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大学の若旦那 (1933)
Character: Restaurant proprietress
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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母 (1929)
Character: N/A
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
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いろは若衆 花駕篭峠 (1959)
Character: N/A
An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves.
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朝の波紋 (1952)
Character: Numazawa's mother
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
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からたち日記 (1959)
Character: N/A
Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.
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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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Jônetsu - Ra pashion (1932)
Character: Mother
Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
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京洛の舞 (1942)
Character: N/A
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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暁の合唱 (1941)
Character: N/A
A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.
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かけ出し時代 (1947)
Character: Older Sister Machiko
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
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愛よ人類と共にあれ 前篇 日本篇 (1931)
Character: Misao
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.
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愛よ人類と共にあれ 後篇 米国篇 (1931)
Character: Nusai (Kokichi's eldest daughter)
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.
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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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男の償ひ 前篇 (1937)
Character: N/A
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
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男の償ひ 後篇 (1937)
Character: N/A
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
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Kokumin no chikai (1938)
Character: N/A
This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war. A Japanese production, it was nevertheless made with German involvement in the form of skiing champion Sepp Rist and celebrated cinematographer Richard Angst (who also contributed to the script). Both had regularly worked with the inventor of the mountain film genre, Dr. Arnold Fanck, who had helmed the German-Japanese co-production "Die Tochter des Samurai", also shot by Angst, the year before. Angst apparently stayed in Japan until mid-1939 when he returned to Germany, carrying this film with him. Angst submitted it to the German censors later that year, but for reasons unknown to me it took three more years before the film was finally shown in Germany under the name "Das heilige Ziel" (The Holy Aim). (Karargara)
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女性の戦ひ (1939)
Character: N/A
Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to make a film about her. She was scouted to become an actress, but she held strong. Around that time, her adoptive father dies, and at the time of his death, she learns that her real father was a man of high rank.
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或る女 (1942)
Character: N/A
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)
Character: N/A
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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その手にのるな (1958)
Character: N/A
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
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三代の盃 (1962)
Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
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情艶一代女 (1951)
Character: おたけ
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue this new path, but falls in love with a naval officer who is the younger brother of Kikugoro and who saves her from a stalker monk. Kikugoro hears of this and becomes enraged. The naval officer dies in the Second Sino-Japanese War, causing the lead to go back home to her mother where she meets, and falls in love with, a poet who resembles her now-deceased fiancé. This poet leaves her in order to force her to dedicate her entire life to dancing, which he sees as her true pursuit.
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江戸いろは祭 (1953)
Character: 半次の母
Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji, to embark on a journey. He killed a man on the Shikoku route, but later returned to Edo, reforming his ways. Concerned about Hanji, he tracked down the wet nurse, O-Kane, to whom he had entrusted the boy. To his surprise, Hanji had become a respectable young man, now a subordinate of the gang leader, Tatsugorou. During a New Year visit to the Shiba Shinmei shrine, a minor altercation led Hanji to meet the geisha Koina, the wicked servant Miya-toku, and the sumo wrestler Naruto. Hanji and Naruto hit it off and formed a bond like brothers. However, Naruto's father was the very man Tanaka had killed. Naruto had been seeking vengeance against his father's killer. During a chance encounter at a restaurant, Naruto witnessed the reunion of Hanji and Tanaka, realizing Tanaka was his father's killer.
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母を讃へる歌 (1939)
Character: N/A
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
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金色夜叉 (1948)
Character: N/A
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil
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続金色夜叉 (1948)
Character: N/A
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2
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花ひらく (1948)
Character: Machiko's Mother
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
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花のお江戸の無責任 (1964)
Character: N/A
A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo Tanami, who worked on "Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sannin Yoba" and Kajiro Yamamoto, who worked on "The Story of a Genius Swindler: Tanuki no Hanamichi." Photographed by Seiichi Endo of "Things That Live at the End of the Earth."
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恋愛風景 (1929)
Character: The mistress
Japanese film from 1929.
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金色夜叉 (1932)
Character: N/A
Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son. Heartbroken, Kan’ichi becomes a moneylender, and years later their paths cross again under changed circumstances. Adapted from a popular serialized novel of the same name.
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応援団長の恋 (1933)
Character: N/A
Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.
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晴曇 (1933)
Character: N/A
Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."
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嫁入り前 (1933)
Character: Masako Takada
Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.
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朧夜の女 (1936)
Character: Okiyo, Fumikichi's wife
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems his uncle's advice may already be too late.
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たけくらべ (1955)
Character: N/A
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
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新道 (1936)
Character: N/A
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.
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東京の英雄 (1935)
Character: Haruko Nemoto
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
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金環蝕 (1934)
Character: Ôsaki's mother
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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三百六十五夜 (1948)
Character: Shizu Oe
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that she may help his company by granting 1.5 million yen. Teruko decides to borrow money from a greedy bar owner who lends her money on certain conditions and photographs her without her consent. A love traingle forms between Koroku, Ranko, and Teruko. Things complicate when Koroku marries Teruko and Tsugawa threatens them for the money causing many twists and turns.
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家庭日記 (1938)
Character: Yasuko
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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必勝歌 (1945)
Character: Ichiro's mother
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
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或る夜の殿様 (1946)
Character: N/A
In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a local noble must not object, and his missing younger brother is the only one who could sway him. Meanwhile, Omitsu, a hotel employee tired of Echigo-ya’s wife’s arrogance, teams up with Kitahara to stage a scheme where a vagrant young man pretends to be the noble’s lost brother, aiming to trick and embarrass the wealthy woman.
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湖畔の人 (1961)
Character: Toshie Ogata
A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved fiancé, comes to a sudden halt, Minako finds herself in search of new love which in turn leads her into a complicated love triangle.
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女醫絹代先生 (1937)
Character: Yone, Yasuo's mother
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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花籠の歌 (1937)
Character: Geisha
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
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山麓 (1962)
Character: Hisako Ueno
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
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美人哀愁 (1931)
Character: Mitsuko
Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.
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黄色い風土 (1961)
Character: N/A
Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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不良少女 (1949)
Character: N/A
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is presumed to be a lost film.
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純情二重奏 (1939)
Character: Eiko's aunt, Osumi
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
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足に触った幸運 (1930)
Character: Toshiko, his Wife
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start borrowing money and selling him things he doesn't need, much to his wife's annoyance. Considered to be a lost film.
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会社員生活 (1929)
Character: Fukuko Tsukamoto
When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a lost film.
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引越し夫婦 (1928)
Character: Chiyoko, Eikichi's wife
When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to be a lost film.
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才女気質 (1959)
Character: N/A
Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.
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愛情会議 (1955)
Character: N/A
The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When the residence is released to them, Mrs. Ishida wants to turn it into a Western style hotel to recoup their fortunes, but returns to Shibuya, swindled and sober.
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蟻の街のマリア (1958)
Character: N/A
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
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新道 後篇・良太の巻 (1936)
Character: N/A
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant...
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母と子 (1938)
Character: Orin, Her Mother
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.
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雪の喪章 (1967)
Character: Ritsu
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.
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若者よなぜ泣くか (1930)
Character: Utako Uesugi
A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.
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婦系図 (1934)
Character: Koyoshi 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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花 (1941)
Character: N/A
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.
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愛 和 力 だ (1930)
Character: N/A
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
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悲願千人斬 (1927)
Character: Miyoshino (Hideryū's concubine)
Japanese silent jidaigeki from 1927.
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夜は曲者 (1927)
Character: N/A
Japanese silent film from 1927.
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輝く昭和 (1928)
Character: Tetsuko Sakurai (Adjudant's wife)
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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青春交響楽 (1928)
Character: Fumiko Yamakawa
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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絹代物語 (1930)
Character: N/A
Japanese silent film from 1930. Directed by Heinosuke Gosho, the film marked a new stage in the artistry of Kinuyo Tanaka, earning acclaim strong enough to greatly expand her following as a leading actress.
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太陽は東より (1932)
Character: Akiko (Miyoko's sister)
The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.
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東洋の母 (1934)
Character: Omura's Wife
Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.
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大空の無法者 (1960)
Character: N/A
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
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奥様に知らすべからず (1937)
Character: Mitsuko, his wife
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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続べらんめえ芸者 (1960)
Character: N/A
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.
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結婚学入門 (1930)
Character: Bar's girl
Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with his wife, the young woman and her husband. Considered to be a lost film.
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モダン怪談100,000,000円 (1929)
Character: Yoshie, wife
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.
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御苦労様 (1928)
Character: N/A
Japanese silent comedy from 1928.
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天国に結ぶ恋 (1932)
Character: N/A
Based on the Sakatayama double suicide
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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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適齢三人娘 (1951)
Character: Teruko Matsukawa
The Matsukawa family lived modestly as a close-knit trio of mother and daughters, relying on the income from the younger daughter, Motoko, who worked at a Western-style clothing store in Ginza, and their meager savings. This film was adapted from Nakano Minoru's original work "Otohime-sama Gojouiki" (The Landing of Princess Otohime), serialized in Lucky magazine.
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旗本喧嘩鷹 (1961)
Character: N/A
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they must take any means possible to get to the bottom of this mystery and find out who is behind them.
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金色夜叉 (1937)
Character: Omiya's mother
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser.
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愛染かつら (1938)
Character: N/A
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to Kyoto finally, but is unable to meet him. Plus she isn't accepted into Kyoto society. She goes back to her hometown and tries to forget him. She quits the hospital to concentrate on her singing. She makes her professional debut with the hit "Aizen Katsura". Kozo is in the audience.
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風流深川唄 (1960)
Character: N/A
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
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別離の歌 (1960)
Character: Sono Toyama (Genzo’s wife)
A university boxing captain struggles between love and ambition as he secretly longs for a woman promised to another. When betrayal and heartbreak push him toward a professional career, loyalty and sacrifice draw him back—ending in a fight against gangsters, a lost championship, and a tearful farewell to youth.
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太陽とバラ (1956)
Character: Neighbour on the left, 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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男性対女性 (1936)
Character: N/A
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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信子 (1940)
Character: Mrs. Hosokawa
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
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血煙り笠 (1962)
Character: N/A
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
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残菊物語 (1956)
Character: Sato
Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese Kabuki theatre. Set in Japan in 1885, the story follows Kikunosuke Onoe, the adopted son of a famous Kabuki actor. Kikunosuke’s father teaches him professional acting skills, preparing him to become his successor and continue the acting dynasty. However, Kikunosuke leaves his family, much to his father’s dismay, to hone his craft outside of Tokyo and moves to Osaka.
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婚約指輪 (1950)
Character: N/A
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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みかへりの塔 (1941)
Character: N/A
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.
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黒い指の男 (1959)
Character: N/A
A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe. After being released from prison, he hopes to be rehabilitated thanks to the love of his family and risks his life to fight the evil that stands in his way.
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太陽に突っ走れ (1966)
Character: N/A
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.
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東京べらんめぇ娘 (1959)
Character: N/A
A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.
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お葬式 (1984)
Character: Mrs. Iwakiri
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
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希望の乙女 (1958)
Character: N/A
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of those around her.
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生きてゐる孫六 (1943)
Character: N/A
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
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上陸第一歩 (1932)
Character: Mrs. in the Tavern
The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.
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戸田家の兄妹 (1941)
Character: Chizuru
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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源氏物語 (1966)
Character: Amagimi
An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.
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紀州の暴れん坊 (1962)
Character: Ohama
This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his parents, hating his legacy and embracing everyone else from simple background. Only love can help him mature, hopefully in time to be a great lord for the people. A story of young Yoshimune, the future Shogun.
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怪談 お岩の亡霊 (1961)
Character: Oyumi
A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her sister falls victim to a scheme, he and his friend manipulate events, but their plans lead to supernatural vengeance.
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淑女と髭 (1931)
Character: Teruo's Mother
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
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怪猫 呪いの沼 (1968)
Character: Kumi
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
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天竜母恋い笠 (1960)
Character: Osai
From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari in one of her most memorable performances as she plays Shintaro and Oharu, a brother and sister, the children of a lumber dealer who had been murdered by the evil boss Kumagoro who plots to take over Shintaro's family business with the help of a corrupt deputy who has fooled the family into believing that he is on their side.
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風の中の子供 (1937)
Character: Mother
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
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愛と死の谷間 (1954)
Character: N/A
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
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また逢ふ日まで (1932)
Character: Another girl
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be a lost film.
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秋津温泉 (1962)
Character: Priest's Wife
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
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子供の四季 (1939)
Character: Mother
The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their grandfather, which means making new friends and struggling with a different environment.
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肉体美 (1928)
Character: N/A
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film.
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座頭市の歌が聞える (1966)
Character: Mother
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
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母を恋はずや (1934)
Character: Chieko
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.
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ひばりの花形探偵合戦 (1958)
Character: N/A
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family.
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長屋紳士録 (1947)
Character: Kikuko
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
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魚河岸の女石松 (1961)
Character: N/A
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.
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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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夜ごとの夢 (1933)
Character: Neighbor's wife
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.
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箱入娘 (1935)
Character: Otaka
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film.
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一人息子 (1936)
Character: Otaka
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
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淑女は何を忘れたか (1937)
Character: Mitsuko
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
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家に三男二女あり (1943)
Character: Mother
A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora after the war. Previously, there is only a 6-minute short version in the National Film Archive, therefore, the full version is this movie is very valuable. This is considered a masterpiece that depicts a happy family of 7 (a father, a mother, 3 sons and 2 daughters).They care about each other, and also trust each other. Father started to ask all the children "what do you want to be in the future?" since an early age. Boys said they want to go to college, they want to be painters, and when it comes to the girls, although they wanted to be generals, their answer was "become a bride, a wife, and a good mother." Brothers and sisters get along well and occasionally fight, but they all discuss the cause, and would apologize to each other. The story was so gentle that it is hard to believe it was during the war.
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君と別れて (1933)
Character: Kikue
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
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ちいさこべ (1962)
Character: N/A
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning combination of drama and humor. The warm friendship that grows between the carpenter, the woman and the children making this into a true masterpiece.
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べらんめえ芸者 (1959)
Character: Sato Akiyama
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?
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人生のお荷物 (1935)
Character: Tamako Fukushima
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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十一人の女学生 (1946)
Character: N/A
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will surely be our confidant," and looked at each other and nodded their heads. This was the beginning of their collective affection for the new Ms. Shiono. The school for girls is a sacred place where the hearts of hundreds of innocent girls should ferment beautifully and freely for the day when they will become wives and mothers to come. How can we abandon them in such a state? Even after the nightmarish war was over, the nightmare remained at Shuei Girls' School.
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姉妹 (1953)
Character: N/A
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), and the third was Mihato (Hibari Misora). Mihato was still a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, but she considered herself as mature as her older sisters. Mihato knows that Tsugumi is friends with Ippei Yaguchi (Masao Wakahara) and acts as a love messenger between them, but she didn't know that Takako is also in love with Ippei...
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