Movies: Ranko Akagi

  • 1965
    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan (1965)

    Kwaidan

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    Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue come...

    Kwaidan
  • 1964
    Intentions of Murder

    Intentions of Murder (1964)

    Intentions of Murder

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    The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life....

    Intentions of Murder
  • 1966
    Red Angel

    Red Angel (1966)

    Red Angel

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    In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some o...

    Red Angel
  • 1963
    Bad Girl

    Bad Girl (1963)

    Bad Girl

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    Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and...

    Bad Girl
  • 1935
    Drifting

    Drifting (1935)

    Drifting

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    Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel....

    Drifting
  • 1954
    The Street Without Sun

    The Street Without Sun (1954)

    The Street Without Sun

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    The Street Without Sun
  • 1947
    Actress

    Actress (1947)

    Actress

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    Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society. This is another vers...

    Actress
  • 1938
    Composition Class

    Composition Class (1938)

    Composition Class

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    Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako....

    Composition Class
  • 1946
    The Brick Factory Girl

    The Brick Factory Girl (1946)

    The Brick Factory Girl

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    This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family....

    The Brick Factory Girl
  • 1950
    Four Seasons of Women

    Four Seasons of Women (1950)

    Four Seasons of Women

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    Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda...

    Four Seasons of Women
  • 1963
    All My Children

    All My Children (1963)

    All My Children

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    School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII....

    All My Children
  • 1936
    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street (1936)

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

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    As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in d...

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street
  • 1956
    Phoenix

    Phoenix (1956)

    Phoenix

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    Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience....

    Phoenix
  • 1954
    Cape Ashizuri

    Cape Ashizuri (1954)

    Cape Ashizuri

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    1950s Japanese drama....

    Cape Ashizuri
  • 1948
    A Visage to Remember

    A Visage to Remember (1948)

    A Visage to Remember

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    During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he meets the professor's lovely young wife, Sachiko (H...

    A Visage to Remember
  • 1940
    Wood and Stone

    Wood and Stone (1940)

    Wood and Stone

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    Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness. No.10 in the list of "The 10 best films of 1940" by Kinema Junpo....

    Wood and Stone
  • 1940
    Okumura Ioka

    Okumura Ioka (1940)

    Okumura Ioka

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    Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda...

    Okumura Ioka
  • 1954
    The Ditch

    The Ditch (1954)

    The Ditch

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    Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house....

    The Ditch
  • 1955
    Wheat Will Never Fall

    Wheat Will Never Fall (1955)

    Wheat Will Never Fall

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    Follow-up to 'The People of Sunagawa'...

    Wheat Will Never Fall