Kokuten Kōdō
Birthday: 1887-01-29
Place of Birth: Takasago, Hyogo, Japan
Biography: Kokuten Kōdō (高堂 国典 Kōdō Kokuten, 29 January 1887 – 22 January 1960) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1923 to 1959.
Movies
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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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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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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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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The Idiot
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a vo...
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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo....
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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo....
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Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujuts...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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Red Peony of Night
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious em...
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Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline...
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Sasaki Kojiro
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance....
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Carmen Comes Home
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware tha...
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The Fighting on The Trial
Hanjiro of Kusama searches for his little sister Oyuki, who went missing after being desecrated by H...
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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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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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The Horse Boy
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
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Blizzard Ronin
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane....
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Fighting Yasubei
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno t...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have ...
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Asakusa at Night
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hear...
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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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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a pain...
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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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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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Green Earth
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation wi...
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Snow Trail
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At ...
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Bellflower
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based ...
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Yoru no hato
Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her....
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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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Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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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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Three Women Around Yoshinaka
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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Skull
A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo per...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is th...
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Home Sweet Home
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded priz...
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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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Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...
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Oath on the Burning Sands
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful C...
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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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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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The Eleventh Hour
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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Dancers of Awa
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance ...
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An Actor's Revenge
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as ...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
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Red-Light Bases
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....
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Musashibo Benkei
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musas...
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Song of the White Orchid
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colon...
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The Phantom Horse
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the lo...
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Street of Shame
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...
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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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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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Case of a Young Lord 6: Mermaid Murder Case
The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series....
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Miai Ryokou
A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misu...
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