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When Women Lie
When Women Lie
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
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7.6
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
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6
Hiroshima Heartache
Hiroshima Heartache
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there ...
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Their Legacy
Their Legacy
Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his ...
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A Design for Dying
A Design for Dying
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older ...
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Marriageable Age
Marriageable Age
Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete lack of consideration under polite ...
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
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5.8
A Woman’s Testament
A Woman’s Testament
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young ...
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A Grain of Wheat
A Grain of Wheat
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by ...
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The Ladder of Success
The Ladder of Success
A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way to the top.
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5.4
An Osaka Story
An Osaka Story
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to ...
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Wedding Day
Wedding Day
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as ...
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6.1
Night River
Night River
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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Women of Ginza
Women of Ginza
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ...
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The Beauty and the Dragon
The Beauty and the Dragon
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.
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Reminiscence
Reminiscence
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story ...
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6.5
Clothes of Deception
Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
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5.4
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji ...