Kamatari Fujiwara
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1905-01-15
Locus Natus: Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Et ut: 藤原 釜足, Каматари Фудзивара, 藤原鶏太
The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...
release : 1958.12.28popularis : 12.092
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
release : 1952.05.14popularis : 2.498
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
release : 1952.10.09popularis : 17.236
I Live in Fear
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
release : 1955.11.22popularis : 7.625
Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
release : 1962.01.01popularis : 12.924
The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...
release : 1960.09.15popularis : 12.6
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...
release : 1961.04.25popularis : 15.523
The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...
release : 1957.10.01popularis : 8.813
Mickey One
A former comic is on the run from the mob.
release : 1965.09.27popularis : 1.778
High and Low
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped
release : 1963.03.01popularis : 15.858
A Woman's Life
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
release : 1963.11.16popularis : 7.018
The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
release : 1984.11.17popularis : 5.285
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...
release : 1959.12.26popularis : 1.99
Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the...
release : 1959.08.23popularis : 1.491
Sazae-san's Marriage
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...
release : 1959.01.09popularis : 1.111
Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
release : 1952.05.08popularis : 1.827
Sazae And Aunt Apron
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
release : 1960.12.25popularis : 2.265
Double Suicide
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
release : 1969.05.24popularis : 6.549
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....
release : 1972.12.30popularis : 6.287
The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....
release : 1966.02.25popularis : 12.956
Ayako
An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...
release : 1962.02.24popularis : 2.066
The Blossom and the Sword
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...
release : 1973.11.17popularis : 1.284
Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
release : 1957.04.30popularis : 12.366
Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...
release : 1963.01.29popularis : 3.199
Sazae-san Plays Cupid
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
release : 1961.03.28popularis : 2.419
Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...
release : 1964.05.13popularis : 9.566
Sir Galahad in Campus
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
release : 1961.07.08popularis : 1.218
The Man Who Waited
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...
release : 1942.04.23popularis : 1.277
Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...
release : 1961.11.12popularis : 3.733
Travelling Actors
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
release : 1940.12.18popularis : 1.565
Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...
release : 1959.04.28popularis : 1.256
Tojuro's Love
A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...
release : 1938.05.01popularis : 1.138
The Actress and the Poet
Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and...
release : 1935.03.21popularis : 1.756
Man of the House
This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...
release : 1936.06.01popularis : 1.55
The Road I Travel with You
The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...
release : 1936.09.11popularis : 1.198
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.
release : 1938.09.29popularis : 1.047
The Kingdom of Spectacles
Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...
release : 1937.06.01popularis : 1.288
A Gentle Breeze With Father
9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
release : 1940.04.24popularis : 0.63
The Homely Sister
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...
release : 1967.10.28popularis : 2.103
武蔵と小次郎
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...
release : 1952.10.15popularis : 1.484
Young Guy at Sea
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...
release : 1965.08.08popularis : 1.797
Invisible Man
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
release : 1954.12.29popularis : 3.2
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...
release : 1973.08.11popularis : 2.726
Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.
release : 1968.10.03popularis : 0.906
Murahachibu
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
release : 1953.03.21popularis : 1.848
Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she...
release : 1972.12.09popularis : 0.881
Sasaki Kojiro
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...
release : 1951.10.26popularis : 3.436
Third Generation Boss
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
release : 1974.08.10popularis : 3.395
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
release : 1965.04.03popularis : 10.137
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...
release : 1955.06.21popularis : 1.17
Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the...
release : 1982.06.04popularis : 1.289
Five Men in a Circus
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...
release : 1935.10.21popularis : 3.664
Dodes'ka-den
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
release : 1970.10.31popularis : 7.529
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
release : 1980.04.26popularis : 14.53
The Girl in the Rumor
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...
release : 1935.12.22popularis : 2.404
The Sun's Burial
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...
release : 1960.08.09popularis : 5.972
Wife
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...
release : 1953.04.29popularis : 4.278
Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His...
release : 1967.09.30popularis : 1.404
The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...
release : 1971.08.14popularis : 6.417
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...
release : 1949.07.19popularis : 3.884
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...
release : 1935.08.15popularis : 3.202
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...
release : 1935.03.01popularis : 3.12
Hideko the Bus Conductress
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...
release : 1941.09.17popularis : 3.275
An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...
release : 1954.04.20popularis : 3.104
When Winter Comes
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his...
release : 1985.03.30popularis : 2.638
A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...
release : 1962.06.10popularis : 5.229
The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
release : 1968.11.23popularis : 2.764
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
release : 1965.04.10popularis : 2.515
The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...
release : 1950.08.08popularis : 2.588
The Portrait
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
release : 1948.08.03popularis : 2.187
The Woman Next Door
A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A housewife is slowly tempted by a mysterious man...
release : 1981.05.01popularis : 1.235
Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears
First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
release : 1977.03.26popularis : 2.835
Beyond the Hills
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
release : 1950.07.08popularis : 1.716
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
release : 1950.01.22popularis : 3.017
I Am a Cat
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
release : 1936.04.14popularis : 1.175
Botchan
1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
release : 1935.03.14popularis : 1.175
The End of the Night
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...
release : 1953.04.08popularis : 1.467
Okuni and Gohei
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...
release : 1952.04.10popularis : 2.114
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
release : 1956.12.26popularis : 4.208
The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
release : 1957.04.02popularis : 1.525
Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
release : 1958.01.15popularis : 4.78
Mr. Pu
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
release : 1953.04.15popularis : 2.46
Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
release : 1953.01.22popularis : 3.585
Mother Never Dies
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
release : 1942.09.24popularis : 4.108
The Ditch
Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his...
release : 1954.07.27popularis : 3.545
Duel of Blood and Sand
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him...
release : 1963.12.01popularis : 1.506
The Approach of Autumn
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...
release : 1960.10.01popularis : 3.023
The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
release : 1957.07.03popularis : 2.892
Light of Africa
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
release : 1975.06.21popularis : 1.335
Time Within Memory
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...
release : 1973.02.24popularis : 2.079
The Sunshine Girl
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
release : 1963.04.18popularis : 2.384
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
release : 1970.04.18popularis : 2.864
Love Never Fails
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...
release : 1955.04.01popularis : 0.885
Tipsy Life
The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...
release : 1933.05.04popularis : 0.645
The Skin of the South
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...
release : 1952.02.28popularis : 0.754
Chocolate and Soldiers
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war...
release : 1938.11.30popularis : 1.182
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
release : 1981.12.19popularis : 7.593
Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
release : 1952.07.15popularis : 2.975
Weeping Doll
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
release : 1951.05.19popularis : 1.964
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...
release : 1952.11.02popularis : 2.226
Horse
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...
release : 1941.03.11popularis : 3.064
The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...
release : 1955.08.31popularis : 1.441
Drifting
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
release : 1935.06.01popularis : 2.022
China Night
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...
release : 1940.01.02popularis : 0.904
Enoken's The Magician
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...
release : 1934.10.25popularis : 0.503
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
release : 1961.01.15popularis : 4.928
Good Luck to These Two
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
release : 1957.02.19popularis : 1.166
47 Ronin
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
release : 1962.11.03popularis : 4.124
Taking the Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to...
release : 1965.03.06popularis : 3.578
The Tragedy of “W”
A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron...
release : 1984.12.15popularis : 5.207
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...
release : 1963.04.21popularis : 3.438
Cut the Shadow
The womanising master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to...
release : 1963.03.01popularis : 1.411
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
release : 1954.04.26popularis : 32.644
Sazae-san Sequel
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
release : 1957.04.09popularis : 3.251
Sazae-san
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
release : 1956.12.12popularis : 2.046
Teenage Sazae
Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.
release : 1957.12.28popularis : 0.618
Sazae's Engagement Trip
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
release : 1958.08.26popularis : 2.871
Sazae-san's Baby
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
release : 1960.02.28popularis : 0.812
Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
release : 1949.07.11popularis : 3.786
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...
release : 1951.08.03popularis : 2.913
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 husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...
release : 1959.04.12popularis : 1.42
Toyuki
Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...
release : 1940.02.07popularis : 0.635
Sky of Hope
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
release : 1942.01.14popularis : 3.352
Mado Kara Tobidase
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...
release : 1950.03.26popularis : 2.058