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渦 (1961)
Character: N/A
1961 Japanese movie
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智恵子抄 (1967)
Character: N/A
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...
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三味線とオートバイ (1961)
Character: Mikio
A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
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悪人志願 (1960)
Character: Tabo
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
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下町の太陽 (1963)
Character: N/A
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
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山の讃歌 燃ゆる若者たち (1962)
Character: N/A
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
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春の夢 (1960)
Character: Eiichi Katô
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
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太陽とバラ (1956)
Character: Chôshichi Tsuji
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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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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夕やけ雲 (1956)
Character: Yôichi Akimoto
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
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野菊の如き君なりき (1955)
Character: Masao, as a teenager
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
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風前の灯 (1957)
Character: Kohei
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
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今日もまたかくてありなん (1959)
Character: Man C
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
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朝を呼ぶ口笛 (1959)
Character: N/A
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bill and gave up going to high school. His friends heard about this, and they donated money to his mother. So, Minoru goes to high school and yet he delivers newspapers cheerfully whistling every morning. A memorable film debut by Sayuri Yoshinaga, a representative of the Japanese film industry.The film adaptation of "Newspaper Delivery" by Minoru Yoshida, who won the Minister of Education Award at the national small and Medium student essay competition.
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乾いた湖 (1960)
Character: Takao Nagai
Young people are caught up in the political revolt that culminates in student riots against the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty. Nihilist Takuya, politically engaged but also confused––he decorates his walls with pictures of political figures ranging from FDR to Hitler to Castro––becomes involved with Yoko, whose politician father has recently committed suicide, brought on by threats to expose his corruption. Her family is left penniless by his death and, with the consent of their mother, her older sister has agreed to sleep with a conservative pundit for monetary favors.
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笛吹川 (1960)
Character: Heikichi - 3rd Son
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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私たちの結婚 (1962)
Character: Suzuki
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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裸の島 (1960)
Character: Taro
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
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涙を、獅子のたて髪に (1962)
Character: N/A
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.
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歌え若人達 (1963)
Character: Criminal
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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青春残酷物語 (1960)
Character: Yoshimi Ito
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
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