Movies: Seiji Miyaguchi
- 1954
Seven Samurai (1954)
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A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers...
- 1952
Ikiru (1952)
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life....
- 1957
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
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Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child....
- 1956
Early Spring (1956)
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A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair....
- 1957
Throne of Blood (1957)
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Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the s...
- 1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
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After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his...
- 1965
Kwaidan (1965)
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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...
- 1958
The Rickshaw Man (1958)
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A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly....
- 1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
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A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in....
- 1960
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
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In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their...
- 1958
The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
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In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approa...
- 1957
Black River (1957)
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A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means....
- 1967
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
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Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to ...
- 1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two (1945)
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In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior....
- 1956
Punishment Room (1956)
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Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game....
- 1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
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Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti);...
- 1963
Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963)
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In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was...
- 1951
Early Summer (1951)
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A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry....
- 1964
Pale Flower (1964)
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A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling....
- 1964
Our Happiness Alone (1964)
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Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Motot...