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1611:Categories
1551:Growing Up
1083:References
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353:television
282:junbungaku
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149:sound film
75:1 May 1981
53:1902-01-24
1376:17 August
1114:16 August
786:鶏はふたゝび鳴く
727:煙突の見える場所
681:Once More
669:Shinsetsu
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115:1925–1968
1398:30 March
1108:Kinenote
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473:マダムと女房
299:wartime
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207:geisha
1069:明治春秋
1042:1968
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448:愛慾の記
438:1930
408:haiku
346:Osaka
203:Tokyo
199:Kanda
163:genre
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