Yukiko Todoroki

Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

Genre: Music

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koreya Senda

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

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

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...

Genre: War

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Shin Saburi

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Genre: History

Cast: Susumu Fujita

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuhiko Haida

The story of five sisters.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

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Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Gō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Akaboshi

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

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Cast: Koji Nakata

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Half a Loaf... Avarice / Yoku

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Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Ryō Hagiwara movie

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Directorioal debut of Santaro Marune

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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Cast: Ken Uehara

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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Cast: Ken Uehara

An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chieko Baisho

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

1947 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Japanese horror movie from 1948.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mineko Bandai