Chishū Ryū
Birthday: Born in 1904-05-13 in Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Deathday: 1993-03-16
Chishu Ryu (May 13, 1904 in Kumamoto, Japan – March 16, 1993 in Yokohama, Japan) was a famous Japanese film actor, a favourite of the director Yasujiro Ozu. From 1928 to 1992 he appeared in at least 155 films, including Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953) and Yoshitaro Nomura's Castle of Sand (1974). From 1969 until his death, Ryu became familiar to a new generation as the curmudgeonly but benevolent Buddhist priest in Yoji Yamada's Tora-san movie series (a role he parodied to great effect in a cameo in Juzo Itami's 1984 comedy, The Funeral). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chishû Ryû, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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男たちの旅路
Character: Kadomae
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war....
あ・うん
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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....
今朝の秋
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A former couple, separated for over 20 years, were reunited after being told their son had only 3 months to live. What should they do as parents? As they worried, they soon began to feel the weight of their family ties......
浮浪雲
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Set at the end of the Edo period, the series depicts Kumo's family with his wife, Kame, their 11-year-old son, Shinnosuke. Kumo is always ignoring work and playing and he is also notorious for womanising....
火の国に
Character: 造園主・吉野公平
The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape gardener....
たまゆら
Character: 直木良彦
The 5th NHK Asadora. Starring Chishuu Ryuu as an old man who begins to travel after he retires. From a story written for television by Yasunari Kawabata....
続・続 事件
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Daisaburo Kikuchi (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a skilled lawyer full of humanity, thrillingly depicts the process of stepping into the background of the case step by step....
沿線地図
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Two couples are confronted with the fact that their children have dropped out of high school and started living together. This drama questions the meaning of “life” as they overcome a series of incidents....
孤独のメス
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The story is set in Sumidagawa Hospital, an emergency hospital in downtown Tokyo. The head of surgery there, Iwashita Ken, is a brain surgeon who has just returned from the United States . He has excellent skills, but his strict personality often makes him the envy of other doctors. He also has a secret past. The story depicts the various facets of the hospital, including the interactions between doctors and patients, the power struggle within the hospital, and Asou Yukie, a recent nursing schoo...
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The Fourth Lady
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It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to burnt earth. A Tokyo with no one to rely on....
The Longest Tunnel
Character: Saiji Akutsu
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife....
Red Beard
Character: Mr. Yasumoto
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 to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel....
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
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Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to Oita to meet them, with Tora-san quickly falling for her en route....
Tora-san Confesses
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When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san....
Crybaby Chacha
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Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for girls and breakdancing in discos. A funeral forces him to return home and meet his familiy, which (espicially his father) disapprove of his lifestyle....
Late Spring
Character: Shukichi Somiya
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right....
Early Spring
Character: Kiichi Onodera
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair....
Striving to Live
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Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more....
Late Autumn
Character: Shukichi Miwa
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband....
The Bad Sleep Well
Character: Public Prosecutor Nonaka
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death....
Love in the Mountains
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A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love....
There Was a Father
Character: Shuhei Horikawa
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects....
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Character: Hinanmin no Chôrô
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines....
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
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Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation....
Let's Go in Good Spirits
Character: The Boss
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 “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school....
Equinox Flower
Character: Shukichi Mikami
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat....
Good Morning
Character: Keitaro Hayashi
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives g...
The End of Summer
Character: Farmer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth....
Kaisen no Zenya
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Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan...
Gekimetsu no uta
Character: 河上耕造
Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again for the first time since their graduation ceremony. This film was made at the end of the war to promote the military song “Song of the Annihilation of the United States and Great Britain” and to raise the will to fight....
Street Without End
Character: Yukihiko Chiba
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car....
The Funeral
Character: The Priest
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home....
Dolls floating down the river
Character: Neighbor
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi bina", which absorbed the customs of the Tottori region....
Twenty-Four Eyes
Character: Otoko Sensei
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances....
The Rickshaw Man
Character: Shigezo Yuki
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly....
Zoku aizen katsura
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1962 Japanese movie...
Futari dake no toride
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Flower in a Storm
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1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie...
Mole Alley
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33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it....
Otome no iru kichi
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Japanese war movie....
Japan's Longest Day
Character: Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anam...
Floating Weeds
Character: Theatre Owner
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences....
The Soundless Cry
Character: Tateno
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence....
Tokyo Story
Character: Shukichi Hirayama
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company....
That Night's Wife
Character: Policeman
In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise....
An Autumn Afternoon
Character: Shuhei Hirayama
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her....
Early Summer
Character: Koichi Mamiya
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry....
The Only Son
Character: Teacher Okubo
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son....
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Character: Tashiro
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board....
Tokyo Twilight
Character: Shukichi Sugiyama
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child....
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Character: Sadao Hirayama
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis....
The Munekata Sisters
Character: Tadachika Munekata
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 failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi....
Tokyo-Ga
Character: Self
German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city....
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Character: Shojiro's Friend
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate....
Bridge
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A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story....
The Last War
Character: Ebara
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers....
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
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The Human Bullet
Character: Bookstore Man
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship....
Carmen Comes Home
Character: Principal
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist....
Battle of the Japan Sea
Character: General Maresuke Nogi
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand....
Woman of Tokyo
Character: Reporter
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition....
Boyhood
Character: Father
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community....
Ornamental Hairpin
Character: Nanmura
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 the other patrons regarding her identity....
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Character: Masao - Age 73
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman....
Master Fencer Sees the World
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A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933....
Youth of the Son
Character: Mr. Uemura
The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls....
Passing Fancy
Character: Man on Boat
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in....
A Mother Should Be Loved
Character: Hattori
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling....
Utsukushiki Rinjin
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Character: Priest
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....
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Character: Priest
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....
The Snow Flurry
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After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child....
Army
Character: Tomosuke Takagi
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition....
Home from the Sea
Character: Ishizaki Senzo
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the deepest affection for this piece of land they call home, and the simple life they lead. But rapid industrial growth makes it all but impossible to continue their chosen living style, and they are forced to leave their beloved hometown in search of a brighter future. But their hometown lingers on their hearts, and they dream of a time when they may once...
Luminous Moss
Character: Judge
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own....
White Blaze
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A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue....
Sailor
Character: Teacher (uncredited)
Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the family business and refuses to accept it....
Children in the Wind
Character: Policeman
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement....
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Character: the High Priest
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter....
The Eternal Rainbow
Character: Naoji Kageyama
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....
A Star Athlete
Character: Tani
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute....
Boy Aviation Pilots
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Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in civilian aviation through his instructor's good offices....
Housewife Camellia
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The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to look after, and they end up meeting several colorful personalities....
Spring Dreams
Character: Shinichirô Atsumi
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends....
Queen of the Wind
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A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training would help them to start their own business. The general manager selects another woman and the trouble begins....
Mother is Strong
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
Character: the High Priest
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels....
Southern Wind
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Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has an elegance to it, which is the charm of the 30 year old Kinuyo Tanaka. There was a time when Tanaka was adorable... Shin Saburi was young and Chishu Ryu was young too. It is a promise of melodrama that the rival or friend is prettier than the heroine Kinyo....
Flower
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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 marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging....
South Wind
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Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Current", Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine and Mitsuko Mito are appearing, but this is a fresh comedy very unusual for wartime....
Tora-san's Love Call
Character: the High Priest
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways....
Yoru no keisha
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1962 Japanese movie...
Love Under the Crucifix
Character: Sokei Nambo
LOVE UNDER THE CRUCIFIX centers on the forbidden romance between Ogin (Ineko Arima), daughter of a famous tea master, and Ukon (Tatsuya Nakadai), a married samurai. The shogunate’s prohibition of Ukon’s Christian faith forces the lovers to fight against the prejudices of an oppressive society while persisting in their mutual devotion....
Where Spring Comes Late
Character: Genzo, So's father
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer....
Tora-san's Lovesick
Character: Gozen-sama
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow....
The Wandering Princess
Character: Kinoshita
Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love between Pu Zhe and Ryuko develops and is put to the test when Japan loses the war....
The Moon Has Risen
Character: Asai Mokichi
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 in some sort of complicated relationships....
Tora-san's Lullaby
Character: Gozen-sama
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....
慶安水滸傳
Character: 神尾備前守
Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's bodyguard, Maruhashi Tadayasu, and Kaku, a priest. He ended up settling at the Kasugaya, the house of Oko, whom he had saved. When Oko decided to go to Edo, where her biological father lived, Daisuke accompanied her. Along the way, at Suruga Abe River, they encountered Sawanojiki's theater group, which had departed from Osaka earlier heading to Edo. A ...
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Character: Gozen-sama
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....
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
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The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live......
Tora-san's Pure Love
Character: Gozen-sama
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....
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Character: Gozensama
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....
The Radish and the Carrot
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One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…...
Drunkard's Paradise
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A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol....
Navy
Character: Major Kikuchi
Japanese war film....
All is Well
Character: Shingo Mori
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All is Well 2
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
Character: Priest
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....
The Lights of Asakusa
Character: Shin'ichi Katori
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together....
Satan's Sword
Character: Tsukue
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good....
Kare o korosu na
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Kyōshū
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Home Sweet Home
Character: Kosaku Uemura
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony......
Sisters
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Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), and the third was Mihato (Hibari Misora). Mihato was still a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, but she considered herself as mature as her older sisters. Mihato knows that Tsugumi is friends with Ippei Yaguchi (Masao Wakahara) and acts as a love messenger between them, but she didn't know that Takako is also in love with Ippei......
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
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The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child! A cheerful work depicting the problems between three generations of men and women in a bright and healthy manner....
Scrap Collectors
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Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka....
Door of Flowers
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Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president....
The Storm
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A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone....
Tora-san, My Uncle
Character: Gozen-sama
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo....
Port of Flowers
Character: Nobadama
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....
Tora-san Makes Excuses
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Freedom School
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Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also finds herself freed and is unable to ignore her confusion....
The Man Who Has Returned
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
Character: Gozen-sama
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....
I Flunked, But...
Character: Class mate
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 don't work out for our roguish main character, but his classmates soon find themselves in a similarly sorry state......
Flying in the Air
Character:
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky....
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
Character: Shimazaki
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs....
Dragnet Girl
Character: Policeman
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....
Talk of the Town Tora-san
Character: Gozen-sama
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....
Dreams
Character: Old Man
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa....
Our Planes Fly South
Character: Teacher Matsuki
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It's Tough Being a Man
Character: Gozen-sama
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you....
Monument to Holy Service
Character:
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon....
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Character: Gozen-sama
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride....
The Lady and the Beard
Character: (uncredited)
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity....
Dislikes
Character:
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose....
The Crowded Train
Character: Genroku, the father
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career....
Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
Character:
The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series....
Life's Simple Pleasures
Character:
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos, focusing on the daily life of Sanpei Mejiro, a salaryman for over twenty years who finds a little happiness in life in his poor but joyful home....
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Character: Old man in the park
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family....
When We are Old
Character:
An old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move together. A few days after moving, he decides to go back to see his wife, though being opposed by his son....
Until Spring Comes
Character:
Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her heart, but she eventually opens up to him, as depicted in the beautiful images of Kamakura from fall to winter and then to early spring....
When Winter Comes
Character:
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his deathbed and develops a faint affection for an elegant old woman, but the purpose of his journey is actually to find a place to die. He gives a large sum of money to a young couple, who are poor but have a dream for the future, and tries to throw himself into the sea. The movie depicts the loneliness of an old man who has lost his wife....
South Wind 2
Character:
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inventing the story that Saigo Takamori didn't actually die in the Satsuma Rebellion but escaped to Southeast Asia to start a new religion and in the process fathered a son who is now the founder. But when they bring the supposed heir and his aide to Japan, chaos ensues......
The Castle of Sand
Character: Kojuro Kirihara
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard....
Until the End of the World
Character: Mr. Mori
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions....
Always in My Heart Part 2
Character:
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
Always in My Heart
Character:
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names....
Always in My Heart Part 3
Character:
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe....
Fireworks Over the Sea
Character: Tarobei Kamiya
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced....
The Last Kamikaze
Character:
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission....
Traveling in Party
Character:
A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri....
The Good Fairy
Character: Ryôen Toba
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda....
Farewell to Spring
Character: Kôzô's father
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were....
Love Letter
Character:
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people....
The First Kiss
Character: Hasegawa
Portmanteau film about young lovers....
The Wiser Age
Character: Kinjiro Ishikawa
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
A Story of Floating Weeds
Character: Audience Member
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all....
An Inn in Tokyo
Character: Policeman
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament....
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
Character: the High Priest
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer....
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
Character: Gozen-sama
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship....
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
Character: the High Priest
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist....
Tora-san Plays Daddy
Character: the High Priest
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”....
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
Character: the High Priest
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san....
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
Character: Gozen-sama
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged....
Tora-san's Promise
Character: Gozen-sama
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enamored of Tora-san and follows him around. One of Tora-san's old friends is terminally ill and makes Tora-san promise him to marry his wife once he is gone....
Tora-san, the Go-Between
Character: the High Priest
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student....
Tora-san, the Expert
Character: Gozen-sama
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo....
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Character: the High Priest
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher....
Tora-san's Song of Love
Character: the High Priest
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer....
Foster Daddy, Tora!
Character: Gozen-sama
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam....
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
Character: Gôzô Tôyama
A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those relatives in Waikiki....
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku's Ofuna Studio
Character: Self
Documentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu....
Tange Sazen
Character:
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu Clan tries to raise funds by obtaining a sword which holds the key to a wondrous, hidden treasure. After learning the sword's secret, Tange Sazen sides with the Yagyu Clan, but his motive seems to be more than just pure interest in the treasure......
A Visage to Remember
Character:
During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he meets the professor's lovely young wife, Sachiko (Hamada Yuriko), and is unsettled by the striking resemblance she bears to his wife, who died three years earlier. Attracted to Sachiko, he does his best to hide his feelings. The couple, however, senses a deep-seated melancholy in him. Attributing it ...
Internees of Kampili
Character: Vice-Admiral Shibata
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the island of Celebes. Eighteen-hundred Allied women and children were interned for the duration of the war. Yamaji's iron rule for camp administration is : No violence; hands off internees; He also endeavors to establish self-administration by in...
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Character:
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters....
The Golden Demon
Character: Kuranosuke Kazahaya
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser....
Days of Youth
Character: Student
Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl....
Song of the Flower Basket
Character: Nenkai Hotta
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo....
The Black Sheep
Character:
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who is related to the family hosting them and whom they keep running into, but can't help but to feel sympathy for. Of course, rumours start fast in a small town, but delightfully she doesn't really care at all. This is another very solid Shogoro Nishimura film....
Four Sisters
Character:
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life....
Oretachi no toki
Character:
Japanese youth film....
High-School Outcasts
Character: Instructor Takeyama
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home....
I Lived, But...
Character: Self
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with.....
The Refugee
Character:
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end o...
Miyamoto Musashi
Character: Takuan
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....
Lanterns on Blue Waters
Character:
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans....
Flower and Dragon
Character:
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai....
The Waves
Character:
Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant....
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Character: the High Priest
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....
Great X
Character: Chief of police
A 1948 Japanese film....
Children Hand in Hand
Character: Mr. Matsumura
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates....
Eyes of Children
Character:
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds over the treatment of his daughter, with accusations that he abused the little girl. A sensational trial ensues in which the lawyer becomes a defendant, and secrets from childhood fester even into adulthood....
The Face
Character: Det. Hasegawa
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming model....
Fight for the Glory
Character:
Coming of age/high school sports drama....
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
Character: Priest
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side....
I Want to Be a Shellfish
Character: Komiya
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....
College Is a Nice Place
Character: Amano
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film....
Physical Beauty
Character:
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film....
Couple on the Move
Character:
When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to be a lost film....
Pumpkin
Character:
Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film....
Wife Lost
Character:
A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film....
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Character: Gozensama
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him....
Only She Knows
Character:
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones....
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Character: High Priest
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....
The Youth and His Amulet
Character:
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty....
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Character: the High Priest
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist....
And Then
Character:
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support his interests. When his friend Hiraoka returns with his wife Michiyo, problems arise....
Introspection Tower
Character: Mr. Kusama
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry....
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
Character:
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Dôkoku
Character:
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The New Road: Akemi
Character:
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 told from the perspective of Akemi....
Tora-san's Runaway
Character: High Priest
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job....
Come Marry Me
Character: Tamotsu's Grandfather
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro....
Gazing at Love and Death
Character:
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion....
The Greatest Man in the World
Character: Hermit
Remake of classic samurai film of 1932...
A Hen in the Wind
Character: Kazuichiro Satake
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 treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences....
A Taxing Woman's Return
Character: Former Priest
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath....
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
Character: Self
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and details the creation of the film’s groundbreaking high-definition sequences....
Izu no musumetachi
Character:
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The Four Loves
Character: Heitarô Misawa
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind....
Dreams of Youth
Character:
Lost silent film...
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Character:
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister....
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Character: the High Priest
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san....
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Character:
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata....
Double Wedding
Character: Noriko's Father
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
Character:
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit....
A Brother and His Younger Sister
Character: Seizaburō Utsumi
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers....
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
Character:
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Storm on the Silvery Peaks
Character: Monk
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
Character: the High Priest
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 for the affection of Chiyo....
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Character: the High Priest
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride....
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Character: the High Priest
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant....
Tora-san Goes North
Character: the High Priest
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested....
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
Character: the High Priest
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan....
Spring Thunder
Character:
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 cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and she was suddenly thrown out into the world without any foundation. Eiko has no one to support her after she loses her social status, and her only tutor, Shinnosuke (Natsukawa Daijiro) was the only one who was sincere. Eiko is a stickler for usin...
Machi no Hi
Character: Takushoku
Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex brokerage. Choromatsu is partnered with Umekichi, whom he calls "big brother," in this business. They live on the second floor of the aka-chochin (red lantern) owned by Takeko, where boys and girls who were abandoned at the abandoned children's temple on Mukojima also live together, making up a family of people who are not related to each other....
Aoimoku no yome-han
Character: Maruhashi Gotaro
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Warm Current
Character: Yasuhide Shima
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Aiyoku no sabaki
Character:
Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution more worthwhile than the marriage recommended by her parents. Meanwhile, inside Inokichi's heart a flame of unknowing love for the single-minded Motoko begins to burn......
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
Character:
A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora after the war. Previously, there is only a 6-minute short version in the National Film Archive, therefore, the full version is this movie is very valuable. This is considered a masterpiece that depicts a happy family of 7 (a father, a mother, 3 sons and 2 daughters).They care about each other, and also trust each other. Father started to ask all t...
Haru no Wakakusa
Character:
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Beauty of Life
Character:
Inochi uruwashi...
Forgotten Children
Character:
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New Woman Question and Answer
Character:
Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover....
Living Image
Character:
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period....
Love
Character:
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation....
Kekkon Sanjûshi
Character:
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A Good Man, A Good Day
Character: Ozeki Hitoshi
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation....
A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Character: Detective Shiozaki
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Character:
An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop of the turbulent history of the Showa period and the magnificent nature of Hokkaido....
Kyukei no Koya
Character:
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his country, his wife and children, and risked everything to save his country from ruin, and the bond between father and daughter....
The White Road Across the River
Character:
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I'm a Bodyguard
Character:
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a writer living in the area while working at a police box. His dream is to become a bodyguard (BG) for the Prime Minister, just like his senior, Detective Inspector Takagi (Ryu Chishu). Kita Ippei is very successful in both work and love, getting attacked while guarding a female minister, getting some perks as a BG for a foreign princess, and becoming...
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1945 Japanese movie...
Oyuki
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A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and joyful life....
Shin Jinsei Gekijo
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1961 Theater of Life adaptation....
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
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Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation....
Subarashiki shōtai
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1955 Japanese movie...
Monrō no yōna onna
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1964 Japanese movie...
Bandits on the Wind
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1961 Japanese movie...
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
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A sequel to Ohana han....
Air Raid of the Enemy Plane
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Japanese war movie....