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なみだ川 (1967)
Character: Yasuke Shinanoya
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu learns of this decision, she takes matters in her own hands.
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スーダラ節 わかっちゃいるけどやめられねぇ (1962)
Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie based on the Crazy Cats smash hit single, "Sudara Festival", sung by Hitoshi Ueki.
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青葉城の鬼 (1962)
Character: N/A
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advisors from his entourage were assassinated, calling into question the possessions of the Date family.
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東京の瞳 (1958)
Character: N/A
A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around these four characters.
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風雪の春 (1943)
Character: N/A
A story about volunteering in the rural silk farming industry. Recommended by the Ministry of Education.
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二人で見る星 (1947)
Character: N/A
A film depicting a woman who gradually awakens to a new Japanese style of romance, moving away from the old Japanese style.
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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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禁断 (1962)
Character: N/A
Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her.
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女は夜化粧する (1961)
Character: N/A
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.
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婦系図湯島の白梅 (1955)
Character: N/A
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.
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永すぎた春 (1957)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
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雷雨 (1946)
Character: N/A
Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is devastated to learn that his former lover, Mitsuko, had become the wife of Professor Oikawa. Now a married woman, Mitsuko is shocked to learn that Yamagami, who had been falsely reported as dead, is still alive. Conflicted about her feelings, Mitsuko confesses everything to her husband.
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オリオン星座 (1948)
Character: N/A
A unique tale of romance and action in which an escaped convict fights villains to save his comrade’s sister from danger, only to fall in battle.
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貴族の階段 (1959)
Character: N/A
A romantic tale depicting the beautiful and tragic love between a young man and woman from aristocratic families who are caught in the crossfire of the February 26 Incident.
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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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母燈台 (1949)
Character: N/A
Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named Nanbu. However, during a police raid, Michiko was the only unlucky one to be taken into custody. The next morning, her mother Chiyo was summoned to pick her up and was reunited there with her biological son, Prosecutor Hagiwara.
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母月夜 (1951)
Character: N/A
Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered through the window at her daughter in her wedding gown, her eyes filled with tears.
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自由学校 (1951)
Character: N/A
Released on the same date as Shochiku's version.
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四谷怪談 お岩の亡霊 (1969)
Character: N/A
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.
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囁く死美人 (1963)
Character: N/A
Fujiko Niwa, a nurse, is in love with Dr. Suga, but fear clutches her heart when she overhears that Reiko, the Director's daughter, is coming to the hospital to see the man she hopes to marry.
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嵐の講道館 (1958)
Character: N/A
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to use the school for teaching the Ryukyu art of Karate.
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いそぎんちゃく (1969)
Character: N/A
The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.
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指名犯人 (1950)
Character: N/A
A brutal murder in the dead of night. While the man who left bloody fingerprints and footprints screams he is innocent, the intelligent criminal, driven by greed and lust, smirks in the shadows.
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毒蛇島奇談 女王蜂 (1952)
Character: N/A
A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.
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情熱の人魚 (1948)
Character: N/A
A musical film marking Yoshiko Yamaguchi's debut at Daiei.
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肉弾挺身隊 (1944)
Character: N/A
This film depicts the fighting spirit of the frontline troops on Guadalcanal.
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共犯者 (1958)
Character: N/A
Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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巨人 大隈重信 (1963)
Character: N/A
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
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酔いどれ博士 (1966)
Character: Hospital director
Film by director Kenji Misumi
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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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銀座っ子物語 (1961)
Character: N/A
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.
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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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奴隷の街 (1951)
Character: N/A
Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was deceived by a man named Taichi Tachikawa and sold into prostitution in a red-light district. He then set foot in this district for the first time and met Michiko Kawabe, a female reporter known by the nickname “Yoshie.” After hearing various details about the situation from her, he learned that Toyo was at “Kotogawa.”
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大菩薩峠 (1960)
Character: Itsumi Toshiyasu
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
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看護婦の日記 (1947)
Character: N/A
Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.
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女賭博師壷くらべ (1970)
Character: N/A
16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
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妖僧 (1963)
Character: Коскэ
A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara period (710–794 A.D.).
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巨人と玩具 (1958)
Character: Fuyusaki
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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母のおもかげ (1959)
Character: Teacher
The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of her own. As Michio clings to memories of his mother, the family navigates the challenges of grief, love, and new beginnings.
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雪の喪章 (1967)
Character: N/A
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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からっ風野郎 (1960)
Character: Iwasaki
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: Forensic Professor
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
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透明人間と蝿男 (1957)
Character: Director Tada
Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime.
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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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ぐれん隊純情派 (1963)
Character: Police Chief
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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安珍と清姫 (1960)
Character: Sasuke
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spite of her beauty. One night, while Anchin is recuperating in a hot spring, he is approached by Kiyo. She tells him that she is in love with him.
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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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新源氏物語 (1961)
Character: N/A
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imperial court, while still mourning the spirit of his late mother who died while he was still a child. Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother originally caught the eye of the emperor, young Genji embarks upon a reckless affair with her that could cost him his life.
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浮草 (1959)
Character: Rokusaburo
A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
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偽大学生 (1960)
Character: N/A
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
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黒い樹海 (1960)
Character: N/A
Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her sister's friendships to unravel the mystery of her mysterious death...
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夜光る顔 (1946)
Character: N/A
Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole to the government. The next day, the jewel disappears. Investigator Yamazaki investigates...
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黒の爆走 (1964)
Character: N/A
Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio Yazawa, the boss of the Sakamoto Motorcycle Club.
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夜行列車の女 (1947)
Character: N/A
Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is robbed! The second woman is almost killed! The third woman attempts suicide!
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ある婦人科医の告白 (1950)
Character: N/A
A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...
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あこがれの練習船 (1956)
Character: N/A
A youthful film filled with youth and passion, set against the backdrop of the ocean and filled with admiration for a dynamic young man and the heart of a girl whose eyes are filled with pure love!
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女賭博師 丁半旅 (1969)
Character: N/A
14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
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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: Tadokoro
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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秘剣破り (1969)
Character: N/A
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira.
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夜の蝶 (1957)
Character: N/A
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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楊貴妃 (1955)
Character: N/A
In 8th-century China, the Emperor grieves the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their court influence. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen, whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets.
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