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Masami Shimojō

Japanese film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 100 films. Hoping to become a film director, Shimojō traveled to Tokyo in 1935 but ended up joining a theater troupe, debuting on stage in 1936. He made his film debut in 1940, but continued on stage well after World War II, primarily as a member of Gekidan Mingei. He was most known, however, for playing the uncle of Torajiro Kuruma in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born : 26th-Aug-1915

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Tora-san's Matchmaker

After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled woman visiting her father.
Released : 25th-Dec-1993

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City of Beasts

University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely getting more embroiled in his dirty dealings.
Released : 23rd-May-1970

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Turbid youth

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
Released : 21st-Sep-1954

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Tora-san to the Rescue

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
Released : 23rd-Dec-1995

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Jungle Block

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Released : 15th-Jun-1960

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Kids Return

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
Released : 27th-Jul-1996

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I Love The Sun

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.
Released : 11th-May-1966

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Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Released : 23rd-Jun-1959

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Morning Fog

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter's attempt to grow from adolescence to adulthood in a family of one mother and one daughter, and her emotional exchange with her mother against the backdrop of the harsh natural environment.
Released : 18th-Sep-1971

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A Torrent of Life

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 1st-May-1962

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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story.
Released : 22nd-Nov-1969

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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
Released : 23rd-Jul-1976

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Blood and Sea

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her grandmother, Tom, who is in her sixties, her mother, Kura, and older sister, Saki, all women. Toma, despite her advanced age, is still the best diver in the village, Nami has grown up to be an excellent diver too. However, her older sister Saki was born with a mental disorder and no one in the village wants to do business with her. Nami, on the other hand, is very popular among the boys of the village, she is healthy and beautiful. The fisherman Shosaku is crazy about Nami, and day and night he asks her on dates. However, Nami has a crush on her cousin Yuji, who works for the fishermen's union, and casually rejects Shosaku's advances.
Released : 1st-Oct-1965

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Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu

Strife between competing lumber mills.
Released : 23rd-Sep-1961

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Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen

Sequel to "Nomugi Pass"
Released : 6th-Feb-1982

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Tora-san's Lullaby

After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child.
Released : 28th-Dec-1974

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Moeru minamijūjisei

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 29th-Jul-1962

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Tora-san, the Intellectual

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead.
Released : 27th-Dec-1975

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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Released : 2nd-Sep-1995

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Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2


Released : 21st-Jun-1992

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Tora-san's Pure Love

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
Released : 25th-Dec-1976

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Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
Released : 6th-Aug-1977

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Asu no hanayome

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 9th-Sep-1962

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Tora-san Plays Cupid

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.
Released : 24th-Dec-1977

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Lost Love

Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the garden, he sees a beautiful schoolgirl who lives there. After they coincidentally meet again they fall for each other, but she is already engaged.
Released : 23rd-Sep-1967

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Tora-san, My Uncle

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
Released : 27th-Dec-1989

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Tora-san Makes Excuses

Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna".
Released : 26th-Dec-1992

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Stage-Struck Tora-san

Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.
Released : 5th-Aug-1978

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Punishment of a Lawless Villian

In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel.
Released : 25th-Mar-1964

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Tsugumi

Tsugumi, who lives in a small seaside town, has been in delicate health from birth. Her parents spoiled her and she is rough and selfish. However, a few people are attracted by her beauty and unique character.
Released : 20th-Oct-1990

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Talk of the Town Tora-san

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
Released : 27th-Dec-1978

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Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts

A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
Released : 21st-Jun-1992

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Tora-san, the Matchmaker

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Released : 4th-Aug-1979

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The Sands of Kurobe

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.
Released : 1st-Mar-1968

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The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Released : 15th-Oct-1966

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I Have the Sun in My Back

Shigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has returned from prison. Kenzo was determined to become cool, but he was exposed as the culprit of the boss's murder, and he was killed. To clear the name of his brother Kenzo, Shigeru, with the support of his girlfriend Asako, sets out to find out the truth. A combination yakuza-youth action with heavy romantic overtones.
Released : 7th-Apr-1963

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Many Happy Returns

Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of the group, and becomes involved with them. The group is split into two, some members concentrating on spiritual teachings, and the others using the facade of religion to make money. The business faction dismiss the old spiritual master and choose Kazuo to lead their group.
Released : 20th-Nov-1993

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This Is Noriko

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behest of a father who deserted her soon after her birth. Nonetheless, the resourceful Noriko uses her feet to accomplish most of the tasks others would do with their hands.
Released : 12th-Sep-1981

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Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window cleaner Kurata Katsuo. This was to be their first encounter. Completely enchanted by Kumi, Katsuo does everything he can to get close to her. Katsuo is a man with a terrible past. With the death of his coal miner father, his family was broken up and he was forced to follow in his father's footsteps laboring away in the mud. In spite of this, Katsuo still has dreams. He dreams of living in Resiporuko, a utopian fantasyland that exists only in his imagination. When Katsuo and Kumi finally meet they find themselves unable to communicate. Katsuo spends all his time talking about Resiporuko with a starry look in his eyes, while Kumi dreams of living the high life in the city. One day when the two travel to the seashore, they discover a wounded seagull.
Released : 12th-Jul-1975

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Skinny and Fatty

Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
Released : 1st-Jan-1958

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The Day the Sun Rose

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1968

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The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
Released : 3rd-Jul-1955

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Hana to musume to shiroi michi

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Released : 6th-Mar-1961

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Street of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Released : 26th-Feb-1950

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Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love


Released : 15th-Jul-1962

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The Village

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an idea. A spokesperson for the acting troupe Ms. Kono lays out the whole thing and they must decide. You get little slices of rural life in Japan far, at least in sentiment, from Tokyo. The best thing about this film is that it has heart. The acting is good, but it is really about the simple storyline of outing on a show. Films rarely get made with such simplistic plots these days. Enjoy this little slice of what city people call “the simple life”.
Released : 12th-Apr-1976

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I'll Never Cry!

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world before her and has the determination to lead a normal life.
Released : 29th-Oct-1966

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Youth A Go Go!

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."
Released : 27th-Mar-1966

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Tora-san's Forbidden Love

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.
Released : 28th-Dec-1984

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Village of Eight Gravestones

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
Released : 29th-Oct-1977

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Whirlpool of Flesh

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
Released : 21st-Oct-1964

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花の生涯

Miura Hokuan - The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.
Released : 7th-Apr-1963

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球形の荒野

- Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the heroine Kumiko because she finds evidence that her father, who should have died, was "alive." Set in 1945, near the end of WW II, Kenichiro Nogami is reported to have died in a Swiss hospital. In fact, he is working behind the scenes to save Japan from destruction. For this cause, Kenichiro Nogami has left behind his wife and nation to work in hiding.
Released : 11th-Mar-1978

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必殺仕掛人

- A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Released : 2nd-Sep-1972

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夏子の酒

山田信助 - Natsuko, who was a copywriter, starts to cultivate rice called Tatsunishiki, which is a phantom kind and it is very difficult to grow. She does it to make her dead brother's dream come true. His dream was to make the...
Released : 12th-Jan-1994

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円盤戦争バンキッド

Isao Uzaki - Enban Sensou Bankid is the title of a tokusatsu series of classic made by Toho. The series, consisting of 26 episodes, is a result of joint production with Nippon Television, and aired in Japan starting on October 3, 1976 until the 23 March 1977.
Released : 3rd-Oct-1976

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世にも奇妙な物語

- Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.
Released : 19th-Apr-1990

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古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

Ginzō Kubo -
Released : 19th-Feb-1983

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