Birthday: 1928-08-31
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care f...
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Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daugh...
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Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...
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Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara....
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In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much...
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Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lo...
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After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supp...
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One day, a deaf photographer, Miki Yamashina, happens to meet a young man, Makoto Shibata, on the st...
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In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi X...
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Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the...
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An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, l...
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Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional ba...
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Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involv...
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Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends...
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Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural f...
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On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has...
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On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, i...
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A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dream...
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Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One...
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A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of t...
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Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illnes...
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A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal...
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The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the w...
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Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while...
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In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is ...
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The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....
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About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and h...
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A young man is on an inner journey as he searches for meaning in love, eroticism and marriage. He bo...
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Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last tim...
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The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A...
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April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton ...
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One summer day, Tokujiro, who works at an ironworks in the industrial area of Kawasaki, joins a ch...
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Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an inf...
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Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during...
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Korean-Japanese director Gu Su Yeon makes his directorial debut with the mouthwateringly delicious T...
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A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader o...
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The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky....
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A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. ...
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Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki....
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The Saika clan, that had succeeded in battle against the large armies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, had...
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A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned do...
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The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the rol...
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A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
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When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in ...
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A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inaga...
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The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogu...
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Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. ...
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Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and br...
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Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan O...
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In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a p...
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The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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A biographical documentary produced as part of the 20th anniversary project of the silent film appre...
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Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal...
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When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold in...
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The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their mi...
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A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. Sh...
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A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary ...
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Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she st...
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A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowe...
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Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
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A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U...
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In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refus...
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A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families....
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The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many yea...
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In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitatio...
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An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...
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The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamas...
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Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tok...
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A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the...
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Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man w...
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Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal...
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During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country unde...
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This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o...
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The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Ka...
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Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsib...
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The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after th...
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Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and econom...
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A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of...
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Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan....
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Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree ...
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The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even...
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In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...
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The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of...
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Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and br...
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Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...
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Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent...
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The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hoju...
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Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the...
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Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
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Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Tho...
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A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing ...
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A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting ta...
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Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but ...
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The sequel of "Flower and Dragon". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unite...
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Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle....
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Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to...
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A film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Hibari Misora's performing career. Written by Matsutaro...
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An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, du...
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This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series....
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Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce...
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Koki Hirota, the former prime minister sentenced to death at the Tokyo Trials, spends the 41 days le...
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This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w...
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After an accident leaves Shinobu blind, the daughter of an old Asakusa soba shop works to rebuild he...
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