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Kin Sugai
Born: 28th Feb 1926 Tokyo, Japan - Died 10th Aug 2018
Dept: Acting
Kin Sugai (菅井きん Sugai Kin) (28 February 1926 – 10 August 2018) was a Japanese actress. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 9th Hochi Film Award for The Funeral. Sugai is famous for her role in the jidaigeki drama Hissatsu series.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 163
Film: 144 (88%)
Television: 19 (12%)
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Filmography
Original title: どんでん家族（離婚ごっこ）
(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
A housewife whose memoir of divorce is selected becomes an editorial staff member, something she has always dreamed of. However, her divorce is a fabr ... view
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Original title: 瞬 またたき
2010
A young woman named Izumi suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi, who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden ... view
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Old Lady
Original title: 春との旅
2010
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make. ... view
Character:
Keiko Kanemoto
Jan 2010 (first aired)
Ryōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning 48 episodes. The story centers on the life of ... view
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Unknown/various (48 ep.)
Jan 2009 (first aired)
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," whic ... view
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Unknown/various (22 ep.)
Original title: ぼくのおばあちゃ
2008
Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the fam ... view
Character:
Misao Murata
Original title: スペシャルドラマ めぞん一刻 完結編
2008
In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impo ... view
Character:
Yukari Godai
Mar 2008 (first aired)
The 78th NHK Asadora is Hitomi. The series takes place in the old shitamachi area of Tokyo, and in these most recent episodes, 20-year old heroine Hit ... view
Character:
Yokoyama Ume (156 ep.)
Original title: 必殺仕事人2007
2007
A violent fire one evening kills a husband and wife couple and burns their Kazusaya rice shop to ashes. Their daughter Sachi manages to make it out al ... view
Character:
Nakamura Sen
Original title: 黄色い涙
2007
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The fiv ... view
Character:
Yone
Original title: 理由
2004
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens ... view
Character:
Taeko Katakura
Apr 2004 (first aired)
Fuji-TV reserves the late-night time period to be used for experimental projects, giving up-and-coming young screenwriters, producers and directors a ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～生きる
2002
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952). ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: 化粧師 KEWAISHI
2002
Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection at the 5th Shanghai International Film Festival and ... view
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Oct 2001 (first aired)
As a former gang member, Hazama Ichiban witnessed the worst side of the emergency medical system and vowed to become a doctor to change it. With the a ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jul 2000 (first aired)
Although 23 year old Yamada Naoko is a "super" magician, she is continously fired and constantly hounded by her landlady for the rent being late. Afte ... view
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Unknown/various (3 ep.)
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Apr 2000 (first aired)
This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father, M ... view
Character:
Tome Hida (156 ep.)
Original title: あの、夏の日 とんでろ じいちゃん
1999
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relatio ... view
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Yuta's grandmother
Original title: 洗濯機は俺にまかせろ
1999
Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used electrical appliance store where he works pa ... view
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Original title: 必殺！ 主水死す
1996
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an assass ... view
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Sen
Original title: 深い河
1995
A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India. ... view
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Tsukada's wife
Original title: 家なき子
1994
"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to fork ... view
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Apr 1994 (first aired)
"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to fork ... view
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Unknown/various (12 ep.)
Feb 1992 (first aired)
A historical drama about the days of youth of the famous yakuza boss, the protector of ordinary people Chuji Kunisada.
The film was made to commemora ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 必殺！5 黄金の血
1991
Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterious band of murderers wage a bloody battle against ... view
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Nakamura Sen
Original title: 四万十川
1991
A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emo ... view
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Original title: 超少女REIKO
1991
A highly anticipated cultural festival is less than a week away for the students of a local high school when mysterious, seemingly paranormal events s ... view
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Mitsurei Kudo
Original title: 上方苦界草紙
1991
"Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the thre ... view
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Original title: スキ！
1990
A romantic comedy, it comically depicts a great twist of fate between a young man who leads an attractive life and a girl who was unlucky in life. ... view
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Original title: あげまん
1990
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it. ... view
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Foster Mother
Original title: 父
1988
A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life. ... view
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Matsu
Original title: 車影、死者の使い
1988
Taeko, who last saw her missing grandmother, could not forget the white gloves of the cab driver. The driver was a very creepy old man... ... view
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Original title: ハチ公物語
1987
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death. ... view
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Original title: 必殺4 恨みはらします
1987
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in t ... view
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Sen
Original title: 必殺！Ⅲ裏か表か
1986
Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers ... view
Character:
Sen
Jan 1986 (first aired)
The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train completely jam-packed with passengers heads for Aomori f ... view
Character:
Iwata Teru (50 ep.)
Original title: 薄化粧
1985
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous cr ... view
Character:
Toyo
Original title: 必殺！ブラウン館の怪物たち
1985
When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto t ... view
Character:
Sen
Original title: 火まつり
1985
Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways. ... view
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Tatsuo's Mother
Original title: 追いつめられた団地妻
1985
A human drama of joys and sorrows about a married woman living in an apartment complex who suddenly finds herself with a large sum of money and the pe ... view
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Original title: 哀しい気分でジョーク
1985
This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease. ... view
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Primary School Teacher
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Original title: お葬式
1984
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three d ... view
Character:
Kikue Amamiya
Original title: 必殺! THE HISSATSU
1984
A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed they ... view
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Sen
Original title: 序の舞
1984
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be ... view
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Original title: 日本の熱い日々 謀殺・下山事件
1981
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutd ... view
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Original title: 炎のごとく
1981
The story follows the chance meeting between Senkichi, a wandering gambler on the run, and Orin, a blind musician who offers him kindness and shelt ... view
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Original title: 隣りの女
1981
A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A housewife is slowly tempted by a mysterious man who ... view
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Original title: 月山
1979
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fa ... view
Character:
Kane
May 1979 (first aired)
Nakamura Mondo was relegated to a post in Hachioji from the Minamimachi Bugyōsho and he has retired from professional assassin. But one day he was or ... view
Character:
Sen Nakamura (333 ep.)
Original title: 復讐するは我にあり
1979
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police. ... view
Character:
Defendant's Mother
Original title: 江戸川乱歩の陰獣
1977
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy in ... view
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Original title: やくざの墓場 くちなしの花
1976
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own ... view
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Kimiyo Wakamoto
Original title: 絶唱
1975
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his fat ... view
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Original title: 神戸国際ギャング
1975
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international g ... view
Character:
Chiyo
Original title: サンダカン八番娼館 望郷
1974
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8. ... view
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Woman came back from Penang
Original title: 砂の器
1974
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard. ... view
Character:
Yamashita
Original title: 日本侠花伝
1973
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The ... view
Character:
Okin
Original title: まむしの兄弟 恐喝三億円
1973
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on ... view
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Original title: 女番長 感化院脱走
1973
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than refo ... view
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Kyoko's mother
Original title: 花と龍・青雲篇、愛憎篇、怒濤篇
1973
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two othe ... view
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Original title: 人斬り与太 狂犬三兄弟
1972
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and ... view
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Ohno's Mother
Original title: 黒の奔流
1972
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety. ... view
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Original title: 忍ぶ川
1972
The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress supporting her impoverished relatives. ... view
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Wellwisher on train
Dec 1971 (first aired)
The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his younger brother in the hospital. Ogawa li ... view
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Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Original title: まむしの兄弟 お礼参り
1971
Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and ... view
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Original title: どですかでん
1970
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father ... view
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Okuni
Original title: 無常
1970
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an as ... view
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Mother
Original title: 野獣都市
1970
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely gett ... view
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Original title: 大日本スリ集団
1969
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju ... view
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Oct 1969 (first aired)
The drama depicts the lives and loves of people living in three different environments: a family consisting of two brothers and their parents; a famil ... view
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Unknown/various (26 ep.)
Original title: コント55号 人類の大弱点
1969
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami. ... view
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Old lady with Shingen bag
Original title: 肉弾
1968
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the ... view
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Oct 1968 (first aired)
The drama features two families, the all-male Shibata family and the all-female Inaba family, and depicts the interactions between the two families wi ... view
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Unknown/various (26 ep.)
Original title: 不信のとき
1968
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving ... view
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Original title: みな殺しの霊歌
1968
Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide. ... view
Character:
Misa Mori
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Jan 1968 (first aired)
The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company that has made a fortune in its first gen ... view
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Unknown/various (65 ep.)
Jan 1968 (first aired)
The chronicles of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan. In order to study swordsmanship, Ryoma heads for Edo ... view
Character:
Oyabe Baayan (52 ep.)
Original title: 続・何処へ
1967
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka. ... view
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Original title: 懲役十八年
1967
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cro ... view
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Aug 1966 (first aired)
It tells about the women's view on love and marriage through the love affair of three women. Ayako, a rampant college student; OL Takako who works for ... view
Character:
Takahata Chiyo (13 ep.)
Original title: 骨までしゃぶる
1966
The harrowing journey of Kinu Wada, a young woman who is sold into prostitution to pay her family's debts. ... view
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Apr 1966 (first aired)
The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family by herself. ... view
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おぎん (310 ep.)
Original title: 「エロ事師たち」より 人類学入門
1966
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, H ... view
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Teacher Oda
Original title: 恐山の女
1965
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of h ... view
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Original title: けものみち
1965
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entang ... view
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Oseki
Original title: 未成年 続・キューポラのある街
1965
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and t ... view
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Original title: 赤ひげ
1965
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 ... view
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Choji's Mother
Original title: この声なき叫び
1965
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works i ... view
Character:
Ume Tanabe
Original title: 怪談
1965
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit ... view
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Village Woman (segment "The Woman of the Snow")
Original title: 刑事
1964
The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastic ... view
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Original title: 風と樹と空と
1964
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in t ... view
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Original title: 暁の合唱
1963
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Saburō, the company president’s playful younger b ... view
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Farmer’s Wife
Original title: 女の歴史
1963
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son. ... view
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Original title: 秘剣
1963
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the la ... view
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Original title: 下町の太陽
1963
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life. ... view
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Original title: 雨の中に消えて
1963
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from t ... view
Character:
Chiyo Takahata
Original title: 天国と地獄
1963
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway. ... view
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Female Drug Addict
Original title: 現代っ子
1963
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat. ... view
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Original title: ぶらりぶらぶら物語
1962
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 beco ... view
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Original title: 裸体
1962
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute. ... view
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Original title: 放浪記
1962
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her ... view
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Original title: 二人で歩いた幾春秋
1962
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to ... view
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Mrs. Mochizuki
Original title: 警視庁物語 19号埋立地
1962
In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An au ... view
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Original title: 喜劇駅前温泉
1962
Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn. ... view
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Original title: キューポラのある街
1962
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education. ... view
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Miyo
Original title: からみ合い
1962
A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation. ... view
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Original title: 雁の寺
1962
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lasciv ... view
Character:
Kan Horinouchi
Original title: はだかっ子
1961
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother. ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 １２人の刑事
1961
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, ... view
Character:
Ume Shinohara
Original title: 警視庁物語 １２人の刑事
1961
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, ... view
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Original title: 女ばかりの夜
1961
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build ... view
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Original title: 大学の若大将
1961
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series. ... view
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Original title: 恋の画集
1961
Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miyuki), but is having a hard time saving up the mone ... view
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Original title: 若い狼
1961
Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch. ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 十五才の女
1961
Detectives of the First Investigation Division are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled corpse was found in the bay of the ... view
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Original title: 人間の條件 完結篇
1961
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great od ... view
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Dôro no Hinanmin
Original title: 豚と軍艦
1961
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together. ... view
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Haruko's Mother
Original title: 「赤坂の姉妹」より 夜の肌
1960
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo. ... view
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Original title: 秋立ちぬ
1960
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery sto ... view
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The Aunt
Original title: 悪い奴ほどよく眠る
1960
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled ... view
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Tomoko Wada
Original title: 大学の山賊たち
1960
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 聞き込み
1960
An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The detect ... view
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Original title: 黒い画集 あるサラリーマンの証言
1960
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lo ... view
Character:
Misae Sugiyama
Original title: 非情都市
1960
Modern comedy social drama about a reporter (Mihashi) for the Toto Shimpo determined to scoop his rivals during the murder investigation of the presid ... view
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Original title: 黒い花びら
1960
A reformed bartender is blackmailed into aiding a heist by former gang associates, leading to betrayal, violence, and the collapse of his hopes for a ... view
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Kura Sugiyama (Shinji’s Mother)
Original title: 警視庁物語 深夜便一三〇列車
1960
In a corner of a warehouse at Shiodome Station, a alumni trunk, is found with the terrible smell of decay. The dead body of a woman is inside. Since t ... view
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Original title: 女が階段を上る時
1960
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 ar ... view
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Katsuko
Original title: 春の夢
1960
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous frien ... view
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Tetsu
Original title: 警視庁物語 顔のない女
1959
A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on th ... view
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Original title: 明日を賭ける男
1958
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his re ... view
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Osumi
Original title: つづり方兄妹
1958
A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to school tog ... view
Character:
Toki Kawahara
Original title: 警視庁物語 七人の追跡者
1958
The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin manufacturing company. At the age of 26, she was a w ... view
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Original title: 盗まれた欲情
1958
A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows. ... view
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Osen Yamamura
Original title: 張込み
1958
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame. ... view
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Mrs. Shimooka
Original title: 黒い河
1957
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social di ... view
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Original title: 幕末太陽傳
1957
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various ta ... view
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Okuma
Original title: 正義派
1957
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's ... view
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1956
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monste ... view
Character:
Ozawa-san (uncredited)
Original title: 狼
1955
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a pla ... view
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Original title: 愛のお荷物
1955
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after th ... view
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Congresswoman Natsuko Kamioka
Original title: ゴジラ
1954
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover somethin ... view
Character:
Ozawa-san
Original title: 生きる
1952
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look ... view
Character:
Housewife