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花の白虎隊 (1954)
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The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young, 16-17 year old sons of Aizu samurai. Their story is one of the great tragedies of the Boshin War (1868-1869) as they were called into action. Getting cut off from the main body of their platoon, a group of 20 from the 2nd squad retreated to Iimori Hill, where they looked down upon fires surrounding Aizu Castle and thinking that the castle has fallen and all is lost, they choose to die as samurai by committing seppuku. A superb rendition of this true story that shows the true honor of the samurai.
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花の中の娘たち (1953)
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Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city.
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新鞍馬天狗 夕立の武士 (1955)
Character: Iwami-no-kami Onoda
Kurama Tengu uncovers a suspicious gold robbery tied to a political scheme within the shogunate. As he follows the clues, hidden alliances, betrayals, and a mysterious woman entangle him in a dangerous conspiracy whose true aim remains just out of reach.
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恋狼火 (1949)
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While performing in Kanazawa, the renowned water-trick artist Taki no Shiraito falls deeply in love with a young student, Murakoshi Kinya. Determined to see him succeed, she endures years of financial hardship and social scorn to secretly fund his legal education in Tokyo.
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モンテンルパ 望郷の歌 (1953)
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A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.
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母千鳥 (1951)
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Due to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.
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坊っちゃん (1953)
Character: Tanuki
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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青春怪談 (1955)
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Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
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ことぶき座 (1945)
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Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
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怪傑紫頭巾 總輯版 (1949)
Character: Sekisai Ôkubo
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
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夫婦善哉 (1955)
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Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. This betrayal leads his father to disown him, leaving the unskilled Ryukichi with no way to earn a living. To keep them afloat, Choko is forced to continue working as a geisha while secretly scraping together a nest egg to start their own business. However, Ryukichi remains trapped in his hedonistic lifestyle, eventually squandering Choko’s hard-earned savings on his own self-indulgence.
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歓呼の町 (1944)
Character: Bathhouse owner
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
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生きる (1952)
Character: Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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