Sachio Sakai
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
Big Shots Die at Dawn6.2/101961HDAn early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively...
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The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl0/101951HDThe Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...
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Outlaw Cop
Outlaw Cop5/101976HDA bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...
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Turning Point
Turning Point6/101994HDA middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
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Chihō kisha
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
I Want to Be a Shellfish10/101959HDOn 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...
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Bonds of Love
Bonds of Love0/101969HDAdapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
The Hotelman's Holiday0/101958HDA longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
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Zoku izuko e
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The Maiden Courtesan
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Pride of the Campus
Pride of the Campus0/101962HDYoung Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...
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Ôban
Ôban0/101957HDA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...
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Forty-Eight Man
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The Witness Killed
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Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja
Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja0/101969HDA Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
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The Skin of the South
The Skin of the South0/101952HDWhen a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...
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Our Failures
Our Failures0/101962HDTells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
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A Man in Red
A Man in Red0/101961HDTakashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza...
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The Weed of Crime
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Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard0/101953HDGirls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Even The Mighty Shed Tears
Even The Mighty Shed Tears0/101953HDAfter Ryusaku Nishikawa and his girlfriend Katsuko are attacked by a gang, he trains in karate to seek revenge. Years later, Ryusaku is a skilled...
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Rebel Against Glory
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Wedding Season
Wedding Season0/101954HDUrban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a...
