eyes
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A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...
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Tokyo Eyes
1956
Headquarters of Crime Detection
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Headquarters of Crime Detection
1961
Love and the Shop Curtain
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Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 To...
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Love and the Shop Curtain
1954
Victory or Defeat
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Victory or Defeat
1958
Hibi no haishin
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Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyu...
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Hibi no haishin
1939
Ie naki musume
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An orphan Mihato Mari works as a secretary at a spinning factory.
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Ie naki musume
1926
日輪 前篇
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Directed by Minoru Murata.
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日輪 前篇
1960
Irohanihoheto
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The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...
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Irohanihoheto
1969
River Of Love
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1969 Japanese movie
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River Of Love
1963
We Are Salarymen
7/1
Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying skill an...
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We Are Salarymen
1958
Flower's Yearning
7/1
Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while navigating the pressures of family expectation and...
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Flower's Yearning
1956
The Spoiled Brat President
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Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama
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The Spoiled Brat President
1958
Yurakucho 0 Street
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A satirical comedy set in Tokyo's new landmark food center in Yurakucho.
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Yurakucho 0 Street
1958
The Cat Knew
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The Cat Knew
1954
東京シンデレラ娘
8/1
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東京シンデレラ娘
1969
Season of Tears
8/1
Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next day,” his...
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Season of Tears
1984
Lovely Days
10/1
The film depicts the life of a man who works at a crematorium he inherited from his father. An adaptation of Yoshiko Shigekane's novel Smoke of Mounta...
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Lovely Days
1952
Oka wa hanazakari
9/1
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Oka wa hanazakari
1956
Sound of Youth
9/1
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Sound of Youth
1946
Iku-san ga
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Iku-san ga
1946
瓢箪から出た駒
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瓢箪から出た駒
1985
Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki
7/2
Seven raccoons with supernatural powers sneak into a freight train, disguise themselves as humans, and head to Tokyo with the intention to create a ba...
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Checkers in Tan Tan tanuki
1969
Twenty-One Concubines: The Life of a Pervert
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Teppei Omori is a man of extraordinary virility, with 21 mistresses, over 30 children, and more than 1,100 women he has had relations with. Teppei's d...
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Twenty-One Concubines: The Life of a Pervert
1949
Hills of a Foreign Country
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Hills of a Foreign Country
1956
Here It is Quiet
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A youth film set in a high school.
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Here It is Quiet
1957
Monkey Business
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Monkey Business
1955
Youth
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Youth
1959
Blind Love
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Blind Love
1959
Hear My Mother's Cry
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Inspired by the issue of rescuing former Japanese soldiers reportedly still surviving on Lubang Island.
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Hear My Mother's Cry
1947
The 99th Bride
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The 99th Bride
1960
The Legendary Hell
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The Legendary Hell
1953
Hiren tsubaki
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Hiren tsubaki
1947
The Little Green Box
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The Little Green Box
1949
Koga Manshion
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Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.
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Koga Manshion
1943
Genghis Khan
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Filmed on location in the Mongolian plains.
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Genghis Khan
1946
Machi no ninkisha
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Machi no ninkisha
1946
Kare to kanojo wa iku
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Kare to kanojo wa iku
1946
Kimi ka to omohite
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The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.
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Kimi ka to omohite
1946
Convent Bride
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1946 japanese movie.
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Convent Bride
1946
The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog
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A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the villain’s niece and brothe...
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The Monk Who Became a Raccoon Dog
1947
Female Prisoner #36
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A film depicting the duties of a detective and the anguish of human compassion.
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Female Prisoner #36
1947
First Love Story
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A pure love story between a former member of the imperial family who has been demoted to commoner status and a young girl.
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First Love Story
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
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Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
1956
Asashio yushio
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A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high...
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Asashio yushio
1950
Shinju fujin: Shojo no maki
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A story depicting the true nature of a vulnerable woman who abandons love, severs the bond between father and daughter, and challenges the very embodi...
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Shinju fujin: Shojo no maki
1950
Shinju fujin: Hitozuma no maki
0/0
A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.
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Shinju fujin: Hitozuma no maki
1955
A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
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A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
1955
Troupers of Asakusa
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On the night of the Sanja Festival, a bloodstained wallet left in the hands of a female pickpocket… The boss’s sinister grasp closing in on an innocen...
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Troupers of Asakusa
1949
Kenji to onnakanshu
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Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized crime...
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Kenji to onnakanshu
1949
Arashi no naka no shimai
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Arashi no naka no shimai
1949
Three Mothers
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Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.
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Three Mothers
1970
Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
9/1
In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of...
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Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
1949
Full Moon
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A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.
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Full Moon
1949
Hana no jitsugetsu
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Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry Yukiko,...
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Hana no jitsugetsu
1949
Onna goroshi abura jigoku
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Onna goroshi abura jigoku
1950
Tsuma mo koisu
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A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.
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Tsuma mo koisu
1950
Shimai hoshi
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1950 daiei movie.
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Shimai hoshi
1967
Happiness For You — Sentimental Boy
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A cake shop apprentice falls in love with a female student from a wealthy family.
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Happiness For You — Sentimental Boy
1951
Fire Department
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Fire Department
1951
Koi no Oranda-zaka
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Set against the backdrop of Nagasaki, a love story blossoms between an unfortunate circus girl and a shipbuilding engineer.
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Koi no Oranda-zaka
1951
Dorei no machi
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Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was deceived by a...
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Dorei no machi
1951
Tokyo Elegy
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In 1945, in a Shanghai filled with a palpable sense of unease as the war was still raging, Atsuko Kijima and Ryuji Kudo fell in love and exchanged pro...
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Tokyo Elegy
1952
Mabuta no haha
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Mabuta no haha
1952
Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi
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A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.
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Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi
1952
Yobiko hoshi
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Yobiko hoshi
1952
Forever My Love
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American Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.
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Forever My Love
1952
Machi no kotengu
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Machi no kotengu
1953
Kettō gofun mae
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Kettō gofun mae
1961
Ganpā kachō
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Ganpā kachō
1953
Shunsetsu no mon
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Shunsetsu no mon
1953
Asakusa monogatari
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Asakusa monogatari
1953
To the Ends of the Earth
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In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his onc...
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To the Ends of the Earth
1953
Haha no mizūmi
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Haha no mizūmi
1954
Shinzōyaburi no oka
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A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young wom...
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Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
Four Mothers
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Four Mothers
1959
Romance of a Ferry Man
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Romance of a Ferry Man
1954
The Moon Over the Ruined Castle
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The Moon Over the Ruined Castle
1955
Rōkyoku tengu dōjō
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Rōkyoku tengu dōjō
1955
Ginji of the Seven Faces
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Yesterday a gentleman, today a student, tomorrow a stylish man in a casual kimono—Ginji, the pickpocket with seven faces, has his sights set on the go...
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Ginji of the Seven Faces
1955
Tenka o nerau bishōnen
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Tenka o nerau bishōnen
1955
Tokyo Gang
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A passionate, righteous journalist, burning with indignation, draws his gun of justice in response to the death of his fellow photographer.
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Tokyo Gang
1955
Shichinin no ani imōto
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Shichinin no ani imōto
1955
I Was Tokichiro
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I Was Tokichiro
1956
The Buried Treasure
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A lighthearted comedy featuring city dwellers flocking to a remote mountain hot spring inn, all entangled in the mystery of hidden gold bars.
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