Taiji Tonoyama
Birthday: 1915-10-17
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Taiji Tonoyama (殿山 泰司, Tonoyama Taiji, 1915–1989) was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.
Movies
Onibaba
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who...
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The Naked Island
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
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Fifth Movement
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the ...
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Turbid Youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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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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Ishimatsu of the Forest
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to ...
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Hachiko
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
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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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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirok...
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Reminiscence
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel l...
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Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of ...
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Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
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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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The Ballad of Narayama
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a...
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Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....
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Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "th...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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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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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 Insect Woman
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
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Strong Women, Weak Men
After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto ...
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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thin...
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Sixteen years old
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton c...
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Empire of Passion
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much...
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster becom...
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My Second Brother
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a b...
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Foundry Town
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on...
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Fruits of Passion
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experi...
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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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Oiran
Ayame, a courtesan, attracts the attention of street vendor Kisuke and decides to run away with him ...
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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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Seasonal Wind
Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiratio...
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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Edo Porn
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives w...
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Golden Partners
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth ...
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Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades o...
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Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But wh...
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The King
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...
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Human
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people...
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Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!
In this sizzling escapade, three irresistible vixens—Dump, Hip, and Bump—deliver a daring, alluring ...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes th...
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Muddy River
Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends...
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Attack at Daylight
A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of c...
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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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Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. A...
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That make...
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The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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Jazz Daimyo
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out ...
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Whistling in the morning
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illnes...
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Yukyo-retsuden
A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now...
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The Iron Crown
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple...
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Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
Kazuko Shirakawa plays herself as a student who is scouted by a pink film producer. She leads a chao...
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Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their mana...
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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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The Key
A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law t...
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A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the h...
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East China Sea
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of...
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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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The Desperate
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....
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Sex and Fury
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by u...
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap ...
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and h...
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Thousand Cranes
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton ...
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has take...
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Murahachibu
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections...
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Spring Snow
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries ...
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Eros Eterna
A woman believing to be a legendary immortal nun attracts people looking for answers to their life s...
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Eijanaika
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...
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限りなき情熱
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustl...
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In the Realm of the Senses
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
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Child of the Sun
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daug...
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Captive's Island
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was ...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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Irezumi
To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate...
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Zegen
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southea...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
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The Bored Samurai
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...
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Day Dream
Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young ...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face...
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Dear Summer Sister
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in s...
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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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18 Roughs
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company...
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The Rendezvous
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part...
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Black Rain
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his ...
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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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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
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Nuclear Gypsies
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area w...
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Hymn
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who ...
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Silence
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Chr...
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Irohanihoheto
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. The...
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Stray Dog
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later...
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The Little Runaway
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upo...
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Black Report
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for ...
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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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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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Underwater Murder
The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took o...
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The Last Swordsman
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of th...
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The Far Road
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film t...
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Cape Ashizuri
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t...
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Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But ...
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Night Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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Our Town
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He s...
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Four Hours of Terror
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror....
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period...
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The Heart
The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to ...
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On the Road
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima'...
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late fathe...
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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Endless Desire
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...
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An Innocent Witch
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her fat...
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The Human Wall
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....
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Dark Room
A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers ...
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Tomorrow Evening
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face...
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River of Fireflies
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classma...
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Harbor Rats
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller...
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Tokyo Pop
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you ...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
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Conquest
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to sedu...
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Tree Without Leaves
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his fi...
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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A Story from Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-...
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Love Lost in Tears
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro....
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Tokyo no Kodoku
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rook...
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Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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A Woman’s Road
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart an...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take ...
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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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Location
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adapt...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion ...
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitatio...
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Evening Primrose
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a...
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The Shadow of Fear
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation...
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Seisaku's Wife
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has...
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Season of Farewell
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together....
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Wind, Woman and Road
A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmer...
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King of the Widow-Killers
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night ...
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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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The Betrayers Out!
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge...
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The Strangling
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that...
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Deeper Than Blue
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging stru...
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Time Within Memory
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man w...
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Mother
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of ...
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Hawaiian Dream
Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered ...
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Internees of Kampili
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is th...
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The End of a Day
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The of...
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The Champion
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Cham...
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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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The Revelation of a Geisha
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her o...
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Pigs and Battleships
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob...
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Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
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Turtle Geisha
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the...
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The Start of Life
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father lose...
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The Seburi Story
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy abou...
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Daughter of Time
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman...
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A Pool Without Water
After saving a girl from rape a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes people sleep...
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Did the Red Bird Escape?
A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well-to-do family....
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Stolen Pleasure
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to sec...
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Kanto Wanderer
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Dia...
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Lost Sex
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has...
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Fresh Leaves
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's ...
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Yokohama BJ Blues
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with...
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Until Evening
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, l...
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Wait for Tomorrow
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his ...
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Intentions of Murder
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
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Tales of President Mito
Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quali...
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The Homeless
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths a...
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The Young and Bad
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business...
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The School Cap
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs ...
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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his i...
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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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Tower of Lilies
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the isla...
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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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The Fall of Teenager
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaoti...
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The Boy Who Came Back
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with hi...
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by ...
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....
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Burden of Love
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a prog...
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The Irresponsible Fool
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate misch...
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Love and Faith
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the po...
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Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a y...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan sto...
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The White Orchid
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...
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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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Sakura-tai Chiru
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in th...
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Ai Sureba Koso
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" ...
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Tomorrow
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by ...
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Song of the Spring Pony
Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an inf...
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Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art g...
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On This Earth
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
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The Pornographers
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for ...
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Temptation
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his...
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents...
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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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Onna no Iji
2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However,...
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The Beauty and the Dragon
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempt...
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War...
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The Horizon
Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over th...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu i...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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Muhō Ichidai
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the la...
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than ...
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Two Harmonicas
In 1945, a boy evacuated to Miyagi Prefecture befriends a local child, and the two begin to play har...
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto....
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The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and l...
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Gokudô Petenshi
A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark ...
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines....
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Pimp Heaven
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be...
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My Hometown is the Wild West
George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,0...
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どん底だって平ちゃらさ
Ryota's house is a shack in a depression in the bank, with a dirt floor and a six-tatami room, but e...
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Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
Detectives of the First Investigation Division are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, w...
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Police Precinct Part 17
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspec...
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Profound Desires of the Gods
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori cla...
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Sisters
Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelec...
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The Man from the Moon
O-Kiyo (Mitsuko Mito), who had escaped from her boss, Shoden, who controlled the Sensoji Temple dist...
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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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Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono ...
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Heat Wave Island
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to ...
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The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai investigate another strange mystery....
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