Eijirō Tōno
Birthday: 1907-09-17
Place of Birth: Gunma, Japan
Biography: Eijirō Tōno (東野英治郎 Tōno Eijirō, 17 September 1907 – 8 September 1994) was a Japanese actor who, in a career lasting more than 50 years, appeared in over 400 television shows, nearly 250 films and numerous stage productions. He is best known in the West for his roles in films by Akira Kurosawa, such as Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), and films by Yasujirō Ozu, such as Tokyo Story (1953) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962). He also appeared in Kill! by Kihachi Okamoto and Tora! Tora! Tora!, a depiction of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His final film was Juzo Itami's A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) in 1990. Tōno also starred as the title character in the long-running television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon from 1969 to 1983. In the early years of his career he acted under the name of Katsuji Honjo (本庄克二).
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes ot...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Early Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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Pigs and Battleships
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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Death of a Tea Master
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the ...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Heat and Mud
With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl ...
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Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
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Untamed Woman
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Lady Sen and Hideyori
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the ...
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Pale Flower
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gan...
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Yasubei Nakayama
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge aga...
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Beauty and the Thief
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and erot...
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Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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Kill!
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved...
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Sword of the Beast
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-leve...
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Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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Foundry Town
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on...
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The Great Wall
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Horus: Prince of the Sun
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Z...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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Sasaki Kojiro
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota...
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into tel...
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The Naked Executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but t...
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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Facing to the Clouds
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he...
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Oban kanketsu hen
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bun...
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Ôban
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p...
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part tw...
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The Bride from Japan
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three...
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Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land...
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Flame of My Love
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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I Will Buy You
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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Morning for the Osone Family
A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during W...
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Twilight Saloon
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in...
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The Wild Geese
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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Farewell to Dream
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dream...
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The King and His Vassal
This is a story of "Takechiyo," the previous name of Iemitsu Tokunaga, the third Shogun (General). T...
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The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
The fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble. Hikosaemo...
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Blood and Sea
The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago B...
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Police Precinct: Car 108
Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the poli...
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Wild Ducks and Green Onions
The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who i...
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The Great White Tower
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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Days with Harasu
The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog....
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The Crimson Plains
The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch i...
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Dash to the Sun
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It te...
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The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s ...
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The Forest Is Alive
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"...
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Port of Flowers
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the ou...
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Freedom School
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surpri...
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Journey to the North
Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown o...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In...
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風雲児
Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical...
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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
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An Edo Magistrate
When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster b...
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My Hometown is the Wild West
George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,0...
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imp...
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Song of Vengeance
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another....
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Will to Conquer
The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogu...
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Four and A Half Mats
Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. ...
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Ginza Cosmetics
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....
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Monument to the Girl's Corps
In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the ...
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Buddha
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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Undercurrent
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor....
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Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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Policeman's Diary
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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A Grain of Wheat
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to ...
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Run, Genta, Run!
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of findin...
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The Vampire Moth
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask....
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Apostasy
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visit...
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How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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Firefly Light
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima...
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The War Without Weapons
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which wa...
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Night Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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The Spy
Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illeg...
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The Legend of the White Serpent
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in lov...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin...
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The Sandal Keeper
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to e...
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Immortal Love
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. T...
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. B...
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An Innocent Witch
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her fat...
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The Human Wall
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. T...
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Marriage
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult c...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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Jubilation Street
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand...
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The Man of Seven Faces
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping...
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A Story from Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-...
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Shimizu Port of Chivalry
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of per...
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Tange Sazen
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refus...
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Rice
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery ...
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A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of...
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So What
In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also pl...
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The Black Current
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food le...
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A House in the Quarter
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successfu...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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An Osaka Story
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji...
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Our Marriage
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere....
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Season of Farewell
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together....
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The Saga of Tanegashima
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoi...
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Life of Hishakaku 2
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain thei...
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The Bandits
Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period....
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I Lived, But...
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f...
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Fine Man
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes ...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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Our Happiness Alone
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobu...
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The Sunshine Girl
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life....
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Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
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Ukyunosuke on Patrol
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earl...
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Three Faces of Love
When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over...
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The Cock Crows Twice
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves....
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Choji Snack Bar
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and se...
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Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery....
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The Days of Evil Women
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with...
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Eddy Currents of Life
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature...
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Murder on The Last Train
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, T...
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The Third Dead Angle
Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst...
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The Naked Sun
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-fu...
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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The Beast Shall Die
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the su...
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Lord Mito
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose trav...
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The Orphan Brother
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they ar...
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Challenge to Live
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow...
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Army
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's...
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The Master Spearman
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit hara...
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Lost Sex
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has...
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Silence Has No Wings
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this al...
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Wait for Tomorrow
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his ...
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him....
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The Naked General
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities....
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An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh...
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The Red Shadow
Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his ...
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Fight of the Gamblers
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, sec...
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The Navy
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining th...
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Diary of Forsaken Love
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan....
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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Monsieur Zivaco
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival th...
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The Story of Pure Love
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling again...
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his ...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundre...
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Burden of Love
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a prog...
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The Eleventh Hour
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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Adrift at Sea
The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hoju...
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. A...
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Shocking! in Japan -by G.F.Bigo-
A documentary about French illustrator Georges Bigot, who lived in Japan for 17 years and left behin...
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The Yamabiko School
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village....
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outsp...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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Wind and waves of the South
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. ...
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Shishun no izumi
The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the ...
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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The Great Road
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways ...
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The Pirates
Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on...
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Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all t...
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The Last Judgment
Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern....
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The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Floating Weeds Diary
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to...
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Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depa...
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Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way hom...
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The Last Game
After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Was...
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Women's House
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shu...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoo...
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The Bride is Fifteen
Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken ...
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Rira no hana wasureji
In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with inves...
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High Teen
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his...
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Akatsuki no chiheisen
This action drama depicts the conflict between orthodox and new yakuza gangsters....
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New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressu...
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New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to...
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A Company President's Life Story
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by secu...
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5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate...
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5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes maj...
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Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership c...
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Five Gents and a Kuniang
A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles....
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The Shadow Daughter
Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak...
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Life of Matsu the Untamed
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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Police Precinct Part 13
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his d...
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First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President
After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed presid...
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First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday
After a highway accident forces a motel stay, a company president devises a plan to create spring-ba...
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The Sea of Eden
High school student Tomoe's initial apprehension towards Nanjo, a new handsome teacher in her school...
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Hateful Things
The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying ...
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The Man from the Moon
O-Kiyo (Mitsuko Mito), who had escaped from her boss, Shoden, who controlled the Sensoji Temple dist...
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Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
A clumsy but determined car salesman, Hideyoshi, faces rivalry, romance troubles, and job setbacks, ...
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A Public Benefactor
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness....
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Crazy Big Discovery
When the yakuza murder a bar hostess who, through a computer error, had amassed a huge fortune , The...
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