Movies: Mie Hama

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1962 Japanese movie...

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. App...

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sat...

The story centers around Mikage, a young woman who loses her parents when young. She grows up in a lonely household with her grandmother who dies when Mikage reaches adulthood. Grief-stricken, she finds solace in the kitchen. Yuichi, a friend of Mika...

Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer....

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress....

After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer....

Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas....

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle....

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats....

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden unemployment later in life causes friction among the siblings of the Akagi family. Kensuke, a salaryma...

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A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido...

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan....

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles....

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic....

The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series....

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The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable employment conditions, and political corruption was a major issue. Out of fear that the great nation ...