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Frankie Sakai

Frankie Sakai, born Masatoshi Sakai (堺 正俊; 13 February 1929 – 10 June 1996), was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician. Born : 13th-Feb-1929

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Mothra

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Released : 30th-Jul-1961

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Edo Porn

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Released : 12th-Sep-1981

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The Last War

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
Released : 8th-Oct-1961

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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Released : 14th-Jul-1957

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Hito mo arukeba

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Released : 9th-Feb-1960

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Frankie the Milkman

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
Released : 5th-Dec-1956

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Waiting for the Flood

A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.
Released : 10th-Aug-1991

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Shinran: Path to Purity

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
Released : 2nd-Jun-1987

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Miyamoto Musashi

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Released : 13th-Jul-1973

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Have Wings on Your Heart

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.
Released : 14th-Oct-1978

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How Sorrowful

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 her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
Released : 7th-Sep-1956

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The Happy Dancers

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.
Released : 10th-May-1956

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A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival

Japanese musical.
Released : 9th-Jan-1954

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You Can Succeed, Too

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
Released : 30th-May-1964

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Westward Desperado

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.
Released : 30th-Oct-1960

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Moonlight Serenade

After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.
Released : 15th-Mar-1997

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Sharaku

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal. The film explores the eternal relationship between artist and producer, and describes the emanicipation of a man who refuses to let himself become the plaything of power and money.
Released : 2nd-Jun-1995

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Nonsense Boys

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 1st-Jun-1963

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Temptation on Glamour Island

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 World War II.
Released : 15th-Jan-1959

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Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown

Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound “ki” healing power.
Released : 11th-Jun-1994

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Snow in the South Seas

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Released : 29th-Sep-1961

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A Geisha's Diary

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.
Released : 28th-Jul-1961

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Room for Let

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
Released : 2nd-Jun-1959

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The Green Music Box

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.
Released : 8th-May-1955

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I Sell My Husband

Japanese comedy film.
Released : 9th-Nov-1968

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嵐を呼ぶ男

Remake of the 1957 film "The Stormy Man".
Released : 4th-Aug-1983

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The Maid Story

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 forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
Released : 16th-Jun-1963

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I Want to Be a Shellfish

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
Released : 12th-Apr-1959

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Quick Change Tanuki Palace

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 as a hostage, and try to take a Buddhist saint from the temple by force.
Released : 29th-Dec-1954

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Oh, My Comrade!

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One day Fukuzo guides Harumi, an old woman, to the Yasukuni Shrine where the souls of fallen soldiers are enshrined. Finding she has no place to go, Fukuzo carries her to his shack by the sea.
Released : 19th-Sep-1970

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Dancing Sisters

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daughters. Haruko, the eldest, is the lead vocalist in a band. Natsuko is the conscientious type, who spends her days in ballet classes beautifying herself. The youngest of the three, Akiko is a bookworm who found her niche in philosophy. Although the sisters may appear to have nothing in common, there is one thing they all agree on; "Mom needs a new husband".
Released : 3rd-Jan-1957

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The Hotelman's Holiday

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
Released : 12th-Jul-1958

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A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

#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 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
Released : 31st-Oct-1965

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Fusa

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
Released : 1st-Apr-1993

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47 Ronin

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Released : 3rd-Nov-1962

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The Greatest Man in the World

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932
Released : 25th-Oct-1986

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Tôhôkenbunroku


Released : 1st-Aug-1993

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Burden of Love

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu
Released : 18th-Mar-1955

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Three Gentlemen from Tokyo


Released : 29th-Apr-1962

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Hungry Soul, Part II

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
Released : 28th-Nov-1956

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This Madding Crowd


Released : 28th-Jun-1962

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Vengeance Is Mine

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
Released : 21st-Apr-1979

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Shogun

An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Released : 17th-Jun-1981

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The Walking Major

U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds to rebuild an orphanage. Suspicious of Allen's motives, a Japanese newsman, Hiroshi Kitabayashi, traces the American's background until he discovers the motive behind Allen's long walk.
Released : 6th-Jun-1970

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Seishun wo warera ni


Released : 28th-Mar-1956

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Jolly Barbers


Released : 17th-Nov-1963

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I Want to Be a Shellfish

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."
Released : 31st-Oct-1958

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Five Gents' Trick Book

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1965

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Price of Life

Comedy of a phony doctor.
Released : 24th-Jul-1971

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Pachinko


Released : 30th-Dec-1962

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Kigeki-otoko no ude dameshi

In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welcomes Okoma, a stripper who has been locked up for public indecency. Shosuke immediately takes the paroled Okoma to the police station to greet her, and meets a young new detective, Matsuta Obara, who has just been transferred. But the two don't get along from the moment they meet...
Released : 9th-Mar-1974

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Shōgun

Yabu - An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
Released : 15th-Sep-1980

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あ・うん

- Senkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are diametrically opposed in appearance and personality, but are best friends. Kadokura secretly loves Mizuta's wife, Tami, and both Mizuta and Tami are aware of it. The drama depicts the subtle relationship between the two men and the people around them against the backdrop of the times and customs of the early Showa period, in which both are aware of each other's love, but no one speaks of it.
Released : 9th-Mar-1980

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