Kōichi Mizuhara
Birthday: 1909-04-01
Place of Birth: Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
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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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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Scarred Yosaburo
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress o...
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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 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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Freelance Samurai
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this t...
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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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Straw hat of Itako
A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role....
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Adventures of Zatoichi
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader w...
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his ...
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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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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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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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The Homely Sister
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to...
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The Man From Chungking
Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the ...
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
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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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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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The Old Temple Well
Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost....
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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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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 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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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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Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the p...
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The Life of a Horse Trader
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmo...
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by...
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Zatoichi the Fugitive
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...
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The Funeral Racket
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society....
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Jirocho Fuji
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' i...
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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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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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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 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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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where ...
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The Woman Champion
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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Woman Gambler and the Nun
Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where ...
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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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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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The Sister Gamblers
Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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The Woman Dicer
Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where...
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The Silent Gun
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, ...
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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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Obsessive Snake
Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdere...
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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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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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Ken
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedic...
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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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On the Road Forever
A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the villa...
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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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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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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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending t...
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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 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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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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Shinsengumi Chronicles
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...
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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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess
The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends ...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to ave...
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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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Buddha
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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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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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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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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Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daught...
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Champion Woman Gambler
Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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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 Betrayal
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ...
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official....
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Song of Sado
Sentaro (Raizo Ichikawa) from Ipponmatsu sets out to commit evil and gain dignity, but his good-natu...
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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 Lord and the Gambler
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twen...
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Three-Fingered Detective
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony....
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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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Zangiku monogatari
Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese ...
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Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi
Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unpa...
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Jiraiya
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic vi...
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The Man Disappears Yesterday
Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become hi...
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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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Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Second in the Nage Utasamon series...
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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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Tange Sazen
The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swor...
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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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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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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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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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