Shin Saburi

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

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Cast: Ureo Egawa

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...

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Cast: Toshiko Iizuka

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shūji Sano

A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Japanese Warmovie

Genre: War

Cast: Masao Inoue

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

Genre: War

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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Cast: Shin Saburi

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Daijirō Natsukawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: War

Cast: Shin Tokudaiji

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ineko Arima

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

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Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kaga

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takao Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

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Cast: Shinichi Himori

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Aa seishun 1951

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

Weed with Flowers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

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Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Genre: History

Cast: Shin Saburi

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Genre: War

Cast: Shin Saburi

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Genre: War

Cast: Toru Hirose

A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

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Cast: Mitsuko Higashiyama

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

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Cast: Mitsuko Higashiyama

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...

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Cast: Kaoru Futaba

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...

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Cast: Fumiko Katsuragi

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fumiko Katsuragi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sadao Maruyama

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Heinosuke Gosho movie

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Cast: Ineko Arima

1939 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is also looking for a job for her, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayuko Hirano

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Isamu Kosugi

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiji Sada

Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his servant Gonsuke to the country from Edo. Along the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Hosokawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara