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大学の若旦那 (1933)
Character: Younger sister Namiko
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young women, Fuji resists family pressure to settle down and marry after college. Instead, he spends much of his time drinking and womanizing, behavior which eventually leads the college officials to expel him from the team.
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Chitei no uta (1956)
Character: Satoko Izu
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).
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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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月夜の傘 (1955)
Character: N/A
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will discuss food shopping, and when four people come together, there will be laughter. Focusing on four housewives who gather at the edge of the well, it depicts the daily life of each household.
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悪魔の接吻 (1959)
Character: N/A
Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama
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祇園物語 春怨 (1951)
Character: N/A
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the backdrop of the city's dance festival.
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乾杯! 見合結婚 (1958)
Character: Mieko Tsubounchi
Emiko, a shy girl, feels anxious as her classmates celebrate their upcoming weddings, realizing she’s the only one still single. She finds herself drawn to her quiet classmate Sasada, who rarely expresses his feelings. Through a series of events that reveal the characters’ struggles with love and loneliness, Emiko travels to Osaka in search of him. In the end, she discovers his true feelings, and the two share a silent, comforting moment during a poetic wedding scene.
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晴曇 (1933)
Character: Sadako
Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."
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母情 (1950)
Character: N/A
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
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浅草の灯 (1937)
Character: Oryū
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
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お小夜恋姿 (1934)
Character: Machiko Kaga, model
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the model for his novel. Saya however is in love with a young driver. When he is forced to move into a spa town as the result of the jealousy of another man Saya is terribly sad. But with the help of Yamamoto the driver's rival can be revealed and Saya can finally be with her beloved.
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金環蝕 (1934)
Character: Kayo
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rich Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.
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傷だらけの山河 (1964)
Character: N/A
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.
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私の兄さん (1934)
Character: Sachiko, clerk
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to correct him…
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与太者と小町娘 (1935)
Character: Okayo
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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純情二重奏 (1967)
Character: Tsuneko Kawada
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
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伊津子とその母 (1954)
Character: Setsuko Nomura
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
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新女性問答 (1939)
Character: N/A
Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko, one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.
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帰郷 (1950)
Character: N/A
A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his daughter.
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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: Tsunaji Kashiwaya
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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青春の風 (1968)
Character: N/A
A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.
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白い夏 (1957)
Character: N/A
Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post office, this youthfully bright and humorous story depicts the intricacies of life experienced by a rookie young postal worker. Depicting the subtle intricacies of life experienced by a young protagonist in a simple post office setting. This bright and humorous story evokes a heartfelt sense of empathy.
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社員無頼 反撃篇 (1959)
Character: Kayo
Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and settle personal scores—only to find true support where he least expects it.
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奥様に知らすべからず (1937)
Character: Tsutamaru
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.
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牛乳屋フランキー (1956)
Character: Sanae Sugi
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
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南太平洋の若大将 (1967)
Character: Yukiko Arita
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the rescue of various women in peril, teaches a would-be restauranteur how to make sukiyaki, thwarts the romantic aspirations of his rival Ao Daisho, and competes in the finals of the Japan Judo Championship at the Nippon Budokan. Shot across various locations across Hawaii, Tahiti, Saipan, and Tokyo.
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だれの椅子？ (1968)
Character: N/A
In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.
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絹代の初恋 (1940)
Character: N/A
Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relationships in a town of customs and manners.
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水着の花嫁 (1954)
Character: Madame Yuri
Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a powerful businessman. She refuses, believing she already loves a man she once briefly met on a train. Unbeknownst to her, that man is Keisuke himself. A mix-up with photos leads to misunderstandings, but on the eve of his departure for America, the truth comes to light, and the two reunite just in time.
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野蛮人のネクタイ (1969)
Character: N/A
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.
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新・三等重役 (1959)
Character: Asako (Kumahira’s wife)
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right.
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新・三等重役 旅と女と酒の巻 (1960)
Character: Asako Onizuka (Maiko's mother)
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to Beppu, personal entanglements and old company secrets surface, forcing difficult choices and quiet compromises.
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新・三等重役 亭主教育の巻 (1960)
Character: Asako Onizuka
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an academic over a business heir.
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社員無頼 怒号篇 (1959)
Character: Kayo
When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young salaryman declares war, leaving his job to expose the truth by any means necessary.
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花嫁さんは世界一 (1959)
Character: Hatsue's mother
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
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高校三年生 (1963)
Character: N/A
In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo also appears in the movie, which depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school.
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乳房よ永遠なれ (1955)
Character: Mrs. Shirakawa
Fumiko, mother of two and wife to an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In her final stages, Fumiko meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her experiences.
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お加代の覚悟 (1939)
Character: Oharu
A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.
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女性に関する十二章 (1954)
Character: Kurumada Kikuko
Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result of his promotion, but just then, a big change occurs in Minako's body..
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とんぼ返り道中 (1950)
Character: Oito
A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an Echigo lion mask, a memento of Chomatsu's deceased father. After several incidents of Echigo lion masks being destroyed in the area, a local kingpin Saheiji shows up at Denbei's demanded he hand over the mask, a request Denbei rejects out of pity for Chomatsu. However, after it is accidentally revealed that the mask contains an important map, Saheiji plots to steal the mask. Chomatsu gets involved after his mother makes a sudden reappearance that sends the boy on a roundabout journey that will reveal the truth about his family.
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恋文 (1953)
Character: N/A
Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.
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太陽の季節 (1956)
Character: N/A
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.
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妻 (1953)
Character: Taeko Niemura
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
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警察日記 (1955)
Character: Shizu, the mother
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
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愛のお荷物 (1955)
Character: Kokin
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu
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戸田家の兄妹 (1941)
Character: Ayako
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
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浮草物語 (1934)
Character: Otoki
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
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狼 (1955)
Character: N/A
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
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宗方姉妹 (1950)
Character: Mieko
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. But now he's back and Mariko tries to reunite them, although she too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
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春琴抄 お琴と佐助 (1935)
Character: N/A
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 Junichiro.
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春琴抄 お琴と佐助 (1935)
Character: Okoto's sister
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 Junichiro.
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力道山物語 怒涛の男 (1955)
Character: N/A
The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
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唐手三四郎 (1951)
Character: N/A
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst of a confusion challenges Yamauchi Tatsuhiko to a fight, forgetting the true core of martial arts, that should only be used as a selfdefense.
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晩春 (1949)
Character: Kiku
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
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一人息子 (1936)
Character: Sugiko
A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.
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花形選手 (1937)
Character: N/A
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
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縞の背広の親分衆 (1961)
Character: N/A
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil of his native land, his first thought was to visit Otanuki Fudo, the guardian deity of the Otorigumi, but the Otorigumi had fallen and Otanuki Fudo was on the verge of eviction for the construction of an expressway. Keisuke and Joji put on the striped suits left to them by their late boss, and set out to rebuild the clan...
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歌え若人達 (1963)
Character: Bar madam
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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人生のお荷物 (1935)
Character: Takako Komiyama
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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晩菊 (1954)
Character: N/A
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days coldly collecting debts. Even her best friends, fellow Geisha Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamour of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have disappointing children. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves less than satisfactory.
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