Sachio Sakai
Birthday: 1925-09-08
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Real name: Yukio Abe. Born September 8, 1925, as the son of an electrician in Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo City Asakusa Technical College. Passed the 1st Toho New Face exam and joined Toho. It is in sync with Toshiro Mifune and Hajime Izu. Debuted in 1947 with Kurosawa's "One Wonderful Sunday". Later appeared as a regular in the many Toho movies. It was nicknamed "Boo-chan" by the studio associates.
Movies
The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...
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Rhapsody in August
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity abo...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Ke...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...
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Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
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Drunken Angel
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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Space Amoeba
When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to t...
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Romance Express
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shink...
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Operation Mad Dog
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda...
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King Kong Escapes
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil ...
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All Monsters Attack
Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant st...
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Outpost of Hell
The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi...
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the grea...
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Ôban
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p...
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Sir Galahad in Campus
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series....
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho ver...
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Desperado Outpost
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second ...
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Godzilla
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. vers...
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Golden Eyes
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route f...
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Beast Man Snow Man
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn...
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Ironfinger
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed...
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Battle Cry
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to t...
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At This Late Date, the Charleston
A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several imp...
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Our Failures
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love ad...
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Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th...
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, j...
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The Mad Atlantic
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. M...
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The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; liter...
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Wedding Season
Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and...
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Key of Keys
Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas....
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he...
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Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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Anything For Success
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His big...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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Godzilla
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the isla...
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One Wonderful Sunday
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...
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Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...
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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...
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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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The Blue Mountains: Part I
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a s...
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Sudden Rain
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity....
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Blood Type: Blue
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blu...
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Outlaw Cop
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away wi...
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The Secret of the Telegian
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to l...
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Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor
The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retire...
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Westward Desperado
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anyt...
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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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The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, e...
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Operation Enemy Fort
Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attem...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the ...
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The Last Embrace
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subs...
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Hangyaku no Tabi
Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inl...
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Bonds of Love
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance....
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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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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Blueprint of Murder
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is ...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught ami...
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Whirlwind
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeat...
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The Underworld
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantica...
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Pride of the Campus
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing ...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life...
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The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When...
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr...
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The Vampire Doll
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her b...
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Legacy of the 500,000
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his...
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The Killing Bottle
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group...
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Last of the Wild Ones
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....
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A Man in Red
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year ...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur...
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
The Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see third-gen...
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All About Marriage
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, e...
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The Paradise Island Story
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific....
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. P...
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Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and...
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Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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A Man Among Men
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wr...
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Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all t...
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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Young Guy in Hawaii
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous scree...
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are ...
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The Skin of the South
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable...
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Zoku izuko e
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka....
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Even The Mighty Shed Tears
After Ryusaku Nishikawa and his girlfriend Katsuko are attacked by a gang, he trains in karate to se...
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Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over ...
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Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitima...
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Settlement of Love
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four ...
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Executive Chair
In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip...
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Elephant from "Zoo Story"
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of...
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How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who def...
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Hiroshi Moriya Sandogasa Series: I Want to Weep
A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small to...
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Hiroshi Moriya Sadogasa Series: Thank You, Sandogasa
When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in...
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Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as pol...
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Japan's No. 1 Shocked Man
The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series....
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Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company....
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Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep u...
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The Shadow Daughter
Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak...
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Skin-Colored Moon
After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drown...
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Go and Get It
Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko. ...
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Girls Behind Bars
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths o...
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The Young Boss is Third Generation
A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race whi...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar...
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College Champ
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. H...
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Three Dolls in College
The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University,...
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Ant Hell War
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima...
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Young Lovers
Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her str...
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Frame of Snow
During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in lo...
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