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エノケンの頑張り戦術 (1939)
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Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious beach vacation neither's family can afford.
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豪華ヨット 初恋ツアー殺人事件 (1990)
Character: The owner of Iwaki Studio
Office worker Kanako takes a trip to Nanki Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture as part of a travel agency project to reunite with her first love. She was nominated by Yamano, a classmate from elementary school. Kanako meets Yamano for the first time in 15 years, but for some reason their old stories don't add up. She gradually begins to suspect that Yamano is a fake, but...
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お國と五平 (1952)
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A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
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樋口一葉 (1939)
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Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
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雪子と夏代 (1941)
Character: Kiyo, the maid
Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.
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をり鶴七変化 (1941)
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The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
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秀子の應援團長 (1940)
Character: Yuriko, Hideko's sister
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
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結婚の夜 (1959)
Character: Togawa Masae
A psychological Japanese drama about a department store clerk whose fleeting encounter with a mysterious woman leads to obsession, deceit, and tragic consequences. The film explores desire, guilt, and the blurred line between love and delusion.
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八つ墓村 (1969)
Character: N/A
Japanese horror thriller from 1969.
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社長繁盛記 (1968)
Character: Yoshiko Nakagawa (Megumi's Mother)
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.
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上海陸戦隊 (1939)
Character: N/A
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
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川中島合戰 (1941)
Character: Omaki
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
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希望の青空 (1942)
Character: Miyoko
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
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乱れ雲 (1967)
Character: N/A
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
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流れる (1956)
Character: Tsurumoto maid
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
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影武者 (1980)
Character: Takemaru's Nurse
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
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八月の狂詩曲 (1991)
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An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.
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めし (1951)
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Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻 (1962)
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After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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夢 (1990)
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Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
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乱 (1985)
Character: Sue's lady in waiting
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
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夜の流れ (1960)
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A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.
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綴方教室 (1938)
Character: The second wife
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic money troubles threaten Masako's further education.
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八つ墓村 (1996)
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A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
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浮雲 (1955)
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A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
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サザエさん (1956)
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An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
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宮本武蔵完結編 決闘巌流島 (1956)
Character: (uncredited)
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
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女の座 (1962)
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Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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