Eijirō Yanagi
Birthday: 1895-09-16
Place of Birth: Hyogo, Japan
Biography: Yanagi Eijiro ( September 16, 1895 - April 24, 1984 ). In 1966, he received the Medal with Purple Ribbon, and in 1970, he received the Order of the Rising Sun, Fourth Class. His final stage performance was in "Actress" in 1982. He died of acute heart failure on April 24, 1984, at the age of 88
Movies
Zesshou
The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter...
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The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...
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Edo Ninja Scroll: Seven Shadows
During the reign of Shogun Tsunayoshi, seven ninja of the Koga clan secretly plot against the illegi...
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Two Lives, Two Yakuza
An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an hon...
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Cases of An Actor in Disguise: Bloodskull Mansion
The second work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the ...
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An Actor's Revenge
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...
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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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53 Stages of the Road
An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto....
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The Eve of the Chinese Festival
A kabuki actor is assassinated during a New Year celebration show, in front of everyone, fortunately...
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Diary of a Wandering Lord
Two thrill seeking young lords sneak out of their castles and travel under the disguise of townsmen....
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The Song Lantern
The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film t...
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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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Portrait of Madame Yuki
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath...
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Miss Oyu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her w...
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
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A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un...
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Sasaki Kojiro
Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encou...
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Destiny's Son
In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s...
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The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man ...
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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 Naked Executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but t...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation ...
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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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Morning Fog
Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the...
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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 Sword
In 19th century Japan, a young swordsmith is determined to make the best sword possible after an inf...
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The Phantom Horse
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the lo...
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The Tattered Wings
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal...
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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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Kagebōshi
On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. Hi...
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Passion Fire
The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approac...
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Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter
Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor...
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi S...
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Hana no shôgai
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was ...
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お役者変化
During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed ...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble
During the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one night a carver named Fujijiro was murdered. Immediately launc...
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八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relatio...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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Sound in the Mist
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma ...
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晴小袖
A lost film directed by Ushihara Kiyohiko based on a story published in the Mainichi Sunday Newspape...
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Records of loyal vassals
In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of ...
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Doctor's Day Off
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off....
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
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Kodokan Under a Morning Moon
The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious ...
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A Man Explodes
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One...
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元祿美少年記
On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting h...
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Sky Scraper!
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan....
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Rififi in Tokyo
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuab...
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Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic....
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Kunisada Chuji
Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mer...
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Bridge of Japan
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then ...
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Skull Coins
The mysterious story behind the Skull Coins, which are said to reveal the location of treasure, and ...
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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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The Woman’s Reflective Pool
Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office ...
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Ginza Cosmetics
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....
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Whirlwind Magistrate
One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan ...
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Young Ruddy Warrior: Nobunaga Oda
A dynamic story depicting the rise to power of Oda Nobunaga. The story of a young man on the battlef...
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Dreaming People
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that hi...
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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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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business....
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Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
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Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th...
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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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Rebellion of Japan
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant bus...
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Onatsu and Seijuro
Based on the popular story of the tragic lovers, Onatsu and Seijuro....
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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 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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Deep River Melody
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's ...
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A Fishwife's Tale
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she...
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The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied hi...
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A Martial Crowd
As a result of a superstitious belief that twins bring bad luck to the family, newborn twin princess...
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Hunting Rifle
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who ...
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he...
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The Song Lantern
A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act o...
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365 Nights
A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and T...
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Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigato...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....
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Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
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Official with a Tattoo
Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not ...
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The Second Bullet is Marked
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu....
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The Acrobats of Death
Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...
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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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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (N...
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Stop the Old Fox
Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the inve...
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Greed in Broad Daylight
After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other...
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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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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with ...
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Seven Miles to Nakayama
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, be...
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring wher...
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The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...
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Falcon Magistrate
Toyama Kinshiro, a commissioner from northern Edo, goes undercover to unravel the mystery behind a s...
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Ancient Coins
This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their i...
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The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
Koharu, a flamboyant geisha, unexpectedly wins a trip to Sado Island in a TV contest. She is accompa...
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Dice and Swords
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is ...
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King of the Gang
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and ...
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Miki, the Swordman
After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his il...
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The Hidden Treasure
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama....
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Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, t...
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Mist and Shadows
The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective ...
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No Stronger Swords
Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the ...
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Growing Up
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel....
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman...
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Devil’s Statue
A gallant swordsman takes on the forces of evil with the help of his trusty friends....
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Tange Sazen and the Princess
Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family....
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Always in My Heart Part 3
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again,...
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The Envoy
Sinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes from t...
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Advance Patrol
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attac...
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City of Love
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose f...
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A Revengeful Raid
In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss o...
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Echo in the Mountains
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...
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The Scent of Incense
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
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The Tale of Zatoichi
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
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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 Mysterious Purple Hood
The Purple-Hooded Man, Japan's version of Robin Hood, tries to uncover a corruption scandal in Edo e...
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The Mad Fox
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appea...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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Mighty Shosuke
A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to s...
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Fireball Magistrate
Two guardians of the Nijo Castle, Shioya and Kamazawa, discover a map leading to a secret passage to...
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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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The Lost Public Funds
Four thousand gold coins were stolen from the vault of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which were collected as...
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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 Forbidden Castle
From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri ...
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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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Farewell to the Highland Station
A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in lov...
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Road Warriors
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless w...
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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 Beloved Image
A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son....
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Homecoming
A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistr...
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Works of the Fish Man
Katsujiro the fisherman overcomes his laziness when he learns of his younger sister Okiku’s unfortun...
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Edo Purebreed
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro an...
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A Man's Dark Finger
A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the abilit...
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Golden Peacock Castle, Part 1
A group of pirates led by the evil Gondaiyu and his wizard, Genkuro, capture the Golden Peacock Cast...
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Sandy Cruise
The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...
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A Man in the Storm
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k...
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Executive Chair
In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip...
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The White Rose of Hong Kong
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong ...
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Benten Kozo
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
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神州天馬侠 完結篇
In a desperate crisis, Inamaru is plunged into the dark sea by a strike from Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ryutar...
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The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....
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Irohanihoheto
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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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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The Gion Tempest
The story follows Keiko, a dancer in the "Maiko Odori" theater in Kyoto, who tries to climb the soci...
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Modern Salaryman: Bushido Romance
Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into ...
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Murderous Love
A 300 year old witch agrees to assassinate a dead-sick businessman and his ignorant sexy wife upon t...
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