Movies: Yōko Minamida

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic....

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura....

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Adaptation of Jirō Osaragi's novel....

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako...

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako...

Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge his girlfriend, who was shot by a yakuza on a whim!...

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A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers....

Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969....

1960 action film....

1962 Japanese movie...

Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But a battle for leadership within his old gang causes him to be framed for murder. Shigeru sets out to ...

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality....

Japanese drama film....

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai)....

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Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gav...

1962 Japanese movie...