Jun Tazaki

Jun Tazaki

Birthday: 1913-08-28

Place of Birth: Aomori, Aomori, Japan

Biography: Jun Tazaki (田崎 潤 Tazaki Jun, 28 August 1913 – 18 October 1985) (real name Minoru Tanaka) was a Japanese actor best known for his various roles from Kaiju films produced by Toho, often cast in the roles of scientists or military personnel.

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King Kong vs. Godzilla
King Kong vs. Godzilla

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...

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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Mothra vs. Godzilla

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

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Destroy All Monsters
Destroy All Monsters

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Mons...

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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
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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Frankenstein Conquers the World
Frankenstein Conquers the World

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan t...

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Once and For All Pt.2
Once and For All Pt.2

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro....

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Oogonju
Oogonju

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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
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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Kwaidan
Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

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Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Koibito-tachi no iru machi

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Y...

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South Pacific Waves Are High
South Pacific Waves Are High

1962 Japanese movie...

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High and Low
High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

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Nocturnal Lights
Nocturnal Lights

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Atragon
Atragon

The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. Wh...

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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters w...

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新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来

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Bengawan Solo
Bengawan Solo

War film by Kon Ichikawa...

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Hebihime sama
Hebihime sama

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Sunset Over Mount Fuji
Sunset Over Mount Fuji

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi...

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Duel in the Sun
Duel in the Sun

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki...

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When We Came Back
When We Came Back

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki...

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The Lord Takes a Bride
The Lord Takes a Bride

Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said ...

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Gorath
Gorath

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...

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Invasion of Astro-Monster
Invasion of Astro-Monster

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens,...

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Home-Brewed Tatsu
Home-Brewed Tatsu

1962 Japanese movie...

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Koina no Ginpei
Koina no Ginpei

1954 Japanese movie...

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Attack Squadron
Attack Squadron

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes ...

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Adventure in Kigan Castle
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 Naked Executive
The Naked Executive

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but t...

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Tale of A Company Boss Pt.2
Tale of A Company Boss Pt.2

1961 Toei comedy...

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Yakuza bayashi
Yakuza bayashi

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko...

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The Witness Killed
The Witness Killed

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda...

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Tomboy Samurai
Tomboy Samurai

The beautiful daughter of a merchant with a penchant for danger proves to be too much to handle for ...

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Mount Hakkoda
Mount Hakkoda

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...

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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive

Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the m...

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Divorce
Divorce

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Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens....

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Devil's Gold
Devil's Gold

1950 film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi...

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Daredevil in the Castle
Daredevil in the Castle

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...

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The Yoshida School
The Yoshida School

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting...

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Legend of Plumeria
Legend of Plumeria

Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (S...

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Battle of the Japan Sea
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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Samurai Pirate
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 Woman and the Pirate
The Woman and the Pirate

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there wa...

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Jirocho Rises in Fame
Jirocho Rises in Fame

The rise of the famed gambler....

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Peonies And Dragons
Peonies And Dragons

Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his...

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I Shall Not Forget
I Shall Not Forget

Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke'...

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Rebels on the High Sea
Rebels on the High Sea

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki....

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A Man in the Storm
A Man in the Storm

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k...

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はだか大名 後篇
はだか大名 後篇

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はだか大名 前篇
はだか大名 前篇

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風来物語任侠篇
風来物語任侠篇

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A Samurai's Love
A Samurai's Love

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki....

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Pursuit At Dawn
Pursuit At Dawn

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51)...

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Big Shots Die at Dawn
Big Shots Die at Dawn

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he...

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Star of Hong Kong
Star of Hong Kong

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an en...

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Ninja Arts of Jiraiya
Ninja Arts of Jiraiya

Ninja film by Tai Kato...

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Mission to Hell
Mission to Hell

A samurai warrior attempts to stop Kublai Khan's Mongol hordes from overrunning Japan in the 13th ce...

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3 Gents in the Snow Country
3 Gents in the Snow Country

Shûe Matsubayashi movie...

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Ran
Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their...

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Dogora
Dogora

A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamond...

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Spartan Education
Spartan Education

In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a pl...

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The Mysterians
The Mysterians

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...

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The Gay Masquerade
The Gay Masquerade

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo...

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Dancing Mistress
Dancing Mistress

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls i...

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Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū

Comedy movie...

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Kaachan
Kaachan

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose t...

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Gate of Hell
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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Daikichi Konomura
Daikichi Konomura

A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...

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The Storm of the Pacific
The Storm of the Pacific

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...

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Dead Angle
Dead Angle

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...

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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events...

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A Keg of Powder
A Keg of Powder

In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates th...

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Shikeishû no shôri
Shikeishû no shôri

1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho....

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誰よりも金を愛す
誰よりも金を愛す

Japanese comedy film....

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Geisha Waltz
Geisha Waltz

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe....

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Speed King
Speed King

Japanese film about motorcycle racing....

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Shimizu no Jirocho den
Shimizu no Jirocho den

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho....

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親馬鹿花合戦
親馬鹿花合戦

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film....

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Meigetsu sataro gasa
Meigetsu sataro gasa

Japanese film....

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Life of Geisha
Life of Geisha

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her....

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Tokyo File 212
Tokyo File 212

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the ...

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Akatsuki no Kyūshū
Akatsuki no Kyūshū

Japanese drama film....

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A Smell of Money
A Smell of Money

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich....

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The Vassal's Neck
The Vassal's Neck

Japanese film....

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Blood Festival of Akagi
Blood Festival of Akagi

Japanese film....

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Okuni and Gohei
Okuni and Gohei

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in se...

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Irresponsible Age of Japan
Irresponsible Age of Japan

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder....

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The Last Gunfight
The Last Gunfight

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...

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Siege of Fort Bismarck
Siege of Fort Bismarck

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Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: We Are Three Best Friends
Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: We Are Three Best Friends

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer's investigation of a g...

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珍説忠臣蔵
珍説忠臣蔵

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin....

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The Demon of Mount Oe
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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Nonki saiban
Nonki saiban

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts re...

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The Weed of Crime
The Weed of Crime

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade....

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Mermaids and Sea Robbers
Mermaids and Sea Robbers

Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure....

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365 Nights
365 Nights

A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and T...

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First Love of Okon
First Love of Okon

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap....

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Operation Enemy Fort
Operation Enemy Fort

Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attem...

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Young Swordsman
Young Swordsman

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. O...

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Man Against Man
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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The Retreat from Kiska
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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Gyakushû Orochimaru
Gyakushû Orochimaru

An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama....

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The Blue Beast
The Blue Beast

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses any...

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Blood and Diamonds
Blood and Diamonds

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begi...

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Warring Clans
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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The Imperial Navy
The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...

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Showdown of Men 3
Showdown of Men 3

After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to savin...

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The Bullet and the Horse
The Bullet and the Horse

A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to...

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The Three Treasures
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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Snow-Flake
Snow-Flake

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Shinsengumi Chronicles
Shinsengumi Chronicles

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...

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Gambler and the Princess
Gambler and the Princess

Film directed by Kenji Misumi....

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Merciless Blade Part 3
Merciless Blade Part 3

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass....

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Red Peony of Night
Red Peony of Night

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious em...

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Fire Line
Fire Line

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemo...

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Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

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Japan's No. 1 Playboy
Japan's No. 1 Playboy

The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was ...

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Procurer of Hell
Procurer of Hell

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornog...

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Evil Man of Edo
Evil Man of Edo

A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on th...

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The Killing Bottle
The Killing Bottle

In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group...

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Young Challengers
Young Challengers

A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based...

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The War of the Gargantuas
The War of the Gargantuas

Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the ...

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Her Captive Gamblers
Her Captive Gamblers

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Jirocho's Home-Coming
Jirocho's Home-Coming

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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province....

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Jirocho, the Hunted
Jirocho, the Hunted

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the r...

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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

Jirocho the gambler hits the road....

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Jirocho's New Year
Jirocho's New Year

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Jirocho in Disgrace
Jirocho in Disgrace

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Last of the Wild Ones
Last of the Wild Ones

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....

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Chûshingura
Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...

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Blood on the Sea
Blood on the Sea

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot....

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Echo in the Mountains
Echo in the Mountains

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay

Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him t...

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King Kong vs. Godzilla
King Kong vs. Godzilla

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for a...

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Operation Sewer Rats
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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Sugata Sanshiro
Sugata Sanshiro

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher rev...

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Gate of Flesh
Gate of Flesh

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sl...

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Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase
Tabi wa kimagure kaze makase

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Counterstroke
Counterstroke

Ryusuke and Joe Oki escape from prison. Ryusuke was incarcerated for killing his younger brother Yas...

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Goblin Warrior
Goblin Warrior

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Farewell to the Highland Station
Farewell to the Highland Station

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in lov...

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Pleasant Company
Pleasant Company

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Pirates
Pirates

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Dai Abare Tokaido
Dai Abare Tokaido

An entertainment movie featuring familiar faces of Toyama no Kin-san, Nezumi Kozo, Yaji Kita, and ot...

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Could I But Live
Could I But Live

Could I But Live...

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Japan's Longest Day
Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...

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Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko

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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the Americ...

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Ambush at Iga Pass
Ambush at Iga Pass

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越後獅子祭
越後獅子祭

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo...

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A Storm Zone
A Storm Zone

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Stray Wolf
Stray Wolf

Matoba Kokingo, who once served as a retainer for a hatamoto, becomes disillusioned with his master ...

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Garakuta
Garakuta

1964 Japanese movie...

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Sandy Cruise
Sandy Cruise

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

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Peony on the Skin
Peony on the Skin

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Oshare daisakusen
Oshare daisakusen

1976 Japanese movie...

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The Two Musashis
The Two Musashis

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...

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Tokyo Gate
Tokyo Gate

Based on a serialized newspaper novel by Taijiro Tamura. People living in the darkness of the city, ...

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Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!

1967 Japanese movie...

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Japan's No. 1 Yakuza Man
Japan's No. 1 Yakuza Man

The eighth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series....

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Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!

1967 Japanese movie...

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Imaginary Paradise
Imaginary Paradise

Comedy-fantasy about a salaryman (Tani) and his imaginary friends. A kind of Walter Mitty, Japanese-...

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Playboy President: Part II
Playboy President: Part II

After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate m...

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Storming Osaka Castle: The Sanada Ten Braves
Storming Osaka Castle: The Sanada Ten Braves

After defeat in the Battle of Skigahara, Yukimura Sanada and his Ten Braves scatter across the count...

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The Last Challenge
The Last Challenge

1961 Japanese movie...

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Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan
Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan

A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo T...

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Reign of Terror
Reign of Terror

Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for dr...

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Ant Hell War
Ant Hell War

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima...

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Return of the Champ
Return of the Champ

A not-so-young "Young Guy" (Kayama) returns in this reunion feature, which takes Yuichi and Ishiyama...

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Night in Bangkok
Night in Bangkok

Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealt...

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Zenigata Heiji Case Files: Enma's Nightly Ledger
Zenigata Heiji Case Files: Enma's Nightly Ledger

1961 Japanese movie...

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