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可愛い悪女 (1971)
Character: N/A
Set against the background of a giant newspaper company. A girl reporter on the staff of the newspaper witnesses the accidental killing of one of the top executives, whose wife is having an affair with the head of the company.
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真実一路 (1954)
Character: N/A
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.
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喜劇 一発勝負 (1967)
Character: N/A
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.
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花と涙と炎 (1970)
Character: Aoi Fujihana
Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the prosperity of others. He wishes his daughter Kasumi, gifted like himself, to take over and develop the Fujihana, but she wishes to marry Hiroshi, head of a jazz band which her father opposes. Kisaburo, Seijuro's No.1 disciple, wants to marry Kasumi and take over the Fujihana with the backing of the chairman of the supporters' association.
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三味線とオートバイ (1961)
Character: Tomiko
A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
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衝動殺人 息子よ (1979)
Character: N/A
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
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裸体 (1962)
Character: N/A
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
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望郷と掟 (1966)
Character: N/A
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
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夜霧の訪問者 (1975)
Character: N/A
Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.
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永訣 (1969)
Character: N/A
During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She, however, is living with the memories of her husband and it is her younger sister, Yumiko (Nana Ozaki), who grows fond of the student. Then, one day, a young naval officer, Tadayuki (Ken Ogata), a friend of her late husband, comes to see the widow and she becomes attracted to him. Though Makito is inspired to study for the navy, he is much upset when he learns that Yuko and Tadayuki are to marry.
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太陽とバラ (1956)
Character: Villa's Madame
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
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真昼の罠 (1960)
Character: N/A
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...
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艶説女侠伝 お万乱れ肌 (1972)
Character: Geisha Girl Somehachi
"After leaving the Yakuza, Oman embraces a quiet normal life - only to be dragged back into a world of violence, when seeking revenge for the brutal murder of those close to her."
- Adapted from the late October 1972 issue of Kinema Junpo
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二階の他人 (1961)
Character: N/A
After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.
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運が良けりゃ (1966)
Character: N/A
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
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男はつらいよ 純情篇 (1971)
Character: N/A
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.
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男はつらいよ 夜霧にむせぶ寅次郎 (1984)
Character: N/A
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
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カルメン純情す (1952)
Character: N/A
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
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伊豆の踊子 (1954)
Character: N/A
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
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五瓣の椿 (1964)
Character: N/A
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
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宮本武蔵 (1973)
Character: N/A
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
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約束 (1972)
Character: N/A
The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
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東京物語 (1953)
Character: Beauty Salon Customer
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
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虹をわたって (1972)
Character: Setsuko
One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with him without asking her any questions. Turmoil ensues with the reaction of the crew when the runaway girl starts working alongside with them.
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からみ合い (1962)
Character: N/A
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.
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男はつらいよ フーテンの寅 (1970)
Character: N/A
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
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家族 (1970)
Character: Neighbor
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
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男はつらいよ (1969)
Character: N/A
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
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この声なき叫び (1965)
Character: N/A
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
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男はつらいよ 寅次郎恋やつれ (1974)
Character: N/A
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
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めくらのお市 みだれ笠 (1969)
Character: N/A
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
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砂の器 (1974)
Character: N/A
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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砂の器 (1974)
Character: Farmer at Kamedake
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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続・男はつらいよ (1969)
Character: N/A
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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ウナ・セラ・ディ東京 (1965)
Character: Kazuko Kashii
A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.
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日本の悲劇 (1953)
Character: N/A
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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