Ryuji Kita
Birthday: 1905-01-01
Place of Birth: Kyobashi, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
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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Young Lord Yakuza
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the d...
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Cases of An Actor in Disguise: Bloodskull Mansion
The second work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the ...
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Youth After School
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develo...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his fat...
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Lady Sen and Hideyori
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the ...
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Love Eternal
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive me...
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Epitaph to My Love
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch...
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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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Tokyo Drifter
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur...
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The Samurai Markets
The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period....
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Morning Breeze in Edo
The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in E...
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Diary of Good Conduct Matashiro: A beautiful bat
Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha w...
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Love Under the Crucifix
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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Aru yo no seppun
The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war....
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Mid-August Commotion
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers workin...
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Boyhood
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community....
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Youth of the Son
The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin ...
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The Thick-Walled Room
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...
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The Creature Called Man
A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends wi...
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Restoration Fire
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale...
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Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance
16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series...
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Song of Yakuza
A low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work falls in love wit...
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld....
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Judge and Jeopardy
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headles...
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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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Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japane...
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Youth Bell
A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, ...
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快盗三人吉三
On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha ...
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Beautiful Tengu
During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Frie...
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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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情艶一代女
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her danci...
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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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It Started In The Alps
Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa....
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Young Guy in the South Pacific
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in de...
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The Second Bullet is Marked
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu....
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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The ...
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Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove
Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a ...
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Shinran, Part II
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. ...
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Natsuko’s Adventure in Hokkaido
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spen...
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Wild Palanquin
Shinsuke Inaba, a thief who snuck into the Kishu family residence in Edo. He was almost discovered b...
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King Kong Escapes
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil ...
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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 Coin Thrower Zenigata
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusu...
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The Yagyu Military Art: The Buried Conspiracy
Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotte...
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The Spear of Heroism
Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already i...
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With Wife, Children, and Friends
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes ...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant bus...
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Yagyu Chronicles 1: Secret Scrolls
Two groups are after the legendary Yagyu Secret Scrolls. A princess of a disgraced clan and her loya...
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Yagyu Chronicles 2: The Secret Sword
This is the second film in the popular black and white series about the master swordsman, Yagyu Jube...
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I Yearn for Father
Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen yea...
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Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of ...
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Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of con...
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Five Scouts
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda...
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Equinox Flower
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...
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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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The Inheritance
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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The Rose on His Arm
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of de...
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The Good Fairy
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investi...
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Kagemaru of the Iga Clan
A group of Iga ninja risk their lives to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu from the villianous Koga Ninja. Kag...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....
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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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Fine Man
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes ...
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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing...
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Edo Purebreed
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro an...
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Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...
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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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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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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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The Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja
The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate....
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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical...
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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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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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Prison Break
Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsib...
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Z...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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Woman Gambler
Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her m...
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The Stars and I Decided...
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of mot...
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Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist...
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The X from Outer Space
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the plane...
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Festival of Swordsmen
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2
A princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant....
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami....
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Duel at Fort Ezo
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of vi...
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Lover's Duet
A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the sa...
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Samurai from Somewhere
Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainer...
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Hibari is Fashion Crazy
Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However,...
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An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh...
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The Killing Bottle
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group...
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Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th...
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Submarine Number One
This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as resu...
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While Traveling
In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...
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Red Pants
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko,...
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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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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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Cases of Hanshichi
Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive...
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The Cave of the Vampire Bats
A maiden is murdered by a mysterious ninja, unfortunately two young ladies witness this, good thing ...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Crazy Big Explosion
Chaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a ...
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Gateway to Glory
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese...
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Paper Crane Palanquin
The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi to take action to crush a plot to...
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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes thr...
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Magistrate of Dice
Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting t...
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Official with a Tattoo
Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not ...
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City of Beasts
University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutica...
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Haha machi gusa
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day ...
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Our Chief, Our Doctor
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanes...
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Kaze no Matasaburô
Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Unending Advance
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in ...
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Lord of Steel Heart
A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famo...
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Ninja Assassins
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi....
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The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu...
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The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat
The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima ...
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Young Guy at Sea
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy re...
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The Sharks
A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and st...
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Over That Hill
Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with ...
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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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Love and the Shop Curtain
Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan...
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Japan's No. 1 Shocked Man
The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series....
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The Pigeon
Isamu is a high school student who raises a pigeon at home amidst his father's opposition....
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Edo Ninja Scroll: Seven Shadows
During the reign of Shogun Tsunayoshi, seven ninja of the Koga clan secretly plot against the illegi...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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Irohanihoheto
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hi...
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