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人間苦 (1923)
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Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.
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生ける屍 (1918)
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A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.
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寒椿 (1921)
Character: 伯爵家の家令石塚源之進
Directed in 1921
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親 (1929)
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A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.
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或る女 (1942)
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Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forgive him and even thank him for the path her life has taken.
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すみだ川 (1942)
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Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.
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母を讃へる歌 (1939)
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A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
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歌女おぼえ書 (1941)
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Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.
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家族会議 (1936)
Character: Sōhachi Onoue
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
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暖流 (1939)
Character: Hibiki's father
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.
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家庭日記 (1938)
Character: Doctor
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...
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女醫絹代先生 (1937)
Character: Sohachi Maeda
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.
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花婿の寝言 (1935)
Character: Bride's father
A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes back to sleep. Her neglect of daily duties starts to strain their marriage, and the couple is on the brink of divorce. However, a close friend of the husband, determined to save their relationship, introduces a hypnotist to uncover something.
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猛犬の秘密 (1924)
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When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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男性対女性 (1936)
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A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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朱と緑 (1937)
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A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
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隣の八重ちゃん (1934)
Character: Arami Ikuzou
Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.
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青春の夢いまいづこ (1932)
Character: Kanzo, the uncle
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
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婚約三羽烏 (1937)
Character: Ryūkichi, Ken's father
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
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春琴抄 お琴と佐助 (1935)
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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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恋の花咲く 伊豆の踊子 (1933)
Character: Tamura, a policeman
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.
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佐々木小次郎 (1951)
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Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as the legendary master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for the first time and essentially sets the standard for future portrayals.This masterpiece is based on the original story as written by noted author Murakami Genzo and is far superior to any other versions. Following Kojiro from his earliest days through his fateful meeting with Musashi, this movie is filled with exciting and dramatic moments culminating in the best version of the final duel ever seen on film.
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兄とその妹 (1939)
Character: Sōroku Shimura
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
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人生のお荷物 (1935)
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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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愛より愛へ (1938)
Character: Shigeo's Father
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.
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