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7.0The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
Port of Flowers
1943
NR1945 Japanese movie
A New Breeze
1945
1945 Japanese movie
Tengoku no hanayome
1945
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Love is Different and Delicious
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hanayome senshu
1948
No synopsis available yet.
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
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Behind the camera
7.0The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
Port of Flowers
1943
NR1945 Japanese movie
A New Breeze
1945
1945 Japanese movie
Tengoku no hanayome
1945
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Love is Different and Delicious
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hanayome senshu
1948
No synopsis available yet.
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
—
NRJapanese war movie.
Otome no iru kichi
1945
8.0Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again for the first time since their graduation ceremony. This film was made at the end of the war to promote the military song “Song of the Annihilation of the United States and Great Britain” and to raise the will to fight.
Gekimetsu no uta
1945
7.0A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako). However, he doesn't realize that his fellow blackmailers have their eyes on his girlfriend next.
Young Breasts
1958
NRKempeitai fights American spies in Japan
Kaisen no Zenya
1943
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1942
No synopsis available yet.
The President and the Shopgirl
1948
7.0Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.
Men vs. Women
1936
NRMost of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.
Flower
1941
“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven cursed coins (the Skull Coin) that are supposed to reveal the secrets of the hidden Tokugawa treasure.
The Skull Coin
1938
NRAmusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Current", Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine and Mitsuko Mito are appearing, but this is a fresh comedy very unusual for wartime.
South Wind
1942
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Yurusareta ichiya
1946
NRIn this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inventing the story that Saigo Takamori didn't actually die in the Satsuma Rebellion but escaped to Southeast Asia to start a new religion and in the process fathered a son who is now the founder. But when they bring the supposed heir and his aide to Japan, chaos ensues...
South Wind 2
1942
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shinkon Tenki-zu
1954
6.0A group of female doctors travel to a remote village during their summer holiday to offer free medical care to villagers. There they must battle prejudice and superstition as much as disease.
Record of a Woman Doctor
1941
NRKintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named Onatsu... A road trip comedy featuring Kokichi Takada and Hibari Misora singing and dancing.
Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Odoru ryûgûjô
1949
