Hideyo Amamoto
Birthday: 1926-01-02
Place of Birth: Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Hideyo Amamoto (天本 英世 Amamoto Hideyo) was a prolific Japanese actor from the Wakamatsu ward of Kitakyūshū best known for portraying Dr. Shinigami in the original Kamen Riderseries as well as many other characters in tokusatsu films and theGodzilla series. Amamoto also used the pseudonym of Eisei Amamoto for most of his career, Eisei being a misreading of the kanji in his real name, Hideyo. He died on March 23, 2003 from acute pneumonia at the age of 77.
Movies
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Ke...
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Atragon
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. Wh...
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Kill!
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved...
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Magistrate of the Floating World
Kodaira Mochizuki has come from Edo to keep Horisoto secure....
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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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All Monsters Attack
Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant st...
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Oshikiri
Oshikiri is a loner who has bad memories of his childhood and his grandfather, a brilliant scientist...
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Keizoku: Unsolved Mysteries - Beautiful Dreamer
Graduating at the top of her class, elite detective candidate Jun Shibata is transferred to the sect...
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The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
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Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard
In Meiji-era Japan, a village of witches and wizards is slaughtered. Years later, an archaeologist d...
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Matango
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island h...
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Portrait of Hell
The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and...
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Weather Woman
Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. ...
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Shin Virgin Boys Story: Hong Kong Virgin Boy
The Virgin Boy's Story enters a new era and back on the big screen as the Titular Boy Kenji just wan...
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the grea...
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into tel...
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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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Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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Get 'em All
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks ...
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The Human Bullet
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedicati...
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Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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Big Boobs Buster
Another buxom bombshell falls prey to the masked vigilante, the Big Boobs Buster! Rumor has it that ...
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Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints
At the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope loc...
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Ronin-gai
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attem...
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Mahjong Horoki
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges a...
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Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
5th installment of the Pantsu no ana video series released by BOMB magazine...
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Battle Cry
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to t...
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Marehito
A soldier, swaddled in body armor, guards the border of his country. This is not an area of tension;...
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Mighty Jack
The organization Mighty Jack is formed to combat the criminal syndicate known as "Q", and are given ...
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Samurai Pirate
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, ...
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The Secret of the Telegian
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to l...
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30 -thirty-
Takeshi Hashimoto, on the brink of turning 30, struggles with insomnia. He finds himself repeatedly ...
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Kamen Rider: THE FIRST
Takeshi Hongo is a man of extraordinary intellect, but his promising future is about to be malicious...
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Young Swordsman
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. O...
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Tom Cat Holmes and the Twilight Hotel
The second TV movie Obayashi Nobuhiko directed based on Akagawa Jiro's Mikeneko Holmes series....
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Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be p...
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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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Key of Keys
Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas....
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te...
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Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...
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Monster Heaven
An anthology of strange horror tales featuring yokai. It begins with astronauts finding a katana on ...
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Dogora
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamond...
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My Soul Is Slashed
A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year late...
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Farewell to the Ark
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and ...
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Fort Graveyard
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the las...
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imp...
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Kaito Ruby
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman name...
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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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A Gruesome and Terrifying Story that Happened in Real Life
A three-part omnibus horror work hosted by Hideyo Amamoto....
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Female Neo-Ninjas
Three cute, sexy ninjas, around the age of 20, have been in training, building their powers for some...
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Rainbow Kids
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they pro...
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The Red Spectacles
Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded...
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Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor
The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retire...
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Oh, Bomb!
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candida...
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Man Against Man
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of...
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Da Dahhhhn
Sagawa Matsuo is a timid, timid, useless man. His uselessness is so abnormal that everyone feels lik...
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The Age of Assassins
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target ...
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The Garden of Women
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned do...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, e...
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Kamen Rider vs. Shocker
Professor Daidōji has developed a gravity machine called the GX Device. Unfortunately, Shocker wants...
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A Night in Hong Kong
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Jap...
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Warring Clans
A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan a...
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Blueprint of Murder
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is ...
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! III: The Loot
Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter sur...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and...
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High School Jingi 2: Taihen yoku dekimashita
Based on the comic book series by Shuushi Mizuho....
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The Tigers: The World is Waiting For Us
An alien spaceship crashes on Earth due to the powerful musical energy emanating from Group Sounds b...
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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Hong Kong Paradise
Set in decadent, chaotic Hong Kong and Tokyo, the film tells the story of a young woman caught up in...
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Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 2
Tetsuo was suddenly told goodbye by Ginji. As for the farewell, only one of the tables was a real wa...
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Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold
A man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and alt...
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms ...
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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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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...
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August in the Water
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the u...
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
The Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see third-gen...
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection com...
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Konto 55: The Weaknesses of the Century
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and...
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Message from Space
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders ...
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Operation Sewer Rats
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese ...
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Temptation
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art g...
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Go Nagai's Scary Zone 2: Senki
Nagai Go no Kowai Zone 2: Senki is a Japanese direct-to-video horror film released in 1990 by the Ba...
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Westward Desperado
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anyt...
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The Wolves
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets r...
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Gorenger
While investigating a UFO in the Sky Ace, J.A.K.Q. is caught off guard by the return of Iron Claw, w...
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Birdcage of Horrors
A murder mystery told in one-minute clips — one for each day of the year — filmed specifically for t...
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Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki
Koji Tadokoro, the manager of a hot bento shop, lives an ordinary life with his girlfriend Noriko Ki...
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Who Is the Informer?
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out ...
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Interpol Code 8
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas....
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Evil Heart
A group of girls are telling stories one night and one of them relates the story of her heart transp...
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My Beloved Ultraseven
Ichikawa Shinichi, who actually participated as a scriptwriter in the tokusatsu series Ultra Seven, ...
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Showdown on Pier No.3
Crime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track. Clues lead Detective...
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Lunar Eclipse
A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ish...
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