Torahiko Hamada
Birthday: 1919-09-18
Place of Birth: Nahari, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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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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Strong Women, Weak Men
After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto ...
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Inugami
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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The Bride from Japan
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties confl...
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The Thick-Walled Room
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victim...
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The Tale of Saikaido
Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates ele...
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Police Precinct: Car 108
Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the poli...
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Floating Weeds Diary
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to...
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The Petrified Forest
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood frie...
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Homicide
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Af...
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Night of Sorrow
A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the fa...
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Police Precinct: Confession
The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner...
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The Forest Is Alive
Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"...
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Ballad of a Workman
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work...
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Professional Killers
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is w...
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Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71
The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and wit...
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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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Sword of the Beast
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-leve...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike
First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....
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The Bored Samurai
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department ...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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A Trap
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shar...
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The War Without Weapons
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which wa...
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The Spy
Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illeg...
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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....
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Immortal Love
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. T...
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Danger Pays
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million ye...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a bet...
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Thirst for Love
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an adve...
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The Betrayers Out!
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge...
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Love at the Fogged Harbor
A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko....
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Graveyard of Honor
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...
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Blackmail Is My Life
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang ...
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Cash Calls Hell
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange f...
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The X from Outer Space
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the plane...
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The Storm over Arabia
A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced e...
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The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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Nerves for Victory
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading ...
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Rainbow Over Kinmon
Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising futu...
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Port Arthur
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...
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Company Buggers
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d...
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Adrift at Sea
The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hoju...
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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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The Love of the Actress Sumako
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outsp...
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The Pirates of Buban
By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers...
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Vengeance Is Mine
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....
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A Woman's Life
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mothe...
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The Empty Table
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist k...
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Willful Murder
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service...
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The Last Judgment
Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern....
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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The Great Chase
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Servic...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu i...
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Song of Vengeance
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another....
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Why Are We Young?
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a ...
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The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history...
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The Day of Youth
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wi...
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Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2
Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against th...
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Let's find your sweetheart
Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts w...
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Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face
A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body...
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Police Precinct Part 21
A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that th...
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Police Precinct: Confession
The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner...
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The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...
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Ghost Festival in Zenjin Village
Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai are honored guests at an isolated village where 300 mil...
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