Chieko Higashiyama

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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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.

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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...

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Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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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...

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

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

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First japanese talking movie.

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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...

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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.

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A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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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...

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

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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...

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Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

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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...

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

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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...

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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’...

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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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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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Japanese drama.

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

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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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1958 Japanese movie

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

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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...

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

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

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

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Japanese mystery thriller.

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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...

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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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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...

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

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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...

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

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

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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...

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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...

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

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

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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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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...

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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...

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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....

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Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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

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

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1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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

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

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

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

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The Siege of Osaka

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

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