Haruo Tanaka
Birthday: 1912-03-25
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Biography: Haruo Tanaka ( March 25 , 1912 – February 21, 1992 ) was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. After the war, he appeared in films for Toho and Shintoho , but gradually he began to demonstrate his unique personality and became active as a character actor, appearing in works by many of the great directors who have shaped the history of Japanese cinema, including Akira Kurosawa , Yasujiro Ozu , Kenji Mizoguchi , and Shiro Toyoda. He died of lung cancer on February 21 , 1992 , at the age of 79.
Movies
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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The Passion of a Woman Teacher
The curse of a jealous woman destroys lovers on the run. Considered a lost film....
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Blind Monk Swordsman
This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with t...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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The Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
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The Burning Prison
In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the...
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Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is r...
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Rogue
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining ...
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Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
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The Beauty of the Evening Sky
A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was ...
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Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...
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The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events a...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...
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The Woman in the Rumor
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, ru...
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Mole Alley
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 1...
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Heat and Mud
With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl ...
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Floating Weeds
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpect...
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Ôban
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p...
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Gang and G-Men Part 2
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of...
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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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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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Ghost Story on Passage
A ghost interrupts the journey of two young noblemen who are disguised as merchants....
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The Straits of Love and Hate
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man....
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld....
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Last Days of the Samurai
Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, an...
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Duel in the Storm
It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in...
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Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defen...
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Once More
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a docto...
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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a ...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings....
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima....
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Enoken’s Boxing Generation
Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entang...
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I Believe I Am Being Followed
Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died...
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The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka'...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
His skill and courage were the best in Japan! The life story of Jirocho, a man who protected people ...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In...
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Inferno of Torture
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "pr...
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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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Repast
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...
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Ginza Cosmetics
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....
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A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that ...
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A Flower Blooms
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her....
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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 Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate be...
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Beyond the Hills
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts....
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Dimple of Tokyo
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The ne...
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Amakara chindōchū
Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He ...
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and see...
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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....
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The Legend of the White Serpent
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in lov...
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Geisha in the Old City
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a mov...
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Enoken the Hero
Set in the Sengoku period, Tokugawa vassal Yakurota (Kenichi Enomoto) helps the older sister and twi...
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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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365 Nights
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love wi...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record ...
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The Man Without a Map
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, th...
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Nonki saiban
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts re...
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Mermaids and Sea Robbers
Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure....
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Duel at Yagyu Valley
During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend ...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat...
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Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, ...
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A Story from Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-...
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The Ambitious Youth
As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flouri...
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle...
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The Edo Official and Apprentice
It's an extravaganza of entertainment as famous magistrate in disguise, Toyama no Kinshiro attempts...
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Enoken's Home Run King
Postwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with...
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Ghost Man
A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Ki...
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Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath...
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Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con...
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Revenge
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, l...
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Flames of Blood
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course ...
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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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The Elegant Swordsman
This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of ...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a...
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Heavenly Dragon
From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as t...
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Bride of White Castle
A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young mast...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a g...
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Gentle Breeze
A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis....
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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father....
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Tattoo of Love
The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the ...
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Drunken Sword
Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authori...
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Patience Has An End
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr...
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Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters....
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The Dawn of Freedom
This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to...
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Unwieldy Brothers
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion a...
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Good Rascals
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives....
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his bir...
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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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Merciless Blade Part 2
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass....
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Trapped, the Crimson Bat
Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroyi...
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Japan's Top Gangster
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on th...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler ...
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Three Women of the North
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Thr...
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Midnight Virgin
Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a s...
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Dancing Girl
In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day...
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A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defe...
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Samurai from Somewhere
Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainer...
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Tales of President Mito
Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quali...
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Morning Breeze in Edo
The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in E...
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Samurai Geisha
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business fro...
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A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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Scarier than the Devil
A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu”...
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Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo
A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offens...
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Down Town
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a k...
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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 Strikes a Daring Blow
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province....
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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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A Revengeful Raid
In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss o...
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Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to pri...
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Echo in the Mountains
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...
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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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A Geisha
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
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The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu...
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Escape at Dawn
Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated wi...
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense...
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Gamblers and Racketeers
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which s...
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The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...
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Restoration Fire
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale...
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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes thr...
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Early Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and be...
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The Pirates
Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on...
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Gambler
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He...
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Samurai Vagabonds
On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the ...
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The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as...
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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 Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Rainy Night Duel
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Desp...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin...
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Police Precinct Part 8
Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol ca...
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Miki, the Swordman
After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his il...
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Children Seeking a Mother
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son....
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Happily Tied to the Road
With flashing swordwork and a terrific story, wandering gambler Kusama Hanjiro inspires the wrath of...
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Yakuza of Ina
Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventu...
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Street of Shame
The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...
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Shojohou
A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and...
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The Killing Game
A middle-aged office worker, Masao Okada (Eiji Okada), discovers that his worsening illness is termi...
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The Detective Journey
A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become ...
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The Protector
Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her fath...
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The Assassination of Ryoma
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tr...
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Settlement of Love
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four ...
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Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacatio...
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Tange Sazen
The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swor...
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princ...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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The Shadow Daughter
Fusako, a girl raised in a geisha house, tries to escape her dark past and faces repeated heartbreak...
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An Edo Magistrate
When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster b...
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Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
Chutaro and Toshiko, a married couple who run a Zenzai shop called "Shiratama Zenzai," lived next to...
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Hinoki butai
The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community c...
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Eacape of Fear
The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey ma...
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A Strong Wind Blows
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend...
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