Kokuten Kōdō Movies

  • 1953
    Husband and Wife

    Husband and Wife

    Husband and Wife

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    A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

    Husband and Wife
  • 1956
    Love on Rainbow Island

    Love on Rainbow Island

    Love on Rainbow Island

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    Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet

    Love on Rainbow Island
  • 1955
    Beast Man Snow Man

    Beast Man Snow Man

    Beast Man Snow Man

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    Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

    Beast Man Snow Man
  • 1956
    Three Women Around Yoshinaka

    Three Women Around Yoshinaka

    Three Women Around Yoshinaka

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    The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

    Three Women Around Yoshinaka
  • 1950
    Street of Violence

    Street of Violence

    Street of Violence

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    An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

    Street of Violence
  • 1952
    Vendetta of a Samurai

    Vendetta of a Samurai

    Vendetta of a Samurai

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    Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

    Vendetta of a Samurai
  • 1951
    The Blue Pearl

    The Blue Pearl

    The Blue Pearl

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    The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

    The Blue Pearl
  • 1957
    The Eleventh Hour

    The Eleventh Hour

    The Eleventh Hour

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    Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

    The Eleventh Hour
  • 1950
    Red Peony of Night

    Red Peony of Night

    Red Peony of Night

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    A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

    Red Peony of Night
  • 1953
    Red-Light Bases

    Red-Light Bases

    Red-Light Bases

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    Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

    Red-Light Bases
  • 1955
    The Phantom Horse

    The Phantom Horse

    The Phantom Horse

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    Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

    The Phantom Horse
  • 1957
    Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean

    Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean

    Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean

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    Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...

    Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
  • 1957
    Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

    Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

    Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

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    An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote...

    Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
  • 1947
    Snow Trail

    Snow Trail

    Snow Trail

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    Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...

    Snow Trail
  • 1940
    Bellflower

    Bellflower

    Bellflower

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    Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

    Bellflower
  • 1939
    Song of the White Orchid

    Song of the White Orchid

    Song of the White Orchid

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    Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...

    Song of the White Orchid
  • 1941
    Dancers of Awa

    Dancers of Awa

    Dancers of Awa

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    Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

    Dancers of Awa
  • 1932
    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    The Loyal 47 Ronin

    The Loyal 47 Ronin

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    This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

    The Loyal 47 Ronin
  • 1955
    Miai Ryokou

    Miai Ryokou

    Miai Ryokou

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    A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this...

    Miai Ryokou
  • 1955
    Ticket to Hell

    Ticket to Hell

    Ticket to Hell

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    Ticket to Hell