Movies: Satoko Date

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs....

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"...

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get...

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterio...

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A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives....

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....

Story of a bandit king....

An early film by Kon Ichikawa...

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them....

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki...

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942....

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 Sone family....

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Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work....

Japanese comedy film....

Japanese drama film....

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity....

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As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in d...