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Criterion Channel
83
76
7.9
/6646/
77
/139/
77
/170/
4.1
/12354/
100
/16/
86
/47/

Late Autumn (1960)
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
72
7.8
/5328/
76
/92/
74
/161/
4.0
/10755/
89
/9/
87
/49/
83
/6/

Equinox Flower (1958)
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
68
7.6
/4241/
75
/78/
75
/98/
4.0
/11055/
93
/15/
88
/31/

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
63
7.5
/3455/
73
/59/
70
/78/
3.9
/6001/
100
/10/
82
/24/

There Was a Father (1942)
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
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Fandor
73
45
7.1
/889/
65
/27/
68
/26/
3.8
/1883/
85
/102/

The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, Hiroshi Shimizu paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
44
7.2
/1568/
70
/14/
68
/32/
3.6
/1951/
85
/25/

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
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 move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
44
7.3
/1746/
73
/36/
73
/51/
3.8
/2352/
60
/15/

The Castle of Sand (1974)
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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Fandor
66
16
6.4
/482/
65
/5/
67
/15/
3.4
/631/

Army (1944)
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
poster
66
13
7.4
/285/
48
/6/
68
/11/
3.7
/501/

The Fossil (1975)
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.
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7.0
/9/

Yasen gungakutai (1944)
N/A
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7.2
/6/

Shiroi Kiba (1960)
N/A
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10
/1/

Thirst (1958)
N/A
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10
/1/

First Love Questions and Answers (1950)
N/A
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10
/1/

Countryside Accountant's Government Reform (1987)
Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his servant Gonsuke to the country from Edo. Along the way, they are attacked by masked samurai on a mountain road. Genichiro is saved by Sukezaemon Tsuda, the supervisor of public works who was out hunting. Upon arriving in the domain, Genichiro is given a warm welcome by the vassals, who force him to drink heavily and find his subordinates to be rebellious. His proposed fiscal reforms are met with resistance, except by Tsuda who understands Genichiro's intentions. Genichiro marries Matsuo, the daughter of a senior councilor, but soon faces accusations of corruption.
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10
/1/

Uzu (1961)
1961 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

The Rokumeikan (1961)
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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10
/1/

The Woman’s Reflective Pool (1951)
Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in charge, but fails. His daughter Naeko (Takamine) finds out and takes on the role herself. This is a love romance adapted from an original story by Seiichi Funabashi that appeared in the magazine "Romance.”
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6.3
/11/
10
/1/

Freedom School (1951)
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also finds herself freed and is unable to ignore her confusion.
poster
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7.5
/27/
10
/1/

Settlement of Love (1956)
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an anniversary wake. Some time following the ceremony one of the attendees marries the widow. Soon another friend of the deceased and his family also make the house their home when they move to town. Everyone's life is changed quite a bit. When the newer husband sustains an injury to his leg and loses his job it leads to the wife having to work. By the time the fifth anniversary of the friend's death occurs and another reunion is held another friend is in love with the former widow.
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10
/1/

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu (1953)
Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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46
/4/

Lady Doctor Kinuyo (1937)
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.
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6.2
/16/

Men vs. Women (1936)
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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10
/1/

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu (1952)
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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7.4
/55/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Goodbye, Hello (1959)
Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
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4.7
/31/
10
/1/

Fossilized Wilderness (1982)
Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his apartment at midnight. When he regains consciousness, the corpse of a foreigner shot with his pistol lies in front of him. Nishina, with the help of his friend and newspaper reporter Mineshima, who believes in his innocence and vows to cooperate, pursues the incident and reveals a conspiracy related with 5,000 kilograms of gold that disappeared at the end of the WW2.
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6.8
/5/
45
/1/

The Flower is not False (1941)
Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hiroshi and penned films for Shimazu Yasujiro. In this early effort, he is not stylistically very far from either, but then again all Shochiku directors resemble each other to a point. The film is an everyday romance for younger audiences, full of clean, ideal human beings.
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10
/1/

Hiroba no kōdoku (1953)
Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta
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10
/1/

Flower Shop Curtain (1959)
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.
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30
/1/

Frozen River (1976)
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
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10
/1/

Tokyo Omnibus (1959)
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
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10
/1/

Dôkoku (1952)
N/A
poster
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6.7
/48/
40
/3/

Warm Current (1939)
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.
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6.0
/12/
10
/1/

When a Woman Loves (1960)
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
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10
/1/
50
/1/

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets (1956)
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
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5.8
/18/
53
/3/

Vermilion and Green (1937)
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
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6.6
/9/

Dancing with a Mask (1943)
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
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7.2
/10/
10
/1/

Homecoming (1950)
A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his daughter.
poster
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10
/1/

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years (1951)
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
poster
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10
/1/

Probation (1950)
Probation (1950)
poster
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10
/1/

Ah, Youth (1951)
Aa seishun 1951
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6.3
/15/
70
/1/
60
/1/

Kinuyo's First Love (1940)
Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relationships in a town of customs and manners.
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6.7
/9/

Mother and Child (1938)
The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.
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7.2
/5/
10
/1/

Akutoku (1958)
A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi Shin, a well-known actor who also demonstrated his skill as a director in a bold social work, embodies a person with a complicated dilemma in a shadowy manner, and is a dramatic work that plays a part in the lead role.
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7.8
/16/
10
/1/

Rainy Night Duel (1956)
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.
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7.0
/6/
36
/3/
50
/3/

The Waves (1952)
Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.
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6.4
/33/
70
/1/
60
/1/

Record of a Woman Doctor (1941)
A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle prejudice and superstition as much as disease.
poster
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7.0
/93/
55
/2/
56
/5/

A Brother and His Younger Sister (1939)
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
poster
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7.1
/76/
70
/1/

The Trio's Engagements (1937)
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.


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