Osamu Takizawa

Osamu Takizawa

Osamu Takizawa (滝沢 修 Takizawa Osamu , 13 November 1906 – 22 June 2000 ) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno.  His was praised for his performance in Death of a Salesman and also directed a version of The Diary of Anne Frank.  Perhaps his most notable film role was in Fires on the Plain. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Osamu Takizawa , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Osamu Takizawa
  • Popularity: 4.805
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1906-11-14
  • Place of Birth: Ushigome, Tokyo,Japan
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  • Also Known As: Osamu Takizawa (I), 滝沢 修
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Osamu Takizawa Movies

  • 1965
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    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan

    7.7 1965 HD

    Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

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  • 1954
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    Turbid youth

    Turbid youth

    1 1954 HD

    Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

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  • 1959
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    Fires on the Plain

    Fires on the Plain

    7.6 1959 HD

    In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

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  • 1970
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    Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

    Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

    6.7 1970 HD

    With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a...

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  • 1958
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    Stolen Desire

    Stolen Desire

    6.6 1958 HD

    A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

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  • 1962
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    Seinen no isu

    Seinen no isu

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1954
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    Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi

    Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi

    1 1954 HD

    Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and...

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  • 1962
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    Facing to the Clouds

    Facing to the Clouds

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1961
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    Bitter End of a Sweet Night

    Bitter End of a Sweet Night

    5.8 1961 HD

    An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

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  • 1947
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    The Ball at the Anjo House

    The Ball at the Anjo House

    6.7 1947 HD

    After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

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  • 1962
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    A Torrent of Life

    A Torrent of Life

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1968
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    The Sands of Kurobe

    The Sands of Kurobe

    6.2 1968 HD

    Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

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  • 1938
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    Tojuro's Love

    Tojuro's Love

    1 1938 HD

    A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

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  • 1952
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    I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

    I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

    1 1952 HD

    A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

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  • 1962
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    Love Under the Crucifix

    Love Under the Crucifix

    6.9 1962 HD

    The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...

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  • 1954
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    Hanran

    Hanran

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1955
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    Christ in Bronze

    Christ in Bronze

    1 1955 HD

    Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • 1959
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    A Man Explodes

    A Man Explodes

    1 1959 HD

    Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu,...

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  • 1938
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    Subterranean Heat

    Subterranean Heat

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1962
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    Ai to shi no katami

    Ai to shi no katami

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1954
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    疾風愛憎峠

    疾風愛憎峠

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1949
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    Konna onna ni dare ga shita

    Konna onna ni dare ga shita

    1 1949 HD

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  • 1961
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    The Estuary

    The Estuary

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1954
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    浅草の夜

    浅草の夜

    1 1954 HD

    A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...

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  • 1949
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    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

    6.7 1949 HD

    Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

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  • 1951
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    限りなき情熱

    限りなき情熱

    1 1951 HD

    Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

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  • 1948
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    The Grand Master

    The Grand Master

    1 1948 HD

    Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

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  • 1955
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    Six Assassins

    Six Assassins

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1954
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    Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

    Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten

    1 1954 HD

    Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

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  • 1965
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    A Trap

    A Trap

    7.2 1965 HD

    When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...

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  • 1935
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    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

    6.8 1935 HD

    Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

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  • 1967
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    Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows

    Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows

    1 1967 HD

    During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has...

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  • 1961
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    Buddha

    Buddha

    1 1961 HD

    An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

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  • 1962
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    The Inheritance

    The Inheritance

    7.2 1962 HD

    On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are...

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  • 1966
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    The Great White Tower

    The Great White Tower

    6.7 1966 HD

    The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

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  • 1978
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    August without Emperor

    August without Emperor

    7 1978 HD

    Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

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  • 1971
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    Shadow of Deception

    Shadow of Deception

    6.3 1971 HD

    It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who...

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  • 1948
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    Apostasy

    Apostasy

    5.8 1948 HD

    In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

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  • 1949
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    Broken Drum

    Broken Drum

    6.7 1949 HD

    When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

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  • 1957
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    Secret of Naruto

    Secret of Naruto

    6.9 1957 HD

    From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...

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  • 1956
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    How Sorrowful

    How Sorrowful

    1 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    Till We Meet Again

    Till We Meet Again

    6.4 1950 HD

    Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

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  • 1955
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    A Hole of My Own Making

    A Hole of My Own Making

    6 1955 HD

    Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but...

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  • 1956
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    Family of Sorrow

    Family of Sorrow

    1 1956 HD

    Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

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  • 1956
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    Called to the Stand

    Called to the Stand

    1 1956 HD

    Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....

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  • 1953
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    Before Dawn

    Before Dawn

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1938
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    Composition Class

    Composition Class

    6.9 1938 HD

    Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

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  • 1963
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    When Women Lie

    When Women Lie

    1 1963 HD

    Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

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  • 1973
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    Men and War III: The Final Chapter

    Men and War III: The Final Chapter

    6 1973 HD

    Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

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  • 1952
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    Children of Hiroshima

    Children of Hiroshima

    7.1 1952 HD

    Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

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  • 1958
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    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    6 1958 HD

    Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

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  • 1951
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    Story of a Beloved Wife

    Story of a Beloved Wife

    7 1951 HD

    Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

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  • 1959
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    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

    5.7 1959 HD

    Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

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  • 1957
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    The Temptress and the Monk

    The Temptress and the Monk

    1 1957 HD

    Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

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  • 1951
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    The Tale of Genji

    The Tale of Genji

    5.4 1951 HD

    Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

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  • 1963
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    The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

    The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

    8 1963 HD

    Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

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  • 1950
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    Street of Violence

    Street of Violence

    6.5 1950 HD

    An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

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  • 1971
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    Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

    Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

    5.8 1971 HD

    Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

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  • 1959
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    Stop the Old Fox

    Stop the Old Fox

    5 1959 HD

    Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of...

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  • 1959
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    Jirocho Fuji

    Jirocho Fuji

    6.8 1959 HD

    Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

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  • 1948
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    The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

    The Most Beautiful Day of My Life

    1 1948 HD

    Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

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  • 1959
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    Etajima, the Naval Academy

    Etajima, the Naval Academy

    1 1959 HD

    The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase....

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  • 1954
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    The Black Current

    The Black Current

    1 1954 HD

    A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing...

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  • 1962
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    Drunkard's Paradise

    Drunkard's Paradise

    1 1962 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

    6.6 1970 HD

    The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

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  • 1949
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    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

    6.7 1949 HD

    Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

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  • 1952
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    Shi no machi wo nogarete

    Shi no machi wo nogarete

    1 1952 HD

    Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

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  • 1966
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    No Greater Love

    No Greater Love

    1 1966 HD

    In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

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  • 1958
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    Face in the Dark

    Face in the Dark

    1 1958 HD

    Japanese suspense film.

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  • 1946
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    The Brick Factory Girl

    The Brick Factory Girl

    1 1946 HD

    This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

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  • 1963
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    A Legend, or Was It?

    A Legend, or Was It?

    6.4 1963 HD

    A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

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  • 1935
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    Drifting

    Drifting

    1 1935 HD

    Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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  • 1960
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    Jungle Block

    Jungle Block

    7 1960 HD

    A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

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  • 1980
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    An Ocean to Cross

    An Ocean to Cross

    1 1980 HD

    Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

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  • 1965
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    Taking the Castle

    Taking the Castle

    1 1965 HD

    The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to...

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  • 1966
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    The Heart of Hiroshima

    The Heart of Hiroshima

    1 1966 HD

    One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two...

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  • 1953
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    Miniature

    Miniature

    8 1953 HD

    Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

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  • 1961
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    That Guy and I

    That Guy and I

    10 1961 HD

    Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

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  • 1964
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    Shutsugeki

    Shutsugeki

    1 1964 HD

    An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful...

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  • 1952
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    The Yamabiko School

    The Yamabiko School

    1 1952 HD

    A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

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  • 1988
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    Sakura-tai Chiru

    Sakura-tai Chiru

    5.7 1988 HD

    A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

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  • 1958
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    Crimson Wings

    Crimson Wings

    1 1958 HD

    At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received...

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  • 1957
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    On This Earth

    On This Earth

    1 1957 HD

    1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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  • 1964
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    Jinsei Gekijo

    Jinsei Gekijo

    1 1964 HD

    1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

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  • 1959
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    Dream Young Man's Dream

    Dream Young Man's Dream

    1 1959 HD

    An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

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  • 1937
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    Mother's Melody

    Mother's Melody

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1976
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    Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku

    Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku

    1 1976 HD

    A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

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  • 1950
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    Resurrection

    Resurrection

    1 1950 HD

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  • 1949
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    The Man Who Laughs Last

    The Man Who Laughs Last

    1 1949 HD

    The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers...

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  • 1938
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    The Giant

    The Giant

    6 1938 HD

    Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

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  • 1950
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    The Bells of Nagasaki

    The Bells of Nagasaki

    1 1950 HD

    The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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  • 1959
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    Across the Darkness

    Across the Darkness

    1 1959 HD

    A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

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  • 1955
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    Ghost Story of Youth

    Ghost Story of Youth

    1 1955 HD

    A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

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  • 1955
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    The Samurai of Edo

    The Samurai of Edo

    6 1955 HD

    This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

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  • 1972
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    Shin Heike Monogatari

    Shin Heike Monogatari

    10 1972 HD

    Set at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era of peace, this tale of "Heike" (another name for the...

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  • 1969
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    Heaven and Earth

    Heaven and Earth

    7 1969 HD

    The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.

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  • 1964
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    Akō Rōshi

    Akō Rōshi

    7.5 1964 HD

    "Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after attempting to kill Lord Kira. Once the...

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  • 1978
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    Kyukei no Koya

    Kyukei no Koya

    1 1978 HD

    Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the heroine Kumiko because she finds evidence that her...

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