Reiko Dan Movies

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Dan

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

The first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son, a drummer in a student band. It depicts the conflict...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

A salaryman comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Junzaburō Ban

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiko Awaji

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

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Cast: Reiko Dan

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.

Genre: Family

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live...

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Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.

Genre: Music

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Dan

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Norihei Miki

Mickey, a smart student from England, is on his trip to Japan for vacation. He meets with a Chinese girl Lin Fang on the way. They each have the same...

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Cast: Mark Lester

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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Cast: Hajime Hana

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lucilla Yu Ming

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

An opportune salaryman moves his family into a model mansion for 12 months; unfortunately, they must allow prospective buyers to trek through their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yôko Asaji

The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing...

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Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Mitsuko Kusabue

Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

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Cast: Akira Takarada

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Ensemble comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Reiko Dan

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...

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Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi