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The Girl in the Rumor
Japanese Movie - 19357.7
The suitor rejects elder sister Kunie but likes Kimoko, the younger one. Their father and his mistress have separate shops. Kimiko suddenly learns that she is her mother. Business is bad. The police visit when business…
Humanity and Paper Balloons
Japanese Movie - 19377.6
The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among equally poor people of lower social classes. One such ronin (masterless…
The Road I Travel with You
Japanese Movie - 19367.3
The otherwise promising young man Asaji and his younger brother Yuji face blighted lives because of society’s disapproval of their illegitimacy and déclassé family.
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Japanese Movie - 19356.8
Abandoned by her selfish father, a resourceful Tokyo lass forges ahead with her wedding plans, even though she will be forbidden to wed unless her dad arranges the details with her in-laws. Swallowing her pride, the…
The Actress and the Poet
Japanese Movie - 19356.6
Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple…
Shinzo ga Tsuyoi
Japanese Movie - 1937
Entatsu Achako, specially featured in the "Hatari Shimbun," sets out on an expedition to the women-only paradise "Beauty Island" in the Pacific Ocean.
Zoku Enoken no Senban Choja
Japanese Movie - 1936
The story picks up from Part 1 as Enoken’s young scion forsakes his wealth and takes a department store job—in drag and sometimes blackface—to prove to the girl of his dreams that he be a hard-working, serious…
Enoken's Ten Millions
Japanese Movie - 1936
Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song. (Letterboxd)
Man of the House
Japanese Movie - 19366.5
This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife ,who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha , and the deterioration of his partnership…
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Japanese Movie - 19357.0
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. (Source: MUBI)
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