Jun Hamamura
Birthday: 1906-02-07
Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Japan
Biography: Jun Hamamura was born on 7 February 1906 in Fukuoka, Japan. He was an actor, known for High and Low (1963), Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965) and Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963). He died on 21 June 1995 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.
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Women's Prison
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortu...
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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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Gamera, the Giant Monster
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep u...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide...
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Sleeping Man
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care f...
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The Lucky General
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulg...
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Jungle Block
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon...
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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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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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An Actor's Revenge
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...
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Epitaph to My Love
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch...
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The Pornographers
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...
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The Abalone Gals
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, ...
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Sixteen years old
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton c...
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Samurai Spy
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutob...
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Mr. Baseball
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career....
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Gunman's Alley
Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but a...
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out o...
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Intimidation
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a despe...
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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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Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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Cruel Story of Youth
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for ...
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Her Brother
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a s...
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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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Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints
At the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope loc...
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Preparation for the Festival
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in....
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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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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying...
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The Body
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he...
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Gonza the Spearman
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear...
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A Legend or Was It?
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the ...
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Lost Love
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent famil...
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Being Two Isn't Easy
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of vi...
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Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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Black Sea of Trees
Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car acciden...
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Hole in One
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the ...
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For Kayako
A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kaya...
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Evening Primrose
The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a...
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Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip
Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but alw...
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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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The Wild Reporter
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed...
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The Inferno
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mothe...
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Bonchi
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b...
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Bad Girl
Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her...
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Fangs of Night
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friend...
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The Temptress and the Monk
A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lover...
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Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him ...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1
This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Ter...
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He's the Witness
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chair...
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Main Theme
A kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love...
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Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendshi...
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Anything For Success
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His big...
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MacArthur's Children
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must c...
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Koto—The Lake of Tears
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, kno...
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Island of the Evil Spirits
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb
Fourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....
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A Flame at the Pier
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama...
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Dark Room
A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers ...
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My Hometown is the Wild West
George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,0...
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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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Charming Men
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tun...
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Stolen Pleasure
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to sec...
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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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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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
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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 Glamorous Ghost
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. ...
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late fathe...
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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Odd Obsession
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot be...
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Fires on the Plain
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...
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Kitsune
It is early summer in the Nekushiro Plains of Hokkaido. A scientist, Ogata, who was dispatched to th...
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A Mummy’s Love
In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of ...
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Interpol Code 8
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas....
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Green Light to Joy
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to ent...
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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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Ten Dark Women
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l...
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitatio...
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a bet...
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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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Season of Farewell
A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together....
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Tokyo Bay
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two...
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Deeper Than Blue
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging stru...
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Time Within Memory
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man w...
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The Money Dance
Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, eve...
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Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring...
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The Black Current
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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New - No Longer Human
Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught bet...
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The Man with a Shotgun
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter...
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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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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchante...
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Lone Wolf Isazo
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship a...
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Woman from the Sea
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends ...
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Love Is in the Green Wind
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his hea...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei...
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A Killer Without a Grave
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in hi...
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Lonely Heart
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to so...
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a...
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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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Glory on the Summit
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of...
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The Storm over Arabia
A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced e...
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Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder....
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That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh...
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Samurai Rebellion
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
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The Vampire Doll
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her b...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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Night Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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Foundry Town
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and on...
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The Black Trademark
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his...
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The River - Poem of Wrath
A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter....
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Traffic Jam
A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two ch...
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Fighting Elegy
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelin...
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The Black Sheep
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, ...
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Koto: The Ancient City
Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. Whe...
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The Gate of Youth
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens...
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Child of the Sun
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daug...
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The Angry Sea
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman....
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Lanterns on Blue Waters
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in or...
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate th...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii...
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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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The Makioka Sisters
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in th...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seduc...
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The Demon
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their th...
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Woman of Design
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutica...
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Sharaku
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publi...
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Demon Pond
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in ...
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Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art g...
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Lovers Lost
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis...
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Gun Number Zero
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was...
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The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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Crossroads in Tokyo
A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expellin...
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The Shadow of Fear
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo d...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog s...
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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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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Afraid to Die
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on crimi...
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Across the Darkness
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed dur...
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A Woman's Life
Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo a...
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Yume-Chiyo
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something c...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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The Crowded Train
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing ...
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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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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than ...
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The Sharks
A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and st...
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The Curse of the Ghost
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei S...
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Oyuki
A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes th...
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The Scarred Crest
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds ...
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While Yet a Wife
A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, a...
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The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu....
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Frankie's Aliens
Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying sa...
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Quick Draw Joe
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had c...
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Lover, Come Back to Me
Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but f...
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Structure of Hate
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over ...
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We Are Salarymen
Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his fam...
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Daybreak Chorus
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
After her mother’s death, junior high student Yoshiyama Kazuko lives in Yokohama with her father and...
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Yamada Village Waltz
In Yamada Village, which is suffering from a serious shortage of wives due to the wave of depopulati...
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Human
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people...
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