Sachiko Murase Movies

The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Murase

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

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

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shūji Sano

Iwabuchi of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division cooperates with Kubo of the Foreign Affairs Division in re-investigating the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Taki

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

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Cast: Rieko Sumi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top students, while the rich girl Tomiko is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...

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Cast: Ichirō Ryūzaki

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an...

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Ishiguro

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ayako Wakao

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Japanese mystery thriller.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hisako Yamane

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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Cast: Roppa Furukawa

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

Genre: War

Cast: Eitarō Ozawa

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shûichi Doki

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

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Cast: Shinji Yamada

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiya Nakano

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Genre: War

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

That Night's Woman

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A year ago, Tetsuo Yazaki was unemployed and wanted money, attacked a police box in Kobe, robbed a policeman of his pistol, attacked Hamamatsu OS...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

1959 youth comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I