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Kitchen (1989)
- Director
- MORITA Yoshimitsu
- Cast
- KAWAHARA Ayako, MATSUDA Keiji, HASHIZUME Isao
Morita Yoshimitsu directed and penned the script for this adaptation of Yoshimoto Banana's same-named novel. Depicts a girl without a family of her own who loves the kitchen and lives with an eccentric young man and his family. Mikage (Kawahara Aya...
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And Then (1985)
- Director
- MORITA Yoshimitsu
- Cast
- MATSUDA Yusaku, FUJITANI Miwako, KOBAYASHI Kaoru
Superb romance based on the same-named masterpiece by the literary legend Natsume Soseki. Lead actor Matsuda Yusaku and director Morita Yoshimitsu reprise their successful teamwork from Family Game. Top Japanese film in Kinema Junpo's 59th Best Ten l...
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Main Theme (1984)
- Director
- MORITA Yoshimitsu
- Cast
- YAKUSHIMARU Hiroko, NOMURA Hironobu
Coming-of-age film directed and written by Morita Yoshimitsu, who passed away at age 61 in 2011. Features Yakushimaru Hiroko, one of Kadokawa's top actresses, who also sang the theme song. Ogasawara Shibuki (Yakushimaru) meets aspiring magician Ken ...
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The Family Game (1983)
- Director
- MORITA Yoshimitsu
- Cast
- MATSUDA Yusaku
This renowned comedy about family life demonstrates the directorial prowess of Morita Yoshimitsu, who passed away the age of 61 in 2011. Selected as the top Japanese film in Kinema Junpo's 57th Best Ten list for 1983. Everyone is on edge in the Numa...
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Something Like It (1981)
- Director
- MORITA Yoshimitsu
- Cast
- AKIYOSHI Kumiko, ITO Katsunobu, BITO Isao
Feature film debut released in 1981 from director Morita Yoshimitsu, who passed away at age 61 in 2011. Up-and-coming rakugo performer Shintoto (Ito Katsunobu) is training in traditional rakugo. He visits a brothel for the first time on his 23rd bi...
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The Lower Depth (1957)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Akira
- Cast
- MIFUNE Toshiro, YAMADA Isuzu, KAGAWA Kyoko
Maxim Gorky's play of the same name is the basis for this solid drama in which the story has been transplanted to an Edo tenement house. It is written, directed, and produced by Kurosawa Akira. Dwelling in a tenement house at the end of the Edo peri...
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A Cat And Two Women (1956)
- Director
- TOYODA Shiro
- Cast
- MORISHIGE Hisaya, KAGAWA Kyoko, YAMADA Isuzu
The essence of Tanizaki Junichiro's literature is expressed in this poetic masterpiece. It depicts a man with an unusual love for his cat, as well as the desires and jealousies of women. Shozo is an undependable man who runs a small hardware store i...
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Love Letter (1953)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- MORI Masayuki, KUGA Yoshiko, KAGAWA Kyoko
Directorial debut for celebrated actress Tanaka Kinuyo. All-star cast depicts the sorrowful romance of a couple at the mercy of fate. Script by Kinoshita Keisuke. Reikichi has been searching for his beloved Michiko for five years since the end of th...
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Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HORI Yuji, KAGAWA Kyoko
Lyrical film from Naruse Mikio that poignantly portrays women working as hostesses in Ginza still recovering from the war. Tanaka Kiniyo performs brilliantly as both "woman" and "mother." Yukiko works as a hostess in Ginza while raising the son she ...
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
- Director
- SHINDO Kaneto
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, KYO Machiko, YAMADA Isuzu
This is a documentary on the life and films of Kenji Mizoguchi, the great Japanese film director who died in 1956, directed by the now well-known creator of films who was once assistant director to Mizoguchi. Beginning in the hospital where Mizoguch...
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SANDAKAN NO.8 (1974)
- Director
- KUMAI Kei
- Cast
- KURIHARA Komaki, TANAKA Kinuyo, TAKAHASHI Yoko
The Long Darkness and Rise, Fair Sun director Kumai Kei helmed this film adaptation of a story by Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award-winner Yamazaki Tomoko. Depicts the cruel and checkered destiny of girls known as "Karayuki-san." Mitani Keiko (Kurihara Ko...
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LONELY LANE (1962)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TAKAMINE Hideko, TAKARADA Akira, KATO Daisuke
Naruse Mikio helmed this film adaptation of Hayashi Fumiko's bestselling autobiographical novel, which was also adapted for the stage. Born as a peddler's daughter, the impoverished Fumiko struggles as a waitress while writing poetry and eventually f...
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A HOUSE OF GEISHA (1956)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, YAMADA Isuzu, TAKAMINE Hideko
Naruse Mikio helmed this adaptation of Koda Aya's same-named novel. Repast and Late Chrysanthemums screenplay writer Tanaka Sumie coauthored the script with Ide Toshiro. Depicts the tragicomedy of women gathered in the Yanagibashi entertainment distr...
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The Life of Oharu (1952)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, YAMANE Hisako, MIFUNE Toshiro
Mizoguchi Kenji's adaptation of a literary classic won the International Award at the 13th Venice International Film Festival. Oharu (Tanaka Kuniyo) is a star-crossed woman destroyed by men, both hateful and beloved. One freezing winter morning at d...
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MUNEKATA SISTERS (1950)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, TAKAMINE Hideko, UEHARA Ken
Melodrama helmed by Ozu Yasujiro that captures Japanese beauty while depicting pained yet beautiful human events. First film directed by Ozu away from Shochiku. The Munekata sisters are Setsuko (Tanaka Kinuyo) and Mariko (Takamine Hideko). Their fa...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945)
- Director
- NARUSE Mikio
- Cast
- HASEGAWA Kazuo, TANAKA Kinuyo, ICHIKAWA Sensho
Historical drama helmed by Naruse Mikio that depicts the samurai spirit, a mysterious man, and a woman who risks her life to fulfill an obligation. It is Kyoto in the spring. The city is in a tizzy over whether Kishu retainer Kazusa Daihachiro (Ich...
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The Wandering Princess (1960)
- Director
- TANAKA Kinuyo
- Cast
- KYO Machiko, FUNAKOSHI Eiji, RYU Yomei
This tearful masterpiece about the harshness and depth of love known only to women is dedicated to women everywhere from an all-female creative team, namely the author Aishin Kakura Hiro, screenplay writer Wada Natto, and director Tanaka Kinuyo. Que...
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HER BROTHER (1960)
- Director
- ICHIKAWA Kon
- Cast
- KISHI Keiko, KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi, TANAKA Kinuyo
Based upon a novel written by Aya Koda. A woman loves her brother very much. They share their dreams as they grow up. When the brother turns 17, he tragically dies, leaving his sister devastated and alone. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...
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HER MOTHER'S PROFESSION (1954)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, OTANI Tomoemon, KUGA Yoshiko
Yukio's lover rejects her when he discovers her mother runs a geisha house. Following a failed suicide attempt, Yukiko returns to her mother, and despises everything connected with the geisha house including her mother's lover. But gradually Yukiko c...
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SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, HANAYAGI Yoshiaki, KAGAWA Kyoko
Winner of the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Medieval Japan: a compassionate governor is exiled, his family sold into slavery. Raised by a brutal tax collector, the governor's son grows into a brute himself but a childhood memory forc...
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Miss Oyu (1951)
- Director
- MIZOGUCHI Kenji
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, OTOWA Nobuko, HORI Yuji
Shinosuke is promised to Shizu but he falls in love with her sister, Oyu, a widowed single mother who is forbidden to marry. Oyu convinces both Shinosuke and Shizu to marry so she can stay close to him. 【Quoted from the database of KADOKAWA】...
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A Hen in the Wind (1948)
- Director
- OZU Yasujiro
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, SANO Shuji, RYU Chishu
Tokiko (Tanaka Kinuyo) lives in a rental with her young son Hiroshi and awaits her husband Shuichi's (Sano Shuji) return from the warfront. She brings kimono one by one to her trusted friend Akiko (Miyake Kuniko), who sells them to her neighbor Orie ...
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Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
- Director
- SHIMIZU Hiroshi
- Cast
- TANAKA Kinuyo, RYU Chishu, KAWASAKI Hiroko
One summer Emi and Okiku venture from Tokyo to pay their respects at Mt. Minobu, and they stay overnight at the Shimobe hot spring. Scholar Katada and battle-wounded soldier Nanmura are sojourning at the same inn. One morning, Nanmura injures his fo...
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Sugata Sanshiro (1943)
- Director
- KUROSAWA Akira
- Cast
- OKOCHI Denjiro, FUJITA Susumu, KONO Akitake
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