Takeshi Sakamoto
Birthday: 1899-09-21
Place of Birth: Sakoshi, Hyogo, Japan
Biography: Takeshi Sakamoto (坂本武, Sakamoto Takeshi, 21 September 1899 – 10 May 1974) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1925 and 1965, mostly in productions of the Shōchiku studio. He gained popularity as a supporting character, working for directors such as Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, Mikio Naruse, Hiroshi Shimizu and Heinosuke Gosho. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takeshi Sakamoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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A Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa
The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supe...
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There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither...
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I Was Born, But...
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film i...
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Men Fighting Whales
A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the bes...
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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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Hotaru no hikari
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip ...
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Yakuza of Seki
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. ...
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Outlaw island
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the form...
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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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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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Here's to the Young Lady
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an au...
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Carmen Comes Home
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware tha...
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A Hen in the Wind
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son b...
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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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Boyhood
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community....
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Ornamental Hairpin
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a ...
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King of the Land
Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year....
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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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Manchurian Sunset
A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of ...
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A Legend or Was It?
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the ...
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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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Children in the Wind
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is impri...
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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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Sunny house
On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by b...
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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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Mother's Love Letter
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo ...
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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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Moon of the Plateau
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (T...
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Otoko no iki
This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was st...
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The Tokyo Kid
A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlik...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother J...
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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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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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Day-Dream
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women,...
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Don't Tell Your Wife About It
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wiv...
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Ballad of a Workman
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work...
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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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Port of Flowers
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the ou...
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Walk Cheerfully
Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and si...
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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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Marching On
A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, de...
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The Boss's Son at College
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's...
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spen...
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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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New Tokyo March
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engin...
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So Goes My Love
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better ...
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Sumida River
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to hav...
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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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Street Without End
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, de...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers t...
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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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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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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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Casebook of Detective Jiro Nango: Shadowless Murderer
Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut....
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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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Family Diary
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married...
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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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Family Meeting
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life....
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her....
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The Foster Mother
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her fo...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....
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My Elder Brother
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza w...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved ...
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families al...
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Four Seasons of Children
The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the fa...
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Wood and Stone
Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden...
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Carmen's Innocent Love
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi...
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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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The Living Magoroku
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitiou...
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Japanese King Kong
A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was pr...
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Young Miss Executive
A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddau...
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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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Spring Comes from the Ladies
A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered t...
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The Luck Which Touched the Leg
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner....
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The Life of an Office Worker
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates o...
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Pumpkin
Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film....
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Wife Lost
A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Consi...
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Introspection Tower
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers an...
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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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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich,...
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The Tree of Love
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a...
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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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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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The Dawning Sky
A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunite...
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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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Warm Current
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,...
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The Masseurs and a Woman
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masse...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they ...
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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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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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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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Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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Twenty-Year-Old Youth
The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by th...
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Silver Stream
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the...
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Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold prote...
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The Magical Warrior
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They ...
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The Blacksmith of the Forest
A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the f...
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Our Chief, Our Doctor
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanes...
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Flowers of Patriotism
A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made po...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Sh...
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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 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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Dawn Chorus
A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor....
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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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Hiroshi Moriya Sandogasa Series: I Want to Weep
A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small to...
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Hiroshi Moriya Sadogasa Series: Thank You, Sandogasa
When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in...
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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido....
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Fallen Samurai
A period drama about samurai who survived a loss in battle. An early jidaegeki by Hiroshi Shimizu....
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Sankichi the Flying Squirrel
Japanese jidaigeki from 1927. The titular character's nickname may suggest agility, stealth, or othe...
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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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Farewell Tango
A heartrending love story between an aspiring singer and a unnamed composer. Sobbing love songs sung...
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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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Mother of the East
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu....
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