Masao Mishima
Birthday: 1906-01-02
Place of Birth: Niigata, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Shogun and His Mistress 2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes ot...
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 1
With plenty of action, and a strong story about the growth and development of an expert swordsman, w...
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda....
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives hav...
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Hymn to a Tired Man
Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war off...
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Late Spring
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marr...
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Blind Monk Swordsman
This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with t...
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Turbid Youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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Pigs and Battleships
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino...
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The Actress and the Poet
Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco s...
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The Eve of the Chinese Festival
A kabuki actor is assassinated during a New Year celebration show, in front of everyone, fortunately...
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The Lord Takes a Bride
Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said ...
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Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a se...
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Horus: Prince of the Sun
Young Horus lives in a mythical Scandinavia of the Iron Age. Recovering the stolen Sword of the Sun ...
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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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Case of Umon: One-Eyed Wolf
Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magist...
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Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi
Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parent...
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Inn of Evil
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly pro...
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Good-for-Nothing
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness ...
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Black Lizard
The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief ...
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Man of the House
This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wif...
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of trav...
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other....
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Avalanche
The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of h...
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Kurama Tengu: Anonymous letter to Tengu
Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassina...
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江戸いろは祭
Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and ...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Senryo Human Skin
In the era of the twelfth Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, a notorious bandit known as "Shippu" (or "Swift ...
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The Greatest Challenge of All
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years...
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The Forest Is Alive
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"...
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The Grand Master
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
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I Will Challenge
Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his ...
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G-men of Japan 3: Fearless Counterattack
A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable b...
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Lord Mito: All Star Version
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the ...
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Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
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Ghost Ship Part 1
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy ...
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Kurama Tengu: Acrobat in a lion mask
Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When the ch...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a re...
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The Coin Thrower Zenigata
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusu...
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The Blue Mountains: Part I
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a s...
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Ghost Ship Part 2
Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) investigates the dark "Ghost Ship" in search of his father. Meanwhile,...
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Ginza Cosmetics
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly...
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Himalayan Wanderer
One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boo...
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Five Men of Edo
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo...
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Two Wives
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-...
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Foul Play
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate th...
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Policeman's Diary
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on...
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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All Rascals
Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda...
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Vacuum Zone
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his t...
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Firefly Light
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima...
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Romance Freestyle
The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from ...
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The Spy
Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illeg...
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The Time of Reckoning
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful busine...
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Composition Class
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contes...
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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Points and Lines
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group...
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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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The Human Wall
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....
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Flirtation in Spring
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan....
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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Tokyo no Kodoku
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rook...
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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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I Saw a Phantom Fish
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish....
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Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro ...
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Tange Sazen
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refus...
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Duel of Blood and Sand
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the ...
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Born Under Crossed Stars
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the ser...
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The Second Bullet is Marked
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu....
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Mysterious Dwarf
The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around ...
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Roughneck From Asama
When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei...
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The Final Winner?
In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an E...
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The Ceiling at Utsunomiya
Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempt...
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Revenge
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, l...
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro
Genji Kurô is a master swordsman and entrusted with protecting the ancient sword Kaen by the Otsubo ...
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Love and Death
Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko....
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Sing, Young People!
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the...
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Secret of The Golden Spell
One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, ...
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Killer's Mission
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...
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Nothing But Bones
The harrowing joruney of Kinu Wada, a young woman who is sold into prostitution to pay her family's ...
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Castle of Owls
Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi ...
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii...
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Feline Spirit
Go master Matashichiro Ryuzoji, during the game, was killed in anger by the Lord of the Nabeshima cl...
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Fall of the Shogun's Militia
Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes an...
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Tengu Priest
Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death....
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The Orphan Brother
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they ar...
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Seven Masks of Revenge
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his...
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Ancient Coins
This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their i...
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Rebellion
In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumenta...
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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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Hibari’s Favorite 2
Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her ...
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Dice and Swords
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is ...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second...
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The Brick Factory Girl
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal...
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Art of Assassination
A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking t...
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His Scarlet Cloak
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's ...
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No Stronger Swords
Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the ...
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Samurai Rebellion
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
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A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defe...
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The Black Trademark
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his...
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Devil’s Statue
A gallant swordsman takes on the forces of evil with the help of his trusty friends....
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Evil Man of Edo
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on th...
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The Actress vs. the Greedy Sharks
Framed by his enemies, Manbe finds himself imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit. His only hope l...
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Ukyunosuke on Patrol
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earl...
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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to aven...
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Wait for Tomorrow
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his ...
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Hiroshima
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...
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Burden of Love
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a prog...
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Hero of the Red Light District
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindn...
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Mark of Blood
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil....
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a p...
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Actress
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some ...
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Battle Troop
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are go...
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Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro ...
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Case of a Young Lord 8
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed ...
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The Forbidden Castle
From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri ...
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Temple of Revenge
Revenge breeds revenge. Ikuta Denpachiro, the martial arts instructor of the Honda family in Koriyam...
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Shingo's Final Duel
After Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest sword...
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Golden Valley
A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shin...
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Revenge for His Lover
Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta a...
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The Last Judgment
Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern....
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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The Frolic of the Beasts
The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though he...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu i...
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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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Case of Umon: Red Lizard
Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard....
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Hymn to a Tired Man
Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war off...
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53 Stages of the Road
An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto....
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Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-sha...
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Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō
Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screen...
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Two Daimyos
Yata, a boatman from Edo who is manipulated by the conspiracy of the Dewa Rokugo clan, is the spitti...
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Challenge at Dawn
Set in Kawasaki in 1925, Challenge at Dawn is based on the Tsurumi Riot Incident, which actually ocu...
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Kurama Tengu: The Tale of a Government Thief
The third film in the "Kurama Tengu" series starring Azuma Chiyonosuke, based on the original work b...
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Tale on Kanto Chivalry
This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together w...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in...
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