Chieko Higashiyama

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shūji Sano

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a...

Genre: History

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

Genre: War

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasumi Hara

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kuniko Igawa

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Japanese mystery thriller.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hisako Yamane

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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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Cast: Akiko Koyama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Matsukawa

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

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Cast: Hitomi Nozoe

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chikage Awashima

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Itoko Kōno

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...

Genre: War

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Wakahara

The Siege of Osaka

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

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Cast: Tomoko Ogawa

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomomi Satô

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Wakayama

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Cast: Onoe Baiko VII

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Higashiyama

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ineko Arima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadao Maruyama

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

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Cast: Rieko Sumi

First japanese talking movie.

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Cast: Teruko Kishi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Fujita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa