Kō Nishimura
Birthday: 1923-01-25
Place of Birth: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kō Nishimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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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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Lady Snowblood
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....
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47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...
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The Life of a Horse-Trader
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yone...
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The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
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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 Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himse...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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The Wild Sea
Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his ...
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Dotanba
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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Eleven Samurai
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, s...
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Summer Days Across the River
Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-f...
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Saigo no totsugeki
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The ori...
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Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life
Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro...
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Quick-draw Okatsu
This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a swor...
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Stolen Desire
A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki t...
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began...
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Sixteen years old
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton c...
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The Fugitive
An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no...
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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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Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...
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My Second Brother
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Intentions of Murder
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
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Salaryman Senka
Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969....
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Manhunt
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted...
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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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The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jea...
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Samaritan Zatoichi
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister O...
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th centur...
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Samurai Wolf II
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their execut...
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Intimidation
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a despe...
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Escape from Hell
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes th...
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Tsugaru Folksong
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays ...
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Black Rose Mansion
When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he...
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchante...
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Living Skeleton
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape ...
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The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food le...
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Everything Goes Wrong
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The...
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Zero Focus
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip...
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The Body
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to he...
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My Hobo
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the N...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his supe...
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A Billionaire
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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House of Terrors
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous mast...
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The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s ...
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The Wild Reporter
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
An adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a gree...
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The Desperate
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....
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Second Generation Young Boss
Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza famil...
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Nutcracker Fantasy
Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio...
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Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitima...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the G...
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Fangs of Night
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friend...
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Let's Meet in Our Dreams
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We foll...
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Free and Easy Special
Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help...
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The Human Cyclone
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of M...
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Wolves of the Night
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as th...
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Hidden Fangs
Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch....
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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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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Love and Faith
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan...
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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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Play It Cool
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is th...
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The Family
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power...
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The Singing Gunman
Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has b...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the crimina...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being a...
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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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Classmates
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
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Kukai
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of Ind...
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Express Train
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who ...
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New Year Trip
A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missin...
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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 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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Excursion to Treasure Isle
The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with hi...
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The Glamorous Ghost
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. ...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur...
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Love in the Mud
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tok...
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Drunken Ghost
A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave....
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late fathe...
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Stairs of Evil
Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Indust...
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Endless Desire
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...
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Killers on Parade
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews whe...
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The Lost Alibi
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when...
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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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Harbor Rats
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his ser...
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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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The Temptress and the Monk
A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lover...
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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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Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
An action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop of ...
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Age of Japanese Guerrillas
Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see h...
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Snake Woman's Curse
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haun...
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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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Seventeen Ninja
This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as politi...
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The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in tru...
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The Threat
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an adv...
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Gang vs. Gang
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame f...
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Tokyo Bay
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two...
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Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits ...
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Warrior of the Wind
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and roman...
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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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The Strangling
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that...
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Free and Easy 4
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew ...
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Black Lizard
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get t...
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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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Down with The Big Boss
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the hig...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y...
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Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
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The Eagle and the Hawk
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. Af...
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting h...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses ...
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The Scarlet Camellia
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
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An Impudent Man
Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Ki...
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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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A Killer's Key
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kaz...
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Solar Eclipse
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, gr...
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The Seasons of Love
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thank...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight b...
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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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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a ...
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Tale of Army Brutality
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill syst...
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Refresher Course for Wives
One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tell...
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Skyscraper Murder Case
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a ju...
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The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters...
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The Detective
Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof...
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Tale of Ninja Duty
Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to...
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Seven Gamblers
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with ...
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But the Flesh is Weak
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage....
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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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Lady with Seven Faces
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets ...
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Four Sisters
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with ea...
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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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Farewell to Southern Tosa
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard....
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Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
While attempting to win the affections of a beautiful rival, a master thief risks death to learn the...
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Doggie March
It tells the story of Rock, a puppy whose mother is killed by a tiger and a fox. To fulfill his reve...
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One Who Died in Vain
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home....
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A Man in Red
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year ...
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Nomugi Pass
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in...
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Giant Rumble
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greates...
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The Spying Sorceress
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treas...
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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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Akitsu Hot Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
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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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The Pirates of Buban
By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers...
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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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The Men Who Made Ultraman
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic spec...
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Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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Flower Cards Chivalry
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested...
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Crimson Wings
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, i...
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The Pornographers
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for ...
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Tange Sazen: The Million Ryo Pot
Seeking revenge after a brutal attack that left him disfigured, a former assassin gets drawn into a ...
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Frankie the Milkman
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to T...
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Nishi Ginza Station
This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular so...
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The Claws of the Divine Beast
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama qu...
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At the End of the Clouds
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots....
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The Call of the Foghorn
A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his...
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When the Night Breaks
In a bustling shopping district, a humble tailor accompanies his daughter for an afternoon out — unt...
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Shiroi natsu
Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while ...
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Elegy to Youth
A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high ...
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Showdown in the Storm
A lively coming-of-age movie about the activities of Mr. Yu-chan, a teacher who helps the weak and d...
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Dokonjo Taisho
Ryosuke Kotaki's life motto was his grandfather's will, "Study, make money, drink alcohol, and win t...
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines....
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Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru
A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world,...
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A Lavish Invitation
The Tigers, a rock band, escape their parents and teachers trying to forcibly cut their long hair, b...
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Miren
The story follows Tomoko, a writer who becomes involved in a strange and distant relationship with S...
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Saigo no sentō-ki
The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end...
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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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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) ...
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