Akira Takarada
Birthday: 1934-04-29
Place of Birth: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Biography: Akira Takarada was a Japanese film actor best known for his roles in the Godzilla film series.
Movies
Godzilla
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the isla...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te...
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Fantastipo
Two brothers must take the helm of their family's company, Armadillo, Inc., after their father steps...
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The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Godzilla: Final Wars
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All ...
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Travels of Lord Mito
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to vari...
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King Kong Escapes
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil ...
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Latitude Zero
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are...
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Godzilla vs. Mothra
Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fa...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught ami...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens,...
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The Man of the Political Economy
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic...
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Birth of Romance
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and M...
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The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious ...
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho ver...
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Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help the...
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Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over ...
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The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the ...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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Golden Eyes
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route f...
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A World Without Cherry Blossoms
Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser....
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Beast Man Snow Man
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn...
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Ironfinger
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed...
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundre...
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My name is Reiko Shiratori! The Movie
Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged t...
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A Whistle in My Heart
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reac...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother man...
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Legend of Plumeria
Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (S...
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A Sparkle of Life
Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life par...
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Let's Meet in Our Dreams
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We foll...
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Anything For Success
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His big...
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Godzilla Battle Royale
Godzilla Battle Royale is a low-budget Godzilla fan film, directed and written by Billy DuBose. It w...
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a numb...
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Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved ...
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Godzilla
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. vers...
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Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction
An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's greates...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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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 Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, e...
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Imaginary Paradise
Comedy-fantasy about a salaryman (Tani) and his imaginary friends. A kind of Walter Mitty, Japanese-...
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Woman of Design
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutica...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the traditio...
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Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: We Are Three Best Friends
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer's investigation of a g...
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Godzilla
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced...
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A Night in Hong Kong
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Jap...
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Blood and Diamonds
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begi...
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Sure Death 6
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...
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Star of Hong Kong
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an en...
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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Price of Beauty
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity"....
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Bridge over Troubled Water
Miyuki works as an OL. Her younger sibling died from a car accident in 1989. Due to her sibling's de...
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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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Dance with Me
Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and l...
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The Great Buddha Arrival
An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Count...
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The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain ...
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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 Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the fi...
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A Far Promise
There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orpha...
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Woman in Witness Protection
Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the b...
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The Paradise Island Story
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific....
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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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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the sec...
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The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...
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Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
A look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor interviews ...
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Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plan...
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Me and Me
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original r...
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Morishige, where are you going?
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets ...
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Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchis...
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The Poem of the Blue Star
Musical about the "Blue Star," a struggling jazz band led by pianist Takarada and trumpet player Tak...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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Prince Shōtoku
In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a u...
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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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How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who def...
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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan...
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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) ...
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Clara White Paper - ShohjotaiPHOON!
Three young girls coming of age in a Catholic boarding school bond over the strict rules and vow to ...
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The man who became a billionaire.
Everyone has the potential to become a millionaire! A super success story based on a true story! Ch...
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Nikko Story
Oba Kamon runs a cafe in the Nikko city. One day, a mysterious woman appears before him and leaves b...
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The Cabin Attendant
Miho (Kyoko Fukada) works as a cabin attendant for an international airline. She takes a job to find...
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Tales of the Unusual
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commu...
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Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series....
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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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Three Dolls in College
The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University,...
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The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Girl
Minako, a runaway from Osaka chasing her dream of becoming a singer, struggles through poverty, fail...
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Bride in a Bathing Suit
Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the n...
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Devices Stronger Than Women
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics c...
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3 Raccoon Dogs
A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their scheme...
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Reign of Terror
Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for dr...
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A Town with a Mountain and River
In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mist...
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Flower's Yearning
Domoto Kozue, a gifted young ikebana artist, shoulders the legacy of her late father’s school while ...
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Prince Shōtoku
In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a u...
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More Than 10,000 Women But...
A newlywed couple moves into an apartment complex where each family faces everyday problems....
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Big Wind from Tokyo
A TV writer and a director stranded in a rural town witness the young villagers’ tangled romances. D...
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Walleyed Nippon
Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for ...
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Bright Young Maidens
In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student m...
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Daybreak Chorus
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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Tomboy Daughter Diary
Olympic gymnast Yukiko resists marriage plans, stumbling into a newspaper job under reporter Tsubasa...
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The 6th Suspect
Police investigate the murder of a private eye/blackmailer who had numerous enemies, including six p...
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Eacape of Fear
The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey ma...
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Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
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Singing in the Sun
After their troupe disbands, musician Moriyama and his friends join Orion Records and form “Orion St...
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Bridal Candidates
Rookie reporter Yukiko helps save the failing Miyako Times with her friends, while romance and comic...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
A clumsy but determined car salesman, Hideyoshi, faces rivalry, romance troubles, and job setbacks, ...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but ...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman
Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry bu...
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Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
In Disney Castle, Jiminy notices strange messages appearing in the journal. Mickey, Donald and Goofy...
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Wharf with the Weeping Girl
After a gang killing forces him to flee abroad, ex-yakuza Ryūji returns to Yokohama a year later to ...
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Fighting Cha Cha Girl
After winning a singing contest, Momoko leaves her rural village for Tokyo to pursue her dream. Misu...
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The Blue Mountains
About schoolgirls in a rural town, and a love letter which has the entire community in an uproar....
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Triumphant Song of Youth
Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family ch...
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Blue Buds
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s...
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The Wife is a University Student
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s...
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Young Lovers
Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her str...
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The Blue Mountains Part 2
At Kaikō Girls’ School, a fake love letter sparks a heated PTA debate. Teacher Shimazaki wins the vo...
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A Strong Wind Blows
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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The Green Voyage
Three high school girls travel to Osaka to visit a friend and end up on a lively journey through Kyo...
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Engagement Ring
A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds hi...
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Frame of Snow
During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in lo...
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New Tengu Kurama: Samurai in the Pouring Rain
Kurama Tengu uncovers a suspicious gold robbery tied to a political scheme within the shogunate. As ...
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Young Love Conquers All
In a seaside town, local boys run each morning to glimpse wealthy Miyako, sparking a prank-filled ri...
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The Singing Tireless Town
Backstage friendships and rivalries flare as dancers Akiko and Haruko compete for roles, clash with ...
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Schooldays
Three college friends support swimmer Okubo through family and financial troubles. Junko, a woman he...
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The College Hero
Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at M...
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Showdown on Pier No.3
Crime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track. Clues lead Detective...
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Shinobu's Tomorrow
After an accident leaves Shinobu blind, the daughter of an old Asakusa soba shop works to rebuild he...
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Patio
As an engaged couple, Shinichi Kida and Mari Egawa spend a romantic night on a premarital trip to th...
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Shibuya Midnight War Dark Street
Shigemitsu Kamio, a member of a Shibuya color-gang who is respected even by other chīmers (delinquen...
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Fukumimi
29-year-old Satonaka Takashi (Kudo Kankuro) is a freelancer. He falls in love at first sight with Sa...
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I Am a Sardine
A worn-down office worker, Takagi, meets a Taiwanese woman, Huimin, during a business night out and ...
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Black Corridor
A luxury European tour turns deadly when two wealthy participants die under mysterious circumstances...
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A Melody for My Father
Kaoru Kobayashi stars as a man tasked with saving a failing company. Instead of harsh tactics, he li...
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The Man Who Never Gives Up 3: Goodbye
Asano is on the verge of being removed as president of Toyo Shipping due to poor performance. At the...
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A Miracle of Hakone
This documentary-style drama follows the young people of today as they follow in the footsteps of Ya...
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War and Peace: Akira Takarada's Testimony
Takarada recalls his childhood in Harbin, the terror of life under Soviet occupation, and surviving ...
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