Movies: Masaru Kodaka
- 1957
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
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Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considere...
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- 1949
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima (1949)
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Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterio...
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- 1952
Mother (1952)
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A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family....
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- 1943
Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky (1943)
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Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recr...
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- 1958
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)
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- 1951
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来 (1951)
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- 1942
Musashibo Benkei (1942)
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A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying Minamoto no Yoshitsune (who is, of course, a man). The film climaxes in the famous encounter/fight btw B...
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- 1960
Five Violent Girls (1960)
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Japanese comedy film....
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- 1938
Chocolate and Soldiers (1938)
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Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films of the late 1930s. The American director Frank Capra said of Chocolate and Soldiers "...
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- 1938
Composition Class (1938)
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Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako....
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- 1956
女大学野球狂時代 (1956)
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Japanese comedy film....
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- 1950
Oogonju (1950)
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- 1957
Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo (1957)
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A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer....
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- 1959
Kingorō no kaigun taishô (1959)
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Japanese comedy film....
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- 1955
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes (1955)
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- 1960
Ghost of the Pearl Divers (1960)
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- 1941
A Fond Face from the Past (1941)
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A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps be...
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- 1942
Mother Never Dies (1942)
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The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....
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- 1954
Madam of the first class and husband of the third class (1954)
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Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke....
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- 1958
太陽娘と社長族 (1958)
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Japanese comedy film....
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