Shin Date Movies

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōtarō Katsumi

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kyōsuke Machida

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

Chorus of a Million People

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Cast: Nobuko Fushimi

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

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Cast: Mie Kitahara

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

Genre: History

Cast: Setsuko Hara

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...

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Cast: Sumiko Hidaka