Tokuji Kobayashi

Tokuji Kobayashi

Born: March 9, 1901
Died: June 11, 1964
in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Tokuji Kobayashi...

Day-Dream
Title: Day-Dream
Character: Old patient
Released: December 4, 1964
Type: Movie
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Title: Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Released: December 30, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Kigeki ekimae onsen
Title: Kigeki ekimae onsen
Released: July 29, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Hikkoshi yatsure
Title: Hikkoshi yatsure
Released: June 9, 1961
Type: Movie
Manao Horiuchi movie
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Hattari Seinen Shinshi
Title: Hattari Seinen Shinshi
Released: March 15, 1961
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Happiness of Us Alone
Title: Happiness of Us Alone
Released: January 15, 1961
Type: Movie
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
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The River Fuefuki
Title: The River Fuefuki
Released: October 19, 1960
Type: Movie
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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Maria of the Ant Village
Title: Maria of the Ant Village
Released: December 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
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Equinox Flower
Title: Equinox Flower
Character: Schoolmate
Released: September 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
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The Ballad of Narayama
Title: The Ballad of Narayama
Character: One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
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White Blaze
Title: White Blaze
Released: March 4, 1958
Type: Movie
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
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Don't get in your hands
Title: Don't get in your hands
Released: February 16, 1958
Type: Movie
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
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Stakeout
Title: Stakeout
Character: Laundry owner
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
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.
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Hearts A-Flutter
Title: Hearts A-Flutter
Released: December 15, 1957
Type: Movie
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悪魔の顔
Title: 悪魔の顔
Released: July 9, 1957
Type: Movie
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I Will Buy You
Title: I Will Buy You
Released: November 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
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The Rose on His Arm
Title: The Rose on His Arm
Character: Neighbour on the right, Mister
Released: November 14, 1956
Type: Movie
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
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涙の花道
Title: 涙の花道
Character: 中村吉蔵
Released: February 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke and become a hatamoto, a direct retainer of the shogun. Yukinojō's younger brother, Shingorō, traveling to Edo from their hometown, helped the town boy Kiyohē and his daughter Michi from troublemakers led by Kumosuke. This act led to a reunion with Yukinojō through the assistance of their associate, Daisaburō.
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Next Door to Happiness
Title: Next Door to Happiness
Released: September 7, 1955
Type: Movie
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.
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The Big Ambition
Title: The Big Ambition
Character: Old man Nomura
Released: March 30, 1955
Type: Movie
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A Woman's Life
Title: A Woman's Life
Character: Nobuko's father
Released: January 29, 1955
Type: Movie
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Twenty-Four Eyes
Title: Twenty-Four Eyes
Character: Matsue no Chichi
Released: September 15, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of twelve first grade students. In the following years, they face poverty, the rise of nationalism, and finally war.
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Dancing Girls of Izu
Title: Dancing Girls of Izu
Released: March 31, 1954
Type: Movie
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
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Haru no Wakakusa
Title: Haru no Wakakusa
Released: January 27, 1954
Type: Movie
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Always in My Heart
Title: Always in My Heart
Released: September 15, 1953
Type: Movie
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. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
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A Japanese Tragedy
Title: A Japanese Tragedy
Released: June 17, 1953
Type: Movie
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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Sono yoru no tsuma
Title: Sono yoru no tsuma
Released: April 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Hiroo Ikeda movie
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Beauty of Life
Title: Beauty of Life
Released: December 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Inochi uruwashi
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Haha machi gusa
Title: Haha machi gusa
Released: August 17, 1951
Type: Movie
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the older widow she works with that the new girl is undoubtedly her half-sister. When the younger sister suddenly flees on account of a misunderstanding, Asako makes up her mind to find the mother who deserted them both.
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Elegy
Title: Elegy
Released: February 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.
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Snow-Flake
Title: Snow-Flake
Character: Nomura
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
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Mado Kara Tobidase
Title: Mado Kara Tobidase
Character: Evangelist for 'Oterashi'
Released: March 26, 1950
Type: Movie
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an agricultural and livestock industry, and has his father Ritaro (Hiroshi Shiomi), younger brother Yuji (Keiju Kobayashi), wife Fujiko (Kiko Todoroki), and four children (three of whom are Obinata's sons). They lived in a large family of 8 people, including 2 children and 2 daughters. The Fujieda family next door is Chieko (Ayako Okamura), whose husband, a captain, died in a shipwreck at sea, her daughter Mariko (Kyoko Kagawa), and her son Michio (Oohinata's son), who has a leg disability and is undergoing rehabilitation. ) We were a family of three. Through the interaction between the Tokuyama family and the Fujieda family, the importance of family and the kindness of people are reflected on the screen.
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Odoru ryûgûjô
Title: Odoru ryûgûjô
Character: Mr. Fugu
Released: August 1, 1949
Type: Movie
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One Wonderful Sunday
Title: One Wonderful Sunday
Character: Overweight apartment receptionist
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams is able to lift Yuzo from his realistic despair.
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Our Planes Fly South
Title: Our Planes Fly South
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
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The Spy Has Not Died Yet
Title: The Spy Has Not Died Yet
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
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Haha o tataeru uta
Title: Haha o tataeru uta
Released: July 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
Title: A Brother and His Younger Sister
Character: Eiji Sawada
Released: April 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
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Hotaru no hikari
Title: Hotaru no hikari
Released: April 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.
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So Goes My Love
Title: So Goes My Love
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.
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The Lights of Asakusa
Title: The Lights of Asakusa
Character: Perfumer
Released: December 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
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The Trio's Engagements
Title: The Trio's Engagements
Character: An examinee
Released: July 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
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Joi Kinuyo sensei
Title: Joi Kinuyo sensei
Character: Patient A
Released: April 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.
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Men vs. Women
Title: Men vs. Women
Released: August 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
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Woman in the Mist
Title: Woman in the Mist
Character: A student
Released: May 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems his uncle's advice may already be too late.
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Family Meeting
Title: Family Meeting
Character: Clerk A
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
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College is a Nice Place
Title: College is a Nice Place
Character: Nishida
Released: March 19, 1936
Type: Movie
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
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Burden of Life
Title: Burden of Life
Character: Shunkichi Kuriyama
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. (British Film Institute)
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Okoto and Sasuke
Title: Okoto and Sasuke
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro.
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Mother's Love Letter
Title: Mother's Love Letter
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
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The Groom Talks in His Sleep
Title: The Groom Talks in His Sleep
Character: Bridegroom's friend
Released: January 13, 1935
Type: Movie
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of gags.' Much of the films' distinction comes from the wit of Gosho's direction, the imaginative use of the new sound technology and the charm of the acting, particularly of the heroines (Kinuyo Tanaka in Bride; Hiroko Kawasaki in Groom). Yet in both films, Gosho finds room for some shrewd observation of character and environment, subtly exploring the values and assumptions of the suburban petit bourgeoisie.
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My Elder Brother
Title: My Elder Brother
Character: Сэнко
Released: December 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to correct him…
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Living Things
Title: Living Things
Released: November 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho
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Osayo koisugata
Title: Osayo koisugata
Character: Sumida
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the model for his novel. Saya however is in love with a young driver. When he is forced to move into a spa town as the result of the jealousy of another man Saya is terribly sad. But with the help of Yamamoto the driver's rival can be revealed and Saya can finally be with her beloved.
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Love
Title: Love
Character: Konishi
Released: November 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation
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Happy Times
Title: Happy Times
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
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Apart from You
Title: Apart from You
Character: Guest
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
Title: The Dancing Girl of Izu
Character: Eikichi, brother of Kaoru
Released: February 1, 1933
Type: Movie
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
Title: The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
Character: Komura
Released: January 14, 1933
Type: Movie
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of gags.' Much of the films' distinction comes from the wit of Gosho's direction, the imaginative use of the new sound technology and the charm of the acting, particularly of the heroines (Kinuyo Tanaka in Bride; Hiroko Kawasaki in Groom). Yet in both films, Gosho finds room for some shrewd observation of character and environment, subtly exploring the values and assumptions of the suburban petit bourgeoisie.
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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
Title: Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
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Moth-eaten Spring
Title: Moth-eaten Spring
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
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Crying to the Blue Sky
Title: Crying to the Blue Sky
Released: March 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Title: The Loyal 47 Ronin
Character: Genzaemon Tonomura
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
Title: The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his new home, too.
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Nikutai no bōfū
Title: Nikutai no bōfū
Released: March 26, 1931
Type: Movie
The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire
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Silver Stream
Title: Silver Stream
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.
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Hard Times
Title: Hard Times
Character: Gentleman
Released: May 2, 1930
Type: Movie
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Reijin
Title: Reijin
Character: Satomi
Released: April 26, 1930
Type: Movie
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Marching On
Title: Marching On
Released: March 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local squire, who introduces the lad to her pilot brother and his flying officer friends; through hard work, and despite the handicap of a lowly class status, he eventually succeeds in qualifying as a pilot and joining the air force.
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Treasure Mountain
Title: Treasure Mountain
Character: Tanjiro
Released: February 22, 1929
Type: Movie
A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current girlfriend. Considered to be a lost film.
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Riku no ôja
Title: Riku no ôja
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
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Kare to Tokyo
Title: Kare to Tokyo
Released: May 12, 1928
Type: Movie
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The Age of Emotion
Title: The Age of Emotion
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A young man torn between love and friendship.
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Beyond The Pass
Title: Beyond The Pass
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Debut film by Hiroshi Shimizu.