Yoshiro Kawazu

A light-hearted comedy about love, fortune telling and songs of life that begins when a couple of sisters and brothers meet. It depicts a group of coming-of-age men and women earnestly seeking for love.

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The day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while visiting his younger brother in the hospital. Ogawa lies to Shoji that he has a son and asks him to do something extraordinary for him...

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One night, Jiro and Reiko fell in love at first sight, and on the seventh day he proposed to her, and three months later they were married. However, the difference in upbringing between Jiro, who was born and raised in a farmhouse in Shinshu, and Reiko, who is a city girl by nature, sometimes causes small ripples in their sweet newlywed life.

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Set in a neighborhood near a private railway station in the suburbs of Tokyo, this cheerful home drama depicts various events that occur in the homes of merchants and businessmen, as well as love affairs between men and women of all ages. It is a story of people of goodwill and kindness.

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Hiroshi Chida harbored secret feelings for Yuriko, a nurse at his father Yasuhiro's hospital. As fate would have it, Yuriko winds up marrying Hiroshi's father.

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The drama depicts the lives and loves of people living in three different environments: a family consisting of two brothers and their parents; a family with a father and a daughter who are not well organized; and a girl who has moved from the countryside to Tokyo to live alone in the whirlwind of the big city, desperately trying to survive.

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The drama features two families, the all-male Shibata family and the all-female Inaba family, and depicts the interactions between the two families with many amusing and heartwarming episodes.

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The Tsuru family is a family of nine, headed by Kamejiro. Kamejiro is the president of a construction company that has made a fortune in its first generation, but he is a one-man family. His wife, Aiko, is a typical good wife and wise mother type. Kamejiro gets angry and thunders down every week, and the children are afraid of him, calling him "Oyaji Daiko", but he also takes advantage of this.

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1965 Japanese movie

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A drama centered on women, adapted from the novel of the same name by Ineko Sata.

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Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

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After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a job in a small laundry in downtown Tokyo and works hard till late at night. At a nearby restaurant a brother and sister are working, and Kazuo becomes friendly with the girl, Yoneko. Love blossoms between the two. However, Yoneko's brother objects to his sister marrying Kazuo.

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1962 Japanese movie

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1961 film based on Chiyoko Matsuo's bestseller.

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Yoshiuki and his older brother Yoshihisa are in school. They live with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet while their father is in the hospital with tuberculosis.

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Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

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Tokyo in the 1950s. A jazz-loving younger sister attends piano lessons, while her older brother is obsessed with drumming. The two discover the joy of music. Hani, Teshigahara and Kawazu make a promotional jazz film for an instrument maker during the vibrant 50s.

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A satirical comedy set in Tokyo's new landmark food center in Yurakucho.

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A collaborative, newsreel-style portrait of Tokyo in 1957–58, blending photography, animation, and historical imagery to capture the city’s labor, rituals, and nightlife at the moment it became the world’s largest metropolis.

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A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

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Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her sisterly duty and moved to the main character to take care of the boy and the house. Time passes and Shunji marries Mieko Takamine. But since her father is often ill, she spends a lot of time in his dental clinic to do his work.

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A satirical comedy set in Tokyo's new landmark food center in Yurakucho.

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A collaborative, newsreel-style portrait of Tokyo in 1957–58, blending photography, animation, and historical imagery to capture the city’s labor, rituals, and nightlife at the moment it became the world’s largest metropolis.

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