Tetsuro Tamba
Birthday: 1922-07-17
Place of Birth: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Tetsuro Tamba (July 17, 1922 – September 24, 2006) was a distinguished Japanese actor known for his versatile talent across five decades. Recognized globally for his portrayal of Tiger Tanaka in the iconic 1967 James Bond film "You Only Live Twice," Tamba's cinematic journey was a remarkable blend of cultural bridges. Before embarking on his acting career, Tamba worked as an interpreter for the Allied Powers' Supreme Commander. Graduating from Chuo University in 1948, he later joined Shintoho company, making his debut in the film Satsujin Yougishain in 1951. Tamba's impact on Western audiences extended beyond Bond, with standout performances in films like Bridge to the Sun and The 7th Dawn. He earned acclaim in Japan as well, most notably as the lead in police dramas like Key Hunter and G-Men '75. His talents weren't confined to the screen alone. Tamba lent his voice to characters like the Cat King in Studio Ghibli's The Cat Returns and graced historical roles in television dramas, leaving an indelible mark on period pieces. In 2005, Tamba faced health challenges but continued to contribute until the end. Sadly, he passed away in Tokyo at 84 due to pneumonia on September 24, 2006. His legacy lives on through his son, actor Yoshitaka Tamba, while his last appearances in the 2005 Taiga drama Yoshitsune and the 2006 film Sinking of Japan remain a testament to his enduring impact on Japanese cinema and beyond.
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You Only Live Twice
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers ...
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Minamoto Yoshitsune
During the late Heian era in Japan a famous duel took place between the warrior monk Musashibo Benke...
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Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force i...
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Pigs and Battleships
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
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Demon Pond
The modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared, with a magica...
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Gozu
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder take...
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The Wolves
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets r...
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King of Pornography
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimens...
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The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on ...
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Hawk of the Harbour
A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harasse...
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The Cat Returns
Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to...
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The Water Margin
The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Or...
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13 Assassins
Gathering a band of 13, Inspector General Shmada Shinzaemon sets out on a death-defying journey to c...
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills...
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for deser...
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The Happiness of the Katakuris
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first gu...
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Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever mor...
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The 5-Man Army
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat style...
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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself ...
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Violent Streets
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a...
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Samurai Spy
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutob...
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The Peking Man
In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confi...
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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World 2: I was surprised when I died!!
The second installment of the spirit world guide movie based on the original idea of Tetsuro Tamba...
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Tetsuro Tamba’s Great Spiritual World 3: Amazing Reincarnation Story That Ran Around the Whole
At the end of the Edo period, nine-year-old Katsugoro told his older sister that he was the reincarn...
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The Political Game
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. No...
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Silence
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Chr...
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Revenge
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, l...
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The School Deviate Waru
Yoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teach...
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The 7th Dawn
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Se...
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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal ...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang ...
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Shadow Hunters
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably no...
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dic...
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Japanese Hell
From the king of the Japanese cult movie, Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases th...
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The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga...
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Assassination
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...
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Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the O...
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Submersion of Japan
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of ...
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Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin w...
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Blackmail Is My Life
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tok...
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Screwed
It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a ...
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The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun
Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poo...
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Mount Hakkoda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...
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Heat Wave
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi househo...
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Twilight Saloon
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in...
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Aurora Borealis
The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s....
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Bridge to the Sun
Tells the true story of American Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese dipl...
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The Tale of Saikaido
Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates ele...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that th...
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the m...
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Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams
Biographical story, based on life of Ino Tadataka, a Japanese measurer and cartographer. Ino Tadatak...
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Ankoku gai jingi
A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends...
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The White Tiger Battalion
The Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize its mi...
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stif...
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Detective
The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal,...
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Homicide
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Af...
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Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
At a certain high school in Karuizawa, students relied on ordinary local trains for their commute, b...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a...
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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship be...
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Shogun's Shadow
A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He rece...
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Sky Scraper!
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan....
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The Code of Man
Tetsuya Watari, a modern youth idol, co-stars with Tetsuro Tamba for the first time, and a young man...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties confl...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings....
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Kim's War
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest ho...
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The Duel in the Forbidden Territory
The wandering swordsman, Ino Heihachiro, defeats Ichima, the youngest of the famed swordsmanship tri...
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Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighbor...
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The Imperial Japanese Empire
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the...
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Zero
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilo...
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Monument to Holy Service
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon....
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Shura Group Part 1
Denzaburo Kato, the third generation leader of the Horii family whose territory encompasses the Yoko...
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Shura Group Part 2
Ryuji Inahara, the heir to the Atami Yamazakiya family, subsequently placed the group under the cont...
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You're My Destiny
Naomi, a corporate heiress from Japan, vacations to Hong Kong with her two colleagues. Bored, she sn...
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Ronin on a Mission
Mori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack and ...
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Seven Nights in Japan
Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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Never Give Up
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daugh...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies:...
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April Fish
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his mov...
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Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr...
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the y...
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imp...
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There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather...
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An Outlaw
Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complica...
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Flickering Flames
In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Ta...
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The Bad Boss
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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Kukai
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of Ind...
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Dead Angle
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e...
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Tokyo Pop
A young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish you ...
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local...
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The Challenge
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the p...
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A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Jubaku: Spellbound
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to ...
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events...
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G-Men in the Pacific
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokoha...
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Tange Sazen
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refus...
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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysteri...
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President Rai of Kingoro
A humorous salaryman comedy about the president of a beer company who is said to be President Rai. T...
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The Shogun's Vault
Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre...
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Flames of Blood
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course ...
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Female Neo-Ninjas
Three cute, sexy ninjas, around the age of 20, have been in training, building their powers for some...
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Shogun's Ninja
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi...
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Graveyard of Honor
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fe...
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Queen of Asia
Japanese war film based on the true story of Yoshiko Kawashima, played by actress Miyuki Takakura in...
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Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, ...
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All Rascals
Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda...
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Army Intelligence
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then ...
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A Flame at the Pier
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama...
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Abashiri Prison
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped ...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school...
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The Alaska Story
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes of...
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Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
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The Wild Daisy
Born in affluent families among the Japanese mountains, two close cousins fall in love and have to s...
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Samurai from Somewhere
Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainer...
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The Ceiling at Utsunomiya
Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempt...
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Conflagration
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in T...
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Underwater Murder
The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took o...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yak...
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High Seas Hijack
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands....
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Gang vs. Gang
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame f...
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Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy
Rumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu Munef...
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Call from Darkness
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case i...
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the sout...
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Kaachan
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose t...
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The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...
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Gambler's Farewell
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza ...
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The International Gang of Kobe
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by U...
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Mysterious Dwarf
The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around ...
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All Men Are Brothers
Based on one of China's enduring epic novels, written in the 14th century, "All Men Are Brothers" co...
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Nichiren
An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inh...
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Thirst for Love
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an adve...
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Yakuza Ladies 3
Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disci...
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Greed in Broad Daylight
After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other...
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The Bullet Train
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows...
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Blood of Revenge
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and ru...
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The Ghost of Kasane
A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, th...
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A Wicked Woman
In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second...
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Four Sisters
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with ea...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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King of the Gang
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and ...
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The Private Police
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami...
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princ...
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The Way to The Gold Medals
About Soviet and Japanese volley-ball players who are both rivals and friends. The events cover the ...
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Fireflies in the North
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde...
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The Last True Yakuza
A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and b...
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Dissolution Rites
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order ...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit...
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most power...
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Black Lizard
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get t...
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest a...
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Portrait of Chieko
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil p...
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Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle
There's only one way to stop a filthy evil scientist from destroying the world, and it's with a powe...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Shogun's Samurai
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...
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Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring...
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13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for ...
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The Geisha
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th centu...
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The Imperial Navy
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...
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The Classroom of Terror
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school ...
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The Armed Organization
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey afte...
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To Trap a Kidnapper
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from schoo...
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Eleven Gangsters
Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes ...
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Port Arthur
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...
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Twilight of the Cockroaches
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of spa...
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The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu....
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Get 'em All
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks ...
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The Thousand Year Fire
Having lost both his mother and father, an 11-year-old city boy is sent to live with his grandparent...
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The Story of a Man Among Men
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with th...
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Destroyer Yukikaze
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook'...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangste...
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The Kii River
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and econom...
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Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, t...
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Mist and Shadows
The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective ...
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Female Slave Ship
The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is ...
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The Sand Boat
A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must face ...
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Japan's Top Gangster
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on th...
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The Twilight Samurai
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large...
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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered ...
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1750 Days of Turbulence
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years....
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Postwar Secrets
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by ...
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate be...
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Murderer!
A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, ...
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The Bushido Blade
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is sto...
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Tale of Ninja Duty
Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to...
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Love: Starting on a Journey
A girl suffering from an incurable disease get in a coma, while her boyfriend visit her to the hospi...
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Karafuto 1945 Summer
The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of...
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Yakuza Warfare
Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival facti...
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School Be-In Bully
The prestigious private Sakuraryo Gakuen, which has a 90-year tradition, has now lost its glory to t...
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Vendetta of Obligation
This is the story of the 47 ronin of the Ako clan who rose up to avenge the brutal death of their be...
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Giant Rumble
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greates...
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The Making Of The Katakuris
In this contemporary documentary, the cast and the crew share their experiences of making the film....
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Game of Chance 3
Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped th...
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Company Buggers
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d...
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Gamblers and Racketeers
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which s...
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Cabaret
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thrill...
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Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus
A documentary about the 1974 film Prophecies of Nostradamus, released to coincide with the latter's ...
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Message from Space
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders ...
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The Stupid Teacher
Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his b...
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Sugata Sanshiro
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher rev...
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Troops of Darkness
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later ...
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Taira no Kiyomori
The tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into the b...
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The Great Shogunate Battle
The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of br...
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Gang and G-Men Part 2
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of...
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Lone Rebel
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was ...
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The Corporation
Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion o...
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T.R.Y.
At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shan...
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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who di...
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the Americ...
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The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly h...
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Snake Woman's Curse
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haun...
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Tokyo: The Last War
The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, th...
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Yakuza Demon
Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and ...
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Lady Vengeance and the 47 Ronin
During the events of the Chushingura incident, Mumyo, a disgruntled Shogunate secret agent, retires ...
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Tidal Wave
Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single...
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The Last Days of Planet Earth
In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great ...
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Diamonds of the Andes
Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to...
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Emperor of Upheaval
The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate l...
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Storming Osaka Castle: The Sanada Ten Braves
After defeat in the Battle of Skigahara, Yukimura Sanada and his Ten Braves scatter across the count...
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日本敗れず
In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines,...
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Structure of Hate
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over ...
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Station to Heaven
From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but mediev...
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Kill the Killer!
JA woman is witness to a murder but flees the scene, leaving behind only a handkerchief with her nam...
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Tokyo: The Last War
The year is 1945. After the horrific fire-bombings of the Pacific War levels Japan to the ground, th...
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Showdown on Pier No.3
Crime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track. Clues lead Detective...
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