The Dancing Girl of Izu

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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Surging Waves

Surging Waves

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae

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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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

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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Burden of Life

Burden of Life

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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Sasaki Kojiro

Sasaki Kojiro

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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Okoto and Sasuke

Okoto and Sasuke

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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The Trio's Engagements

The Trio's Engagements

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 Brother and His Younger Sister

A Brother and His Younger Sister

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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Honoo no sora

Honoo no sora

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Haha o tataeru uta

Haha o tataeru uta

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

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Family Meeting

Family Meeting

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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Men vs. Women

Men vs. Women

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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A Certain Woman

A Certain Woman

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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Moken no himitsu

Moken no himitsu

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

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Daini no shuppatsu

Daini no shuppatsu

Warm Current

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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Notes of an Itinerant Performer

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

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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Eikichi the Chauffeur

Eikichi the Chauffeur

Directed by Minoru Murata.

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Family Diary

Family Diary

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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