Tomoko Naraoka

Tomoko Naraoka

Tomoko Naraoka (奈良岡 朋子 Naraoka Tomoko, born December 1, 1929) is a Japanese actress and narrator. The daughter of a painter, she was born in Komagome, Hongō (present-day Bunkyo), in the city of Tokyo, Japan. She graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design. Naraoka debuted as a cinema actress in the 1949 film Chijin no Ai, based on the novel Naomi. In 1981 she appeared in Rengō Kantai (lit. "Combined Fleet", United States title: The Imperial Navy). She also appeared in Torajirō Sarada Kinenbi (a 1988 movie in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series) as well as eight films in the Tsuribaka Nisshi series. Naraoka has appeared in several NHK Taiga dramas. Her first was the 1969 Ten to Chi to, in the role of the wife of Uesugi Sadazane. She portrayed Kita no Mandokoro (the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi) in Haru no Sakamichi (1971). Her next Taiga drama appearance was in 1976 in Kaze to Kumo to Niji to. She narrated the 1986 Inochi and 1989 Kasuga no Tsubone. She is the narrator of the 2008 drama Atsuhime. Other noteworthy narration roles include the 1983 serialized morning television drama Oshin. She also narrated Onna wa Dokyō (1992) and Haru Yo Koi (1994–1995). A nonfiction voice role was in the series Kiwameru: Nihon no Bi to Kokoro.

  • Title: Tomoko Naraoka
  • Popularity: 8.492
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-12-01
  • Place of Birth: Komagome, Hongo Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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  • Also Known As: 奈良岡 朋子
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Tomoko Naraoka Movies

  • 1980
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    Wings of Icarus' Flight

    Wings of Icarus' Flight

    1 1980 HD

    A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening...

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  • 2020
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    THE LAST GOZE

    THE LAST GOZE

    1 2020 HD

    A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a...

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  • 2008
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    Ponyo

    Ponyo

    7.74 2008 HD

    When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained...

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  • 1963
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    Beautiful Calendar

    Beautiful Calendar

    1 1963 HD

    Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...

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  • 1962
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    Nuki uchi fūraibō

    Nuki uchi fūraibō

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1999
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    Railroad Man

    Railroad Man

    6.9 1999 HD

    A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line...

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  • 1985
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    Spring Bell

    Spring Bell

    6 1985 HD

    Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo,...

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  • 2022
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    The Zen Diary

    The Zen Diary

    8 2022 HD

    Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His...

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  • 1957
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    Ikebana

    Ikebana

    6.4 1957 HD

    The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the...

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  • 1971
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    Morning Fog

    Morning Fog

    1 1971 HD

    Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

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  • 1970
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    Apart from Life

    Apart from Life

    5.8 1970 HD

    A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

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  • 1985
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    Demon

    Demon

    7.7 1985 HD

    Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small...

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  • 1960
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    Everything Goes Wrong

    Everything Goes Wrong

    6.4 1960 HD

    Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...

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  • 1977
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    Ballad of Orin

    Ballad of Orin

    7 1977 HD

    A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

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  • 1968
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    Hymn to a Tired Man

    Hymn to a Tired Man

    7.8 1968 HD

    Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

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  • 1970
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    Gambling Den Desire

    Gambling Den Desire

    1 1970 HD

    In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

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  • 1955
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    Yukiko

    Yukiko

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1966
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    Your Life

    Your Life

    1 1966 HD

    A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

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  • 2014
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    Disconcerto

    Disconcerto

    6.5 2014 HD

    Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver for hire. His assistant is his former high school...

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  • 1962
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    Asu no hanayome

    Asu no hanayome

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 2004
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    Half a Confession

    Half a Confession

    7.2 2004 HD

    Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its...

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  • 2004
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    Free and Easy 15

    Free and Easy 15

    7.5 2004 HD

    Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.

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  • 2010
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    Railways

    Railways

    7 2010 HD

    A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911....

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  • 1959
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    I Will Challenge

    I Will Challenge

    1 1959 HD

    Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during...

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  • 2001
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    The Firefly

    The Firefly

    7 2001 HD

    Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was...

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  • 1970
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    Dodes'ka-den

    Dodes'ka-den

    7 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    Ruthless Gambler

    Ruthless Gambler

    1 1969 HD

    Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young...

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  • 2006
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    Free and Easy 17

    Free and Easy 17

    5.8 2006 HD

    Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.

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  • 1961
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    Maiko's Visit to Tokyo

    Maiko's Visit to Tokyo

    1 1961 HD

    A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...

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  • 1956
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    How Sorrowful

    How Sorrowful

    1 1956 HD

    The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

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  • 1958
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    Night Drum

    Night Drum

    6.1 1958 HD

    Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

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  • 1966
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    Cry for Sorrow

    Cry for Sorrow

    1 1966 HD

    Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

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  • 2013
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    Izakaya Moheji 2

    Izakaya Moheji 2

    1 2013 HD

    A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The...

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  • 2015
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    Izakaya Moheji 4

    Izakaya Moheji 4

    1 2015 HD

    A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The...

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  • 2014
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    Izakaya Moheji 3

    Izakaya Moheji 3

    1 2014 HD

    A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The...

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  • 2017
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    Tatara Samurai

    Tatara Samurai

    5.5 2017 HD

    In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a...

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  • 1987
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    River of Fireflies

    River of Fireflies

    1 1987 HD

    During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his...

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  • 1958
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    Skinny and Fatty

    Skinny and Fatty

    1 1958 HD

    Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.

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  • 1952
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    Children of Hiroshima

    Children of Hiroshima

    7.1 1952 HD

    Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

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  • 1997
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    Free and Easy 9

    Free and Easy 9

    7.3 1997 HD

    Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible...

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  • 1955
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    The Wolves

    The Wolves

    6.8 1955 HD

    A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

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  • 1961
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    The Song of the Season

    The Song of the Season

    1 1961 HD

    A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.

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  • 1962
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    Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love

    Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Song of Love

    The Song of Love

    1 1965 HD

    Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

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  • 1966
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    I'll Never Cry!

    I'll Never Cry!

    1 1966 HD

    The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

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  • 1972
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    Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

    Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

    6 1972 HD

    Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.

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  • 2001
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    Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

    Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

    7.333 2001 HD

    Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and...

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  • 1998
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    Free and Easy 10

    Free and Easy 10

    6.7 1998 HD

    Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

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  • 2005
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    Free and Easy 16

    Free and Easy 16

    7.5 2005 HD

    Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.

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  • 2014
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    300 Million Yen Robbery

    300 Million Yen Robbery

    6 2014 HD

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  • 1964
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    Eddy Currents of Life

    Eddy Currents of Life

    1 1964 HD

    It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

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  • 1955
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    The Heart

    The Heart

    6.846 1955 HD

    In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

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  • 1965
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    The Stars and I Decided...

    The Stars and I Decided...

    1 1965 HD

    The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.

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  • 1980
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    May Love Be Restored

    May Love Be Restored

    1 1980 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Twenty-Four Eyes

    Twenty-Four Eyes

    1 1980 HD

    TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes.

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  • 1949
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    A Fool's Love

    A Fool's Love

    1 1949 HD

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  • 2016
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    Izakaya Moheji 5

    Izakaya Moheji 5

    1 2016 HD

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  • 2017
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    Izakaya Moheji 6

    Izakaya Moheji 6

    7 2017 HD

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  • 2011
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    Izakaya Moheji

    Izakaya Moheji

    6 2011 HD

    A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment…for their bodies and their souls....

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  • 1978
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    Take Me Away!

    Take Me Away!

    6 1978 HD

    Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in...

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  • 1991
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    War and Youth

    War and Youth

    3.5 1991 HD

    An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up,...

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  • 1968
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    The Sweet Interns

    The Sweet Interns

    1 1968 HD

    The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.

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  • 1964
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    The Scent of Incense

    The Scent of Incense

    7.2 1964 HD

    After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

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  • 1953
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    Miniature

    Miniature

    8 1953 HD

    Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

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  • 1981
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    The Imperial Navy

    The Imperial Navy

    6.6 1981 HD

    A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

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  • 2007
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    Free and Easy 18

    Free and Easy 18

    7.5 2007 HD

    Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

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  • 1991
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    Noh Mask Murders

    Noh Mask Murders

    5.6 1991 HD

    The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

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  • 1988
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    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

    Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial

    8.5 1988 HD

    In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.

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  • 1969
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    Gambler's Dilemma

    Gambler's Dilemma

    1 1969 HD

    The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

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  • 2019
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    The Takatsu River

    The Takatsu River

    1 2019 HD

    Set along the river basin of Shimane Prefeture's Takatsu River, a government-protected river, this drama portrays various people living in an area...

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  • 1958
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    Osaka no kaze

    Osaka no kaze

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1961
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    Mahiru no yuugai

    Mahiru no yuugai

    1 1961 HD

    A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a...

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  • 1988
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    マルゴォの杯

    マルゴォの杯

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1965
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    Witness Chair

    Witness Chair

    6 1965 HD

    Murder case and trial.

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  • 1966
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    Kokoro no sanmyaku

    Kokoro no sanmyaku

    1 1966 HD

    A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

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  • 1961
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    Pigs and Battleships

    Pigs and Battleships

    7.069 1961 HD

    In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

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  • 1959
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    The Song of the Cart

    The Song of the Cart

    6.6 1959 HD

    A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

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  • 1955
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    Ishigassen

    Ishigassen

    1 1955 HD

    Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a...

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  • 1991
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    My Sons

    My Sons

    7.9 1991 HD

    Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother,...

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  • 1971
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    The Earth is Born Again

    The Earth is Born Again

    1 1971 HD

    A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone...

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  • 1971
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    Haru no Sakamichi

    Haru no Sakamichi

    1 1971 HD

    The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

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  • 1963
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    Life of a Flower

    Life of a Flower

    7 1963 HD

    The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.

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  • 1970
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    ありがとう

    ありがとう

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1979
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    Julie the Wild Rose

    Julie the Wild Rose

    1 1979 HD

    Eleven-year-old Julie Braun lives in the lush green mountain pastures of Austria's Southern Tyrol. Her parents are killed by Italian soldiers, and...

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  • 1985
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    The Autumn in Tokyo

    The Autumn in Tokyo

    1 1985 HD

    A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in Tokorozawa, Saitama, while exploring...

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  • 2011
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    Antarctica

    Antarctica

    8 2011 HD

    Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in...

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  • 1970
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    Antarctica

    Antarctica

    6.4 1970 HD

    Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984. The series follows the...

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