Nijiko Kiyokawa
Birthday: 1912-11-24
Place of Birth: Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Nijiko Kiyokawa was born on November 24, 1912 in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan as Hana Sekiguchi. She was an actress, known for Pom Poko (1994), and Das kleine Teehaus (1956). She died on May 24, 2002 in Takatsu, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.
Movies
Nonsense - Fireball Boy Thief
The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy....
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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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Fall Guy
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Kon...
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A Geisha on Horseback
Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love...
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The Wanderer
After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the l...
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Scoundrel
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, l...
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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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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company...
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Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's par...
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Sazae-san's Marriage
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae...
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and make...
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Enomoto's Heaven and Hell
Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was ...
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Pom Poko
The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses ...
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The Dangoro Party in the Sky
The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success a...
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Secret Love
A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Jap...
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Silk Hat Boss
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'...
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Screwed
It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a ...
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of trav...
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Harmonica Boy
The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his ...
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My Daughter's Only Wish
My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much c...
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The Old Man of the Propeller
The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. ...
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Fugitive Scoundrel
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the ...
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お役者変化
During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed ...
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.1
The deputy shogun of the realm, accompanied by his loyal and capable aides, makes a stop at Jigokuda...
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.2
At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan,...
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Enoken's Donguri Tonbei
Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with th...
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大江戸出世双六
Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the ...
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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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Enoken’s Boxing Generation
Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entang...
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Mama, I Need You!
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone ...
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Five Men in a Circus
The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rura...
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A Bold Life
Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who ove...
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Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip
This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoi...
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Travelling Actors
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan....
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that ...
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The Teahouse of the August Moon
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a ...
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Roadside Stone
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, co...
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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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All Rascals
Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda...
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A Mother's Love
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives....
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Farewell to Spring
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as st...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant bus...
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Hibari the Traveling Performer
Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night whil...
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Big Hit Pachinko Girl
Set in a bustling 1950s parlor, a beautiful counter clerk falls for a wealthy businessman’s son, onl...
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Flower, Storm and Gangster
A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist fo...
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Dimple of Tokyo
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The ne...
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Composition Class
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contes...
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The Legend of the White Serpent
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in lov...
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The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighbor...
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Karayuki-san
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute ...
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Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when...
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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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Great Edo Song Festival
The feudal lord Kisaragi Yae no Kami (Minami Komyo) searches for a child he had with a low-borne wom...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his ser...
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Enraptured
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a...
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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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The Ambitious Youth
As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flouri...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddl...
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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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Enoken's Home Run King
Postwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
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Red Peony Gambler
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother die...
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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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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle...
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Rampaging Dragon of the North
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to f...
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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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Room for Let
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Ory...
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Drunken Sword
Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authori...
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Yakuza on Foot
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug traffic...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction busi...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to c...
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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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Good Rascals
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives....
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The Mysterious Cape
Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy pati...
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The Brick Factory Girl
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal...
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Through the Night
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble o...
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The Rough One
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a cru...
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Price of Beauty
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity"....
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Tokyo Omnibus
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...
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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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My Sweetheart
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I...
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Love in Ginza
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his j...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2
A princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant....
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Journey of Honor
The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from th...
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The Sound of Waves
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls ...
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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a ...
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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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Learn from Experience, Part Two
Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan...
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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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Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...
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A Yakuza Goes Home
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself de...
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Travels of Gonkuro
Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad...
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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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Women Can't Be Beaten
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his ...
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Sazae's Engagement Trip
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope....
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broke...
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Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of t...
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Case of a Young Lord 8
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed ...
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Akireta renchû
The first in a series of films featuring the comedy duo Entatsu-Achako, providing them with a backgr...
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an al...
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The Forest of the Little Bear
Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inha...
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The Kingdom of Spectacles
Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pi...
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Nightingale
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves....
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Living Image
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period....
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The Giant
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Mi...
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Song of the White Orchid
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colon...
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The Magical Warrior
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They ...
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I'm a Bodyguard
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Securi...
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Iron Brothers
It's been a long time since the war. Since we haven't been at war with America yet, there is a line ...
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Zoku izuko e
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka....
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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The ...
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Gokudo of Kamagasaki
Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his hench...
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Bravo! Five Men
A parody of the Kabuki play about thieves, "Five Men of the White Waves"....
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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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Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!
Saito Torajiro directed this light comic musical about the lives and loves of three cheerful, lively...
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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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勘太郎月夜唄
Kantaro, known as a rowdy boy in the town of Ina, attacked the local boss, Kaneoni's Arahira, all by...
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The Grave Tells All
Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that...
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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido....
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名探偵アジャパー氏
The Wolf of Davao, a death row inmate who escaped from prison to exact revenge on Yamanami Takuzo, w...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Going West: to the West
Sakuma Ryu, who runs a liquor store alone in downtown Tokyo, ends up living with his eldest son and ...
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Hometown
Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa. She soon embarks on a marathon ac...
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土曜日の天使
The story follows a dysfunctional family whose daily life is thrown into chaos when an English tutor...
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Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery....
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Triumphant Song of Youth
Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family ch...
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Blue Buds
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s...
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Schooldays
Three college friends support swimmer Okubo through family and financial troubles. Junko, a woman he...
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