Fumio Watanabe
Birthday: 1929-10-31
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Fumio Watanabe October 31, 1929 – August 4, 2004 was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.
Movies
Women's Prison
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortu...
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Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
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Rogue
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining ...
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King of Pornography
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimens...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...
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Violence at Noon
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering ...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a...
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Pleasures of the Flesh
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled mon...
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she...
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Bloodstained Clan of Honor
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the b...
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Evil Spirits of Japan
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. W...
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Shura ga Yuku 6
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster...
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Kanto Street Peddlers
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by ...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enoug...
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Cruel Story of Youth
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for ...
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Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land...
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Death by Hanging
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorit...
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Shogun's Joy of Torture
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishme...
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Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack...
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Boy
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles....
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a b...
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Wet Sand in August
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their ha...
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority w...
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure...
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Deep Throat in Tokyo
Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and qu...
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Kidnapping Blues
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch ...
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My Way
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her hu...
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House of Gamblers
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of h...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Ka...
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Umi no Chizu
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team a...
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Shogun's Ninja
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi...
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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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その手にのるな
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag conta...
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The Sun's Burial
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitu...
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Street of Love and Hope
The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, ...
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Night and Fog in Japan
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look ...
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Flying in the Air
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky....
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The Tragedy of Bushido
A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and p...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department ...
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Outlaw: Heartless
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gamblin...
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Killers on Parade
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews whe...
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The Gambling Nun
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. Wh...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
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Industrial Spy
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corpo...
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Good-for-Nothing
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness ...
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High Seas Hijack
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands....
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Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr...
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Elegy of the North
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithf...
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Dogra Magra
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum wit...
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Equinox Flower
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...
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The Bad Boss
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil...
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s rele...
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Gambler's Farewell
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza ...
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The Bullet Train
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows...
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The Lucky Status Symbol
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touch...
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A Woman's Gamble
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami...
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Shisha to no kekkon
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train ac...
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Main Line to Terror
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a...
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Internal Sleuth
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...
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The Private Police
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami...
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Dissolution Rites
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order ...
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most power...
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst...
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Modern Lady Gambler
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betra...
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Epitaph to My Love
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch...
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Wolves of the City: Checkmate
This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1...
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Patience Has An End
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr...
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Yakuza on Foot
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug traffic...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit...
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stif...
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Brothers of Capones
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trad...
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The Armed Organization
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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Four Sisters
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with ea...
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A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitu...
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfri...
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangste...
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The Street Fighter
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnapper...
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The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, ki...
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Thugs of Shinjuku
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting i...
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Only She Knows
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating...
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Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...
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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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Silence Has No Wings
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this al...
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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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Red Pants
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko,...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his broth...
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to c...
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The Hoodlum Priest
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to...
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The Erotomaniac Daimyo
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan....
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The Ceremony
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses rit...
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Sanctuary - Part 2
Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto re...
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Sanctuary
Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but ...
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Sanctuary - Part 3
Standing in the way of Hojo and Asami is Secretary-General Isaoka, and a new enemy, the Russian Mafi...
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Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a vil...
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Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his...
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Troops of Darkness
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later ...
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Yanagase Blues
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase....
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The Transgressor
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrib...
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law....
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
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The Tattooed Hitman
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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The Great Chase
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Servic...
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As the Clouds Scatter
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once ...
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Gokudo of Kamagasaki
Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his hench...
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The Insatiable
Yuki Onozaki, who was studying at a Women's College in Tokyo, was originally a young and ignorant gi...
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It Was a Faint Dream
Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peas...
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Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce...
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The Girl Who Creates Tomorrow
A story set in a small harmonica factory in Kita-Senju that celebrates the love lives of young worke...
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Band of Ninja
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's dea...
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Yurakucho 0 Street
A satirical comedy set in Tokyo's new landmark food center in Yurakucho....
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Conflagration
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in T...
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