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Criterion Channel
86
82
8.0
/10470/
78
/204/
78
/199/
4.2
/20005/
100
/11/
92
/97/
94
/5/

Early Summer (1951)
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
63
7.5
/3428/
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.
poster
Fandor
71
48
7.4
/2097/
66
/24/
71
/53/
3.8
/4433/

A Hen in the Wind (1948)
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
34
7.2
/634/
63
/17/
68
/25/
3.6
/2736/

Love Letter (1953)
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
34
7.0
/1429/
65
/24/
63
/32/
3.5
/2428/
87
/5/

What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
33
7.2
/562/
67
/14/
68
/22/
3.8
/2679/

The Moon Has Risen (1955)
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.
poster
Criterion Channel
55
23
6.5
/764/
53
/9/
60
/23/
3.4
/1169/
30
/18/

Carmen Comes Home (1951)
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.
poster
62
20
6.7
/397/
61
/6/
53
/14/
3.7
/1727/
57
/3/

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977)
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
poster
72
19
7.7
/328/
60
/7/
73
/12/
3.9
/894/

An Inn at Osaka (1954)
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
poster
73
17
7.3
/424/
67
/7/
65
/14/
3.8
/863/
86
/4/

Sudden Rain (1956)
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
poster
Fandor
66
16
6.4
/479/
65
/5/
66
/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
Criterion Channel
64
12
7.0
/316/
52
/4/
65
/12/
3.5
/433/

Here's to the Young Lady (1949)
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
poster
?
7.0
/9/

Yasen gungakutai (1944)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/
60
/1/

Young Guy on Mt. Cook (1969)
Yuzo Kayama visits New Zealand
poster
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10
/1/

That Complicated Guy (1966)
Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.
poster
?
10
/1/

Aruhi watashi wa (1967)
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
poster
?
10
/1/

Naite waratta hanayome (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Love and the Shop Curtain (1961)
Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?
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?
7.2
/5/
10
/1/

All is Well 2 (1955)
A year 's date has flowed since Toyoshi Daikichi was driven out of Toyo Electric. In the company Okazaki's plan steadily progressed, a capital increase was also made to strengthen the voice. Daikichi, who knew about it, had been buying Toyo Electric shares for a year, requesting Okazaki's retirement, continuing Yami 's business in Osaka and earning money.
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10
/1/

All is Well (1955)
Daichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but the company changed its name to Toyo Denki Seisakusho, and the president Shingo Mori was the general affairs manager.
poster
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10
/1/

San'nin musume kanpai! (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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?
6.9
/70/
70
/1/

So Goes My Love (1938)
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Injured Boy (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
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10
/1/

Zoku aizen katsura (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
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10
/1/

Flower in a Storm (1962)
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
poster
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10
/1/

Dolls floating down the river (1962)
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi bina", which absorbed the customs of the Tottori region.
poster
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10
/1/

Haru no sanmyaku (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
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10
/1/

Till Tomorow Comes (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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10
/1/

The Horse Boy (1957)
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his father, but feudal codes threaten their happiness. Uchida’s poignant masterpiece condemns the inflexible class system and launches an indictment of values that favor symbolic objects over human life. The film’s focus is on character rather than swordplay, and charged performances - especially child actor Motoharu Ueki - add to the emotional power.
poster
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5.4
/9/
10
/1/

Maria of the Ant Village (1958)
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
poster
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10
/1/

Kyōshū (1952)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

彼を殺すな (1952)
N/A
poster
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10
/1/

愛情の旋風 (1951)
N/A
poster
?
45
/2/

Sky Scraper! (1969)
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
poster
?
6.0
/5/

Queen of the Wind (1938)
A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training would help them to start their own business. The general manager selects another woman and the trouble begins.
poster
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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.
poster
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10
/1/

Men Fighting Whales (1957)
A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will have to face a giant, monstrous whale.
poster
?
7.9
/57/
60
/4/
70
/1/

The Maid's Kid (1955)
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
poster
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10
/1/

Spring Snow (1950)
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy.
poster
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6.4
/21/
40
/2/
70
/1/

Wedding Day (1956)
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.
poster
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10
/1/

Fight for the Glory (1969)
Coming of age/high school sports drama.
poster
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10
/1/

Our Young World of Music (1966)
Japanese youth film.
poster
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5.7
/16/
10
/1/
55
/6/

Here Because of You (1964)
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki’s career is threatened as a result of a false accusation from the school’s PTA, the students band together to stand up for their beloved teacher and help him to save his good reputation and job.
poster
?
6.1
/17/
10
/1/

Typhoon (1956)
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one.
poster
?
7.0
/9/
10
/1/

Kaei (1961)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

August Moon (1962)
N/A
poster
?
5.4
/71/
52
/4/

Victory Song (1945)
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Cock Crows Twice (1954)
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.


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