Bontarō Miake
Birthday: 1906-10-15
Place of Birth: Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Actor. Born 1906, died 1987.
Movies
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to ...
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil
The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain....
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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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Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than t...
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Victory and Defeat
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Y...
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The Song Lantern
The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film t...
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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza m...
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The Woman in the Rumor
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, ru...
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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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Outlaw island
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the form...
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Muchana Yakko
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching...
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The Blossom and the Sword
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who cros...
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Tokyo Crime Map
An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark...
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Princess Yang Kwei-fei
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants t...
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Earth
Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to p...
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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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Bloody Territories
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses ...
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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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Hole in One
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the ...
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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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Warning from Space
Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To ...
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The Romance of Yushima
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to ...
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Sound in the Mist
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma ...
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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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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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Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunos...
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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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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesa...
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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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Return of Gun Dog
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu se...
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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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Black Challenger
Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey ...
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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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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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Tokyo March
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic ...
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Metropolitan Symphony
A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker...
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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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Woman on the Night Train
Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night...
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Jean Valjean: Part One
The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which...
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Jean Valjean: Part Two
The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of whi...
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The Crown of Life
Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on hones...
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Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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The Devil's toast
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's ...
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A Face Glowing at Night
Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling ...
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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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The Whale God
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it....
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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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The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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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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The Falcon Fighters
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Ka...
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Diary of a Nurse
Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by...
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Beauty the Enemy
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracte...
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Typhoon Reporter
Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and trag...
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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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The Battleship Yamato
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threa...
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Lil's Return from Shanghai
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Bac...
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High School Third Graders
In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie ...
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The Ataka Family
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a g...
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Town of Love
Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobo...
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Tasogare no Tokyo Tower
A sweet and melancholy story that depicts, with beautiful sentimentality, the day when a dreamy and ...
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Dancing Girl
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved anot...
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Five Scouts
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda...
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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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The Feast of Gion
A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film....
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The Most Dangerous Game
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap vi...
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The Water Magician
Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling ...
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Okoto and Sasuke
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō....
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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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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where ...
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A Woman's Gamble
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami...
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The Pit of Death
Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the comp...
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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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And Yet They Go On
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film....
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The Woman Gambler's Revenge
Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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Kisses
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bic...
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Black Dividend
Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Ka...
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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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A Lustful Man
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven...
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Vagabonds from Badgerville
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society....
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Submarine Number One
This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as resu...
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Strange Triangle
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his con...
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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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A Woman's Testament
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a so...
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Green Fruit
Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is fi...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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The Path I Remember
The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin....
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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 Broken Commandment
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplat...
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The Rainbow Man
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's bo...
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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 Naked Town
A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao...
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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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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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On This Earth
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
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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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Lips of Ruin
Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also known in English as “Black Parking Lot”....
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New Snow
Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the dau...
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Image of a Mother
The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries...
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Across the Darkness
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed dur...
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Unending Advance
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in ...
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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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Confessions of a Gynecologist
A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...
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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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The Dead Beauty Incident
A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin in...
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The Bitch
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer....
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A Grain of Wheat
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to ...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, 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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Three Young Samurai
During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Tak...
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The Two Musashis
During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...
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Shojohou
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and...
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Shinkon nikki: Ureshii asa
Newlyweds Saburo and Chieko are renting a room. The two get into a fight over something trivial....
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Goodbye, Hello
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obliga...
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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 Woman Who Touched Legs
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was no...
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A Public Benefactor
The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness....
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