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螢の光 (1955)
Character: N/A
A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.
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薔薇いくたびか (1955)
Character: N/A
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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月よりの使者 (1954)
Character: Ichiro Totsuka
Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
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素っ裸の青春 (1958)
Character: N/A
A youth movie depicting the love between college students.
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続々十代の性典 (1953)
Character: N/A
Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
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十代の誘惑 (1953)
Character: N/A
Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
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女賭博師花の切り札 (1969)
Character: N/A
15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
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親不孝通り (1958)
Character: Shuichi Ema
A young delinquent wants to avenge his sister from a college student who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the student's sister to make him suffer the same fate.
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現代インチキ物語 騙し屋 (1964)
Character: Fugu
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
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セクシー・サイン 好き好き好き (1960)
Character: N/A
Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting and an advertising poster. The other is about coaching the hockey team. Simultaneously, however, he is head over heels for three gals, one is a hairdresser, one is a fashion model and of course the third is part of the cheering squad for the hockey team.
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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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帯をとく夏子 (1965)
Character: N/A
"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to re-marry she insists he either wed or stop seeing her. Returning home, she again meets the man she first loved and for a time thinks of married happiness."
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破戒 (1962)
Character: Keinoshin Kazama
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.
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ど根性物語 銭の踊り (1964)
Character: N/A
Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.
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金色夜叉 (1954)
Character: Tomiyama
Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon
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Seinen no Ki (1977)
Character: N/A
Takeshi, bound to be an outlaw youth, boards at the home of his female schoolmate who works at the family restaurant in devil-may-care Akasaka.
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夜の素顔 (1958)
Character: N/A
A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to the top.
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夜の蝶 (1957)
Character: Shuji
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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傷だらけの山河 (1964)
Character: Kazuo Arima
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.
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春琴物語 (1954)
Character: N/A
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
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安宅家の人々 (1952)
Character: Soichi Ataka
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt halt when Soichi's half-brother, Joji returns with his wife Masako after failing in a business.
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嘘 (1963)
Character: N/A
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
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古都憂愁 姉いもうと (1967)
Character: Shinkichi Yûki
Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of their cuisine in jeopardy...
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女妖 (1960)
Character: Tosaku Yakata / Toku Ogata
Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
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青い性 (1964)
Character: N/A
Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
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人情馬鹿 (1956)
Character: Tadao
A young man steals money for a cabaret singer.
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永すぎた春 (1957)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
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虹いくたび (1956)
Character: N/A
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they have not had. While Asako is a sweet young lady, Momoko, the eldest, goes out with whomever she wants, thus hiding the trauma caused by seduction and abandonment during the war by young Keita Aoki. One day Keita re-enters her life.
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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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怪談蚊喰鳥 (1961)
Character: Toku no Ichi / Tatsu no Ichi
Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.
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家庭の事情 (1962)
Character: N/A
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.
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暴力の街 (1950)
Character: Ozaki
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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共犯者 (1958)
Character: N/A
Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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婦系図 (1962)
Character: Menosuke
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.
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巨人 大隈重信 (1963)
Character: Yukichi Fukuzawa
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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痴人の愛 (1960)
Character: Jōji Kawai
A young man (Eiji Funakoshi) lavishes his complete attention and resources on a beautiful young girl (Junko Kano) who was picked up in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo.
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足にさわった女 (1960)
Character: Writer Gomu
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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江梨子 (1962)
Character: Sobei Nodera
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
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日本橋 (1956)
Character: Shinpachiro Kasahara
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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雑兵物語 (1963)
Character: Yaju
The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks more like a boy than a girl, to join, disguised as a man.
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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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勝利と敗北 (1960)
Character: Ryusuke Suma
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title fight, but his comrade Hata (Kojiro Hongo) is not happy with this choice, and so he moves to the gym run by the criminal businessman Goda (Toru Abe) and burning desire to beat Yamanaka.
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細雪 (1959)
Character: N/A
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
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踊子 (1957)
Character: Yamano
In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.
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顔 (1960)
Character: N/A
A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
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陸軍中野学校 開戦前夜 (1968)
Character: Goro Mizuike
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.
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爛 (1962)
Character: Aoyagi
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up.
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Маленький беглец (1966)
Character: Japanese in Leningrad and Moscow
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.
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黒の超特急 (1964)
Character: Masayoshi Zaitsu
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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好色一代男 (1961)
Character: N/A
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.
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流転の王妃 (1960)
Character: Futetsu (Fuketsu Aishinkakura)
Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war.
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からっ風野郎 (1960)
Character: Susumu Aikawa
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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女の勲章 (1961)
Character: N/A
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
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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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大怪獣ガメラ (1965)
Character: Dr. Hidaka
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
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男はつらいよ 寅次郎相合い傘 (1975)
Character: Hyodo
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
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穴 (1957)
Character: Koisuke Sengi
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.
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死美人事件 (1948)
Character: N/A
A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a now retired drug crime specialist, to cooperate. Kubota and his friends soon find the house of the murdered beauty and upon entering, they are surprised to find another corpse, this time of a man…
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ぼんち (1960)
Character: Kihei
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
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しとやかな獣 (1962)
Character: Eisaku Kamiya, the tax collector
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
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盲獣 (1969)
Character: Michio
A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.
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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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東京犯罪地図 (1956)
Character: N/A
An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.
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銭形平次捕物控 美人鮫 (1961)
Character: N/A
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.
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暖流 (1957)
Character: Yasuhiko Shima
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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千羽鶴 (1969)
Character: Kikuji's father
The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life.
Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.
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南氏大いに惑う (1958)
Character: N/A
Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko.
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白い巨塔 (1966)
Character: N/A
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
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卍(まんじ) (1964)
Character: Kotaro Kakiuchi
The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
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黒い十人の女 (1961)
Character: Kaze
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.
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新女性問答 (1955)
Character: N/A
A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth film!
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婚期 (1961)
Character: N/A
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete lack of consideration under polite and superficially perfect manners.
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偽大学生 (1960)
Character: Kyosuke Kuniyuki
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
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怪談おとし穴 (1968)
Character: Fumio Nishino
Horror film directed by Koji Shima.
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女の家庭 (1977)
Character: N/A
The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.
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氷点 (1966)
Character: Keizo
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital affair she was unable to watch over their child properly and blames her for their daughter's death. To exact revenge on his wife, he then adopts the killer's child without telling the truth to his wife or their newly adopted child.
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次郎長富士 (1959)
Character: N/A
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
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雪之丞変化 (1963)
Character: Heima Kadokura
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
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野火 (1959)
Character: Tamura
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
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忠臣蔵 (1958)
Character: Tsunanori Uesugi
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.
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花実のない森 (1965)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
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黒の試走車 (1962)
Character: Kimio Hiraki
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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幽霊塔 (1948)
Character: Tatsuo Tsuchiya
Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.
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ガメラ対大悪獣ギロン (1969)
Character: Dr. Shiga
Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.
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あにいもうと (1953)
Character: Kobata
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
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私は二歳 (1962)
Character: Goro
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
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Gammera the Invincible (1966)
Character: Dr. Hidaka
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
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