Kinuyo Tanaka

Kinuyo Tanaka

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kinuyo Tanaka (田中 絹代 Tanaka Kinuyo, 29 November 1909 – 21 March 1977) was a Japanese actress and director. Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929. The following year she played the lead in Aiyoku no ki, and in 1931 she appeared in Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, directed by Heinosuke Gosho. She had a close working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi, having parts in 15 of his films, including leading roles in The Life of Oharu (1952), Ugetsu (1953) and Sansho the Bailiff (1954). Their working relationship ended when Mizoguchi countered a recommendation from the Directors Guild of Japan for the Nikkatsu studio to hire her as a director. Despite this, the production of her second film as director went ahead, but Tanaka never forgave Mizoguchi, and the reasons for his behaviour are unclear. She also played Noboru Yasumoto's mother in Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965). For her portrayal in Kei Kumai's Sandakan N° 8 she won the Best Actress Award at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival in 1975.[2] Her last screen appearance was in 1976 in Kei Kumai's Kita No Misaki. Tanaka was the second Japanese woman who worked as a film director, after Sakane Tazuko (1904‐1975). Her first directing job was on the film Love Letter in 1953, and she made five further films in that role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kinuyo Tanaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title : Kinuyo Tanaka
  • Popularity : 2.74
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1909-11-28
  • Place of Birth : Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • Homepage :
  • Also Known As : 田中绢代, 다나카 키누요, Кинуё Танака
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Kinuyo Tanaka Movies

  • 1976
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    Cape of the North

    Cape of the North

    1 1976 HD

    A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

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  • 1954
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    Sansho the Bailiff

    Sansho the Bailiff

    8.1 1954 HD

    In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.

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  • 1974
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    Sandakan No. 8

    Sandakan No. 8

    7.625 1974 HD

    A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

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  • 1958
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    Equinox Flower

    Equinox Flower

    7.44 1958 HD

    Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...

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  • 1943
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    Kaisen no Zenya

    Kaisen no Zenya

    1 1943 HD

    Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

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  • 1952
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    Mother

    Mother

    6.882 1952 HD

    A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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  • 1952
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    The Life of Oharu

    The Life of Oharu

    7.8 1952 HD

    In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

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  • 1954
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    The Woman in the Rumor

    The Woman in the Rumor

    7.375 1954 HD

    Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...

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  • 1947
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    The Love of the Actress Sumako

    The Love of the Actress Sumako

    6.8 1947 HD

    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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  • 1951
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    Miss Oyu

    Miss Oyu

    7.2 1951 HD

    Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...

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  • 1956
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    Flowing

    Flowing

    7.1 1956 HD

    Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

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  • 1964
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    Kono sora no aru kagiri

    Kono sora no aru kagiri

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Munekata Sisters

    The Munekata Sisters

    6.9 1950 HD

    Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...

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  • 1939
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    Zoku aizen katsura

    Zoku aizen katsura

    1 1939 HD

    1939 Japanese movie

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  • 1963
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    Alone Across the Pacific

    Alone Across the Pacific

    6.9 1963 HD

    Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

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  • 1948
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    Women of the Night

    Women of the Night

    7.224 1948 HD

    In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...

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  • 1944
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    Miyamoto Musashi

    Miyamoto Musashi

    6.1 1944 HD

    The first of five Musashi series, Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to...

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  • 1946
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    Utamaro and His Five Women

    Utamaro and His Five Women

    7.125 1946 HD

    Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around...

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  • 1960
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    Her Brother

    Her Brother

    7 1960 HD

    Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between...

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  • 1949
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    Flame of My Love

    Flame of My Love

    5.6 1949 HD

    A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

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  • 1933
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    Woman of Tokyo

    Woman of Tokyo

    6.8 1933 HD

    Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

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  • 1947
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    Phoenix

    Phoenix

    6 1947 HD

    A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

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  • 1963
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    Bright Sea

    Bright Sea

    1 1963 HD

    On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university...

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  • 1941
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    Ornamental Hairpin

    Ornamental Hairpin

    6.5 1941 HD

    A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

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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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  • 1928
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    The Village Bride

    The Village Bride

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1928
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    Riku no ôja

    Riku no ôja

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1945
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    A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

    A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

    5.8 1945 HD

    In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

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  • 1926
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    Karabotan

    Karabotan

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1929
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    The Life of Workers in the Big City

    The Life of Workers in the Big City

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Ballad of Narayama

    The Ballad of Narayama

    7.4 1958 HD

    In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

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  • 1962
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    A Wanderer's Notebook

    A Wanderer's Notebook

    7.2 1962 HD

    Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

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  • 1931
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    The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

    The Neighbour's Wife and Mine

    6.5 1931 HD

    A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

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  • 1933
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    The Dancing Girl of Izu

    The Dancing Girl of Izu

    6.5 1933 HD

    "The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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  • 1963
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    A Legend, or Was It?

    A Legend, or Was It?

    6.4 1963 HD

    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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  • 1935
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    Burden of Life

    Burden of Life

    6.4 1935 HD

    A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

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  • 1944
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    Army

    Army

    7.2 1944 HD

    Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

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  • 1930
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    Youth, Why Do You Cry?

    Youth, Why Do You Cry?

    1 1930 HD

    A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

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  • 1959
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    The Three Treasures

    The Three Treasures

    5.4 1959 HD

    The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

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  • 1958
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    The Eternal Rainbow

    The Eternal Rainbow

    6.3 1958 HD

    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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  • 1937
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    Banchô sarayashiki

    Banchô sarayashiki

    1 1937 HD

    short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

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  • 1931
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    Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

    Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

    1 1931 HD

    The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

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  • 1950
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    Wedding Ring

    Wedding Ring

    6.6 1950 HD

    A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

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  • 1949
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    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

    6.7 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    A Man's Recompense: Part 2

    A Man's Recompense: Part 2

    1 1937 HD

    Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

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  • 1949
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    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

    6.7 1949 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    A Man's Recompense: Part 1

    A Man's Recompense: Part 1

    1 1937 HD

    Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

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  • 1941
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    Flower

    Flower

    1 1941 HD

    Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...

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  • 1942
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    A Certain Woman

    A Certain Woman

    1 1942 HD

    Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

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  • 2009
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    The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

    The Travels of Kinuyo Tanaka

    4 2009 HD

    Compilation of film footage documenting Japanese film star Kinuyo Tanaka's goodwill tour of the U.S. in 1949.

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  • 1955
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    Forever a Woman

    Forever a Woman

    7.4 1955 HD

    Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...

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  • 1955
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    The Moon Has Risen

    The Moon Has Risen

    6.8 1955 HD

    Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

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  • 1941
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    Record of a Woman Doctor

    Record of a Woman Doctor

    6 1941 HD

    A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle...

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  • 1935
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    Okoto and Sasuke

    Okoto and Sasuke

    6.7 1935 HD

    A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

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  • 1953
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    An Heir's Place

    An Heir's Place

    1 1953 HD

    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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  • 1946
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    Victory of Women

    Victory of Women

    6.5 1946 HD

    Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

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  • 1954
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    Five Sisters

    Five Sisters

    10 1954 HD

    The story of five sisters.

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  • 1957
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    Yellow Crow

    Yellow Crow

    5.8 1957 HD

    In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...

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  • 1929
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    I Graduated, But...

    I Graduated, But...

    5.7 1929 HD

    Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

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  • 1964
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    The Scent of Incense

    The Scent of Incense

    7.2 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1931
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    ABC Lifeline

    ABC Lifeline

    6.1 1931 HD

    Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

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  • 1936
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    The New Road: Akemi

    The New Road: Akemi

    7 1936 HD

    The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

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  • 1961
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    Wakarete ikiru toki mo

    Wakarete ikiru toki mo

    1 1961 HD

    A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

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  • 1959
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    Hahakogusa

    Hahakogusa

    1 1959 HD

    Based on the Nobu Koito story

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  • 1956
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    The Storm

    The Storm

    9 1956 HD

    A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

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  • 1953
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    Where Chimneys Are Seen

    Where Chimneys Are Seen

    6.4 1953 HD

    Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

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  • 2022
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    Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About

    Kinuyo Tanaka, a Woman We Talk About

    1 2022 HD

    This documentary composed of numerous testimonies and archives, filmed in Japan highlights the extraordinary career of the actress-director Kinuyo...

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  • 1944
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    The Man Who Has Returned

    The Man Who Has Returned

    1 1944 HD

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  • 1930
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    Marching On

    Marching On

    1 1930 HD

    A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

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  • 1930
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    I Flunked, But...

    I Flunked, But...

    6.1 1930 HD

    This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

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  • 1932
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    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

    Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

    6.5 1932 HD

    When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

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  • 1933
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    Dragnet Girl

    Dragnet Girl

    6.7 1933 HD

    A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

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  • 1939
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    Okayo's Preparedness

    Okayo's Preparedness

    7 1939 HD

    A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

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  • 1965
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    Red Beard

    Red Beard

    8.1 1965 HD

    Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

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  • 1962
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    Mama, I Need You!

    Mama, I Need You!

    1 1962 HD

    After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...

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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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  • 1934
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    Osayo koisugata

    Osayo koisugata

    1 1934 HD

    The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

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  • 1933
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    The Bride Talks in Her Sleep

    The Bride Talks in Her Sleep

    1 1933 HD

    This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

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  • 1976
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    Lullaby of the Earth

    Lullaby of the Earth

    6.5 1976 HD

    The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and...

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  • 1932
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    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    1 1932 HD

    This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

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  • 1951
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    Ginza Cosmetics

    Ginza Cosmetics

    5.8 1951 HD

    A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

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  • 1951
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    The Inner Palace Conspiracy

    The Inner Palace Conspiracy

    1 1951 HD

    A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

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  • 1938
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    The Tree of Love

    The Tree of Love

    6.5 1938 HD

    A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

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  • 1955
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    Tsukiyo no kasa

    Tsukiyo no kasa

    1 1955 HD

    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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  • 1951
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    The Lady of Musashino

    The Lady of Musashino

    6.4 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1947
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    Marriage

    Marriage

    7 1947 HD

    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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  • 1933
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    Sôbô

    Sôbô

    1 1933 HD

    Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

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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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  • 1953
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    Love Letter

    Love Letter

    6.8 1953 HD

    A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

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  • 1956
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    How Sorrowful

    How Sorrowful

    1 1956 HD

    The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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  • 1952
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    The Ataka Family

    The Ataka Family

    5.5 1952 HD

    Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...

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  • 1962
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    The Fencing Master

    The Fencing Master

    5.5 1962 HD

    The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...

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  • 1934
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    The Genealogy of Women

    The Genealogy of Women

    1 1934 HD

    A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

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  • 1959
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    Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

    Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

    5.7 1959 HD

    The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from...

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  • 1928
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    The Age of Emotion

    The Age of Emotion

    1 1928 HD

    A young man torn between love and friendship.

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  • 1945
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    Victory Song

    Victory Song

    5.2 1945 HD

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

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  • 1934
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    My Elder Brother

    My Elder Brother

    6 1934 HD

    Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

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  • 1957
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    On This Earth

    On This Earth

    1 1957 HD

    Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...

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  • 1937
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    Lady Doctor Kinuyo

    Lady Doctor Kinuyo

    4.6 1937 HD

    Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

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  • 1940
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    Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru

    Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1937
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    Song of the Flower Basket

    Song of the Flower Basket

    1 1937 HD

    Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

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  • 1975
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    Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

    Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

    6.8 1975 HD

    In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the...

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  • 1936
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    Men vs. Women

    Men vs. Women

    1 1936 HD

    A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

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  • 1952
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    Sisters of Nishijin

    Sisters of Nishijin

    8 1952 HD

    A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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  • 1974
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    Sanbaba

    Sanbaba

    1 1974 HD

    A story about being scared of getting old.

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  • 1957
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    Stepbrothers

    Stepbrothers

    7 1957 HD

    In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

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  • 1935
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    An Innocent Maid

    An Innocent Maid

    1 1935 HD

    In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

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  • 1930
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    Young Lady

    Young Lady

    1 1930 HD

    Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to...

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  • 1948
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    A Hen in the Wind

    A Hen in the Wind

    7 1948 HD

    Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for...

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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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  • 1953
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    Ugetsu

    Ugetsu

    8 1953 HD

    In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...

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  • 1963
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    Double Wedding

    Double Wedding

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1958
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    Sorrow Is Only for Women

    Sorrow Is Only for Women

    1 1958 HD

    The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

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  • 1972
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    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

    7.6 1972 HD

    When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...

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  • 1943
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    Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

    Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

    1 1943 HD

    Japanese war movie.

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  • 1939
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    Spring Thunder

    Spring Thunder

    1 1939 HD

    Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...

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  • 1956
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    Confession

    Confession

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1936
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    The New Road: Ryota

    The New Road: Ryota

    8 1936 HD

    The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

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  • 1929
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    The Blacksmith of the Forest

    The Blacksmith of the Forest

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1941
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    Let's Go in Good Spirits

    Let's Go in Good Spirits

    1 1941 HD

    In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

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  • 1975
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    Let's Go, Grandma!

    Let's Go, Grandma!

    1 1975 HD

    Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

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  • 1938
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    Mother and Child

    Mother and Child

    1 1938 HD

    The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

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  • 1940
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    Kinuyo's First Love

    Kinuyo's First Love

    6 1940 HD

    Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

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  • 1940
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    Osaka Woman

    Osaka Woman

    1 1940 HD

    Followup film to Osaka Elegy - Osaka Woman

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  • 1939
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    Weeds with flowers

    Weeds with flowers

    1 1939 HD

    Weed with Flowers

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  • 1940
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    Okinu and Banto

    Okinu and Banto

    1 1940 HD

    A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

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  • 1934
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    That Night's Woman

    That Night's Woman

    1 1934 HD

    That Night's Woman

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  • 1951
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    Story of Lightning

    Story of Lightning

    1 1951 HD

    Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his...

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  • 1961
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    Girls of the Night

    Girls of the Night

    6.9 1961 HD

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  • 1955
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    Forever a Woman

    Forever a Woman

    7.4 1955 HD

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  • 1955
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    The Moon Has Risen

    The Moon Has Risen

    6.8 1955 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Wandering Princess

    The Wandering Princess

    6.7 1960 HD

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  • 1962
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    Love Under the Crucifix

    Love Under the Crucifix

    6.9 1962 HD

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  • 1953
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    Love Letter

    Love Letter

    6.8 1953 HD

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  • 1970
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    Mominoki wa Nokotta

    Mominoki wa Nokotta

    1 1970 HD

    Depicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the 4th Tokugawa shogun.

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