Shinobu Araki
Birthday: 1891-04-25
Place of Birth: Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Akado Suzunosuke and the Vacuum Slash of the Asuka School
Suzunosuke visits a martial arts master and tries to learn the 'Vacuum Slash,' a secret technique of...
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Akado Suzunosuke Destroys the Devil Mask Gang
The heroic warrior uses his magical powers and great sword skills to battle a criminal gang who all ...
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The Life of Matsu the Untamed
Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorit...
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Thus the Divine Wind Blows
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono ...
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A Baby Given by a Fox
A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. B...
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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's...
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The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and...
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie...
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Travels of Lord Mito
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip...
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Freelance Samurai
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this t...
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Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the...
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Red peonies on the skin
Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he ...
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Song of Love
In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S...
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
film directed by Tai Katô...
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Anchin and Kiyohime
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feel...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides i...
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Flame of My Love
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where...
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Samurai Town Story Part II
A representative film directed by Masahiro Makino, son of Shozo Makino ("the father of Japanese film...
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The Kuroda Affair
This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is...
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The Magical Warrior
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They ...
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Police Officer
Itami, a young policeman, meets his high school friend, Tetsuo, a gangster, at a roadblock. As they ...
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快盗三人吉三
On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha ...
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Sorcerer's Orb: Part 5
The 5th and final part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkende...
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荒木又右衛門
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they in...
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若き日の千葉周作
Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of t...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents...
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The Princess Sen
During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with oth...
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Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Adaptation of Mito Kōmon....
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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country d...
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
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Shogun's Holiday
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, reveali...
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Chushingura: The Truth
Lord Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori was charged with receiving a group of envoys from the Imperial Co...
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into ...
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Kenpu Renpeikan
Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...
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Kojiki Taishô
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes ...
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An Heir's Place
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a...
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Sorcerer's Orb: Part 3
The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...
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This Way, That Way
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has ...
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Sorcerer's Orb: Part 1
The first part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...
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Life of Matsu the Untamed
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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The Gay Masquerade
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo...
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Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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Sorcerer's Orb: Part 2
The first part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out o...
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Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
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Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
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The Invisible Man Appears
A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who ...
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Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the p...
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Christ in Bronze
Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan....
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Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro ...
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The Gambler's Code
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds...
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Jirocho Fuji
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' i...
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The Third Shadow Warrior
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai...
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Samurai Vendetta
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the...
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Satan's Sword
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 book...
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Obsessive Snake
Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdere...
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White Snake Woman
While transporting a bride-to-be in a closed carriage (kago) while during a thunderstorm, a group of...
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of mo...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple i...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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Souls in the Moonlight
First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series...
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...
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The Blind Menace
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi....
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his bir...
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Buddha
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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Bronze Magician
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer...
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Tough Guy
Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. Whe...
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Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the T...
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The Betrayal
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ...
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Maiko and the Assassin
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while t...
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Advance Patrol
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attac...
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The Demon of Mount Oe
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The y...
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Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as a...
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Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develo...
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Seven Miles to Nakayama
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, be...
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An Osaka Story
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji...
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Cut the Shadow
The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...
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The Black Hooded Man 2
The mysterious black hooded man, Kurozukin, helps transport funds raised to fight against the govern...
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Ghost of Saga Mansion
A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat...
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The Great White Tiger Platoon
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of ...
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance...
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Taira Clan Saga
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...
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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be...
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Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from...
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The Bride from Hades
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsu...
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Pirates Magistrate
As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was though...
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Zangiku monogatari
Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese ...
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Shippu no Seitarou
A historical drama directed by Yukiya Sato, and co-written by Rokuhei Susukita and Jiro Okuzawa. Se...
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Three Young Samurai
During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Tak...
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The Mansion of Intrigue
A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun....
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Love Under the Crucifix
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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Tange Sazen
The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swor...
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Sword Wind Training Hall
About Kenpuren Training Hall: The story is set in the Bakumatsu period. Katsura Kogoro and his passi...
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Daikichi Konomura
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...
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Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This fi...
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