Chieko Nakakita

The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.

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Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.

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Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.

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When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.

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Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here the first boyfriend.

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Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.

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Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

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Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.

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Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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1964 Japanese movie

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A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

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A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arrives, sending them on a whirlwind quest for support from eccentric relatives and well-meaning neighbors.

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War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

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A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

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Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".

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Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

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After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

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Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

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1962 Japanese movie

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An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.

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1962 Japanese movie

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1962 Japanese movie

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1962 Japanese movie

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1962 Japanese movie

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1962 Japanese movie

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Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

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A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

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