Chikage Awashima

Chikage Awashima

Chikage Awashima (淡島 千景, Awashima Chikage, born Keiko Nakagawa, 24 February 1924 – 16 February 2012) was a Japanese film and stage actress. Her stage name drew inspiration from Japanese poetry, and her legacy continues to resonate within the world of entertainment. A graduate from Takarazuka Music and Dance School and member of the Takarazuka Revue, Chikage Awashima entered the Shochiku film studios and made her film debut in 1950. She appeared in films of numerous prominent directors like Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita, Tadashi Imai and Heinosuke Gosho. She received the Blue Ribbon Award twice and the Mainichi Film Award twice for her performances. Awashima retired from stage in 2009. She died on 16 February 2012, aged 87, from cancer.

  • Title: Chikage Awashima
  • Popularity: 11.625
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1924-02-24
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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  • Also Known As: Keiko Nakagawa, 淡島千景 , Тикагэ Авасима
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Chikage Awashima Movies

  • 1961
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    An Urban Affair

    An Urban Affair

    1 1961 HD

    Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...

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  • 1956
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    Early Spring

    Early Spring

    7.5 1956 HD

    A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

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  • 1959
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    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    8.1 1959 HD

    After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

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  • 1962
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    The King

    The King

    1 1962 HD

    The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...

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  • 1963
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    The Life of Rikisha-Man

    The Life of Rikisha-Man

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1962
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    Aru kankei

    Aru kankei

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    Hagure kigeki mandara

    Hagure kigeki mandara

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1960
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    The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

    The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

    1 1960 HD

    Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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  • 1962
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    Doburoku no Tatsu

    Doburoku no Tatsu

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1961
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    Kaei

    Kaei

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice

    The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice

    7.6 1952 HD

    The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

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  • 1966
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    Watashi, chigatteiru kashira

    Watashi, chigatteiru kashira

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1957
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    Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

    Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen

    1 1957 HD

    Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

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  • 1958
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    Oban kanketsu hen

    Oban kanketsu hen

    1 1958 HD

    Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

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  • 1957
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    Ôban

    Ôban

    1 1957 HD

    A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

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  • 1955
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    The Mask and Destiny

    The Mask and Destiny

    1 1955 HD

    Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of...

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  • 1957
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    Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

    Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen

    1 1957 HD

    Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

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  • 2010
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    Haru's Journey

    Haru's Journey

    6.5 2010 HD

    Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

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  • 1983
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    I Lived, But...

    I Lived, But...

    6.5 1983 HD

    An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

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  • 1994
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    The Friends

    The Friends

    7.3 1994 HD

    A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a...

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  • 1958
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    Summer Clouds

    Summer Clouds

    7.5 1958 HD

    A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

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  • 1959
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    Flower Shop Curtain

    Flower Shop Curtain

    1 1959 HD

    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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  • 1983
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    Children of Nagasaki

    Children of Nagasaki

    6.2 1983 HD

    August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

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  • 1951
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    The Good Fairy

    The Good Fairy

    5.5 1951 HD

    The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

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  • 1962
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    Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa

    Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1961
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    The Other Woman

    The Other Woman

    6.3 1961 HD

    In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

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  • 1961
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    Girls of the Night

    Girls of the Night

    6.9 1961 HD

    In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently release from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build...

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  • 1957
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    Evening Calm

    Evening Calm

    1 1957 HD

    A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

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  • 1962
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    Kigeki ekimae onsen

    Kigeki ekimae onsen

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1952
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    武蔵と小次郎

    武蔵と小次郎

    1 1952 HD

    As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

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  • 1952
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    武蔵と小次郎

    武蔵と小次郎

    1 1952 HD

    As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

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  • 1953
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    Hana no shôgai

    Hana no shôgai

    1 1953 HD

    In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

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  • 1954
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    Edo no yubae

    Edo no yubae

    1 1954 HD

    In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of Enomoto Takeaki's navy. Honda Koroiku...

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  • 1961
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    Kigeki ekimae bentô

    Kigeki ekimae bentô

    1 1961 HD

    Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

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  • 1955
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    八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線

    八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線

    1 1955 HD

    Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen....

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  • 1955
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    Ejima and Ikushima

    Ejima and Ikushima

    1 1955 HD

    This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

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  • 1961
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    Aces Wild

    Aces Wild

    1 1961 HD

    Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother...

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  • 1952
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    Carmen's Innocent Love

    Carmen's Innocent Love

    5.8 1952 HD

    Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

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  • 1955
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    Marital Relations

    Marital Relations

    5.2 1955 HD

    The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

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  • 1957
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    Yellow Crow

    Yellow Crow

    5.8 1957 HD

    In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...

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  • 1953
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    An Inlet of Muddy Water

    An Inlet of Muddy Water

    6.1 1953 HD

    A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

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  • 1959
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    Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

    Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

    1 1959 HD

    Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

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  • 1962
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    喜劇 駅前飯店

    喜劇 駅前飯店

    1 1962 HD

    The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

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  • 1952
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    Doctor's Day Off

    Doctor's Day Off

    6 1952 HD

    Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a...

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  • 1955
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    The Further Adventures of Genta

    The Further Adventures of Genta

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1961
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    Love and the Shop Curtain

    Love and the Shop Curtain

    1 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    春のみづうみ

    春のみづうみ

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    Bridge of Japan

    Bridge of Japan

    7.3 1956 HD

    Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

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  • 1951
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    Freedom School

    Freedom School

    1 1951 HD

    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....

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  • 1957
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    Hadaka no Machi

    Hadaka no Machi

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1954
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    Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

    Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

    1 1954 HD

    A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

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  • 1964
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    Roadside Stone

    Roadside Stone

    6.5 1964 HD

    The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The...

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  • 1953
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    Always in My Heart

    Always in My Heart

    6.8 1953 HD

    Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

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  • 1953
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    Always in My Heart Part 2

    Always in My Heart Part 2

    6.5 1953 HD

    Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

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  • 1954
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    Always in My Heart Part 3

    Always in My Heart Part 3

    7 1954 HD

    Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

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  • 1958
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    Firefly Light

    Firefly Light

    1 1958 HD

    Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

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  • 1957
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    Secret of Naruto

    Secret of Naruto

    6.9 1957 HD

    From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...

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  • 1961
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    Furimuita hanayome

    Furimuita hanayome

    1 1961 HD

    Japanese comedy film.

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  • 1959
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    An Actor's Revenge

    An Actor's Revenge

    6 1959 HD

    Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid...

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  • 1960
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    Runway to Hell

    Runway to Hell

    6.5 1960 HD

    When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.

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  • 1960
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    The Master Spearman

    The Master Spearman

    5.2 1960 HD

    This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...

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  • 1958
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    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    6 1958 HD

    Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

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  • 1970
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    The Foster Mother

    The Foster Mother

    1 1970 HD

    A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...

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  • 1961
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    Rascals! Go to Hell

    Rascals! Go to Hell

    1 1961 HD

    A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

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  • 1961
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    Edo Purebreed

    Edo Purebreed

    1 1961 HD

    Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...

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  • 1957
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    The Unbalanced Wheel

    The Unbalanced Wheel

    1 1957 HD

    A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

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  • 1962
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    Four Sisters

    Four Sisters

    6 1962 HD

    A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

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  • 2001
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    Siberian Express 2

    Siberian Express 2

    1 2001 HD

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  • 1959
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    Room for Let

    Room for Let

    6 1959 HD

    When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

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  • 1952
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    The Waves

    The Waves

    5 1952 HD

    Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • 1958
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    Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

    Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

    1 1958 HD

    During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...

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  • 1958
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    Makeraremasen katsumadewa

    Makeraremasen katsumadewa

    1 1958 HD

    Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

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  • 1962
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    Born in Sin

    Born in Sin

    1 1962 HD

    A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

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  • 1960
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    Honno-Ji in Flames

    Honno-Ji in Flames

    5 1960 HD

    The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

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  • 1963
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    The Maid Story

    The Maid Story

    1 1963 HD

    Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

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  • 1951
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    Early Summer

    Early Summer

    7.8 1951 HD

    A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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  • 1957
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    Dancing Girl

    Dancing Girl

    6 1957 HD

    In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their...

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  • 1961
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    The Shrikes

    The Shrikes

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1952
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    Tange Sazen

    Tange Sazen

    1 1952 HD

    Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an...

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  • 1958
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    The Hotelman's Holiday

    The Hotelman's Holiday

    1 1958 HD

    A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

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  • 1963
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    Pressure of Guilt

    Pressure of Guilt

    7 1963 HD

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  • 1954
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    Love and Duty

    Love and Duty

    1 1954 HD

    Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

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  • 1965
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    A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

    A Comedy: The University Around the Corner

    1 1965 HD

    #13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

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  • 1953
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    Yassamossa

    Yassamossa

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1959
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    Pilgrimage at Night

    Pilgrimage at Night

    1 1959 HD

    Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya...

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  • 1955
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    A Woman's Life

    A Woman's Life

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1950
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    Crazy Uproar

    Crazy Uproar

    1 1950 HD

    Also known as Crazy Uproar.

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  • 1961
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    Restoration Fire

    Restoration Fire

    7 1961 HD

    Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the...

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  • 1959
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    Image of a Mother

    Image of a Mother

    1 1959 HD

    The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn...

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  • 1986
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    Metamorphosis

    Metamorphosis

    5.2 1986 HD

    A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

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  • 1968
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    Tales of the Inner Chamber

    Tales of the Inner Chamber

    4.3 1968 HD

    Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

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  • 1954
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    Chushingura

    Chushingura

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Last Judgment

    The Last Judgment

    1 1965 HD

    The last judgment.

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  • 1956
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    Zangiku monogatari

    Zangiku monogatari

    7 1956 HD

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  • 2005
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    Until the Lights Come Back

    Until the Lights Come Back

    6 2005 HD

    A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

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  • 1951
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    Beauty of Life

    Beauty of Life

    1 1951 HD

    Inochi uruwashi

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  • 1961
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    A Good Man, A Good Day

    A Good Man, A Good Day

    1 1961 HD

    The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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  • 1963
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    Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai

    Kigeki: Tonkatsu ichidai

    1 1963 HD

    Ensemble comedy.

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  • 1964
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    Akō Rōshi

    Akō Rōshi

    7.5 1964 HD

    "Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after attempting to kill Lord Kira. Once the...

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  • 1963
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    Life of a Flower

    Life of a Flower

    7 1963 HD

    The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.

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  • 1979
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    Akai Arashi

    Akai Arashi

    1 1979 HD

    a romance drawn under the theme of "As long as human beings have love, as long as they live thoroughly for love, they will never be unhappy."

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  • 1982
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    Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho

    Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho

    1 1982 HD

    In this gripping period drama, Matsudaira Ukon, the younger brother of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun Ienari, lives in the city as Yabutaro, a doctor in...

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  • 1973
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    Omoi Bashi

    Omoi Bashi

    1 1973 HD

    A human drama that unfolds around a Japanese restaurant-inn

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  • 2006
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    Imo Tako Nankin

    Imo Tako Nankin

    10 2006 HD

    The series takes place in 1962 Osaka. Hanaoka Machiko, 37, is single and works at a hardware store in Osaka City while doing literary work. One day,...

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  • 1994
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    Haru yo koi

    Haru yo koi

    1 1994 HD

    A successful screenwriter looks back on her life when she learns her husband has cancer. A year-long series, starring Narumi Yasuda.

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