Movies: Kamatari Fujiwara

1961 Japanese movie...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as t...

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Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter country....

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope....

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip....

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-circus owner. The high points are the sound (and sc...

Venice Film Festival 1939...

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Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His company hasn't paid his backsalary and he doesn't know how he will pay for the new baby. His friend Sui...

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan....

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Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, then goons, to keep Enoken from performing his grand show!...

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Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other....

1951 Japanese movie...

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

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