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死者との結婚 (1960)
Character: N/A
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
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愛国の花 (1942)
Character: N/A
A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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現代人 (1952)
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A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.
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輝く昭和 (1928)
Character: Jinichi Kanda (Orderly's Son, Second Chapter)
Japanese silent film from 1928.
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夜の片鱗 (1964)
Character: N/A
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing demeanor and constant demands for money lead Yoshie down a dark path.
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君の名は (1953)
Character: N/A
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
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鍵を握る女 (1946)
Character: N/A
Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.
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この広い空のどこかに (1954)
Character: N/A
A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.
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ゼロの焦点 (1961)
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One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
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好人好日 (1961)
Character: N/A
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
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白痴 (1951)
Character: N/A
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
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安城家の舞踏会 (1947)
Character: N/A
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.
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東京物語 (1953)
Character: Inspired Man
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
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恋の片道切符 (1960)
Character: Paris Theater dressing room keeper
The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
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秋津温泉 (1962)
Character: N/A
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
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乾いた花 (1964)
Character: N/A
A recently released gangster has to cope with the recent shifts of power between gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
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