Masao Shimizu
Birthday: 1908-10-05
Place of Birth: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Masao Shimizu (清水将夫 Shimizu Masao, 5 October 1908 – 5 October 1975) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in over 110 films between 1931 and 1971.
Movies
The Fourth Lady
It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of m...
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Godzilla Raids Again
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside...
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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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Turbid Youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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Striving to Live
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee...
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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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Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
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The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...
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Drunken Angel
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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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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Reminiscence
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel l...
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The Wild Sea
Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his ...
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The Life of Oharu
In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page si...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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One Wonderful Sunday
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...
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The Stand in Hakone
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' de...
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Rusty Knife
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorne...
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White Beast
Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation fac...
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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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Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two y...
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pi...
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Forbidden Lips
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mo...
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Wakai toppū
On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is bei...
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The Straits of Love and Hate
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man....
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Little Snack
Rebecca an incredibly successful image "upgrader" who specializes in bringing out the best version o...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A...
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The Wild Reporter
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed...
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Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th...
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Judge and Jeopardy
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headles...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japane...
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Life Is like a Somersault
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's ...
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Shadow of Intimidation
Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divi...
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Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nik...
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Confession of a girl: Purity
The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, high...
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A Samurai's Love
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki....
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限りなき情熱
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustl...
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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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The Elder Sister
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight....
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Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...
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Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her li...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei
1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving sto...
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Foul Play
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate th...
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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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Traitors of the Blue Castle
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself....
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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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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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Once More
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a docto...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from ...
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Military Song of the Morning Mist
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times....
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the sout...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion ...
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Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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No Time for Tears
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named O...
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Season of the Sun
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking...
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Savage Wolf Pack
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless s...
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Mother Never Dies
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
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Keep Your Chin Up
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succe...
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. H...
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Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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Young Swordsman
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. O...
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A Hole of My Own Making
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeep...
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Welcome, My Baby
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and h...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the gr...
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Suicide Troops of the Watchtower
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a militar...
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The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the...
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Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the ...
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Tiger of the Sea
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth....
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob...
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Glory on the Summit
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of...
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Love in Ginza
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his j...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads wi...
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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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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus....
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The Snow Woman
Two woodcutters spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spir...
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A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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The Young and Bad
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business...
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The Swan Elegy
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a...
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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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Youth of the Beast
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with vio...
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The Champion
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Cham...
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That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh...
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The Sound of Waves
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls ...
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Mother Country
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...
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The White Orchid
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Adolescence
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast....
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Swift Current
The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam c...
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Sunflower Girl
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, ...
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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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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying h...
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Crimson Wings
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, i...
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On This Earth
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-...
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Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from...
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Lone Rebel
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was ...
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City of Beasts
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutica...
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Karate Sanshiro
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging hou...
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Who Knows a Woman's Heart
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's weste...
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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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Lord for a Night
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization fr...
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A Woman's Life
Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo a...
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Shojohou
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu i...
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Muhō Ichidai
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the la...
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Gambling is My Destiny
Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, ...
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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 Day of Youth
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wi...
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Frankie's Aliens
Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying sa...
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We Live Today
In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught ...
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Kiriko's Tango
A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a workin...
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午前零時の出獄
This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of ...
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Aishū no sono
Tatsuya Hayami, an employee of Nitto Wool Textile, will soon leave the company. His girlfriend, Miyu...
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Nocturne of a Woman
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catc...
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日本敗れず
In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines,...
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Les Mesdemoiselles
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in t...
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That Young May Be Eternal
A forbidden love between a young teacher and her student. As a fragile boy’s heart and body are swep...
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Falling Blossoms
Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known...
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The End of the Night
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a b...
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