Kōichi Itō
Birthday: 1907-07-08
Place of Birth: Ito, Shizuoka, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Two Wives
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-...
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Bridge of Japan
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then ...
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Her Brother
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a s...
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An Ode to Yakuza
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beauti...
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Forbidden
Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbid...
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Queen of the Wind
A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The c...
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Five Siblings
A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. Th...
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The Midday Trap
A businessman who dreams of a successful career ends up embroiled in a murder case after a love affa...
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Sentimental Mobsters
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with h...
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Forget Love for Now
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess....
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Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagoni...
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The Precipice
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s D...
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The Cast-Off
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executiv...
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The Time of Reckoning
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful busine...
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Fires on the Plain
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...
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When Women Lie
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Compan...
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Ten Dark Women
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve...
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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at ...
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Punishment Room
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend ...
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Ninja in a Business Suit
An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinu...
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Play It Cool
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is th...
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring wher...
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Two Enemy Women Gamblers
Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where...
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidak...
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The School of Spies
Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent sp...
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Warm Current
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,...
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The Killer's Killer
Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he o...
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Blood End
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time ...
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A Killer's Key
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kaz...
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The Black Trademark
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his...
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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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Giants and Toys
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in...
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The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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Warm Current
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose betwee...
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Black Test Car
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car ea...
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The Great White Tower
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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Gateway to Glory
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese...
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Love and Greed
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is als...
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Zatoichi Challenged
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father,...
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Gamera vs. Barugon
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Gu...
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Gamera vs. Gyaos
Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to sl...
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Black Report
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for ...
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Vixen
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes p...
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The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi
Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losin...
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A Woman's Life
Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo a...
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The Crowded Train
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing ...
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Hit and Run Gang
Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was ...
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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a s...
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While Yet a Wife
A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, a...
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Se...
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The Snowy Heron
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. ...
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The Grave Tells All
Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that...
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South Wind 2
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in ...
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Bury Me Deep
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by t...
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