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うるさい妹たち (1961)
Character: Tsuchiya
Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
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現代インチキ物語 騙し屋 (1964)
Character: Parent B
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
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夜のプラットフォーム (1948)
Character: N/A
A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.
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毒薔薇 (1949)
Character: N/A
A Daiei erotic film depicting the five passionate love affairs of a voluptuous married woman, driven by her beauty.
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花の日月 (1949)
Character: N/A
Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry Yukiko, his father’s niece, whom the hospital director had arranged for him to wed, and eventually ran away from home to live alone in an apartment. However, following his father’s sudden death, Tsutsui, a newly rich man who had invested heavily in Sakai Hospital, was plotting to seize control of the hospital by taking advantage of the situation.
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愛染草 (1949)
Character: N/A
A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.
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三悪人と赤ん坊 (1950)
Character: N/A
A desperate detective on the trail of criminals who are holding a baby hostage and demanding one million yen
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泥にまみれて (1951)
Character: N/A
A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.
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飛騨の小天狗 (1951)
Character: N/A
A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life are on the line.
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白鷺 (1958)
Character: N/A
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
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乳房 (1937)
Character: Yamamoto
Japanese drama film.
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女が愛して憎むとき (1963)
Character: N/A
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair.
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新雪 (1942)
Character: N/A
Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.
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私の選んだ人 (1959)
Character: N/A
A 1959 film directed by Hiromu Edagawa.
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花の大障碍 (1959)
Character: N/A
A heartwarming tale of romance and thrills featuring an aging groom who discovers the potential of an exceptional racehorse hidden within an ordinary bloodline and dedicates his life to that horse, and an up-and-coming jockey, set against the backdrop of a thrilling steeplechase race.
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満月 (1949)
Character: N/A
A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.
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母椿 (1950)
Character: N/A
Kamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was retiring from the stage. That child was, in fact, the son of Takashi Yashiro, a politician with a promising future. Believing that a relationship between a politician and a female manzai comedian would bring unhappiness to Yashiro and his wife, Tsuruko changed her address and was even preparing to leave the stage. Tsuruko’s alcoholic father, having caught wind of this, snatched the child, Yoko, and squandered the small sum of money he had received from Yashiro on drinking.
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拳銃の前に立つ母 (1950)
Character: N/A
Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints coldly in the child’s hand.
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母千鳥 (1951)
Character: N/A
Due to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.
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サラリーマンどんと節 気楽な稼業と来たもんだ (1962)
Character: N/A
The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of the Hajime Hana and the Crazy Cats.
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ラーメン大使 (1967)
Character: N/A
Frankie Sakai plays a Chino-Japanese man who after trudging along in odd jobs discovers his true talent in making excellent, tasty and somewhat spicy ramen. As well as friendship and love, too...
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四十八歳の抵抗 (1956)
Character: N/A
A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth with a teenage girl, and a daughter in her twenties who falls in love with a younger man and champions sexual liberation.
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あさ潮ゆう潮 (1956)
Character: N/A
A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high birth, the other a maid, are manipulated by the threads of fate as they vie for the affection of the same young man.
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背広の忍者 (1963)
Character: N/A
An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident.
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電話は夕方に鳴る (1959)
Character: N/A
In a peaceful town near the Seto Inland Sea, a threatening letter arrives along with the ringing of a telephone... A thriller-comedy that sets this stagnant town ablaze.
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日本橋 (1956)
Character: Kiyoha's Husband
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
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姿なき一〇八部隊 (1956)
Character: N/A
A poignant and deeply moving story of the officers and men of the Saipan “Total Annihilation” Unit, who, longing for their loved ones back home, return to their homeland unseen.
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不敵な男 (1958)
Character: N/A
A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
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日露戦争勝利の秘史 敵中横断三百里 (1957)
Character: N/A
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
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真昼の罠 (1962)
Character: N/A
A businessman who dreams of a successful career ends up embroiled in a murder case after a love affair.
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轉落の詩集 (1950)
Character: N/A
The story of a young police officer who risks his career to save the soul of a woman who curses societal evils and chooses the path of self-destruction.
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大怪獣決闘 ガメラ対バルゴン (1966)
Character: Governor of Osaka
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
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巨人と玩具 (1958)
Character: Akimura
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
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黒の超特急 (1964)
Character: Daito
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
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足にさわった女 (1960)
Character: N/A
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
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地上 (1957)
Character: chief
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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からっ風野郎 (1960)
Character: Akama
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.
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黒の報告書 (1963)
Character: Fukamachi Genzo
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
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女経 (1960)
Character: N/A
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
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氷壁 (1958)
Character: N/A
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
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妻の日の愛のかたみに (1965)
Character: N/A
A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.
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満員電車 (1957)
Character: N/A
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
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母紅梅 (1949)
Character: N/A
The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.
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最高殊勲夫人 (1959)
Character: N/A
Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...
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ぐれん隊純情派 (1963)
Character: N/A
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
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暖流 (1957)
Character: Dr. Sakaki
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
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氾濫 (1959)
Character: N/A
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
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女の賭場 (1966)
Character: N/A
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.
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人情馬鹿 (1956)
Character: N/A
Performing every night for an audience of male admirers, cabaret singer Yuri captures the attention of Yoshio Tsugawa, a motorcycle salesman who becomes hopelessly enchanted by the unattainable star. In his desperation to win her favor, Yoshio deceives his own customers to support Yuri’s glamorous lifestyle, ultimately ending up imprisoned for embezzlement.
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鍵 (1959)
Character: N/A
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
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黒の試走車 (1962)
Character: Kurokawa
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
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無法者の島 (1956)
Character: N/A
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous for its bullfights. Today there is also a bull market in the village, and there are extremely many people here. The black bull "Great Tengu", which Gonzo from Misaki offered, cost 50,000, but was forcibly taken away by a Bakuro soldier, who possessed extraordinary strength and physique, for less than half the price. However, the violent soldier was in love with Tsunayo, the hostess of the inn and the organizer of the bullfight. One day, a young man from the city, an Ihara police officer, arrives in the village. And soon the real problems will begin…
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清作の妻 (1965)
Character: Father
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.
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