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母の戀文 (1935)
Character: N/A
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
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嫁入り前 (1933)
Character: Ryuichi's Brother
Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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朧夜の女 (1936)
Character: A student
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems his uncle's advice may already be too late.
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忠臣蔵 (1932)
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This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
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与太者と小町娘 (1935)
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A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some great comedy and drama from a team of distinctive appearance who are exploiting their silent cinema styles to the full.
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嬉しい頃 (1933)
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A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
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与太者と海水浴 (1933)
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The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store on the beach to get rich...
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お絹と番頭 (1940)
Character: N/A
A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
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婦系図 (1934)
Character: Chôkichi
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romance of Yushima.
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西住戦車長伝 (1940)
Character: Ida, Superior Private
Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.
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生さぬ仲 (1932)
Character: Gen the Pelican
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
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隣の八重ちゃん (1934)
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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 romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.
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限りなき舗道 (1934)
Character: Bartender
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
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恋の花咲く 伊豆の踊子 (1933)
Character: Customer at the spa
"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 meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.
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人生のお荷物 (1935)
Character: Yosaku
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 unwanted.
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