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Sachiko Murase

Sachiko Murase (村瀬 幸子, Murase Sachiko, 21 March 1905 – 9 October 1993) was a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1991. Born : 21st-Mar-1905

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Rhapsody in August

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
Released : 25th-May-1991

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The Snow Woman

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him.
Released : 20th-Apr-1968

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Here's to the Young Lady

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
Released : 9th-Mar-1949

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Station

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Released : 7th-Nov-1981

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Have Wings on Your Heart

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

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A Human Promise

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
Released : 13th-Sep-1986

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Okoto and Sasuke

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 Junichiro.
Released : 15th-Jun-1935

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Sincerity

Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top students, while the rich girl Tomiko is not. At one time Tomiko's father was quite fond of Nobuko's mother.
Released : 10th-Sep-1939

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A Woman Crying in Spring

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido, Kenji attracts Ohama, who is travelling to Hokkaido to open a bar. When Kenji visits the bar, he chases away a sailor who was hassling a shy girl, Ofuji, which makes Ohama jealous.
Released : 1st-Apr-1933

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Love for an Idiot

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
Released : 29th-Jul-1967

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Emperor Meiji and General Nogi

In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an invincible fortress at Port Arthur, and the relations between two countries have become strained to breaking point. General Nogi has retired to the first reserve and is now a gentleman farmer, but he is prepared for sudden mobilization. Finally, Japan declares war against Russia and Emperor Meiji appoints General Nogi as the commander of the force to attack Port Arthur. However, in spite of several all-out attacks, the fortress is strong and the casualties increase among the Japanese. Because of these reverses, there are loud cries for a change in command. However, the Emperor places his confidence in General Nogi.
Released : 1st-Nov-1959

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Spring Awakens

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Released : 2nd-Nov-1947

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Apostasy

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Released : 30th-Nov-1948

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Broken Drum

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Released : 1st-Dec-1949

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The Angry Street

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
Released : 14th-May-1950

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Late Night Confession

Japanese mystery thriller.
Released : 21st-Jun-1949

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Marriage

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.
Released : 18th-Mar-1947

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Onna keizu

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
Released : 11th-Jun-1942

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Zatoichi the Fugitive

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.
Released : 9th-Aug-1963

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Thirst for Love

Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
Released : 1st-Apr-1966

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Port of Flowers

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
Released : 29th-Jul-1943

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Carmen's Innocent Love

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
Released : 13th-Nov-1952

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The School of Spies

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.
Released : 4th-Jun-1966

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ABC Lifeline

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.
Released : 12th-Dec-1931

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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.
Released : 18th-Sep-1965

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The False Student

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
Released : 8th-Oct-1960

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Pure White Nights

"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.
Released : 31st-Aug-1951

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Kisses

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.
Released : 23rd-Jul-1957

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The Kii River

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
Released : 11th-Jun-1966

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Fresh Leaves

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher.
Released : 6th-Oct-1962

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Forever, My Love


Released : 5th-Feb-1958

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Nippon no obaachan

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1962

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Wakai musumetachi


Released : 7th-Apr-1951

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Adolescence Part II

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
Released : 1st-Jul-1953

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Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its heroine, Yumie Sone. Over two hours long, Seven Seas was released theatrically in two parts, with the first part entitled "Virginity Chapter" coming out in December 1931, while the second part, "Chastity Chapter," followed in March 1932. Near the beginning of the narrative, at a garden party given by the wealthy Yagibashi family in Tokyo, Yumie meets Takehiko, the Yagibashis' playboy son and the brother of Yumie's fiancé, Yuzuru. Yumie, a young middle-class woman, lives with her ailing father, a retired ministry official, an older sister, and a younger sister still a child (played by a very young Hideko Takamine). Takehiko, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, is attracted to Yumie and contrives to have her stay overnight at his family's mansion where he takes advantage of her.
Released : 23rd-Dec-1931

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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous Sone family.
Released : 11th-Feb-1932

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The President's Son


Released : 27th-May-1962

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Farewell to Summer


Released : 19th-Sep-1958

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Love Stopped the Runaway Train

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.
Released : 15th-Dec-1973

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Tora-san's Grand Scheme

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
Released : 26th-Feb-1970

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Gateway to Glory

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Released : 12th-Jul-1969

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Itsuko to sono haha

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
Released : 17th-Feb-1954

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Ticket to Hell


Released : 28th-Sep-1955

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Sunflower Girl

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.
Released : 26th-Mar-1953

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A Woman's Life


Released : 29th-Jan-1955

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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Released : 23rd-Apr-1955

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Passion

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.
Released : 4th-Feb-1932

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Rainbow Hill

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named Hasegawa checks into the hotel in order to recuperate in a calm environment with fresh air. She is the mother of the store employee. The mother and daughter were separated due to the Kanto earthquake. The girl was practically raised by her older half brother.
Released : 11th-Mar-1938

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That Night's Woman

That Night's Woman
Released : 17th-Oct-1934

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The Hill is Full of Flowers

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....
Released : 11th-Sep-1963

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