Kuniko Igawa

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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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...

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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.

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A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

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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...

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A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

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In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

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A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

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The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

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After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

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The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

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Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

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A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

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The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

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The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

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On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...

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1953 Japanese movie

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Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

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A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

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Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

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In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

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In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

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1952 Japanese movie

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