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Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who uni...
Acting
Naniwa Chieko (real name: Nanko Kikuno, November 19, 1907 – December 22 , 1973) was a Japanese actress.
Due to poverty, she was unable to receive an elementary school education and struggled with being illiterate. Later, through her own efforts, she learned to read and write, and overcame illiteracy. She appeared in works such as A Geisha, Throne of Blood, Equinox Flower, and Twenty-Four Eyes. She appeared in films by many of the great directors of her time.
She died of gastrointestinal bleeding on December 22, 1973, at the age of 66. After her death, she was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure , Fourth Class .
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Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who uni...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their...
In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separate...
Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a cowo...
When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee...
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health afte...
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills...
Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran g...
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoun...
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a...
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothe...
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new re...
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi...
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In...
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with...
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all...
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the...
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle,...
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passin...
1963 Japanese movie
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery...
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who...
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disap...
Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affa...
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musa...
Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on...
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-gross...
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend....
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss...
Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. To prevent a...
Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a k...
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women i...
World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s influence spre...
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".