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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...
Phoenix
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Break Down that Wall
This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...
Man of the House
Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...
Shadow of intimidation
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
Nightingale
A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled...
The Shiinomi School
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.
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Before Dawn
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...
Fires on the Plain
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...
Harbor Rats
Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
Christ in Bronze
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...
Children of Hiroshima
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...
The Wolves
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Street of Violence
Chorus of a Million People
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
Summer Storm
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...
Miniature
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...
Actress
The Sky Is Mine
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...
The Giant
As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...
Geisha Hidekoma