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1. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)
TV-G | 60 min | Music, Talk-Show
The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and rock music performances.
Stars: Ed Sullivan, The Ray Bloch Orchestra, Ray Bloch, Johnny Wayne
Votes: 1,562
2. House of Bamboo (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 4,098
3. I've Got a Secret (1952–1967)
TV-G | 30 min | Family, Game-Show
A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.
Stars: Garry Moore, Henry Morgan, Bill Cullen, John Cannon
Votes: 565
4. The Red Skelton Hour (1951–1971)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy
A comedy-themed variety show, hosted by the popular comedian Red Skelton. It run with no interruption from 1951 to 1971. From 1956 to 1962, the show's head writer was Sherwood Schwartz, who... See full summary »
Stars: Red Skelton, David Rose and His Orchestra, Art Gilmore, Tom Hansen Dancers
Votes: 1,392
5. Scandal (1950)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku
Votes: 4,674
6. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.
Stars: Richard Kiley, Betsy Palmer, Edward Andrews, Biff McGuire
Votes: 198
7. Jin ping mei (1955)
Drama
Director: Yin Wang | Stars: Po Hung, Wen-Chung Ku, Ta Lei, Bi-hsia Lo
Votes: 9
8. Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1957)
60 min | Drama
Actor, Producer, and Director Robert Montgomery introduced each telecast, sometimes interviewing one of the stars, and sometimes appearing in the play.
Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Newland, Vaughn Taylor, Elizabeth Montgomery
Votes: 136
9. Stump the Stars (1947– )
30 min | Game-Show
Television's first treatment of "Charades" as played by Hollywood celebrities. The giveaway was the use of gestures that defined "film", "TV show", "book" or "song" as well as "small word (... See full summary »
Stars: Mike Stokey, Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland
Votes: 107
10. Japanese War Bride (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Drama
Korean War veteran returns home to rural Salinas, California with his new Japanese wife, whom he met at a war hospital. The couple are forced to deal with the sometimes subtle, sometimes ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Don Taylor, Cameron Mitchell, Marie Windsor
Votes: 166
11. Shina no yoru (ato) (1940)
124 min | Drama
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller ... See full summary »
Director: Osamu Fushimizu | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Shirley Yamaguchi, Tomiko Hattori, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 44
12. Madame White Snake (1956)
103 min | Fantasy, Romance
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
Director: Shirô Toyoda | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kichijirô Ueda
Votes: 130
13. Sword for Hire (1952)
135 min | Action, Drama, Adventure
The adventures of a few brave men and women who are scattered around Japan after the siege of a castle, during the wars of the Sengoku period.
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Rentarô Mikuni, Danshirô Ichikawa, Shirley Yamaguchi
Votes: 199
14. Desertion at Dawn (1950)
116 min | Drama, War
Mikami, a Japanese soldier serving in China, is captured by the Chinese. Although he is able to escape, his troubles are far from over. He returns to his unit but is treated with contempt ... See full summary »
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Eitarô Ozawa, Hajime Izu
Votes: 58
15. Tôkyô no kyûjitsu (1958)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being... See full summary »
Director: Kajirô Yamamoto | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Akira Takarada, Hiroshi Koizumi, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 14
16. The Last Embrace (1953)
87 min | Drama
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the ... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Makino | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata
Votes: 12
17. Sayon no kane (1943)
75 min | Drama
From an anecdote during Japan's occupation of Taiwan:After an aboriginal girl who revered her teacher/master dies crossing a river in a storm, villagers pay tribute, children call out her name, and a memorial bell is struck.
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Konoe, Kenji Ôyama, Kinuko Wakamizu
Votes: 37
18. Navy Wife (1956)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Joan Bennett, Gary Merrill, Judy Nugent, Maurice Manson
Votes: 45
19. Byakuran no uta: zenpen: kôhen (1939)
78 min | Drama
Director: Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Noboru Kiritachi, Ran Kito, Hisako Yamane
Votes: 9
20. Foghorn (1952)
99 min | Drama
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Toshirô Mifune, Bob Booth, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 24
21. Human Patterns (1949)
89 min | Drama
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Ken Uehara, Shirley Yamaguchi, Chiaki Tsukioka
Votes: 14
22. Watashi no uguisu (1944)
101 min | Drama
Director: Yasujirô Shimazu | Stars: Eitarô Shindô, Sachiko Chiba, Nina Engelgard, Olga Mashkova
Votes: 14
23. Geishunka (1942)
74 min | Drama
Director: Yasushi Sasaki | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Konoe, Michiyo Kogure, Qun Wei
Votes: 17
24. Enoken's Sun Wukong (1940)
136 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director: Kajirô Yamamoto | Stars: Ken'ichi Enomoto, Akira Kishii, Toshio Kanai, Sadaichi Yanagida
Votes: 39
25. Frankie Laine Time (1955–1956)
60 min | Music
Summer replacement show for "Arthur Godfrey and His Friends". It was a variety series. Frankie Laine sang songs, and had a wide range of guest performers.
Stars: Frankie Laine, Jack E. Leonard, Tony Marvin, Duke Ellington
Votes: 13
26. Ryûsei (1949)
Crime, Thriller
Director: Yutaka Abe | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Den Ôhinata, Sô Yamamura, Masao Wakahara
27. Ri Kôran (2007– )
The drama tells the story of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese woman born and raised in China during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. She debuts as the Chinese singer and actress Li ... See full summary »
Stars: Aya Ueto, Isao Hashizume, Yûko Natori, Rei Kikukawa
Votes: 20
28. Shen mi mei ren (1957)
Director: Mitsuo Wakasugi | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Lei Zhao, Feng Chiang, Hsueh-Fang Chuang
29. Eternity (1944)
151 min | Drama
The story of Chinese politician Lin Zexu and the First Opium War, between England and the Qing dynasty of China in the years 1839 to 1842.
Directors: Wancang Bu, Weibang Ma-Xu, Xiao-zhong Yang, Shankun Zhang, Shilin Zhu | Stars: Yin Wang, Zhanfei Gao, Nancy Wan-Seung Chan, Meiyun Yuan
Votes: 9
30. Shanghai Rose (1952)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Rentarô Mikuni, Sugisaku Aoyama, Michiko Araki
31. Kikoku (Damoi) (1949)
90 min | Drama
Directors: Takeshi Satô, Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Masao Inoue, Chizuko Nogami, Yûji Hori, Den Ôhinata
32. Passion Without End (1949)
91 min | Drama
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Yûji Hori, Chiaki Tsukioka, Shizuko Kasagi, Yumeji Tsukioka
33. Yuanhun fuchou (1939)
Director: Toshio Otani | Stars: Enjia Liu, Yao Lu, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yi Zhang
34. Dear Soldier (1944)
99 min | War
The parents of the young Korean men conscripted into the Japanese army during the second world war are proud to send their children off to battle in this propaganda film ordered by the Japanese government
Director: Han-jun Bang | Stars: Seung-min Nam, Il-hae Kim, Yangchun Kim, Cheong-ja Hong
Votes: 26
35. Yasen gungakutai (1944)
62 min
Director: Masahiro Makino | Stars: Ken Uehara, Shûji Sano, Kôji Mitsui, Isamu Kosugi
36. Tie xie hui xin (1941)
Director: Eizo Yamauchi | Stars: Zhao Ai Pin, Xian Ting Li, Enjia Liu, Yao Lu
37. Kimi to boku (1941)
96 min | Drama
Propaganda film. In this love story between a young Japanese girl and a Korean boy, young people in colonial Korea who change their Korean surnames to Japanese become volunteers for the emperor's army.
Directors: Eitaro Hinatsu, Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Kyôko Asagiri, Hye-suk Bok, Un-bong Choe, Yunfeng Cui
38. Mi yue kuai che (1938)
Director: Shinji Ueno | Stars: Du Han Xing, Zai Jian Qiu, Ma Xu Yi, Shirley Yamaguchi
39. Ankoru watto monogatari utsukushiki aishu (1958)
93 min | Drama
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess, though neither realizes the other's identity.
Director: Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Kyôko Anzai, Shirley Yamaguchi, Izumi Yukimura
40. Nessa no chikai (Zenpen; Kôhen) (1940)
Director: Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Ureo Egawa, Isamu Etô, Susumu Fujita
Votes: 10
41. The Most Beautiful Day of My Life (1948)
101 min | Drama
A retired officer who killed a pacifist governor becomes a dance club door man.
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Jûkichi Uno, Masao Inoue, Yoshi Katô, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 12
42. Fuun senryobune (1952)
93 min
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Tomoemon Otani, Danshirô Ichikawa, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
43. Shina no yoru (mae) (1940)
74 min | Drama
Wartime propaganda about a Japanese merchant marine officer who rescues a Chinese orphan, and who becomes involved with Chinese spies.
Director: Osamu Fushimizu | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Shirley Yamaguchi, Tomiko Hattori, Kamatari Fujiwara
44. Chikai no gassho (1943)
85 min
Director: Yasujirô Shimazu | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Yatarô Kurokawa, Kenzô Asada, Kyôzô Fuyuki
45. Soshu no yoru (1941)
Director: Hiromasa Nomura | Stars: Shûji Sano, Shin'ichi Himori, Mitsuko Mito, Tatsuo Saitô
46. Yi ye feng liu (1958)
Drama
Director: Wancang Bu | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Lei Zhao, Wei Hong, Po Hung
47. Kôun no isu (1948)
93 min
Director: Toshiro Takagi | Stars: Yoshie Fujiwara, Yuriko Hanabusa, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Yaoko Kaitani
48. Onna no ryûkô (1950)
77 min
Director: Shunkai Mizuho | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Jun Usami, Kuniko Igawa, Reikichi Kawamura
49. Jônetsu no ningyo (1948)
63 min
Director: Tetsu Taguchi | Stars: Shirley Yamaguchi, Michitarô Mizushima, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Toshiyuki Ohara
50. John Gunther's High Road (1959–1960)
30 min | Documentary, Adventure
John Gunther, who had traveled to many areas of the world, hosted this program that showed two filmed trips to exotic locations. The first film had been shot explicitly for this show; the ... See full summary »
Stars: John Gunther, Armand Charlet, Bernard Burnet, Georges Lépineux