Katsumi Nishikawa

Katsumi Nishikawa

Katsumi Nishikawa (西河克己, Nishikawa Katsumi) (1 July 1918 – 6 April 2010) was a Japanese film director most famous for his youth films (seishun eiga). Graduating from Nihon University, he started out at the Shochiku studio in 1939 and directed his first film in 1952. He moved to Nikkatsu in 1954 and, while working in a variety of genres, became most famous for his youth films starring Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yujiro Ishihara, and Hideki Takahashi. In the 1970s, he remade some of these films with the idol singer Momoe Yamaguchi and her future husband Tomokazu Miura. The Katsumi Nishikawa Memorial Film Museum was opened in his hometown of Chizu, Tottori, in 2001. Nishikawa published several books, including one about his war experience and another about filming Yasunari Kawabata's The Dancing Girl of Izu several times. He died of pneumonia on April 6, 2010.

  • Title: Katsumi Nishikawa
  • Popularity: 3.407
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1918-07-01
  • Place of Birth: Chizu, Tottori Prefecture, Japan
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  • Also Known As: Кацуми Нисикава
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Katsumi Nishikawa Movies

  • 1983
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    The Sea of Sparta

    The Sea of Sparta

    1 1983 HD

    Violent delinquent Shunpei is sent to Totsuka Yacht School, a grueling rehabilitation center. The principal fears that this "half-wolf" is too much....

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  • 1966
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    Tomo o okuru uta

    Tomo o okuru uta

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Izu Dancer

    The Izu Dancer

    8 1974 HD

    While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling...

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  • 1959
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    Immoral Lecture

    Immoral Lecture

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Wild Daisy

    The Wild Daisy

    1 1977 HD

    Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections...

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  • 1966
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    Night of Sorrow

    Night of Sorrow

    1 1966 HD

    A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

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  • 1955
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    Striving to Live

    Striving to Live

    1 1955 HD

    Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

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  • 1961
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    Pursuit

    Pursuit

    1 1961 HD

    Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

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  • 1962
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    Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

    Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1975
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    The Surf

    The Surf

    6 1975 HD

    Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

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  • 1969
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    Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

    Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

    1 1969 HD

    A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting...

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  • 1962
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    Red Bud and White Flower

    Red Bud and White Flower

    1 1962 HD

    A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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  • 1967
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    Lost Love

    Lost Love

    1 1967 HD

    Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the...

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  • 1968
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    Eternal Love

    Eternal Love

    1 1968 HD

    The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.

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  • 1964
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    Homecoming

    Homecoming

    1 1964 HD

    Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...

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  • 1964
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    Homecoming

    Homecoming

    1 1964 HD

    Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...

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  • 1963
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    Beyond the Green Hills

    Beyond the Green Hills

    1 1963 HD

    Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

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  • 1963
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    Love Comes with Youth

    Love Comes with Youth

    8 1963 HD

    During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru...

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  • 1977
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    Sweet Revenge

    Sweet Revenge

    6.6 1977 HD

    Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo,...

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  • 1963
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    Love Comes with Youth

    Love Comes with Youth

    8 1963 HD

    During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru...

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  • 1953
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    Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

    Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido

    1 1953 HD

    Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

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  • 1956
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    Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

    Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

    1 1956 HD

    East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...

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  • 1956
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    Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

    Funny Friend: The Baby and Express

    1 1956 HD

    East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...

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  • 1976
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    A Portrait of Shunkin

    A Portrait of Shunkin

    7.3 1976 HD

    Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the...

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  • 1976
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    A Portrait of Shunkin

    A Portrait of Shunkin

    7.3 1976 HD

    Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the...

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  • 1989
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    My Phoenix

    My Phoenix

    1 1989 HD

    Romance story about the first female manager of the Nihon University Phoenix

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  • 1956
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    Family of Sorrow

    Family of Sorrow

    1 1956 HD

    Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

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  • 1967
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    Journey to the North

    Journey to the North

    1 1967 HD

    Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings....

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  • 1975
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    The Last Song

    The Last Song

    6.8 1975 HD

    Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his...

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  • 1975
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    The Last Song

    The Last Song

    6.8 1975 HD

    Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his...

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  • 1963
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    Beyond the Green Hills

    Beyond the Green Hills

    1 1963 HD

    Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

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  • 1992
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    One Bowl of Kakesoba

    One Bowl of Kakesoba

    1 1992 HD

    Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One...

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  • 1963
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    Gone in the Rain

    Gone in the Rain

    1 1963 HD

    Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...

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  • 1963
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    Gone in the Rain

    Gone in the Rain

    1 1963 HD

    Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...

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  • 1960
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    竜巻小僧

    竜巻小僧

    1 1960 HD

    Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after...

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  • 1960
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    俺の故郷は大西部

    俺の故郷は大西部

    1 1960 HD

    George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had...

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  • 1966
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    No Greater Love

    No Greater Love

    1 1966 HD

    In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

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  • 1966
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    No Greater Love

    No Greater Love

    1 1966 HD

    In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

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  • 1965
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    Song of Farewell

    Song of Farewell

    1 1965 HD

    After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

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  • 1976
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    The Sea of Eden

    The Sea of Eden

    1 1976 HD

    Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation...

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  • 1962
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    Kimagure tosei

    Kimagure tosei

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1961
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    Kusa wo karu musume

    Kusa wo karu musume

    1 1961 HD

    1961 Japanese movie

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  • 1959
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    Immoral Lecture

    Immoral Lecture

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1962
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    Seinen no isu

    Seinen no isu

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1984
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    Seito shokun!

    Seito shokun!

    1 1984 HD

    Based on the comic book of the same name by Youko Shouji

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  • 1989
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    Virgin Road

    Virgin Road

    1 1989 HD

    Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

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  • 1989
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    Virgin Road

    Virgin Road

    1 1989 HD

    Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

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  • 2020
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    Black Art Collection -Testimony-

    Black Art Collection -Testimony-

    1 2020 HD

    Ishino Teiichiro (Tanihara Shosuke) married his wife Sachiko (Nishida Naomi) and took over her family’s clinic in Kanazawa. Although he is a...

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  • 1956
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    Frankie the Milkman

    Frankie the Milkman

    9 1956 HD

    Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

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  • 1960
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    Wakai toppū

    Wakai toppū

    1 1960 HD

    On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her...

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  • 1960
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    Wakai toppū

    Wakai toppū

    1 1960 HD

    On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her...

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  • 1962
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    Fresh Leaves

    Fresh Leaves

    1 1962 HD

    Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

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  • 1968
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    The Spiders' The Road to Bali

    The Spiders' The Road to Bali

    1 1968 HD

    The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star in this rare Monkees and Beatles inspired secret agent movie. During their Asian tour spies try...

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  • 1959
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    Windy Street

    Windy Street

    6 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    Windy Street

    Windy Street

    6 1959 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Wild Daisy

    The Wild Daisy

    1 1977 HD

    Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. Family objections...

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  • 1968
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    The Spiders' The Road to Bali

    The Spiders' The Road to Bali

    1 1968 HD

    The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star in this rare Monkees and Beatles inspired secret agent movie. During their Asian tour spies try...

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  • 1958
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    The Nun

    The Nun

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Nun

    The Nun

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Swan Elegy

    The Swan Elegy

    1 1966 HD

    One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

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  • 1956
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    Shiawase wa doko ni

    Shiawase wa doko ni

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Four Loves

    The Four Loves

    1 1965 HD

    A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

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  • 1956
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    Shiawase wa doko ni

    Shiawase wa doko ni

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

    The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow

    1 1958 HD

    Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his...

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  • 1959
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    Downhill Youth

    Downhill Youth

    1 1959 HD

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