Saburo Date
Birthday: 1924-03-27
Place of Birth: Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
New Tale of Zatoichi
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower
The swordsman again crosses paths with the murderous Devil Mask Gang -- who as the name suggests, al...
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Undercurrent
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor....
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...
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Children Hand in Hand
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates....
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The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The ...
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An Actor's Revenge
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...
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Ghost Train
Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a g...
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed ...
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The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and...
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New Kurama Tengu: Gojozaka Duel
At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, the ronin Kurayoshi Norizen rents the second floor of a hardw...
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A Geisha
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
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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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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
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Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangst...
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Travels of Lord Mito
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip...
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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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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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The Tragedy of a Young Warrior
Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained...
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Song of Love
In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S...
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into ...
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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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Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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Her Hidden Past
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the imposs...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides i...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws...
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A Certain Killer
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yak...
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Sword Devil
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw o...
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Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...
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Samurai Vendetta
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the...
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Typhoon Club
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adult...
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Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread...
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Wolf Guy
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural po...
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The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder ...
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Assassins for sale
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
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New Tengu from Mount Kurama
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the...
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The Woman and the Pirate
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there wa...
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Bonchi
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed b...
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Gokudô Petenshi
A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark ...
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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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Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's...
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Girl with Bamboo Leaves
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies....
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Rampaging Dog
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series....
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Quick-Draw Dog
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth f...
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Thirty-three footprints
Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka...
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An Heir's Place
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a...
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Luminous Woman
A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he f...
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This Way, That Way
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has ...
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Life of Matsu the Untamed
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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The Bored Samurai
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...
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The Gay Masquerade
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo...
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The Bodyguard
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press con...
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Ghost of Kasane Swamp
One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatam...
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Daimajin
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations...
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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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Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
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Song of the Devil
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo un...
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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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Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
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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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Daikichi Konomura
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...
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The Invisible Man Appears
A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who ...
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late fathe...
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Odd Obsession
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot be...
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. B...
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Koga's Messenger
The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Om...
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Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza fam...
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance...
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Island of Horrors
Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they an...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot ...
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Zatoichi's Revenge
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hiko...
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The Funeral Racket
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society....
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Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tok...
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Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This fi...
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Graveyard of Honor
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B...
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Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one ...
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The Third Shadow Warrior
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai...
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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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Destiny's Son
In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s...
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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirst...
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Lowly Ronin
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro s...
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Secret Assignment
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's o...
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Assignment Cloud
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the grad...
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The Trail of Blood
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a ...
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Bloody Shuriken
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love...
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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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The Saga of Tanegashima
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ...
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangste...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and ...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple i...
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Scars of Honor
Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in th...
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Lone Wolf Isazo
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship a...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken...
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Seven Miles to Nakayama
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, be...
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out o...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being a...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei...
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Gambling Code and Feuds
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movie...
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The Blind Menace
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi....
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The Fencing Master
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming...
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The Angry Sword
Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies....
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Sworn Brothers
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s th...
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Maiko and the Assassin
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while t...
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The Virgin Witness
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitia...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro ...
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Mission: Iron Castle
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, ...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, ki...
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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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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman...
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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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Vagabonds from Badgerville
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society....
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she...
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Young Boss
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the ...
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Lefty Fencer
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was afte...
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi T...
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Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the T...
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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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...
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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their bos...
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The Betrayal
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ...
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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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Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develo...
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Yokosuka Navy Prison
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is s...
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Samaritan Zatoichi
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister O...
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An Osaka Story
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji...
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Ugetsu
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Kats...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide...
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Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by ...
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The Great White Tiger Platoon
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of ...
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Naked Ambition
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poison...
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the ...
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Taira Clan Saga
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...
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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be...
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Flowers of Chivalry
Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his fat...
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law....
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Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from...
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Devil's Temple
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fate...
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The Bride from Hades
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsu...
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The Thieves' Who's Who
In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person....
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo d...
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The Bullet Train
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l...
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The Man Who Laughs Last
The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigiou...
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Marathon Samurai
The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("...
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The Curse of the Ghost
About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei S...
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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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Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono ...
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