Mieko Takamine

Mieko Takamine

Mieko Takamine (高峰三枝子, Takamine Mieko) (2 December 1918 – 27 May 1990) was a Japanese actress and singer. Mieko Takamine was born the eldest daughter of famous chikuzen biwa player and teacher Chikufu Takamine. She gave her acting debut in the 1936 film Kimi yo takarakani utae, produced by the Shochiku studios, to which she would remain affiliated throughout her career, although she would also occasionally appear in productions of other companies after the war. Her first released record as a singer was the theme song for the film Hotaru no hikari (1938), and she soon established herself as a "singing movie star". Takamine starred in films of Japan's most notable directors, including Hiroshi Shimizu, Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Keisuke Kinoshita. In 1976, Takamine won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 19th Blue Ribbon Awards for her role in The Inugamis (1976). In 1985, she was awarded the Medal of Purple Ribbon and a special Mainichi Film Award for her longtime achievements as a performer

  • Title: Mieko Takamine
  • Popularity: 3.983
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1918-12-02
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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  • Also Known As: Takamine Mieko, Миэко Такаминэ
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Mieko Takamine Movies

  • 1951
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    Five Men of Edo

    Five Men of Edo

    5 1951 HD

    During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

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  • 1961
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    A Good Man, A Good Day

    A Good Man, A Good Day

    1 1961 HD

    The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

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  • 1953
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    Omatsuri hanjiro

    Omatsuri hanjiro

    1 1953 HD

    Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

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  • 1962
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    Yume de aritai

    Yume de aritai

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1962
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    Red Bud and White Flower

    Red Bud and White Flower

    1 1962 HD

    A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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  • 1956
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    A Samurai's Honor at Pawn

    A Samurai's Honor at Pawn

    1 1956 HD

    A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.

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  • 1957
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    The Wanderer

    The Wanderer

    1 1957 HD

    After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds...

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  • 1952
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    Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

    Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu

    1 1952 HD

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

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  • 1948
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    The Beauty of the Evening Sky

    The Beauty of the Evening Sky

    1 1948 HD

    A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.

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  • 1945
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    Gekimetsu no uta

    Gekimetsu no uta

    1 1945 HD

    Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again...

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  • 1964
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    Homecoming

    Homecoming

    1 1964 HD

    Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...

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  • 1962
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    Kono ni uruwashi

    Kono ni uruwashi

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1950
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    When We Came Back

    When We Came Back

    1 1950 HD

    Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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  • 1941
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    The 47 Ronin

    The 47 Ronin

    6.9 1941 HD

    In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...

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  • 1938
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    Hotaru no hikari

    Hotaru no hikari

    1 1938 HD

    Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

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  • 1954
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    一本刀土俵入 

    一本刀土俵入 

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1990
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    Flower Season

    Flower Season

    1 1990 HD

    Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of...

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  • 1940
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    Nobuko

    Nobuko

    6.2 1940 HD

    A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

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  • 1976
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    The Inugami Family

    The Inugami Family

    6.9 1976 HD

    When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons,...

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  • 1969
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    Futari no Koibito

    Futari no Koibito

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1941
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    Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

    Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

    6.9 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Rebellion Reward

    Rebellion Reward

    1 1973 HD

    The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail...

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  • 1967
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    Pomegranate Time

    Pomegranate Time

    1 1967 HD

    Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

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  • 1945
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    Theater

    Theater

    1 1945 HD

    Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

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  • 1957
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    Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

    Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

    1 1957 HD

    1957 Japanese movie

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  • 1953
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    Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

    Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu

    1 1953 HD

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

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  • 1954
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    The Garden of Women

    The Garden of Women

    6.6 1954 HD

    A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

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  • 1942
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    South Wind

    South Wind

    1 1942 HD

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

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  • 1941
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    The Flower is not False

    The Flower is not False

    4.5 1941 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    Moon of the Plateau

    Moon of the Plateau

    1 1942 HD

    An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

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  • 1937
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    The Trio's Engagements

    The Trio's Engagements

    7 1937 HD

    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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  • 1962
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    Love Under the Crucifix

    Love Under the Crucifix

    6.9 1962 HD

    The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...

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  • 1962
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    San'nin musume kanpai!

    San'nin musume kanpai!

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1957
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    Elegy of the North

    Elegy of the North

    5.4 1957 HD

    A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

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  • 1961
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    Love's Family Tree

    Love's Family Tree

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1952
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    治郎吉格子

    治郎吉格子

    1 1952 HD

    Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet...

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  • 1955
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    Ejima and Ikushima

    Ejima and Ikushima

    1 1955 HD

    This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

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  • 1947
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    Rira no hana wasureji

    Rira no hana wasureji

    1 1947 HD

    In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

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  • 1947
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    Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu

    Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu

    1 1947 HD

    A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

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  • 1960
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    Castle of Flames

    Castle of Flames

    7.2 1960 HD

    In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...

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  • 1951
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    Dancing Girl

    Dancing Girl

    6.3 1951 HD

    The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

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  • 1967
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    Aruhi watashi wa

    Aruhi watashi wa

    1 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    旗本退屈男 謎の怪人屋敷

    旗本退屈男 謎の怪人屋敷

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1937
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    The Lights of Asakusa

    The Lights of Asakusa

    6 1937 HD

    Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

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  • 1953
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    憧れの星座 

    憧れの星座 

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1962
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    Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu

    Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1952
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    彼を殺すな

    彼を殺すな

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1947
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    Once More

    Once More

    6.2 1947 HD

    A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

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  • 1950
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    Escape from Prison

    Escape from Prison

    1 1950 HD

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  • 1938
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    So Goes My Love

    So Goes My Love

    7 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1951
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    Freedom School

    Freedom School

    1 1951 HD

    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....

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  • 1962
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    Naite waratta hanayome

    Naite waratta hanayome

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1953
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    Wife

    Wife

    6.9 1953 HD

    Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

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  • 1945
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    Ikeru isu

    Ikeru isu

    1 1945 HD

    1945 Japanese movie

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  • 1978
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    Queen Bee

    Queen Bee

    7.3 1978 HD

    To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...

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  • 1980
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    An Ocean to Cross

    An Ocean to Cross

    1 1980 HD

    Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

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  • 1945
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    新風

    新風

    1 1945 HD

    1945 Japanese movie

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  • 1942
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    South Wind 2

    South Wind 2

    1 1942 HD

    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...

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  • 1951
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    Minami kaze

    Minami kaze

    1 1951 HD

    1951 Japanese movie

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  • 1968
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    The Sands of Kurobe

    The Sands of Kurobe

    6.2 1968 HD

    Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

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  • 1953
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    Dreaming People

    Dreaming People

    1 1953 HD

    Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is...

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  • 1978
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    The Phoenix

    The Phoenix

    5.6 1978 HD

    This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

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  • 1988
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    Memories of You

    Memories of You

    1 1988 HD

    University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has...

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  • 1984
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    Appassionata

    Appassionata

    5 1984 HD

    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...

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  • 1980
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    The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

    The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

    1 1980 HD

    Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

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  • 1964
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    Here Because of You

    Here Because of You

    5.5 1964 HD

    An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...

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  • 1958
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    Points and Lines

    Points and Lines

    6 1958 HD

    Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

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  • 1957
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    Street of Ronin

    Street of Ronin

    6.2 1957 HD

    Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period....

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  • 1963
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    Bright Sea

    Bright Sea

    1 1963 HD

    On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university...

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  • 1938
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    The Masseurs and a Woman

    The Masseurs and a Woman

    6.7 1938 HD

    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...

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  • 1945
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    Victory Song

    Victory Song

    5.2 1945 HD

    Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

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  • 1937
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    The Golden Demon

    The Golden Demon

    6 1937 HD

    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...

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  • 1937
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    Renai muteki kantai

    Renai muteki kantai

    1 1937 HD

    A 1937 Japanese film.

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  • 1937
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    Vermilion and Green

    Vermilion and Green

    5.3 1937 HD

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

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  • 1965
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    Song of Farewell

    Song of Farewell

    1 1965 HD

    After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

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  • 1989
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    Four Days of Snow and Blood

    Four Days of Snow and Blood

    6.9 1989 HD

    Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

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  • 1955
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    Fantasy of Youth

    Fantasy of Youth

    1 1955 HD

    Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

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  • 1937
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    Moon Over the Ruins

    Moon Over the Ruins

    5 1937 HD

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

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  • 1956
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    Eyes of Children

    Eyes of Children

    1 1956 HD

    A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...

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  • 1958
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    Man of Thirteen Eyes

    Man of Thirteen Eyes

    1 1958 HD

    Japanese mystery film.

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  • 1963
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    The Image of Mother

    The Image of Mother

    1 1963 HD

    A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

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  • 1959
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    Tokyo Omnibus

    Tokyo Omnibus

    1 1959 HD

    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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  • 1967
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    Let Us Love

    Let Us Love

    1 1967 HD

    Melodrama based on a hit song of the same title.

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  • 1954
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    Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot

    Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot

    1 1954 HD

    A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

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  • 1961
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    Marriageable Age

    Marriageable Age

    1 1961 HD

    Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

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  • 1939
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    Lovers' Duet

    Lovers' Duet

    5 1939 HD

    Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

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  • 1967
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    Lover's Duet

    Lover's Duet

    1 1967 HD

    A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

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  • 1977
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    Aspiration

    Aspiration

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1957
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    A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

    A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

    1 1957 HD

    An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

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  • 1939
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    Warm Current

    Warm Current

    4 1939 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

    A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

    1 1957 HD

    An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

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  • 1943
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    Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

    Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

    1 1943 HD

    Japanese war movie.

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  • 1950
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    Omoide no borero

    Omoide no borero

    1 1950 HD

    Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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  • 1950
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    Rumba of Passion

    Rumba of Passion

    1 1950 HD

    Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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  • 1951
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    Who Knows a Woman's Heart

    Who Knows a Woman's Heart

    1 1951 HD

    Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...

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  • 1963
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    The Incorrigible

    The Incorrigible

    6.3 1963 HD

    Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.

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  • 1951
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    Elegy

    Elegy

    1 1951 HD

    Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

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  • 1941
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    Let's Go in Good Spirits

    Let's Go in Good Spirits

    1 1941 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    Waiting Woman

    Waiting Woman

    1 1946 HD

    Waiting woman

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  • 1951
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    Ah Youth

    Ah Youth

    1 1951 HD

    Aa seishun 1951

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  • 1942
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    Dance of the Capital

    Dance of the Capital

    1 1942 HD

    Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

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  • 1983
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    古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

    古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

    7 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

    古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

    7 1983 HD

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  • 1978
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    Ningen no Shōmei

    Ningen no Shōmei

    1 1978 HD

    TV series produced by MBS and TOEI, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Seiichi Morimura.

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