Birthday: 1913-01-12
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside ...
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Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...
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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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The film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and who ...
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A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino....
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Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever mor...
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Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the str...
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Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a ...
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Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori cla...
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Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes an...
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A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Chr...
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The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal ...
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The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view o...
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A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer...
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Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang aft...
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A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most no...
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A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers workin...
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A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of...
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Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplat...
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A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses ...
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Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple...
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The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel ar...
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Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...
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Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beauti...
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Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash ...
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Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent b...
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A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of ...
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The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood....
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A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the ...
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A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body...
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Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to j...
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A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law t...
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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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Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his t...
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Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mothe...
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On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. Hi...
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The film takes place in Yokohama, a night city where you can revel in the neon mood. A bartender who...
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Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relatio...
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Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period....
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As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and l...
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A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa ...
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Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Go...
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Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
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In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...
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Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga....
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Two people disappeared, engineers of the companies Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime...
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A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the...
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Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to t...
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Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustl...
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The fourth installment of G-men of Japan...
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Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When the ch...
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Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) investigates the dark "Ghost Ship" in search of his father. Meanwhile,...
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Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very ba...
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Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate th...
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Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business....
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Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a min...
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When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, gr...
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A girl who comes to Yokohama from Tsuwano stumbles upon the solution to a mysterious series of explo...
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The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She no...
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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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In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visit...
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Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant bus...
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Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. ...
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Fourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series....
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A man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal...
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Toshio, who works at an architectural firm, visits a fishing port to reminisce about his love with h...
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Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fig...
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Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror....
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A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private ...
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Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur...
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A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. T...
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Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group...
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One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip...
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Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being cap...
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Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese village...
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Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the da...
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A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his ser...
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Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. ...
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Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor. Sado Ma...
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A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a hands...
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Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....
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The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan ...
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Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a...
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Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi sl...
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Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...
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A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery ...
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A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
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Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...
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Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last da...
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Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction busi...
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An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, l...
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The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...
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A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmer...
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An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two...
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Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farm...
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Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a...
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After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Ind...
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When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...
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Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and ...
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After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...
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A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life....
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Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil p...
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This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where ...
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Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The of...
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The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was ra...
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When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo...
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The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his...
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Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a...
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Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case....
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The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers,...
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Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr...
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Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangste...
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Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping...
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A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchante...
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Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob...
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Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second...
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A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He train...
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A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies ...
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Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending t...
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A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to...
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The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new build...
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Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill syst...
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Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal...
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Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with ...
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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 Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the...
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After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered....
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Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, se...
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Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...
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Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling again...
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The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
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A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk....
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Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...
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On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amids...
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When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how...
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A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ...
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A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan....
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Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, sec...
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A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining th...
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A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appea...
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A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the l...
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A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the isla...
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In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greates...
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When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save...
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One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing abou...
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Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which s...
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Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (...
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In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in o...
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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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In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a p...
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When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their th...
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A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated b...
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A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....
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The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways ...
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One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose trav...
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The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He...
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The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be...
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A murdered pawnbroker found clutching a blood-soaked wedding gown, the kidnapped daughter of a Shogu...
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Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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A robbery and murder occurred at a gas station facing the national highway at 1:00am. Detectives Nag...
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Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion o...
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The film vividly shows the misadventures of Oishi Kuranosuke and the human dramas inside the castle,...
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Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although ...
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Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog s...
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After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depa...
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A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots....
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The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though he...
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The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. How...
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Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase...
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Ken Takakura's screen debut, following his admission into Toei ranks via the studio's annual New Fac...
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This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series....
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A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the abilit...
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A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and st...
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Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screen...
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Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miy...
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This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives...
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The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from t...
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The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter...
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A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman....
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The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin ma...
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A 16-year-old high school student Midori Matsumoto was found dead on the banks of the Tama River. Th...
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Ammo scavengers make a living gathering the unexploded bombs and shell casings from the U.S. militar...
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Set in Kawasaki in 1925, Challenge at Dawn is based on the Tsurumi Riot Incident, which actually ocu...
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The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara....
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Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelec...
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The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness....
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