Movies: Teruo Wakatsuki

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considere...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....

1962 Japanese movie...

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A film by Kiyoshi Saeki...

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

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips in Tokyo's Ginza nightlife district....

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura...

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Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is....

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The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato"....

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Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho....

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college....

An early film by Kon Ichikawa...

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life....

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Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure....

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have...