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都会交響楽 (1929)
Character: N/A
A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.
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次郎長三国志 第六部 旅がらす次郎長一家 (1953)
Character: N/A
A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
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突貫驛長 (1945)
Character: N/A
Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita
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放浪記 (1935)
Character: Miyo
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
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思春期 (1952)
Character: Shizuko, Kyoko's mother
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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社長紳士録 (1964)
Character: Tsutomu Harada's mother
A lighthearted satire of Japan’s postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman’s Register blends farce, romance, and boardroom comedy with the polished charm of 1960s salaryman cinema. When mild-mannered secretary Tsutomu Harada’s wedding is postponed yet again due to the sudden promotion of his matchmaker, Reitarō Koizumi, to company president, chaos ensues in the world of business and matrimony alike. At a raucous nightclub party, a game of musical chairs leads to injury, scandal, and rivalry with a competing paper-bag tycoon. Limping through his first day as president, Reitarō faces corporate sabotage, eccentric clients, and a disastrously comic “business trip” that tangles together love, liquor, and misplaced ambition.
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見合い旅行 (1955)
Character: N/A
A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film.
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世紀の合唱 愛国行進曲 (1938)
Character: Mrs. Setoguchi
A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese Navy band to his later years when his music, in particular the famed “Warship March” (Gunkan kōshinkyoku), surged in popularity.
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三つの真珠 (1949)
Character: N/A
Expressing the distinct personalities of the three daughters.
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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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若い人 (1937)
Character: Keiko's mother Hatsu
Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki (Obinata) speaks up for Keiko, one of the girls at the school, every time she causes problems because he feels sorry for her, a child born out of wedlock. Sumi (Natsukawa), one of Masaki’s colleagues and who is secretly in love with him, strongly disagrees with him about Keiko. Then Sumi hears a rumor that Keiko is pregnant with Masaki's child . . . .
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愛妻物語 (1951)
Character: N/A
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
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縮図 (1953)
Character: N/A
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
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兄いもうと (1936)
Character: N/A
Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter foreman on the damn, lacks control of his family.
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樋口一葉 (1939)
Character: Utako Nakajima
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
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女学生記 (1941)
Character: Sanae's mother
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
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嫁ぐ日まで (1940)
Character: N/A
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.
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続思春期 (1953)
Character: Ume Sakai (uncredited)
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
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小羊 (1923)
Character: N/A
Film can be viewed on the National Film Archive of Japan YouTube channel under the title "【全篇】『小羊』1923年｜「はじまりの日本劇映画 映画 meets 新派・新劇・新国劇」より." In English, that would roughly translate to: "[Full length] "The Lamb" 1923 | From "The Beginnings of Japanese Feature Film: Film meets Shinpa, Shingeki, and Shinkokugeki"."
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赤線基地 (1953)
Character: Otoku Kawanabe
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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奥村五百子 (1940)
Character: N/A
Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda
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春雪 (1950)
Character: Shizue Yoshikawa
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy.
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人生とんぼ返り (1946)
Character: N/A
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
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緑の大地 (1942)
Character: N/A
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.
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青春の気流 (1942)
Character: Miho's Mother
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less assertive as his bride.
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村八分 (1953)
Character: N/A
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
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鐘の鳴る丘 第一篇 隆太の巻 (1948)
Character: N/A
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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鐘の鳴る丘 第一篇 隆太の巻 (1948)
Character: Kane
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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鐘の鳴る丘 第二篇 修吉の巻 (1949)
Character: Kane
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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鐘の鳴る丘 第三篇 クロの巻 (1949)
Character: Kane
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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麗人 (1946)
Character: Tomi
The story is based on the life of a poet who lived in Japan in the Taisho era. When her fiancé is arrested she believes he has suddenly disappeared and that he has abandoned her. She faces a dilemma. Despite her family being of a high class, they do not have money, which means she has to get married to someone who does. This drives her to marriage with an older man whose sole affection is directed at her looks and outside. Then she meets her freed fiancé.
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若い先生 (1942)
Character: Senzo's mother
A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.
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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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坊っちゃん (1958)
Character: Kiyo
1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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吾輩は猫である (1936)
Character: Sensei Kushami's wife
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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坊っちゃん (1935)
Character: Kiyo
1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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続 へそくり社長 (1956)
Character: N/A
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
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社長忍法帖 (1965)
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The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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続・社長三代記 (1958)
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The fifth entry in the Company President Series
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社長太平記 (1959)
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Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
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社長漫遊記 (1963)
Character: N/A
It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. The president of the U. s.solar paint, heitaro Domoto (Morishige), has become completely American, and plans to rationalize the company to the American style and prohibit the company's entertainment. Members of the Taiko Kyushu Branch Company (Ryohei Miki), who were living in the banquet, were hit by a big blow, and the company and the meeting club were very annoying. After that, the president who went to the business trip to Kyushu met with a sexy Geisha (Junko Ikeuchi) on the way to the tour, and he felt like a fool.
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社長道中記 (1961)
Character: Kuwabara Masa
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.
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終電車の死美人 (1955)
Character: N/A
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
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続 社長外遊記 (1963)
Character: Mine Nakamura (Hiroshi's Mother)
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By the time they resume business, the target property is lost to a rival—forcing an abrupt return to Japan with both deals and relationships unresolved.
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社長千一夜 (1967)
Character: Matsuko Kimura (Nobuyoshi’s Mother)
In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70.
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続 社長えんま帖 (1969)
Character: Saijō Kikue (Takashi's mother)
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes major changes and internal power shifts.
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続 社長学ABC (1970)
Character: Tanba Aguri
A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles.
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暴力の街 (1950)
Character: Kita's mother
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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社長えんま帖 (1969)
Character: Kikue Saijō (Takashi’s Mother)
A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate pressure, romantic entanglements, and a high-profile international partnership.
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日本戦歿学生の手記 きけ、わだつみの声 (1950)
Character: N/A
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.
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千羽鶴 (1953)
Character: N/A
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
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娘の中の娘 (1958)
Character: Kiyo
Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
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続 社長漫遊記 (1963)
Character: Tetsu Kimura (Susumu’s Mother)
While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas client, only to face setbacks both in work and in the personal affairs of his team.
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社長外遊記 (1963)
Character: Nakamura Mine (Hiroshi’s Mother)
Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and miscommunication. By the time they act, the property is lost to a rival, forcing an abrupt return to Tokyo and uncertain outcomes.
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続 社長忍法帖 (1965)
Character: Matsu Ishikawa (Takashi's mother)
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal conflicts, missed deals, and a lost hotel contract. Redemption comes when they restore a fire-damaged department store, earning overdue payment and a morale boost.
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社長行状記 (1966)
Character: Tetsu (Keigo’s mother)
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a world-renowned fashion designer.
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続 社長行状記 (1966)
Character: Tetsu Kojima
As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand into women’s apparel through a deepening partnership with a French firm.
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続 社長千一夜 (1967)
Character: Matsuko Kimura (Shingo’s mother)
In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70.
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社長繁盛記 (1968)
Character: Matsuno (Kenichi's Mother)
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.
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続 社長繁盛記 (1968)
Character: Matsuno Honjō
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.
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社長学ABC (1970)
Character: Aguri Tamba
A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership confusion.
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エノケンの法界坊 (1938)
Character: N/A
An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.
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恋愛自由型 (1958)
Character: N/A
The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship.
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巨人伝 (1938)
Character: N/A
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.
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上海陸戦隊 (1939)
Character: N/A
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
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エノケンの青春酔虎伝 (1934)
Character: Enomoto's mother
In 1930s Tokyo, the energetic Enoken and his ragtag group of friends navigate a series of chaotic misadventures involving romance and poverty.
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決戰の大空へ (1943)
Character: N/A
Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recruits. Yokaren was highly selective, and thus an object of great fascination and desire for boys and young men. In this Navy–sponsored film, Setsuko Hara plays the daughter of a family that often entertains recruits on their days off—a surrogate sister to many trainees. Her fragile younger brother aspires to join the program, but is rejected. With perseverance and much support from Hara and their mother, he surmounts his weaknesses and becomes a flier.
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希望の青空 (1942)
Character: Take
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
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源氏物語 (1951)
Character: Kiritsubo's mother
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
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春の目ざめ (1947)
Character: Akiko Tanai
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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ジャコ萬と鉄 (1949)
Character: N/A
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
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大いなる旅路 (1960)
Character: N/A
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .
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原爆の子 (1952)
Character: Oine
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
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禍福 前篇 (1937)
Character: Shintaro's mother
Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. The two lovers flee to Tokyo, but when Shintaro returns to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the marriage meeting with Yurie. Part one of a two-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan.
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警視庁物語 七人の追跡者 (1958)
Character: N/A
The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin manufacturing company. At the age of 26, she was a widow with a child, and she went missing after he went to collect her salary from the bank. A colleague at work said the victim was wearing an opal ring, but the bank clerk says she wore a jade ring when he came to withdraw money.
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妻よ薔薇のやうに (1935)
Character: Oyuki
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.
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路上の霊魂 (1921)
Character: Peer's daughter
A small town boy dreams of being a famous fiddler; Meanwhile, two convicts escape from prison and hide in the woods.
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悪魔の乾杯 (1947)
Character: N/A
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in the hotel. But when an ex-actress who is also a guest there mentions an unsolved murder that occurred on the spot over a year ago, Kurusu decides to investigate.
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新しき土 (1937)
Character: Oiku, the Maid
Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.
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三大怪獣 地球最大の決戦 (1964)
Character: Mother Shindo
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
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わかれ (1959)
Character: N/A
A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.
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海峡、血に染めて (1961)
Character: Yae Funakoshi
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
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警視庁物語 不在証明 (1961)
Character: N/A
The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an alibi for the suspects. A security guard was killed in the building, the safe was broken into, but nothing was stolen. The three suspects have alibis, but who then killed the guard and broke into the safe? The 15th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department. Sonny Chiba's first film role as one of the seven detectives.
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大当り三色娘 (1957)
Character: Hamako Okada
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.
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青い眞珠 (1951)
Character: N/A
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
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この二人に幸あれ (1957)
Character: N/A
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
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狼 (1955)
Character: N/A
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
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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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姉妹の約束 (1940)
Character: Satoko
A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a doctor who has to join the army and work at war. The four remaining women have to take care of themselves. The eldest sister is calm and lady-like. The middle sister (played by Hara Setsuko), in contrast, is active and contemporary. She aspires to be a physician too. The story is based on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
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江分利満氏の優雅な生活 (1963)
Character: N/A
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
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雪崩 (1937)
Character: Gorô's Mother
The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.
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ハナ子さん (1943)
Character: Hanako's mother
Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy under the wartime, was made into a film from comic serials by SUGIURA Yukio published in a magazine.
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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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