Ichirō Sugai
Birthday: 1907-07-24
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Inner Palace Conspiracy
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...
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Hot Wind
Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture,...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his sur...
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Bodyguard from Hell
Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situatio...
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Gamera vs. Barugon
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Gu...
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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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Evil Reward
After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sen...
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Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell
Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete reco...
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Family Crest: Die Like a Man
The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continue...
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Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujuts...
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknam...
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Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
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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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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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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline...
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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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Taira Clan Saga
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...
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The Most Beautiful
Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, endurin...
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Secret Love
A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Jap...
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) cha...
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Gunman's Alley
Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but a...
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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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Cape Ashizuri
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t...
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The Body
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he...
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Gun Demon Without Form
A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pu...
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Troops of Darkness
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later ...
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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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Made in Japan
A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo play...
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Flowering Maidens
The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure o...
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江戸いろは祭
Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and ...
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Night of Sorrow
A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the fa...
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Mistress of a Foreigner
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minu...
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Bonchi
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b...
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Duel in the Storm
It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in...
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Enchanted Princess
Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. ...
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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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Murahachibu
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections...
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Crimson pistol belt
Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in...
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Jean Valjean: Part One
The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which...
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Who is in the Background?
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginz...
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The Night is Mine
Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. How...
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Jean Valjean: Part Two
The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of whi...
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The King of Rowing
A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This w...
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Heat Wave Island
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to ...
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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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Victory Is Ours
A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after doub...
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Profit from Killing
The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was n...
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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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Frankie's Aliens
Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying sa...
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Black Test Car
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car ea...
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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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Silk Hat Boss
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'...
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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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The Portrait
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artis...
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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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Night Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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Typhoon Reporter
Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and trag...
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The Angry Street
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown ...
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Kingorô no omawari-san
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone....
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The Long Death
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the ba...
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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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Endless Desire
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...
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Odd Obsession
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot be...
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Killers on Parade
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews whe...
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Kanpai! Tokyo Musume
Romantic comedy about a love triangle between two girls who fall in love with a reliable young docto...
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The Lovers
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and...
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The Life of a Horse Trader
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmo...
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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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Harbor Rats
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller...
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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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Ditch
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. ...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashi...
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The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and l...
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Satan's Town
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their rela...
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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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A Visage to Remember
During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenti...
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The Feast of Gion
A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film....
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Youth A Go Go!
Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young...
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Spring on Leper's Island
A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony....
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The Water Magician
Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling ...
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Blood Is Dry
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive ...
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the midd...
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Living by Karate
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss....
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And Yet They Go On
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film....
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Darkness at Noon
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a...
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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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Showdown of Men 3
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to savin...
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The Armed Organization
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight b...
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangste...
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Woman Gambler
Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her m...
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Song of the Underworld
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out....
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Love in the Air
Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped ...
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The Human Cyclone
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of M...
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A Lustful Man
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven...
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Gambling Kitten
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a reg...
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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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Tange Sazen
Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by t...
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The Flower and the Sword
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees...
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The Gun Like Lightning
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just rel...
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Ningen Gari
A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs ...
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Code Between Brothers: All New
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead...
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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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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The Foghorn
Chiyokichi, a young man, hates Cooper, a white man who looks down on the Japanese. Chiyokichi picks ...
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A Geisha
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
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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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The Opium War
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in ...
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. T...
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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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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be...
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The Pornographers
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...
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Sad Whistling
A young girl searches for her long-lost brother in postwar Tokyo, clinging to hope and music amid th...
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World of Love
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble...
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Muchana Yakko
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching...
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War and Peace
A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns....
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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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Confessions of a Gynecologist
A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...
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Eleven High School Girls
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with yo...
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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 Stars Know Everything
Saga Shiori, who had been held up as a genius writer, runs away to a nightclub to deceive her manage...
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Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki
Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko....
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Haha ni sasaguru uta
As Noriko becomes widowed, her parents-in-law take her daughter Mitsuko, and Noriko moves to Shangha...
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Tokyo wa Koisuru
Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro ...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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Wife and the Female Reporter: A Crisis of Young Love
Even a peaceful married life has its dissatisfactions. Then a female reporter appears, and love take...
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Hinoki butai
The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community c...
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hi...
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hi...
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