Daisuke Katō
Birthday: 1911-02-18
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Daisuke Katō (加東 大介 Katō Daisuke, February 18, 1911 – July 31, 1975) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 films, including Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as the loyal comrade Shichiroji), Rashomon, Yojimbo (as the "wild pig" Inokichi), Ikiru, and Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy and Chushingura.
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Rashomon
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife....
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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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Turbid Youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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G-Men of Japan
The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team ...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's...
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The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
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G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese ...
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Dotanba
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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The Life of Oharu
In 17th century Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page si...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...
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Hail the 3 Gents
A lighthearted satire of Japan’s postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman’s Register blends ...
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Outlaw island
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the form...
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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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Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation ...
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Oban kanketsu hen
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bun...
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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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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part tw...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious ...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance....
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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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Twilight Saloon
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have be...
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Little Peach
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother J...
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The Greatest Challenge of All
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years...
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The Romance of Yushima
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to ...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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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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Morning for Two
While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keis...
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The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and l...
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The Abe Clan
“19 vassals of Lord Hosokawa ask permission to commit harakiri with him, as a demonstration of their...
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The Bogus Policeman
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismi...
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines....
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A Spectacular Murder
When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano invest...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
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This Greedy Old Skin
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...
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The Approach of Autumn
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with...
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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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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...
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Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
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Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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Sudden Rain
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity....
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen in...
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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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The Thin Line
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which ...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, ...
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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including ...
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Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide...
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Foul Play
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate th...
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Mother's First Love
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and d...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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Stairs of Evil
Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Indust...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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No Time for Tears
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named O...
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Moment of Terror
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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Bright Young Maidens
In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student m...
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Once a Rainy Day
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth an...
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Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to ...
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Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits ...
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A Night in Hong Kong
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Jap...
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidak...
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The Night before Pearl Harbor
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the...
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Assignment Cloud
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the grad...
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Secret Assignment
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's o...
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The School of Spies
Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent sp...
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Seven Masks of Revenge
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his...
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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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Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
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Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery....
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Superexpress
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a l...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr...
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The Naked General
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities....
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The Bitch
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer....
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An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh...
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The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain ...
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The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p...
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province....
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Humanity and Paper Balloons
In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Itohan Monogatari
Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-he...
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Priest of Darkness
A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of event...
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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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Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro ...
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Sanshiro Sugata
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshi...
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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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The Man Who Laughs Last
The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigiou...
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Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period
Sixth entry in the Company President Series....
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Sequel- Three Generations of Company Presidents
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color....
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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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I'm a Bodyguard
Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Securi...
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Crazy Operation: First Move
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various f...
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Zoku izuko e
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka....
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The Sharks
A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and st...
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...
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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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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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上州鴉
This happened at a post station on the Shinshu road. Takizo Hoshigoe, a wanted man who has been miss...
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All of Myself
The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following th...
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The Terrible Game
Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with t...
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Travel Stories of a Company President
It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. ...
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Tokyo do mannaka
Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted...
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New Third-Class Executive
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide wh...
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New Third Class Executive: Travel, Women and Drinking
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressu...
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New Third Class Executive: Fortune Teller
World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s inf...
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New Third Class Executive: Husband Education
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to...
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Playboy President
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intend...
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Playboy President: Part II
After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate m...
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Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key o...
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Company President Travels Abroad
Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but becom...
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Company President Travels Abroad Part II
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by loc...
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President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follow...
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A Company President's Life Story
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by secu...
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Five Gents on the Spot
As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand in...
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Diary of an Elegant Hot Spring
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scan...
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Discover Japan with the 5 Gents
In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70....
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Five Gents Prefer Geisha
In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige)...
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Five Gents and Karate Grandpa
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company....
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Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep u...
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5 Gents Fly to Kyushu
A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate...
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5 Gents Fly to Kyushu Part II
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes maj...
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Five Gents Fly to Taiwan
A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership c...
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Five Gents and a Kuniang
A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles....
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Miren
The story follows Tomoko, a writer who becomes involved in a strange and distant relationship with S...
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First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President
After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed presid...
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First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday
After a highway accident forces a motel stay, a company president devises a plan to create spring-ba...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar...
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Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster t...
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We Are Salarymen
Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his fam...
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Devices Stronger Than Women
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics c...
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Holiday in Tokyo
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, s...
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Singing in the Sun
After their troupe disbands, musician Moriyama and his friends join Orion Records and form “Orion St...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 3
A clumsy but determined car salesman, Hideyoshi, faces rivalry, romance troubles, and job setbacks, ...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman Part 2
After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but ...
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Diary of a Successful Salaryman
Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry bu...
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Young Lovers
Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her str...
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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) ...
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We Will Remember
Near the end of the war, a number of young Japanese join an army band hoping to avoid the front line...
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