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愛情について (1953)
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Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko.
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祇園物語 春怨 (1951)
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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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青い山脈 (1949)
Character: Shinko Terazawa
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.
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女の暦 (1954)
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The story of five sisters.
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夫婦 (1953)
Character: Kikuko, Isaku's wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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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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續 青い山脈 (1949)
Character: Shinko Terazawa
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
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山びこ学校 (1952)
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A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
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恍惚の人 (1973)
Character: Mrs. Kihara (widow)
A woman looks after her father in law.
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わが胸に虹は消えず: 第一部 (1957)
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An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
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君死に給うことなかれ (1954)
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Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his best friend who has gone off to war with his sister Reiko to marry her, but he is not ready to abandon his love for Kumiko, a nurse at his mother's hospital.
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悪魔が来りて笛を吹く (1954)
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The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying melody of a flute.
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続・社長三代記 (1958)
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The fifth entry in the Company President Series
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くちづけ (1955)
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Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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暁の追跡 (1950)
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This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered masterpiece, but still a must for Ichikawa buffs.
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Picture Bride (1995)
Character: Aunt Sode
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age. The miserable girl finds solace with her new friend Kana, a young mother who helps Riyo accept her new life.
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金の卵 (1952)
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Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
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乳房よ永遠なれ (1955)
Character: Kinuko
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of 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 the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
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月は上りぬ (1955)
Character: Ayako
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
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酔いどれ天使 (1948)
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.
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女囚と共に (1956)
Character: Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.
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戦後派お化け大会 (1951)
Character: N/A
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.
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めし (1951)
Character: Mitsuko Murata
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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森繁よ何処へ行く (1956)
Character: Setsuko Mori
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow, is vividly depicted to the tune of "Moonlit Desert" in this humanistic drama full of pathos, starring Hisaya Morishige.
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プーサン (1953)
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A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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石中先生行状記 (1950)
Character: Mariko Yamada
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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わが胸に虹は消えず: 第二部 (1957)
Character: Sayako Muromachi
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
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Hito Hata: Raise the Banner (1980)
Character: Hostess Yoko
The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States.
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東京の恋人 (1952)
Character: Harumi
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
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結婚期 (1954)
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Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a number of women, including his true love, Inako Arima.
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山の音 (1954)
Character: Tanizaki Hideko
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
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妻の心 (1956)
Character: Yumiko
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
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