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A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
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A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
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During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
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August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
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Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartment) in Okazakijoka town with his sick wife, Sugie (Ai Kanzaki). He was also a good swordsman who had taught swordsmanship in Akita a long time ago. He takes such good care of his wife that he is called a wife-loving man. He got involved in a conflict for succession because he pretended to become an officer to please her wife.
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京浜工業地帯の一角で鉄工所を経営している川瀬周三は、昭和４１年になって、めっきり身体のおとろえを覚え、工場の実務を２６歳になる一人息子の武志に譲った。そして、秋には、妻・雪枝の郷里から田切杏子を迎え、結婚式をひかえていた。順風満帆、周三にはおだやかな老後が残されているだけのように思えた。昭和４１年５月、武志は、友人吉川と近くの釣り堀に出かけた帰り道、ある若者とすれ違った瞬間、腹部を刃物で刺され「お父さん、口惜しいよ、こんなことで死ぬなんて、仇は必ずとってくれよ」と言うと、周三の腕の中で息たえた。
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覚えのない当て逃げ容疑で捕まった桃次郎は、その誤解がもとで女性トラック運転手の夏と知り合う。勝ち気な彼女に反発を覚える桃次郎だが、やがて野性的な夏のとりこになっていく。一方、材木運輸を手伝っていたジョナサンが慣れない道で事故を起こし、桃次郎が代役を務めることに。木曽の山中にある運送会社を訪ねた桃次郎は、なんとそこで夏と再会。彼女はその運送会社の社長の養女だった。
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One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to the silver screen in a dynamic and exciting tale featuring megastar Toshiro Mifune as an expert swordsman drawn into the action to fight injustice. The Elder Lord travels about disguised as a retired merchant with his two trusty bodyguards Sukesaburo and Kakunoshin by his side and secret agent Yashichi close by. After a chance meeting with a dying man and young woman who had been brutally attacked, they set out for Kaga Province to wreak vengeance on the responsible parties. Don’t miss this exciting journey into Japanese history!
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部落解放運動の優れた指導者、松本治一郎の権力に屈せず、闘い抜いた半生を描く。監督は『博奕打ち 総長賭博』の山下耕作。明治41年、治一郎は徴兵検査において被差別部落出身ということで差別した軍の係官と争うが、そのため不合格となり、差別のない世界を求めて大陸へ渡る。しかし大陸も国内同様で、治一郎は失意のうちに帰国し、やがて用水路の工事現場で働くようになる。ここで治一郎は不当な差別に対し敢然と立ち上がり、部落解放運動の道を歩み出す。
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独身の長距離トラック運転手、“一番星”こと桃次郎は、姫路のドライブインでアルバイト中の女子大生、瑛子に一目惚れしてしまう。桃次郎は彼女に気に入られようと無理をして、自分が文学青年であるかのように振る舞うことに。やがて桃次郎のトラックに当たり屋の男、松吉がぶつかるが、松吉は桃次郎の相棒“やもめのジョナサン”こと金造が出会った小学生姉弟の生き別れた父親だった。桃次郎は松吉の再出発に力を貸そうとする。
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ケンカっ早い独身の長距離トラック運転手、《一番星》こと星桃次郎と、妻や何人もいる子どもを養うのに忙しい《やもめのジョナサン》こと松下金造。2人は性格も生活の様子も正反対だが固い友情で結ばれた同業者同士。トラックの装飾とハンドルさばきを自慢する桃次郎に、西日本一のトラック野郎を自称する《関門のドラゴン》が挑戦してくる。同じころ、桃次郎は盛岡のドライブインで働くウエートレスの洋子に一目惚れしてしまう。
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Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
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一人の東洋人の男がいる。各国の秘密諜報機関、シンジケートから密やかに依頼される、世界暗殺舞台を駆け回るスナイパー！人はその男をゴルゴ13と不吉な名で呼ぶ。ゴルゴ13には西側も東側もない。思想も民族もない。あるのは完璧な行動を支配する狙撃の思想だけである。劇画界最高の人気を得て、空前のスケールで、全国映画ファン、全国劇画ファンを結んだ興趣満点の高倉健ファン超貴重作品！
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Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.
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A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.
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The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
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Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
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Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...
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When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
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The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsuruji, a beautiful yet tough geisha, becomes the boss. But will she be able to confront a yakuza gang trying to take over the area?
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A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
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The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by pollution from a local factory. They seem to work out an agreement, but Oryu must help the poor villagers when the greedy factory owner and corrupt politicians betray them…
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When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to replace him. A fight for the succession begins.
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Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.
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It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
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Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.
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Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. With a stellar all-star cast, thrilling story and Takakura Ken's violent swordplay, makes this into a classic Yakuza movie!
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The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.
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During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She, however, is living with the memories of her husband and it is her younger sister, Yumiko (Nana Ozaki), who grows fond of the student. Then, one day, a young naval officer, Tadayuki (Ken Ogata), a friend of her late husband, comes to see the widow and she becomes attracted to him. Though Makito is inspired to study for the navy, he is much upset when he learns that Yuko and Tadayuki are to marry.
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Japanese comedy film.
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The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
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A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.
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Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
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Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
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Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
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A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
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An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His new students, the children of ignorant fishermen, can see no value in education; therefore, they have no desire to learn. Natsuki then introduces the children to volleyball. The kids are immediately fired up by the game. After winning the island tourney, they go on to win the national championship. Suddenly learning has taken on a whole new dimension. Meanwhile Natsuki gets married. Unfortunately for his wife, he refuses to leave the island.
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Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to his passengers. With his many years of experience, he never fails to find solutions for any troubles that occur along the way. A comedic drama revolving around the lives of those who ride the express train.
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Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on Hanawa, but as he leaves, he is unaware that a boy is watching him. Toru's new employer asks him to kill a competitor in drug sales, but...
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It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
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Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
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A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
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A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
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ガメラシリーズ第2作。 前作「大怪獣ガメラ」から半年後。ガメラを宇宙に追放したZプランのロケットが隕石と衝突。自由の身となったガメラは地球に戻り黒部ダムを襲撃、電気エネルギーを吸収するとさらに別の熱エネルギーを求めて何処かへ去って行った。一方、ニューギニアの奥地にある禁忌の地「虹の谷」から日本に持ち帰られたオパールへ、不注意から赤外線が照射され続けたことにより、オパールの中から虹色の光線を出す伝説の怪獣バルゴンが出現。神戸港に上陸して港を破壊、大阪へと東進したバラゴンは冷凍液により大阪各地を破壊していく。 そこへ出現したガメラと激しい戦闘が繰り広げられるが、バラゴンによりガメラは凍結されてしまう。 水に弱いことが判明したバラゴンを琵琶湖へ誘導する作戦が開始されるが、あと一歩のとのところで作戦は失敗。しかし作戦の影響により凍結から復活したガメラが再度出現。二大怪獣による琵琶湖を挟んだ決闘が繰り広げられる…。
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Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.
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太平洋戦争下の南方ニューギニアのラエ基地に夏堀（長谷川明男）や山県（青山良彦）らが赴任し、零戦の名パイロット梶大尉（本郷功次郎）の厳しい訓練を受ける。やがて梶は戦死。夏堀は戦地を転々とし、やがて神風特別攻撃隊の護衛隊の任を受けるが……。 それまで青春色の強い戦争映画を主に製作していた大映が『大怪獣ガメラ』などで培った特撮技術を駆使して描いた戦争アクション映画。特撮の主眼はもちろんモノクロ映像を効果的に活かした零戦などの空中戦で、担当は築地米三郎。実写フィルムとの融合にもさほど違和感はない。ポスターなどのビリングでは本郷功次郎が主役のようだが、実質の主役は長谷川明男。当時の大映若手スターの世代代わりを象徴しているかのようでもある。
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Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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巨大な工場と、煙と音が交錯する街川崎。野上則子は、そんな街のかたすみに住む、高校生だ。家族は、タクシーの運転手の父竜太郎、工場で働く母千枝子、それに女房に死なれた竜太郎の弟亀三の子供ひろしの四人。母千枝子は、幼い日に別れた母静江への想いを筆に託して詩集をつくっていた。それを知った則子は、ステレオ欲しさに、母の詩集から一篇を抜き出し新聞に投稿し、賞金三万円を狙った。やがて、その詩は佳作に入選した。が、その喜びも束の間、父竜太郎が進行性肝炎で倒れた。戦争で受けた鉄砲弾が体に入っていたのが原因だった。夫の死とともに千枝子の生活は一変した。チンドンヤ夫婦を二階に同居させ、工場もやめて儲けの多い氷屋に転業した。そんなとき、新聞社を通じて捜していた千枝子の母静江が九州にいることがわかった。千枝子は信じられない嬉しさに茫然としながらも、何度も母のもとへ手紙を出した。が、返事はこなかった。数日後静江からの伝言を持った静江の次男松崎弥太郎が千枝子の許を訪れた。“逢いたくない、そっとしておいて”それが静江の答えだった－－静江はかつて、村に演習に来た兵隊と過ちをおかし、千枝子を生んだが、その後生活のために妾となり、料亭を転々として後二人の子供のいる松崎弥兵衛の後妻になったのだ－－竜太郎の病いは日ましに悪化し、遂にこの世を去った。生活は苦しくなった。千枝子はタクシーの運転手になり、則子はパチンコ店でバイトを始めた。そんなある日、突然千枝子の許に静江が上京してきた。長い別れが、一度は感情のもつれを引きおこしたが、親子の愛情はたちがたく、静江は再び千枝子の許に帰ってきた。初秋の爽やかな空の下、晴々とした則子の顔があった。
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An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).
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In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!
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The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village. Goichi is suffering because he wants to go to school, but his family is too poor to afford that luxury. Even when a kind friend agrees to help out, Goichi's father refuses to give in to his son's request for an education. Instead, he sends Goichi off to work as an indentured servant for a cold-hearted merchant and his family. As tragedy strikes and the suffering of the young boy increases, he begins to look for some way out of his bleak situation.
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After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
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After Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest swordsman in the land, he tries to lead a peaceful life with his mother far away from the seat of government in Edo. Not wanting to inconvenience his father anymore his plan is to stay away from the city and enjoy life like a normal man. Unfortunately for him, his past comes back to haunt him in the person of his mortal enemy, the one swordsman that is skillful enough to defeat him. This is the most perilous moment of Shingo's life as he must face his deadliest foe in a battle to the death!
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アメリカから恋人がやって来た―。昭和38年5月、文楽の人形遣い吉田小玉と結婚したイーデス・ハンソンの話にヒントを得て、松山善三が原作を執筆、林秀彦のシナリオにより川頭義郎監督がメガホンを取ったラブコメディ。主演のエルザ・ハドソン役には大阪弁が達者なタレントとして人気のあったイーデス・ハンソン自身が初主演し、吉田小吉役に藤山寛美、その父に笠智衆、彼女が下宿する家のおばさん（小吉の叔母）役にミヤコ蝶々らがキャスティングされた。ニッポン通の金髪娘が巻き起こす結婚騒動が描かれる。
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A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find themselves at the center of an intrigue surrounding the legendary land of Yasurai in the mountains of Kumano. Hidden gold, the love of a beautiful Princess, and the approaching evil sword all contribute in bringing you a Ninja action thriller that only the legendary actor Okawa Hashizo and the genius director Kato Tai could produce!
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日本人の心をゆり動かし、幾多の名作を世におくり出した、長谷川伸の傑作股旅文学の映画化。顔に大きな刀傷、生き別れの妹を探して旅から旅の関の彌太ッぺ。旅の途中、ふとしたことで助けた、親を失くした一人ぼっちの少女に妹の面影を見い出した。...そして10年。再会した少女は美しい娘に成長していた。
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A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
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Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...
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Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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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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A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover’s twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance encounter with a clan of shape-shifters.
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In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
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Film about the 2-26 Incident.
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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. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.
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Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.
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Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.
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A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
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After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. While Anju falls into a lake and is transformed into a swan, Zushio escapes and after being adopted to a nobleman grows to a young man. He will then fight to defeat the evil Dayu and free all the slaves.
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Manao Horiuchi movie
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Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
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After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
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On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...
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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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In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the island of Celebes. Eighteen-hundred Allied women and children were interned for the duration of the war. Yamaji's iron rule for camp administration is : No violence; hands off internees; He also endeavors to establish self-administration by internees while aiming at a self-supporting camp economy within six months. His ingenuity gains the camp numerous pigs to enrich their diet, and sewing machines with to make fatigue uniforms for the military. The internees are grateful for what little aid he can give them. As the tides of war changes, Allied planes bomb the camp in error. But the surrender of Japan changes everything, and the internees join forces to save their former camp commander from the gallows.
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Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
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Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
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Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.
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Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.
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First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
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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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Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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東京国際空港から、札幌へ向けて旅客機が飛び立った。操縦するキャプテンの山本は、飛行時間5,000時間のエキスパート。副操縦士の原とともに、乗客32人の生命を預かり上空へと舞い上がるが、その中に強盗殺人事件の容疑者が紛れ込んでいた！ 逃げ場のない空の上で、恐怖の四時間が始まる！！
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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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瀬戸内海の真只中、江田島の海軍兵学校は日本海軍揺籃の地であった。太平洋戦争も激烈をきわめて来た昭和十七年十二月、石川竜太郎は海軍兵学校に入学し、兵学校での分隊生活が始まった。ある日、自習室に集められた石川ら分隊の新入生は、分隊伍長の佐田を中心とする生徒から激しく叱責されたが、反発した村瀬真一は、気の荒い上級生の小暮になぐられる。石川は村瀬と小暮にどこか魅かれるものを感じていた。
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Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing.
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会津若松で育ち、東京の大学に通う岩垣が久々に帰省し、４人の友人と再会した。しかし、現在の立場や環境を異にする彼らには、既にそれぞれの人生の苦悩があり…。
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Based on the Nobu Koito story
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Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
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Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide.
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Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
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70歳になると人減らしのため楢山で姥捨を行う村があった。69歳になるおりんは、息子の辰平と孫たちを世話しながら、辰平の後妻を探していた。辰平は去年、妻に先立たれていたのだ。楢山祭りの日、辰平は隣の村から妻を迎えることができた。おりんは楢山へ行く準備を始めるが、自分の歯が立派であることを恥じ、石臼にぶつけて折ってしまう。そして正月の数日前に突然「明日山へ行く」と言い出すのだった。
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Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they are about to be robbed as the two gamblers face off against each other swords in hand.
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A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
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Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara
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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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Ishimatsu is strong in fights, but weak in relationships with women and enjoys great popularity among them, and we see how an exciting historical drama about love, enmity and friendship is played out.
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The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
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Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...
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Japanese drama film.
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A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
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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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A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
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A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
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大木実が『涙の花道』で映画デビューした歌舞伎俳優、中村芝雀（四代目中村時蔵）と初コンビを組んだ娯楽時代劇。維新前夜の動乱期の江戸を舞台に、対立した陣営に立つ二人の男の間に湧いた友情と悲恋が描かれる。監督は『涙の花道』の堀内真直
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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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A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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Directed by Yoshiro Kawazu
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Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.
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A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
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Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
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Japanese youth film.
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In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.
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This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
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Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.
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大石久子は昭和3年、新任教師として瀬戸内海にある小豆島の分校に赴任した。久子が受け持つことになった一年生は十二人で、みな澄んだ瞳をしていた。やがて久子は本校へ転任することになった。しかし貧しい村の教え子たちは、一人として望み通り進学することができなかった。戦争をはさんで島の分校に戻った久子は、そこでかつての教え子たちと再会する。
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An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
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At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
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A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
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Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.
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The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.
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It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ (‘Tonkatsu Taisho’, the film’s Japanese title) from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives. When a local hospital, run by a female doctor, plans to expand, the future of the tenement is called into question.
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A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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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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When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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A girl who'd left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.
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Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.
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A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
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When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
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Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.
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Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.
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A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
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A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.
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Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
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The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
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Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his criminal involvement.
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A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
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A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
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After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.
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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.
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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 festival.
