Hisano Yamaoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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Cast: Michiyo Aratama

This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Nagai

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

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Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

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Cast: Masayuki Mori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and...

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Masako Izumi

The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akane Oda

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

Genre: War

Cast: Takeo Chii

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hachiro Kasuga

Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house....

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Cast: Mari Atsumi

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese action film set in Arabia.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.

Genre: Music

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yusuke Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwa Takada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store....

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Asano

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.

Genre: Family

Cast: Gō Katō

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisano Yamaoka

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and...

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka