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A Stranger in Shanghai
Japanese Special - 2019, 1 episodes7.6
China was in turmoil in 1921 when renowned Japanese novelist, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, (author of "Rashomon") visits Shanghai as a newspaper correspondent. He'd read classic Chinese novels growing up but China is quite different…
Kazeyo, Arashi yo
Japanese Special - 2022, 1 episodes7.5
The life of Ito Noe, a women's liberation activist during the Taisho era, and who boldly confronted social contradictions such as poverty and gender inequality. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Kazeyo,…
Angry Rice Wives
Japanese Movie - 20217.5
In August, 1918, Ito lives in a coastal village of Toyama with her husband and 3 children. During the summer, there wasn't much fish to catch, so her husband has been far away from home to catch fish. To support herself…
Haikara-san ga Toru
Japanese Movie - 19877.4
Hanamura Benio, a transgressive girl, was sent to the house of Count Ijuin as an apprentice in the spring of Taisho's 7th year. There, she met a young man in a military uniform, Lieutenant Ijuin Shinobu, through her…
Ohgon no Toki
Japanese Special - 2024, 1 episodes7.3
Hattori Kintaro became one of Japan's rare entrepreneurs, the founder of the Seiko Group, realizing the importance of "accurate time", which is now taken for granted. What trials did he overcome to become known as the…
The Story of One Century
Japanese Special - 2000, 3 episodes7.3
The Story of One Century tells the stories of three women, living in three different Japanese eras: Taisho (1912-1926), Showa (1926-1989) and Heisei (1989-2019). The first generation takes place in the 1920s at the time…
Kazeyo Arashi yo Gekijo Ban
Japanese Movie - 2024
In the midst of the chaos following the Great Kanto Earthquake, a woman is massacred by the military police. The story is about a woman named Ito Noe, a women's liberation activist. Noe grew up in a poor family but was…
Songs of Kamui
Japanese Movie - 2023
More than anything, brilliant Teru longs to attend school with other girls. But in early 20th-century Japan, Teru is excluded because she is Ainu. Instead of writing, the Ainu—indigenous people from Japan’s Hokkaido…
Tenkirimatsu Dark Story
Japanese Special - 2004, 1 episodes2.0
The legendary thief Tenkirimatsu survived turbulent times over the three eras of Taisho, Showa, and Heisei. ~~Adapted from the novel by Asada Jiro (浅田次郎).
Misuzu
Japanese Movie - 20014.0
Tells the life story of Kaneko Teru, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a bookshop, Teru starts writing her own verses to get away from the worries of a disgraceful marriage.…
The Glass Cape
Japanese Movie - 19896.0
This beautiful tale is set in a small mountain village in the early 1920s. Fatherless Karin, who lives alone with her ailing mother, meets and befriends Takada Saburo, nicknamed "Mata Saburo of Wind". She and her classmates…
Hana no Arashi
Japanese Drama - 1988, 70 episodes
~Based on Shukei Nagasaka work. There was a boy who lost his mother. His name is Kazuya Tendo. At the funeral, Kazuya was told by people in the neighborhood, that his mother had been tossed by Baron Asakura and Tendo…
Otei-chan
Japanese Drama - 1978, 156 episodes6.5
The 21st NHK Asadora. Starring Chikako Yuri in a dramatization of the life of Sadako Sawamura.
Arashi no Hatashiji
Japanese Movie - 1968
It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts…
Friendly Enemies
Japanese Movie - 19671.0
Set in the Tomikawara in the late Taisho era, this film tells the story of a young man who confronted a new power emerging in his town, in order to save a powerful local yakuza. The 1st film of a duo series dealing with…
Birth of a Fighter
Japanese Movie - 19674.0
A young boss proves his right to rule his yakuza gang and dares to challenge an abusive family that afflicts innocent people.
The Flower and the Angry Waves
Japanese Movie - 19648.0
A violent exploration of modernity and corruption and the collapse of codes of honor in the face of commerce, through the eyes of a migrant who hopes to start afresh, spiced with his melodramatic love story with a geisha.
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