Movies: Tomoko Naraoka

  • 2004
    Half a Confession

    Half a Confession (2004)

    Half a Confession

    82004HD

    Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into...

    Half a Confession
  • 2001
    The Firefly

    The Firefly (2001)

    The Firefly

    72001HD

    Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a ...

    The Firefly
  • 2014
    300 Million Yen Robbery

    300 Million Yen Robbery (2014)

    300 Million Yen Robbery

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    300 Million Yen Robbery
  • 1969
    Ruthless Gambler

    Ruthless Gambler (1969)

    Ruthless Gambler

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    Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing his family's minions, and his...

    Ruthless Gambler
  • 1955
    The Heart

    The Heart (1955)

    The Heart

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    In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past....

    The Heart
  • 1970
    Gambling Den Desire

    Gambling Den Desire (1970)

    Gambling Den Desire

    01970HD

    In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a trav...

    Gambling Den Desire
  • 1991
    War and Youth

    War and Youth (1991)

    War and Youth

    3.51991HD

    An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt's tragic story....

    War and Youth
  • 1966
    I'll Never Cry!

    I'll Never Cry! (1966)

    I'll Never Cry!

    01966HD

    The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees...

    I'll Never Cry!
  • 1964
    The Flame of Devotion

    The Flame of Devotion (1964)

    The Flame of Devotion

    6.81964HD

    The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war....

    The Flame of Devotion
  • 1969
    Gambler's Dilemma

    Gambler's Dilemma (1969)

    Gambler's Dilemma

    01969HD

    The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death....

    Gambler's Dilemma
  • 2013
    Izakaya Moheji 2

    Izakaya Moheji 2 (2013)

    Izakaya Moheji 2

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    A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The proprietor of Izakaya Moheji is Heiji. It is a place where regulars and strangers alike can find comfor...

    Izakaya Moheji 2
  • 2001
    Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

    Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project (2001)

    Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

    7.32001HD

    Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation ...

    Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
  • 1970
    Apart from Life

    Apart from Life (1970)

    Apart from Life

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    A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims....

    Apart from Life
  • 2020
    THE LAST GOZE

    THE LAST GOZE (2020)

    THE LAST GOZE

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    A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by h...

    THE LAST GOZE
  • 2007
    Free and Easy 18

    Free and Easy 18 (2007)

    Free and Easy 18

    7.52007HD

    Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman....

    Free and Easy 18
  • 1968
    Hymn to a Tired Man

    Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)

    Hymn to a Tired Man

    7.81968HD

    Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming....

    Hymn to a Tired Man
  • 2005
    Free and Easy 16

    Free and Easy 16 (2005)

    Free and Easy 16

    7.52005HD

    Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing....

    Free and Easy 16
  • 1961
    The Song of the Season

    The Song of the Season (1961)

    The Song of the Season

    01961HD

    A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces....

    The Song of the Season
  • 2022
    The Zen Diary

    The Zen Diary (2022)

    The Zen Diary

    7.72022HD

    Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His routine is happily disturbed when Machiko, his editor and love interest, occasionally visits. Tsutomu see...

    The Zen Diary
  • 1980
    Twenty-Four Eyes

    Twenty-Four Eyes (1980)

    Twenty-Four Eyes

    01980HD

    TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes....

    Twenty-Four Eyes