Movies: Masao Shimizu

  • 1968
    The Night before Pearl Harbor

    The Night before Pearl Harbor (1968)

    The Night before Pearl Harbor

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    The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School....

    The Night before Pearl Harbor
  • 1953
    Miniature

    Miniature (1953)

    Miniature

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    Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate....

    Miniature
  • 1967
    Burning Nature

    Burning Nature (1967)

    Burning Nature

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    Film from 1967....

    Burning Nature
  • 1951
    The White Orchid

    The White Orchid (1951)

    The White Orchid

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    A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...

    The White Orchid
  • 1951
    Karate Sanshiro

    Karate Sanshiro (1951)

    Karate Sanshiro

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    Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst of a confusion challenges Yamauchi Tatsuhiko to a fight, forgetting the true core of martial arts, t...

    Karate Sanshiro
  • 1963
    Beyond the Green Hills

    Beyond the Green Hills (1963)

    Beyond the Green Hills

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    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 take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all...

    Beyond the Green Hills
  • 1962
    Glory on the Summit

    Glory on the Summit (1962)

    Glory on the Summit

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    A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing....

    Glory on the Summit
  • 1967
    Kojiro

    Kojiro (1967)

    Kojiro

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    Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakam...

    Kojiro
  • 1946
    Those Who Make Tomorrow

    Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946)

    Those Who Make Tomorrow

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    Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The gir...

    Those Who Make Tomorrow
  • 1956
    Season of the Sun

    Season of the Sun (1956)

    Season of the Sun

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    The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen youn...

    Season of the Sun
  • 1964
    The Gambling Samurai

    The Gambling Samurai (1964)

    The Gambling Samurai

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    The Gambling Samurai
  • 1953
    Before Dawn

    Before Dawn (1953)

    Before Dawn

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    Before Dawn
  • 1954
    The Street Without Sun

    The Street Without Sun (1954)

    The Street Without Sun

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    The Street Without Sun
  • 1952
    Adolescence

    Adolescence (1952)

    Adolescence

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    Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast....

    Adolescence
  • 1972
    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True (1972)

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True

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    When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo....

    Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
  • 1959
    Break Down that Wall

    Break Down that Wall (1959)

    Break Down that Wall

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    A man is wrongfully accused of murder....

    Break Down that Wall
  • 1953
    Reminiscence

    Reminiscence (1953)

    Reminiscence

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    Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passi...

    Reminiscence
  • 1956
    How Sorrowful

    How Sorrowful (1956)

    How Sorrowful

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    The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune....

    How Sorrowful
  • 1960
    The Day of Youth

    The Day of Youth (1960)

    The Day of Youth

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    At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang again...

    The Day of Youth
  • 1969
    Lone Rebel

    Lone Rebel (1969)

    Lone Rebel

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    Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wi...

    Lone Rebel