Sadako Sawamura
Birthday: 1908-11-11
Place of Birth: Asakusa, Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to ...
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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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Pineapple Butai
The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950...
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Police Precinct Part 13
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his d...
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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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Lady Sen and Hideyori
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the ...
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Street of Shame
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...
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Bridge of Japan
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then ...
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Romance Express
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shink...
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A Sky Full of Tears
Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara....
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The President Talks Bank
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher ...
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Night Bitch
A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opp...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation ...
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Ôban
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p...
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part tw...
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A Fugitive from the Past
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash ...
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Next Door to Happiness
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer secti...
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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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Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face
A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body...
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Night Scandal in Japan
Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish b...
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Our Marriage
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere....
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Ofukuro
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dr...
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Girls of the Night
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap...
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The Wandering Princess
Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocrat...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn....
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The Romance of Yushima
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to ...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown....
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The President's Boss
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's d...
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The Cast-Off
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv...
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Sisters
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko T...
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So Young, So Bright
Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hi...
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When It Rains, It Pours
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When h...
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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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Cascading White Threads
The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the whi...
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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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Green Earth
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation wi...
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Kōfuku no genkai
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along ...
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Life's Simple Pleasures
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays th...
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Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
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A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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Little Peach
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
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When Winter Comes
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autu...
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Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre...
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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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Love Letter
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter...
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Women of the Night
In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea...
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Broken Drum
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his child...
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Firefly Light
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima...
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Beyond the Hills
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts....
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Romance Freestyle
The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents...
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The Life of Oharu
In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page si...
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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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Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo....
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Bellflower
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based ...
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Tokyo Profile
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old gir...
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The End of the Night
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a b...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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The Rose on His Arm
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of de...
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Zero Focus
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip...
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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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The Catch
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese village...
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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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The Lovers
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and...
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Once a Rainy Day
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth an...
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Mother Never Dies
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....
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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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Snow Country
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha ...
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Dancing Girl
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved anot...
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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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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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No Advice Taken
A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a hands...
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Dreaming People
Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that hi...
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Youth in Fury
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless m...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family wher...
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where ...
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In Search of Mother
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza...
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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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Nunnery Confidential
Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period....
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Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery....
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Eddy Currents of Life
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature...
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Souls in the Moonlight II
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva...
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Souls in the Moonlight III
Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be ser...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparen...
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Tale of Army Brutality
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill syst...
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The Kii River
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and econom...
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Love on the Rainbow
A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple....
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Glory on the Summit
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of...
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Wedding Day
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accep...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr...
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Horse
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to lo...
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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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The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Young Lovers
The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunde...
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Triangle Moods
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in ...
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Young Tree
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cul...
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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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The Naked General
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities....
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Sweet Sweat
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 3...
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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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A Pebble by the Wayside
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamot...
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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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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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Mahiru no wana
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amids...
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The Passionate Spinster
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako...
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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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Hero of the Red Light District
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindn...
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Dancers of Awa
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance ...
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to becom...
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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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Adolescence
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast....
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Itsuko to sono haha
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her....
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Flower Cards Chivalry
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested...
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Awamori-kun uridasu
First of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi....
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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Hideko the Cheerleader
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new ...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are ...
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Flame of My Love
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where...
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Toyuki
Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country...
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Sky of Hope
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited marr...
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Fearless Opposition
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza....
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I'm a Bodyguard
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Securi...
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Crazy Operation: First Move
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various f...
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The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Mik...
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Geisha Hidekoma
As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geis...
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Ponkotsu
In the shimotsuke town of Tokyo, Honmachi tenkawa Cho continues to take the remains of the car. One ...
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Osanaki mono no hata
Two brothers move to their grandfather's house after their father is drafted and play war games with...
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Door of Flowers
Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now f...
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All of Myself
The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following th...
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The Terrible Game
Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with t...
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New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to...
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Hibi no haishin
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T...
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Miren
The story follows Tomoko, a writer who becomes involved in a strange and distant relationship with S...
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Police Precinct Part 13
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his d...
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Police Precinct: Backing Investigation
A man confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago. The detectives must now conduct a "ba...
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Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar...
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Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster t...
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Miyamoto Musashi - Battle at Han'nya Hill
Miyamoto Musashi is challenged by a series of opponents in this follow up to Miyamoto Musashi's Kong...
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Mother's Ambition
The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu w...
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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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Taiyou wo Daku Onna
A countryside woman working as a maid gets scouted for a model job....
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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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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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People Waiting for Spring
This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w...
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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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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) ...
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