Yoshio Inaba
Birthday: 1920-07-15
Place of Birth: Narita, Chiba, Japan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yoshio Inaba (稲葉 義男 Inaba Yoshio, July 15, 1920–April 20, 1998) was a Japanese actor best known for his role as one of the title characters (the good-natured, second-in-command Gorobei) in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yoshio , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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A Fishmonger's Tour
The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping ...
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The Great Killing
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a vill...
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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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Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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Banner of the Young
The final part of the trilogy. It is about a younger brother, Suekichi. He learned well the lessons ...
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Shogunate Secret Ninja
Lord Tokugawa Tsunatoyo, bound for Edo to be sworn in as the next shogun, is the target of merciless...
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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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Love Is in the Green Wind
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his hea...
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Gassan
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and inter...
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The Yoshida School
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting...
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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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Undercover Ninja: Secret Assassins
The federal lord of Kofu, Tunatoyo (Tsutomu Isobe), was elected to be the next General. On his way o...
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Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71
The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and wit...
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Hirado Pirates
In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who ea...
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The Challenge
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole ...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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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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Assassin's Road
Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...
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The Thin Line
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which ...
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Dispersed Clouds
Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of...
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Blood Type: Blue
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blu...
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The Old Bear Hunter
After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt dow...
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Silence
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Chr...
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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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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. P...
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The Song of the Cart
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan....
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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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Fires on the Plain
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his comp...
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Moment of Terror
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...
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Beyond Love and Hate
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife...
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I Hear the Whistle
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease....
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The Gambler's Code
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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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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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...
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Fireflies in the North
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde...
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidak...
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Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
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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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Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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Whirlwind
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeat...
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The Man of Seven Faces
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang ...
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Karate Cop 2
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed ...
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Hoodlum Soldier
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. ...
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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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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...
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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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Cash Calls Hell
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange f...
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The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When...
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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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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 Fossil
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a gli...
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The Shadow Within
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son in...
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The Black Battlefront Kidnappers
A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller....
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Port Arthur
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...
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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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The Story of Pure Love
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling again...
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Willful Murder
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service...
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運命の殺意 北信濃母子心中
In the past, a woman was raped by her brother-in-law. Keeping this dark secret, she lives a seemingl...
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Long Journey into Love
A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving her...
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The Black Scar
A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek rev...
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Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home...
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Cut the Shadow
The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they ...
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The Angry Sea
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman....
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Magnitude 7.9
A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored....
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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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The Three Undelivered Letters
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay...
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Woman of Design
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutica...
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The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...
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Three-Headed Tower
Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that...
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Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Depa...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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Beast Alley
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns...
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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 Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history...
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The Blue Beast
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses any...
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Main Line to Terror
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a...
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Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death
Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a...
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The Wicked
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he...
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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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The Valley Between Love and Death
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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