Birthday: 1920-02-01
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
The heroic warrior uses his magical powers and great sword skills to battle a criminal gang who all ...
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In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor....
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Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel l...
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Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader w...
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A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falli...
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Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the imposs...
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One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy me...
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Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be...
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Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey ...
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Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka...
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When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano invest...
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This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a...
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Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. ...
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In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who ...
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A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the p...
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The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro a...
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Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
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In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance...
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A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by...
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During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in t...
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After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...
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One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō....
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The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...
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Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...
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A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal....
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A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the grad...
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Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. ...
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The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jea...
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One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatam...
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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 Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming...
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An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years ...
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As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was afte...
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When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, be...
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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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A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat...
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A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after...
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Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
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In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
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It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Kats...
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Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect hi...
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Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies....
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The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. ...
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Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose...
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Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangste...
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Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official....
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An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes....
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About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei S...
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A comic thriller directed by Tokuzo Tanaka, a first-time newcomer, based on a screenplay by Toshio T...
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Kayo (Kimie Shingyoji), who married Jingoro (Jun Eto) of the small-time goods dealer Kagamishimaya, ...
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O-Kiyo (Mitsuko Mito), who had escaped from her boss, Shoden, who controlled the Sensoji Temple dist...
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