The Dancing Girl of Izu
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he...
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Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...
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When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
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Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was...
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...
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A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...
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Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
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A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's...
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Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
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A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
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A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew...
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When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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Warm Current
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...
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Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and...
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Directed by Minoru Murata.
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Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...
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