Rentaro Mikuni
Birthday: 1923-01-20
Place of Birth: Ota, Gunma, Japan
Biography: Rentaro Mikuni (三國 連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, born January 20, 1923) was a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese Academy Awards for Best Actor, and a further seven nominations. He also won two Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, in 1960 and in 1989. Kōichi Satō is his son. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rentaro Mikuni, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Bear Storm
An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the ...
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southe...
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Good Son-in-Law
Asahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's father...
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The Life of a Horse-Trader
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yone...
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Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Y...
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Escape Zone
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dang...
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Aijô ni tsuite
Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, b...
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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Omatsuri hanjiro
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,...
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Bodyguard from Hell
Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situatio...
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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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Striving to Live
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee...
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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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The Beautiful Nuns
A samurai who slashes a young girl's mage appears in Edo, and she is never caught....
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...
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The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse...
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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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Phoenix
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news ...
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Evil Reward
After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sen...
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Fateful Birthplace
A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino....
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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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Never Give Up
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daugh...
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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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Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
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Rikyu
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes unde...
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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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The Last Dance
A successful Japanese movie director in his sixties becomes increasingly ill while working on his la...
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Zatoichi at Large
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose...
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga...
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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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Himiko
The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view o...
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The Christian Revolt
In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the...
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The Outsiders
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most no...
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Coup d'Etat
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed m...
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The Broken Commandment
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplat...
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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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Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death
In the sixth and final episode Rentaro Mikuni steals the show as Baiken Shishido, Musashi's nemesis....
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Mount Hakkoda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...
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The Friends
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interes...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man...
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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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The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a. "A Ta...
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Sakuda is a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam. When his company gets exposed for exporting fire ar...
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Luminous Moss
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sha...
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Wuthering Heights
Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his fath...
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The Good Fairy
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investi...
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Thus Another Day
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. Sh...
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Someday
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's li...
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Making of Daibyonin
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Da...
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Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm
Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one o...
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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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Duel at Fort Ezo
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of vi...
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Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...
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Free and Easy 7
Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later...
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A Human Promise
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story ...
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...
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The Go Masters
Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese ...
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Journey Into Solitude
Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific Ocean...
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Will to Live
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the G...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A...
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Shadow of Deception
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She no...
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Doctor's Day Off
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off....
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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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Free and Easy Special
Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help...
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Chronicle of My Mother
Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novel...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school...
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Free and Easy 15
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces ...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his ...
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Basara: The Princess Goh
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū...
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Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...
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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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My Sons
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has alway...
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Confessions Among Actresses
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is...
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The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao
An exploration of the nature of journalism that focuses on Fukuoka Nichi Nichi newspaper reporter Ki...
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Free and Easy 19
Hama-chan joins a company excursion to Oita with the rest of his department including his new junior...
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Free and Easy 17
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting marri...
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Rennyo and His Mother
Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular t...
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A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their...
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Devotion to Railway
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasak...
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Free and Easy 14
Hama-chan's supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward, fishing-obsessed u...
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Solar Eclipse
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, gr...
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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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Policeman's Diary
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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Run, Genta, Run!
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of findin...
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The Possessed
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa...
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The Song of the Cart
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan....
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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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A Hole of My Own Making
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeep...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur...
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Through the Mist
A biopic of the late musician Dédé Fortin, the singer, songwriter, and founder of a very popular Qué...
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The Fugitive Samurai
Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced...
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Glorious Fights
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He f...
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The Women of Osaka Castle
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary ...
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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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The Lovers
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and...
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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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Free and Easy 9
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposi...
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Free and Easy 2
Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woma...
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Free and Easy
Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo o...
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Free and Easy 6
Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-sa...
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Beauty and the Thief
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and erot...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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The Threat
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an adv...
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Farewell Rabaul
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und...
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Thirst for Love
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an adve...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last da...
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The Inugami Family
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condi...
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Sweet Revenge
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. Hi...
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Oishinbo
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun...
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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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Free and Easy 8
When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love wi...
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Free and Easy 4
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew ...
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Free and Easy 5
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his ...
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Free and Easy 3
Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan ...
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Free and Easy 16
Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo an...
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Free and Easy 10
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surro...
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The Wind Carpet
Japan and Iran are not in close relationship. More than 4 centuries ago, however, Persian carpets we...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. Af...
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Escape from Hell
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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Stepbrothers
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic ...
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The Earth is Born Again
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work ...
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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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Beyond the Shining Sea
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a ...
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But the Flesh is Weak
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage....
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Crossroad
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an ...
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Till We Meet Again
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappoin...
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The Street of Desire
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death....
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Nomugi Pass
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in...
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Free and Easy 18
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up durin...
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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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Free and Easy 11
Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-sa...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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Adolescence
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast....
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Red-Light Bases
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....
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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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The Great Road
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways ...
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Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains e...
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City of Beasts
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutica...
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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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The Samurai of Edo
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
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Vanished Glory
In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was So...
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Women's House
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shu...
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Story of Lightning
Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesita...
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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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The Whisper of Spring
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went ...
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The Murderer Must Die
A year ago, Tetsuo Yazaki was unemployed and wanted money, attacked a police box in Kobe, robbed a p...
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Reunion
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wishe...
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Scalpel
Surgeon Shūzō Shikine discovers his father Kikukawa’s rise in medicine was built on corruption and h...
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Lone Wolf and Cub
Ogami Itto, framed for treason and surviving a deadly attack, becomes a lone assassin with his son. ...
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