Movies: Michiyo Kogure

Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu....

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Ensemble comedy....

1962 Japanese movie...

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu Uzen fled to Edo. Local officials like Yoshida Bunsuke and Yoshizumi Hironoshin showed their allegiance ...

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1948 Japanese movie...

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, an...

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passi...

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A cop, Katayama, gains the trust of a mother and daughter whose father, Nishina, is missing after being accused of killing a gang boss....

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups....

While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring new life to this timeless tale. Starting with the corrupt practices of Lord Kira and Yanagi-sawa, th...

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money....

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced....

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...

An Ishiro Honda Film....

Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars....

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