Kamatari Fujiwara
Birthday: 1905-01-15
Place of Birth: Fukagawa, Koto, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Kamatari Fujiwara (藤原 釜足 Fujiwara Kamatari, January 15, 1905 - December 21, 1985) was a Japanese actor. Fujiwara was born in Tokyo, on January 15, 1905, in Tokyo, Japan. Fujiwara's parents ran a printing business. The business did not go well, so at the age of 10, Fujiwara started working at a local confectionery store. By the age of 14 he had started selling timber for building and manufacturing in Shizuoka prefecture. A year later he returned to Tokyo to study as a pharmacist. Fukiwara worked regularly and extensively with Akira Kurosawa, and was known for both being adept at comic acting, as well as being able to do serious roles.
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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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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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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
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The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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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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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events a...
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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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Double Suicide
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the str...
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
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The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
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Ayako
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a ...
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The Blossom and the Sword
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who cros...
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Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
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Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two y...
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dic...
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Sir Galahad in Campus
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series....
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The Man Who Waited
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacatio...
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Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over ...
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Travelling Actors
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan....
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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Tojuro's Love
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku...
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The Actress and the Poet
Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco s...
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Man of the House
This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wif...
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The Road I Travel with You
The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki...
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other....
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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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The Homely Sister
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to...
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武蔵と小次郎
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeki...
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Young Guy at Sea
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy re...
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Invisible Man
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Go...
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Murahachibu
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habi...
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Sasaki Kojiro
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota...
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Third Generation Boss
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is tak...
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsuk...
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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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Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
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The Girl in the Rumor
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Thei...
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The Sun's Burial
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitu...
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Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a vo...
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imp...
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The Blue Mountains: Part I
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a s...
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mothe...
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly...
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Hideko the Bus Conductress
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
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An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from...
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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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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had al...
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The Portrait
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artis...
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The Woman Next Door
A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A h...
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Beyond the Hills
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts....
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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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Okuni and Gohei
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in se...
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Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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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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Mother Never Dies
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....
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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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Duel of Blood and Sand
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the ...
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The Approach of Autumn
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live 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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Light of Africa
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido tow...
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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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The Sunshine Girl
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life....
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stif...
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Love Never Fails
Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keep...
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Tipsy Life
The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-h...
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The Skin of the South
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable...
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Chocolate and Soldiers
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato...
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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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Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are ...
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Weeping Doll
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan....
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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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The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p...
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China Night
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan re...
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Enoken's The Magician
Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, ...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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Good Luck to These Two
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents....
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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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Taking the Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was...
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The Tragedy of "W"
A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrif...
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. A...
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Cut the Shadow
The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Sazae-san
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series....
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Teenage Sazae
Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color....
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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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Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inha...
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was over...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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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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Children of the Sun
At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako’s past includes ...
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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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Mado Kara Tobidase
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two f...
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Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells hi...
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The Bitch
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer....
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Chorus of the Century--Patriotic March
A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early da...
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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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Playboy President: Part II
After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate m...
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Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company....
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The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Girl
Minako, a runaway from Osaka chasing her dream of becoming a singer, struggles through poverty, fail...
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Hateful Things
The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying ...
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The Blue Mountains
About schoolgirls in a rural town, and a love letter which has the entire community in an uproar....
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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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The Wife is a University Student
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, s...
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The Blue Mountains Part 2
At Kaikō Girls’ School, a fake love letter sparks a heated PTA debate. Teacher Shimazaki wins the vo...
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New Tengu Kurama: Samurai in the Pouring Rain
Kurama Tengu uncovers a suspicious gold robbery tied to a political scheme within the shogunate. As ...
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Schooldays
Three college friends support swimmer Okubo through family and financial troubles. Junko, a woman he...
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