Shima Iwashita
Shima Shinoda, better known as Shima Iwashita (born January 3, 1941, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She was married to film director Shinoda Masahiro. She won the award for best actress at the 2nd Hochi Film Award for Ballad of Orin.
In junior high school, she aspired to become a psychiatrist, but gave up on that dream when she was 16-17 years old and suffered from childhood rheumatism and was hospitalized for a long time. To divert her energy , she appeared in the 1958 NHK drama Bus Street Back. This was the beginning of her acting career. She made her film debut two years later in 1960.
In 1999, she launched her brand "Kimono Shima" with kimono manufacturer Kyoto Marubeni, and made her debut as a kimono designer. In 2004, she was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal. In 2012 , she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.1788 |
| Birthday | 1941-01-03 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Сима Ивасьта, Сима Ивасита, شیما ایواشیتا, Shima Iwashita, |
1998
I Don't Have a Grave!
8/1
An actress visits a university hospital for research and mistakenly believes she has only six months to live. Having grown up alone with no family gra...
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I Don't Have a Grave!
1993
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
7.5/14
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his posit...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
1962
Harakiri
8.461/1273
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a plac...
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Harakiri
1962
Kono ni uruwashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kono ni uruwashi
1969
Double Suicide
7.016/63
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
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Double Suicide
1962
A Roaring Trade
0/0
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A Roaring Trade
1965
Sword of the Beast
7.481/78
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his minist...
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Sword of the Beast
1972
Sono hito wa hono no yo ni
0/0
Film by Deme Masanobu
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Sono hito wa hono no yo ni
1962
An Autumn Afternoon
7.9/333
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look af...
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An Autumn Afternoon
1967
Swift Current
0/0
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Swift Current
1971
Silence
7.2/40
In 17th-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests seek their mentor, who is rumoured to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
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Silence
1978
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
6.109/23
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1974
Himiko
6.969/32
A reimagination of the myth of Himiko, focused on her divine role as a sun goddess's oracle and her forbidden love for her half-brother Takehiko, whic...
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Himiko
1964
Assassination
7.1/40
In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and th...
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Assassination
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
7.2/10
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of...
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Samurai from Nowhere
1969
Red Lion
6.5/28
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...
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Red Lion
1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
7.049/41
A mountain bandit abducts a woman who demands he kill his other wives to please her, leading to a cycle of violence and madness fueled by superstition...
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1988
Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
0/0
From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns, t...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
1991
Heat Wave
5.929/14
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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Heat Wave
1960
Youth in Fury
7/12
Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth...
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Youth in Fury
1961
Killers on Parade
6.5/14
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic compet...
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Killers on Parade
1978
The Demon
6.6/41
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children wit...
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The Demon
1963
A Legend or Was It?
7/15
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
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A Legend or Was It?
1973
The Petrified Forest
6.214/14
Troubled medical student Haruo navigates a toxic relationship with his mother and a dangerous affair with former classmate Eiko, leading to a murder p...
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The Petrified Forest
1977
Ballad of Orin
7.174/23
Expelled from her group for losing her virginity, blind travelling musician Orin endures a life of hardship, abuse, and poverty while wandering the co...
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Ballad of Orin
1970
The Shadow Within
5.727/11
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
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The Shadow Within
1970
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
7.1/11
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1997
Moonlight Serenade
6/6
A journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake recalls a boat trip he took as a boy after WWII to bury his brother's ashes, during which his famil...
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Moonlight Serenade
1960
The River Fuefuki
7.7/13
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over...
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The River Fuefuki
1962
San'nin musume kanpai!
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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San'nin musume kanpai!
1986
Gonza the Spearman
7/17
During the peaceful Tokugawa period, handsome samurai Gonza becomes entangled in a tragic love triangle and a web of deceit while trying to advance hi...
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Gonza the Spearman
1962
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
1962
Records of loyal vassals
0/0
In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their master Asano Takumi-no-kami. Shogun Tsunayos...
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Records of loyal vassals
1971
Shadow of Deception
6.5/4
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who ow...
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Shadow of Deception
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
9/2
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life...
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The Radish and the Carrot
1967
Rebellion of Japan
8/1
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair wit...
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Rebellion of Japan
1984
Fireflies in the North
5.571/7
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced t...
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Fireflies in the North
1985
The Empty Table
6.857/7
One year after the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths, all the other p...
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The Empty Table
1982
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
6.154/26
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. H...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1978
Monument to Holy Service
8/1
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
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Monument to Holy Service
1982
Suspicion
7/9
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes...
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Suspicion
2003
Spy Sorge
6.625/8
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japan...
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Spy Sorge
1985
Moment of Demon
5.333/9
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfyi...
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Moment of Demon
1984
MacArthur's Children
5.5/10
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the denizens of a small Japanese fishing village struggle with defeat, cultural change, and the arrival of A...
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MacArthur's Children
1995
Sharaku
7/12
Crippled Kabuki player Tonbo is taken in by a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold art, and nurtur...
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Sharaku
1981
Island of the Evil Spirits
6.2/6
Renowned detective Kosuke Kindaichi is called to an island where a dying man's words lead him to investigate a series of murders connected to the 'Nue...
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Island of the Evil Spirits
1966
Captive's Island
6.7/17
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for ven...
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Captive's Island
1986
Yakuza Ladies
5.5/12
When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful gangs in Japan.
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Yakuza Ladies
1964
The Scarlet Camellia
5.167/6
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detec...
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The Scarlet Camellia
1970
The Rokumeikan
0/0
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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The Rokumeikan
1968
The Day the Sun Rose
8/2
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned cust...
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The Day the Sun Rose
1995
Onihei's Detective Records
9/2
A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
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Onihei's Detective Records
1985
No More God, No More Love
7/2
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious j...
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No More God, No More Love
1987
My Beloved Is My Husband's Boss?!
0/0
In Jimpachi Kodera's household, young samurai Keishiro Kanie arrives, captivating Jimpachi's wife, Shoko, despite his initially arrogant demeanor. Kei...
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My Beloved Is My Husband's Boss?!
1971
Man on a False Flight
5.5/4
The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with...
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Man on a False Flight
1963
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
6.545/11
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1995
Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties
6/1
Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan.
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Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties
1996
Lost in Time
6.667/3
A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special...
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Lost in Time
1983
The Women of Osaka Castle
0/0
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the 30th...
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The Women of Osaka Castle
2010
Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
8.5/2
In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the Asano family in Ako domain is shocked to learn that...
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Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
1961
Enraptured
0/0
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a class...
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Enraptured
1965
Snow Country
6.667/3
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
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Snow Country
1961
Epitaph to My Love
7.8/4
A young reporter falls for a beautiful waitress, but fate conspires against their burgeoning romance when the latter is involved in a car accident and...
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Epitaph to My Love
1963
Sing, Young People!
6.2/5
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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Sing, Young People!
2014
Out Burn
7.5/2
Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs...
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Out Burn
1990
Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
5/3
A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common purpose: to seek vengeance.
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Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
1994
Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
7.333/3
The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks her life to protect her husband’s family and its...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
1998
Yakuza Ladies: Decision
7.5/2
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the...
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Yakuza Ladies: Decision
1996
Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble
7/2
The wife of a recently deceased yakuza boss is caught in a conflict between the candidates for his succession and must protect her beloved daughter. 9...
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Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble
1991
Yakuza Ladies Revisited
7/3
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited
1993
Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
8/2
Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return.
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
1982
Lullaby of Death
6.25/4
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge....
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Lullaby of Death
1974
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
10/2
Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.
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Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
1983
I Lived, But...
6.778/9
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both i...
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I Lived, But...
1967
Portrait of Chieko
7.5/2
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her fami...
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Portrait of Chieko
1963
The Hidden Profile
6/2
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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The Hidden Profile
2007
Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
7/1
A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends hi...
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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
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
1966
The Kii River
7.5/2
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
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The Kii River
1962
Glory on the Summit
9/1
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentle...
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Glory on the Summit
1996
After the Wind Has Gone
6/2
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After the Wind Has Gone
1969
Lady with Seven Faces
0/0
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets up with her right-hand man: She intends to steal 5...
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Lady with Seven Faces
1989
Cherry Blossoms
5/5
A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation...
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Cherry Blossoms
1960
Mahiru no wana
0/0
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job afte...
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Mahiru no wana
1970
Fun on the Run
0/0
Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
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Fun on the Run
1960
Late Autumn
7.7/179
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
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Late Autumn
1970
Forbidden Affair
10/1
Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a woman d...
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Forbidden Affair
1964
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
9/1
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964
The Irresponsible Fool
7/2
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his home...
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The Irresponsible Fool
1963
Double Wedding
0/0
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Double Wedding
1990
Takeshi: Childhood Days
7.5/11
A city boy, Shinji, is sent to live in the countryside to escape the Tokyo bombings, where he experiences the complexities of rural school life, inclu...
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
1971
A Woman Called En
0/0
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is r...
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A Woman Called En
1992
Taira no Kiyomori
0/0
The tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into the battle against the brutal pirates on Setouchi.
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Taira no Kiyomori
1990
Minamoto Yoshitsune
0/0
One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridge, Shanao (later Yoshitsune), a young man of small...
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Minamoto Yoshitsune
1967
Clouds at Sunset
6/5
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her i...
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Clouds at Sunset
1971
Law of the Outlaw
9/1
Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei. This is Watari Tetsuya's first film t...
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Law of the Outlaw
1966
Warm Current
0/0
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Warm Current
1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
0/0
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overse...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1962
August Moon
0/0
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August Moon
1988
マルゴォの杯
0/0
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マルゴォの杯
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
0/0
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to ma...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
1962
Pachinko
0/0
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Pachinko
1974
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
0/0
An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop...
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1991
Takeda Shingen
10/1
During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powerful warlords who fought them. One of the earliest...
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Takeda Shingen
1969
Big, Big Fellow
0/0
The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melancholy set in Kitakyushu. Matsujiro Minam...
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Big, Big Fellow
1983
The Politicians
0/0
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love lett...
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The Politicians
1967
春日和
0/0
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春日和
1961
京化粧
0/0
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京化粧
1967
Onna no issho
0/1
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Onna no issho
1966
Inochi hateru hi made
0/0
1966 Japanese movie
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Inochi hateru hi made
1961
Uzu
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Uzu
1963
Ano hito wa ima
0/0
1963 Japanese movie
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Ano hito wa ima
1966
Ohana han
0/0
This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives a lively life while being swept up in the waves o...
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Ohana han
1966
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
0/0
A sequel to Ohana han.
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Ohana han: Dai ni bu
2011
Toire no kamisama
8.7/3
Kana Uemura's song "Toilet no Kamisama" turned into a 2-hour drama special on TBS. The song, which is nearly 10 minutes in length, tells of Uemura's r...
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Toire no kamisama
1969
The Song from My Heart
7/1
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The Song from My Heart
1969
Through Days and Months
8/1
Young and beautiful Matsuko lives alone with her father in old Kamakura. Matsuko experienced love once, with Munehiro, who married another girl. But n...
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Through Days and Months
1965
Good Evening
0/0
Daisuke Hamamura (Hiroshi Inuzuka), a driving instructor, is rather unremarkable and doesn't attract the attention of the women around him; the only o...
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Good Evening
1963
The House Where Flowers Bloom
0/0
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The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963
A Million Girls
5/1
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A Million Girls
1971
Jealousy
0/0
This story depicts the relentless determination of a wife seeking revenge after her husband is drawn into a conspiracy and murdered. Based on the nove...
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Jealousy
1965
Danshun
0/0
Chizuru, the beautiful daughter of a Kyoto restaurant owner, feels trapped by the marriage plans her mother has arranged for her. When an older univer...
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Danshun
1968
Sôshun
0/0
After marrying off one daughter, a widowed father struggles with loneliness and the changing lives of his children. While his younger daughter falls i...
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Sôshun
1972
Kage no tsume
0/0
After accidentally hitting and killing a man on a rainy highway, a married couple takes in the victim’s widow and disabled mother out of guilt. What b...
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Kage no tsume
1963
Raised on an Island
0/0
A melodrama based on a hit song by Yoshio Tabata. Set on Kikaijima Island, the story depicts the love between a simple-hearted island girl and a down-...
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Raised on an Island
1965
Ane to imôto
0/0
A drama centered on women, adapted from the novel of the same name by Ineko Sata.
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Ane to imôto
1986
「松本清張サスペンス 隠花の飾り」足袋
0/0
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