Keiko Awaji

Keiko Awaji

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Keiko Awaji (1933) is a Japanese film actress. Notable highlights of her career were an appearance in Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog, and a role as Kimiko in The Bridges at Toko-Ri, where she appeared alongside William Holden and Mickey Rooney. Her first husband was Filipino musician and actor Rodrigo "Bimbo" Danao; they had two children together. Their eldest is actor Etsuo Shima. Her second husband was Japanese actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke, but they divorced in 1987. Their eldest son Akihiro died in a car crash in 1990. In 2004, their youngest son Kichinosuke Yorozuya (Satoshi Ida) was arrested for breaking into her home and served six months in prison. On June 16, 2010, Kichinosuke committed suicide by jumping off his apartment in Shinjuku. The actress is apparently a big fan of the Dragon Quest games, even going so far as to say it is her dream to play one last game before she dies. She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80 Description above from the Wikipedia article Keiko Awaji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title : Keiko Awaji
  • Popularity : 4.515
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1933-07-17
  • Place of Birth : Tokyo, Japan
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : Кэйко Авадзи, 淡路恵子
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Keiko Awaji Movies

  • 1961
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    An Urban Affair

    An Urban Affair

    1 1961 HD

    Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...

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  • 1949
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    Stray Dog

    Stray Dog

    7.51 1949 HD

    A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

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  • 1958
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    The Undefeated Woman

    The Undefeated Woman

    1 1958 HD

    The Undefeated Woman

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  • 1962
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    Hagure kigeki mandara

    Hagure kigeki mandara

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1954
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    The Bridges at Toko-Ri

    The Bridges at Toko-Ri

    5.9 1954 HD

    A naval aviator is assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges during the Korean War.

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  • 1962
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    Long Way to Okinawa

    Long Way to Okinawa

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

    Ika naru hoshi no moto ni

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama

    Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 2001
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    Inugami

    Inugami

    5.2 2001 HD

    Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for,...

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  • 1962
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    Secret love

    Secret love

    1 1962 HD

    A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko...

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  • 1953
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    A Japanese Tragedy

    A Japanese Tragedy

    5.625 1953 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    Birth of Romance

    Birth of Romance

    1 1957 HD

    The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

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  • 1966
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    Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

    Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

    6.6 1966 HD

    Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an...

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  • 1958
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    Yaji and Kita on the Road

    Yaji and Kita on the Road

    1 1958 HD

    Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

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  • 1963
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    Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me

    Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me

    1 1963 HD

    Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...

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  • 1960
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    Hito mo arukeba

    Hito mo arukeba

    1 1960 HD

    A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

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  • 1953
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    Sincere Heart

    Sincere Heart

    6.2 1953 HD

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

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  • 1988
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    Hope and Pain

    Hope and Pain

    8.4 1988 HD

    The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.

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  • 1961
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    Toilet Manager

    Toilet Manager

    1 1961 HD

    The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

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  • 1959
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    Samurai Saga

    Samurai Saga

    6.7 1959 HD

    Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

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  • 1958
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    Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

    Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

    1 1958 HD

    1958 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    Kigeki ekimae onsen

    Kigeki ekimae onsen

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1953
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    The Brothers who Protect the Mountain

    The Brothers who Protect the Mountain

    1 1953 HD

    In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the...

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  • 1961
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    Kigeki ekimae bentô

    Kigeki ekimae bentô

    1 1961 HD

    Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

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  • 2003
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    Pretty Woman

    Pretty Woman

    1 2003 HD

    Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company...

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  • 1954
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    Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3

    Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3

    1 1954 HD

    Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

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  • 2002
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    Married Executioner R Mission 1: Bloody Mischief

    Married Executioner R Mission 1: Bloody Mischief

    1 2002 HD

    Akikawa Reiko has been married for three years, has a banker husband and a seemingly happy married life, but has a secret side: she is a state secret...

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  • 1959
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    Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

    Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

    1 1959 HD

    Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

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  • 1962
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    喜劇 駅前飯店

    喜劇 駅前飯店

    1 1962 HD

    The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

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  • 1963
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    Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong

    Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong

    1 1963 HD

    Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.

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  • 1955
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    元祿美少年記

    元祿美少年記

    1 1955 HD

    On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

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  • 1953
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    Sisters

    Sisters

    1 1953 HD

    Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji),...

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  • 1962
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    Wakai kisetsu

    Wakai kisetsu

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1957
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    Hadaka no Machi

    Hadaka no Machi

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1955
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    (Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home

    (Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home

    1 1955 HD

    Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

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  • 1953
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    Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

    Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

    1 1953 HD

    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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  • 1953
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    New Tokyo March

    New Tokyo March

    1 1953 HD

    Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

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  • 1960
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    Daughters, Wives and a Mother

    Daughters, Wives and a Mother

    7.1 1960 HD

    Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

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  • 1957
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    Geisha in the Old City

    Geisha in the Old City

    1 1957 HD

    Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

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  • 1957
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    Black River

    Black River

    6.9 1957 HD

    A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

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  • 1954
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    Kyūkon sannin musume

    Kyūkon sannin musume

    1 1954 HD

    1954 Japanese movie

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  • 2005
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    Veronika Decides to Die

    Veronika Decides to Die

    5 2005 HD

    Towa lives in a peculiar sanatorium after committing suicide. Convalescing in sanatorium, she is informed that she has only 7 days to live. Isolated...

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  • 1953
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    Always in My Heart Part 2

    Always in My Heart Part 2

    6.5 1953 HD

    Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

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  • 1953
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    Always in My Heart

    Always in My Heart

    6.8 1953 HD

    Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

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  • 1965
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    Illusion of Blood

    Illusion of Blood

    6.2 1965 HD

    The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

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  • 1963
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    For Love and Money

    For Love and Money

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Twilight Story

    The Twilight Story

    8 1960 HD

    In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...

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  • 1960
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    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    7.963 1960 HD

    Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

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  • 1989
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    Tora-san Goes to Vienna

    Tora-san Goes to Vienna

    8 1989 HD

    During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.

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  • 1963
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    A Woman's Life

    A Woman's Life

    7.1 1963 HD

    A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

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  • 1961
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    The Other Woman

    The Other Woman

    6.3 1961 HD

    In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

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  • 1962
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    The Wiser Age

    The Wiser Age

    7.3 1962 HD

    Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

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  • 1967
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    Green Light to Joy

    Green Light to Joy

    1 1967 HD

    Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

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  • 2013
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    Mourning Recipe

    Mourning Recipe

    6.1 2013 HD

    A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.

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  • 1959
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    Temptation on Glamour Island

    Temptation on Glamour Island

    6 1959 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    A Brief Message from the Heart

    A Brief Message from the Heart

    1 1995 HD

    A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.

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  • 1960
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    The Blue Beast

    The Blue Beast

    1 1960 HD

    Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral...

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  • 1997
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    Welcome to the Vampire Onsen

    Welcome to the Vampire Onsen

    1 1997 HD

    Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso (吸血温泉へようこそ kyuuketsu onsen e youkoso, translated as Welcome to the blood-sucking hot spring) alternatively...

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  • 1961
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    Acchan no bebi gyangu

    Acchan no bebi gyangu

    1 1961 HD

    Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

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  • 1961
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    3 Dolls and Baby Gang

    3 Dolls and Baby Gang

    1 1961 HD

    Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

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  • 2002
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    Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'

    Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'

    1 2002 HD

    Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).

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  • 1958
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    The Princess of Badger Palace

    The Princess of Badger Palace

    1 1958 HD

    Princess Kinuta runs away from the palace because she doesn't want a marriage of convenience. Princess Kinuta, who has never left the palace, didn't...

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  • 1965
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    Hoodlum Soldier

    Hoodlum Soldier

    7.3 1965 HD

    A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an...

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  • 1959
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    The Lord Pretends

    The Lord Pretends

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1957
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    Price of Beauty

    Price of Beauty

    1 1957 HD

    Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

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  • 1963
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    The Maid Story

    The Maid Story

    1 1963 HD

    Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

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  • 1954
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    Quick Change Tanuki Palace

    Quick Change Tanuki Palace

    1 1954 HD

    This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs...

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  • 1990
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    Hong Kong Paradise

    Hong Kong Paradise

    1 1990 HD

    Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in a mysterious turn of events. A young tour guide,...

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  • 1963
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    The Best Playboy In Japan

    The Best Playboy In Japan

    1 1963 HD

    The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular...

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  • 1958
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    The Hotelman's Holiday

    The Hotelman's Holiday

    1 1958 HD

    A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

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  • 1957
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    Down Town

    Down Town

    1 1957 HD

    A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

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  • 1958
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    City of Love

    City of Love

    1 1958 HD

    Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

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  • 1965
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    A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

    A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

    1 1965 HD

    #13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

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  • 2011
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    Hard Romanticker

    Hard Romanticker

    7 2011 HD

    Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but...

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  • 1962
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    47 Ronin

    47 Ronin

    7.3 1962 HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

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  • 2007
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    Three for the Road

    Three for the Road

    4 2007 HD

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  • 1956
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    Women in Prison

    Women in Prison

    1 1956 HD

    The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

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  • 1965
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    The Flower and the Dragon

    The Flower and the Dragon

    7.3 1965 HD

    A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...

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  • 1990
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    She-Shogun

    She-Shogun

    1 1990 HD

    The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to...

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  • 1953
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    Yasugorō shusse

    Yasugorō shusse

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1987
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    Tora-san Goes North

    Tora-san Goes North

    8.7 1987 HD

    When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...

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  • 1966
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    Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves

    Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves

    10 1966 HD

    The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against...

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  • 1959
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    The Lord and the Gambler

    The Lord and the Gambler

    1 1959 HD

    Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his...

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  • 1960
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    Scarred Yosaburo

    Scarred Yosaburo

    1 1960 HD

    The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and...

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  • 1959
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    The Adventures of Kantaro

    The Adventures of Kantaro

    1 1959 HD

    Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.

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  • 1963
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    Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin

    Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1959
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    社長太平記

    社長太平記

    1 1959 HD

    Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

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  • 1959
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    Zoku shachōtaiheiki

    Zoku shachōtaiheiki

    1 1959 HD

    7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

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  • 1958
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    The Third President

    The Third President

    1 1958 HD

    The fifth entry in the Company President Series

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  • 2010
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    More wonderful night than usual

    More wonderful night than usual

    1 2010 HD

    An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields - from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga -...

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  • 1956
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    Morishige, where are you going?

    Morishige, where are you going?

    1 1956 HD

    A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

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  • 1963
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    Crazy Operation

    Crazy Operation

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1983
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    古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

    古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

    7 1983 HD

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  • 2001
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    Moshichi

    Moshichi

    1 2001 HD

    A mysterious humanistic period drama, setting in the Edo Period. As Okappiki, unofficial collaborators who played a marginal role in police...

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