Isamu Kosugi

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshie Fujiwara

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they rekindled their friendship, a complex...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Nakano

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Chiemi Eri

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûji Azuma

Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

Genre: War

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

"Delinquent Girl" - A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular “bad girl” and the optimistic scholar...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuriko Hanabusa

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

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Cast: Ryo Akaboshi

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Waiting woman

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Hayama

Family of Love

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Aritake

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Akaboshi

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Shima

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...

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Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Genre: History

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

One Sunday morning, Toshio Esaki, a young dentist, wakes up in his clinic. It seems that he was drunk and spent the night in the clinic instead of...

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Cast: Yūji Hori

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

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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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

Genre: War

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

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Cast: Tokihiko Okada

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Choi Woon-bong

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Takada

1959 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuko Aoyama

The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable battle, intertwining with the chilling image of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mieko Takamine

1949 Japanese movie

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

1947 Japanese movie

Genre:

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Genre: Music

Cast: Kyōsuke Machida

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Okada

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Genre:

Cast: Jō Shishido

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

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Cast: Yaeko Wakamizu