Shōzō Nanbu
Birthday: 1898-06-26
Place of Birth: Hiji, Ōita Prefecture, 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: Monster in the Moonlight
In the first two films we learn the character's origins, including his childhood and how he learned ...
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil
The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain....
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Undercurrent
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor....
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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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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie...
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Miss Oyu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her w...
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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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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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Song of Love
In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S...
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Warning from Space
Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To ...
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Anchin and Kiyohime
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feel...
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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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The Magical Warrior
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They ...
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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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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at ...
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Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue is a 1927 black and white Japanese silent film directed by Tomiyasu I...
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The Wandering Princess
Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocrat...
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Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
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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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Shogun's Holiday
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...
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Thirty-three footprints
Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka...
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Kenpu Renpeikan
Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...
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Tokyo March
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic ...
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Kojiki Taishô
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes ...
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The King of Rowing
A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This w...
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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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Kōfuku no genkai
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along ...
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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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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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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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The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen
Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously mu...
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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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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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Town of Love
Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobo...
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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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Akadô Suzunosuke
First of nine films based on the novel. The first live-action adaptation focuses on the origins of h...
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Se...
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Broken Swords
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...
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The Sisters and I
Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé p...
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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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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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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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White Snake Woman
While transporting a bride-to-be in a closed carriage (kago) while during a thunderstorm, a group of...
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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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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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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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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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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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Irezumi
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's...
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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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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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Bronze Magician
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer...
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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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Haunted Castle
This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a...
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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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The Demon of Mount Oe
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The y...
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The Tiger of Malaya
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya....
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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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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outsp...
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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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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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Taira Clan Saga
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...
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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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Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi
Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi is a 1928 Japanese film directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.[1] Thi...
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents...
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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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A Color Print of Edo
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...
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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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Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Second in the Nage Utasamon series...
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The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood
A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi ...
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Sword Wind Training Hall
About Kenpuren Training Hall: The story is set in the Bakumatsu period. Katsura Kogoro and his passi...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involv...
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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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