Movies: Sumiko Hidaka

  • 1982
    Farewell to the Land

    Farewell to the Land (1982)

    Farewell to the Land

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    Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother wh...

    Farewell to the Land
  • 1962
    Akitsu Hot Springs

    Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

    Akitsu Hot Springs

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    Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically...

    Akitsu Hot Springs
  • 1958
    The Lost Public Funds

    The Lost Public Funds (1958)

    The Lost Public Funds

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    Four thousand gold coins were stolen from the vault of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which were collected as a tax to the shogun. The guard of Nijo castle Asaka Keinosuke, disguised as a komuso monk, proceeds to investigate the theft, traces of thieves lead ...

    The Lost Public Funds
  • 1958
    Night Drum

    Night Drum (1958)

    Night Drum

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    Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous ...

    Night Drum
  • 1969
    Double Suicide

    Double Suicide (1969)

    Double Suicide

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    Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, e...

    Double Suicide
  • 1965
    Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

    Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965)

    Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

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    The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady ...

    Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
  • 1961
    Bitter End of a Sweet Night

    Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961)

    Bitter End of a Sweet Night

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    An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder....

    Bitter End of a Sweet Night
  • 1985
    The Last True Yakuza

    The Last True Yakuza (1985)

    The Last True Yakuza

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    A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld....

    The Last True Yakuza
  • 1962
    The Mad Fox

    The Mad Fox (1962)

    The Mad Fox

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    A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover's twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance enco...

    The Mad Fox
  • 1961
    An Edo Magistrate

    An Edo Magistrate (1961)

    An Edo Magistrate

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    When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion the story of Ooka Echizen, the famed magistrate of Edo during the reign of Shogun Tsuneyoshi. In a...

    An Edo Magistrate
  • 1955
    Policeman's Diary, Part 2

    Policeman's Diary, Part 2 (1955)

    Policeman's Diary, Part 2

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    From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....

    Policeman's Diary, Part 2
  • 1947
    壮士劇場

    壮士劇場 (1947)

    壮士劇場

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    1947 Japanese movie...

    壮士劇場
  • 1952
    Dedication of the Great Buddha

    Dedication of the Great Buddha (1952)

    Dedication of the Great Buddha

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    Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival....

    Dedication of the Great Buddha
  • 1951
    A Spectacular Murder

    A Spectacular Murder (1951)

    A Spectacular Murder

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    When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all were fake. That same night, a dancer in the troupe went missing and a police officer was shot with the ...

    A Spectacular Murder
  • 1965
    The Flower and the Dragon

    The Flower and the Dragon (1965)

    The Flower and the Dragon

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    A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle....

    The Flower and the Dragon
  • 1955
    Foul Play

    Foul Play (1955)

    Foul Play

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    Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game....

    Foul Play
  • 1953
    Murahachibu

    Murahachibu (1953)

    Murahachibu

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    A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections...

    Murahachibu
  • 1954
    The Street Without Sun

    The Street Without Sun (1954)

    The Street Without Sun

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    The Street Without Sun
  • 1958
    Magistrate Ooka’s Legends

    Magistrate Ooka’s Legends (1958)

    Magistrate Ooka’s Legends

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    A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic....

    Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
  • 1960
    The Twilight Story

    The Twilight Story (1960)

    The Twilight Story

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    In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a w...

    The Twilight Story