Yūnosuke Itō

Yūnosuke Itō

Birthday: 1919-08-03

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Biography: Yūnosuke Itō (伊藤 雄之助 Itō Yūnosuke, 3 August 1919 – 11 March 1980) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films from 1932 to 1979.

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Ikiru
Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

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Turbid Youth
Turbid Youth

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...

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Three Faces
Three Faces

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichir...

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Sanjuro
Sanjuro

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Ninja, A Band of Assassins

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...

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High and Low
High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

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The Adventures of Chuji
The Adventures of Chuji

Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intri...

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The Hill is Full of Flowers
The Hill is Full of Flowers

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga...

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Evil Reward
Evil Reward

After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sen...

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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters w...

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Yasubei Nakayama
Yasubei Nakayama

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge aga...

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新遊侠伝
新遊侠伝

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新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来

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Koibito
Koibito

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The Man Without a Nationality
The Man Without a Nationality

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa...

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Sekidô matsuri
Sekidô matsuri

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Bengawan Solo
Bengawan Solo

War film by Kon Ichikawa...

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Stolen Love
Stolen Love

Romantic melodrama...

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Wedding March
Wedding March

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa...

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Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth

Period film about the legendary detective Umon...

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お洒落狂女
お洒落狂女

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Love's Cheerleader
Love's Cheerleader

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals...

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Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa...

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Forty-Eight Man
Forty-Eight Man

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki...

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Today is Payday
Today is Payday

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa...

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Beauty and the Thief
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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恐妻時代
恐妻時代

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Sunset Over Mount Fuji
Sunset Over Mount Fuji

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi...

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Riverside Fish Market Empire
Riverside Fish Market Empire

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki...

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Farewell to Spring
Farewell to Spring

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura...

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An Edoite Judge
An Edoite Judge

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo...

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Zoku jūdai no seiten
Zoku jūdai no seiten

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako....

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White Fish
White Fish

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor...

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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class w...

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The Age of Beginnings
The Age of Beginnings

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo...

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The Devil of Edo
The Devil of Edo

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara...

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Duel in the Sun
Duel in the Sun

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki...

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When We Came Back
When We Came Back

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki...

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Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki...

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Red Peony of Night
Red Peony of Night

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious em...

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Oogonju
Oogonju

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Sanshiro of Ginza
Sanshiro of Ginza

An early film by Kon Ichikawa...

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Four Seasons of Women
Four Seasons of Women

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda...

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Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi...

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Endless Passion
Endless Passion

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The Samurai Markets
The Samurai Markets

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period....

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Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues
Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues

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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The ...

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Dotanba
Dotanba

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...

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Giants and Toys
Giants and Toys

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in...

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The Man Who Stole the Sun
The Man Who Stole the Sun

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on...

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Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involv...

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Samurai Assassin
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 Human Bullet
The Human Bullet

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedicati...

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Elegant Beast
Elegant Beast

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keep...

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Our Failures
Our Failures

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love ad...

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Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukik...

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I Will Buy You
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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The juvenile
The juvenile

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers...

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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and ...

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The Thick-Walled Room
The Thick-Walled Room

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...

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A Billionaire
A Billionaire

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...

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Evil of Dracula
Evil of Dracula

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a d...

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Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha

1962 Japanese movie...

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Hiroi Ten
Hiroi Ten

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his ki...

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Yellow Crow
Yellow Crow

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home aft...

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As the Clouds Scatter
As the Clouds Scatter

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once ...

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Red Lion
Red Lion

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...

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Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka

1962 Japanese movie...

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Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
Magistrate Ooka’s Legends

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic....

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The Bogus Policeman
The Bogus Policeman

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismi...

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Koko ni otoko ari
Koko ni otoko ari

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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
Chikuhō no kodomotachi

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines....

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The Red Water
The Red Water

Comedy drama film...

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Pursuit At Dawn
Pursuit At Dawn

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51)...

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Genkuro Yoshitsune
Genkuro Yoshitsune

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe...

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Oh, Bomb!
Oh, Bomb!

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candida...

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A Roaring Trade
A Roaring Trade

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Red Flowers of Hell
Red Flowers of Hell

1961 gangster film....

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風雲児
風雲児

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical...

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Taiyō Sensei Seishunki
Taiyō Sensei Seishunki

Movie directed by Kunio Matoi...

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Stray Dog
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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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie...

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Tsukiyo no kasa
Tsukiyo no kasa

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a re...

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Fort Graveyard
Fort Graveyard

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the las...

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Queen of the Treasure Island
Queen of the Treasure Island

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of...

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River Without a Bridge
River Without a Bridge

Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—in...

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A Wanderer's Notebook
A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...

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Kaachan
Kaachan

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose t...

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The Day the Sun Rose
The Day the Sun Rose

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...

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Botchan
Botchan

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel....

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Policeman's Diary
Policeman's Diary

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...

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Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized...

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The Sand City in Manchuria
The Sand City in Manchuria

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save...

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The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend
The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend

Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series....

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The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man
The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man

Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series....

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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....

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For Love and Money
For Love and Money

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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Tale of Japanese Burglars

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur...

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The Human Wall
The Human Wall

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....

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The Lovers
The Lovers

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and...

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Mr. Pu
Mr. Pu

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl....

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Nightshade Flower
Nightshade Flower

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi....

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Three Loves
Three Loves

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. H...

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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love....

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Eyes of Mother and Daughter
Eyes of Mother and Daughter

Japanese drama film....

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Ninja in a Business Suit
Ninja in a Business Suit

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinu...

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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken...

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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yak...

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The Unbalanced Wheel
The Unbalanced Wheel

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....

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Sakura Official
Sakura Official

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...

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Chibusa o daku musume tachi
Chibusa o daku musume tachi

Japanese drama....

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The Cock Crows Twice
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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Youth in Fury
Youth in Fury

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless m...

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The Funeral Racket
The Funeral Racket

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society....

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Time Within Memory
Time Within Memory

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man w...

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The Refugee
The Refugee

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying...

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The Woman Champion
The Woman Champion

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...

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The Ballad of Narayama
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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The Sea of Eden
The Sea of Eden

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys ...

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His Scarlet Cloak
His Scarlet Cloak

The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's ...

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The Scarlet Camellia
The Scarlet Camellia

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...

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Beast Alley
Beast Alley

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns...

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Kakedashi keiji
Kakedashi keiji

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The Days of Evil Women
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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Scorpion
Scorpion

Japanese drama film....

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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his compan...

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The Hidden Treasure
The Hidden Treasure

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama....

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Hot Corner Murder
Hot Corner Murder

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game....

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Kanto Wanderer
Kanto Wanderer

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Dia...

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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
The Woman Who Touched the Legs

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr...

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Four Young Sisters
Four Young Sisters

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home ...

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The Burmese Harp
The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse...

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This Way, That Way
This Way, That Way

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has ...

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Hurry on a Sail to Dream
Hurry on a Sail to Dream

Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of...

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I Was a Prisoner in Siberia
I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

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When the Flowers Bloom
When the Flowers Bloom

Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a re...

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Echo in the Mountains
Echo in the Mountains

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

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A Case of Honor
A Case of Honor

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic ...

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The Cast-Off
The Cast-Off

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv...

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The Big Ambition
The Big Ambition

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Youth of Heiji Senigata
Youth of Heiji Senigata

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Forbidden Path
Forbidden Path

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Evil of Dracula
Evil of Dracula

A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a d...

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Ningen moyo
Ningen moyo

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president....

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Hot Spring Policeman
Hot Spring Policeman

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...

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Seishun wo warera ni
Seishun wo warera ni

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Hell's Juggler
Hell's Juggler

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Sanshiro Sugata
Sanshiro Sugata

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshi...

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The Blue Revolution
The Blue Revolution

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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Policeman's Diary, Part 2

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....

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Teinen Taishoku
Teinen Taishoku

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River Without a Bridge Part 2
River Without a Bridge Part 2

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)...

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Japan's Longest Day
Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...

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Mr. Lucky
Mr. Lucky

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Fools at Work
Fools at Work

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito....

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Reunion
Reunion

If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wishe...

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The Valley Between Love and Death
The Valley Between Love and Death

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...

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遙かなる母の顔
遙かなる母の顔

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The Rookie Managers
The Rookie Managers

1955 Japanese movie...

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Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf
Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf

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ある落日
ある落日

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若い東京の屋根の下
若い東京の屋根の下

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Irohanihoheto
Irohanihoheto

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...

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Hibi no haishin
Hibi no haishin

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T...

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Barefoot in Blue Jeans
Barefoot in Blue Jeans

Coming-of-age comedy set in Yokosuka....

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People Waiting for Spring
People Waiting for Spring

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w...

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