Nobuo Kaneko
Birthday: 1923-03-27
Place of Birth: Taito, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Nobuo Kaneko (金子信雄 Kaneko Nobuo, 27 March 1923 – 20 January 1995) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. He was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses.
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Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
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Red Bud and White Flower
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry....
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Never Give Up
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daugh...
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Phoenix
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news ...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...
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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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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con...
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Sound of the Mountain
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight...
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Godzilla 1985
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re...
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Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays...
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The Magic Serpent
In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his...
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangste...
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Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl g...
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Intimidation
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a despe...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring crimi...
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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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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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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested...
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Cape Ashizuri
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to...
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he me...
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The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel fro...
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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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Man Who Causes a Storm
Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him i...
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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 Wild Reporter
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed...
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Seigida! Mikatada! Zeninshugo!!
Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokoham...
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The Inferno
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mothe...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father...
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territo...
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Flowering Maidens
The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure o...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under press...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party,...
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A Man Explodes
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One...
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Enlisted Yakuza
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the s...
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The Harbor of No Return
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have ...
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Black Weapon
Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi....
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Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Mom...
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Crimson pistol belt
Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in...
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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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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tra...
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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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Return of the Vagabond
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinj...
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Chivalrous Life
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the polic...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administra...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new...
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl...
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Red Handkerchief
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countr...
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Voice Without a Shadow
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to h...
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Eight Hours of Terror
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers....
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The Age of Our Own
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named ...
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The Rambling Guitarist
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local ...
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Curse of the Blood
A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e...
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Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th...
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Vacuum Zone
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his t...
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Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But ...
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Night Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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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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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from ...
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A Hole of My Own Making
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeep...
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Called to the Stand
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzle...
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Dynamite Don-Don
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between th...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies:...
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Karate Wars
Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karat...
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The Return of Godzilla
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a re...
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post...
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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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The Barefoot Girl
A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman ...
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Black Thief
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land....
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The Poem of the Blue Star
Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge ...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a...
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Father of the Kamikaze
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to reali...
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Devil's Flute
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent b...
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Tokyo Knights
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime....
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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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Red Peony Gambler
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother die...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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The Third Shadow Warrior
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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Yakuza Graveyard
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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Dissolution Rites
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order ...
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300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitation...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance....
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Portrait of Chieko
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil p...
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Shogun's Samurai
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two b...
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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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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction busi...
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Shimane Prison Riot
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisone...
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The Biggest Gamble
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do ever...
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The Black Cat
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is....
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Karate Cop 2
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed ...
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Hot Springs Geisha
A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part...
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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the de...
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The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu....
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The Hard Core Criminal
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a co...
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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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Turtle Geisha
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the...
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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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro ...
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Quick Draw Joe
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had c...
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That Wonderful Guy
Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo....
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Till We Meet Again
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappoin...
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Thugs of Shinjuku
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting i...
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Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn ...
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Duel at Fort Ezo
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of vi...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza ...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads wi...
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The Lost Diamond
Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter atte...
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Postwar Secrets
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by ...
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The Pledge
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict betw...
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Big Time Gambling Boss
Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose ...
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Love Eternal
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive me...
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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler...
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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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The Flower and the Sword
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees...
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Hungry Soul
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a b...
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Okinawa no Tami
With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual p...
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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to aven...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
Delinquent girl boss meets and conflicts with an orphan girl who lives an isolated life after the dr...
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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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Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lin...
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Hungry Soul, Part II
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a m...
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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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Youth of the Beast
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with vio...
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Cops vs. Thugs
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic...
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New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after gettin...
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Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
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Surgical Designs in Flames
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a seri...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her o...
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Check
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a li...
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Friendship of Jazz
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while ...
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Wind and waves of the South
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. ...
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Red-Light Bases
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....
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Itsuko to sono haha
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her....
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A Yakuza Goes Home
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself de...
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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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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 Great Shogunate Battle
The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of br...
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Gyakukōsen
Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with a...
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The Rambler Rides Again
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokk...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
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Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers....
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to c...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor (関東兄弟仁義 仁侠) is a 1971 film directed by Buichi Saitō. It is the nin...
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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 Law's Bloody Wounds
An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks th...
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The Fatal Raid
Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pre...
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Merciless Bullet
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night a...
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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at ...
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The Awakening
A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's ...
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Wakai toppū
On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is bei...
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Diamonds of the Andes
Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to...
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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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Portrait of Chieko
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil p...
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Scoundrel
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, l...
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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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We Live Today
In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught ...
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Traveling Alone with a Guitar
Kobayashi Akira stars as a wandering musician, who lost his brother and lover to dishonest rival Hen...
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre....
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That's Our Heroes of Justice, Gather Everyone!
Owner of a fraudulent newspaper agency is caught in a conflict between the local residents and a yak...
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