Chōko Iida
Birthday: 1897-04-15
Place of Birth: Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Chôko Iida (飯田 蝶子, 15 April 1897 - 26 December 1972) was a Japanese actress. Her real name was Shigehara Tefu. She played working class women and grandmothers, and appeared in more than 300 films. Her husband was cameraman Shigehara Hideo. Description above from the Wikipedia article lida Chōko, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusiv...
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Three Faces
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichir...
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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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Itsudemo yume o
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara ...
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Dotanba
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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Love's Cheerleader
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals...
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A Story of Floating Weeds
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegi...
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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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The Only Son
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite thei...
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, ...
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Apart from You
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geish...
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Nobuko
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and ...
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Wind and waves of the South
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. ...
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An Inn in Tokyo
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo,...
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What Did the Lady Forget?
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niec...
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Every-Night Dreams
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return o...
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Tokyo Chorus
In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his ...
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Yami wo saku kuchibue
A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a fa...
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Useless Button
A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's busines...
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The Wild Geese
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in...
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Passing Fancy
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a home...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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A Mother Should Be Loved
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unawa...
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Flower Shop Curtain
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in ...
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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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Sailor
Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. How...
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Woman in the Mist
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed every...
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The Genealogy of Women
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparentl...
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Housewife Camellia
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime commit...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have be...
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Flower
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe ...
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Moon of the Plateau
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (T...
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The Trio's Engagements
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane...
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that ...
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Forever a Woman
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her buddin...
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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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Young Guy at Sea
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy re...
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情艶一代女
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her danci...
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Gamblers' Luck
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of advent...
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I Graduated, But...
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will mar...
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Fighting Yasubei
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno t...
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It Started In The Alps
Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa....
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Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy
Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village....
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Young Guy in the South Pacific
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in de...
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Okinawa
A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the...
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Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads ...
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of di...
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The Lady and the Beard
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tensi...
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of h...
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Okoto and Sasuke
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devo...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
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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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A Certain Woman
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a nu...
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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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The Dancing Girl of Izu
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Pen...
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Burden of Life
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to...
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Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr...
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and M...
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Spring Awakens
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl....
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South Wind 2
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in ...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, ...
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Until the Day We Meet Again
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and h...
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Policeman's Diary
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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A Mother's Love
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives....
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Beyond the Hills
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts....
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and see...
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Ghosts Die at Dawn
At the wedding of Kohei (Hasegawa) and Michiko (Todoroki), a whisper echoes along with a gust of win...
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The Other Woman
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to...
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Detective Duel
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private ...
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Yellow Crow
Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home aft...
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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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Flirtation in Spring
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan....
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Jubilation Street
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand...
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First Steps Ashore
The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide....
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures through...
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Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...
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The Cock Crows Twice
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves....
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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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Sir Galahad in Campus
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series....
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Pride of the Campus
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing ...
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Campus A Go-Go
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Rel...
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The Naked Sun
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-fu...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are ...
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Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship i...
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Diary of Forsaken Love
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan....
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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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An Innocent Maid
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic c...
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Treasure Mountain
A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance do...
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Physical Beauty
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with h...
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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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Let's Go! Young Guy
College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off ag...
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College Champ
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. H...
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Maria of the Ant Village
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...
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Family Meeting
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life....
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Come Marry Me
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sis...
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The Eleventh Hour
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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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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Ishimatsu of the Forest
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to ...
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Sword of Penitence
Two criminal brothers try to go straight but face opposition from one of their criminal cohorts. Con...
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On Wings of Love
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's hi...
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College Is a Nice Place
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studie...
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Still I Live On
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvatio...
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Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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Stepbrothers
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic ...
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Japan's No. 1 Braggart
When hopeful Olympic triple-jump competitor injures both his Achilles tendons, he discovers an old m...
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Sanshiro Sugata
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshi...
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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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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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Young Guy in Hawaii
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous scree...
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Typhoon
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been...
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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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Love
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a fath...
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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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The Samurai of Edo
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
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Young Guy in Rio
Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his profe...
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Over That Hill
Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with ...
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Holiday in Japan
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding....
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New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to...
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Playboy President
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intend...
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A Company President's Life Story
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by secu...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?
Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a...
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Young Master
Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the f...
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Torrent
Japanese silent film from 1926, directed by Heinosuke Gosho and featuring Kinuyo Tanaka....
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A Wife Quits
Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepene...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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The Sun Rises from the East
The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directe...
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The Cheerleading Captain's Love
Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he ...
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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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Mother of the East
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu....
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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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