Kōji Nanbara

Kōji Nanbara

Birthday: 1927-06-07

Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kōji Nanbara (June 7, 1927 – December 20, 2001) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He died of a myocardial infarction in Chōfu, Tokyo at age 74. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kōji Nanbara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Once and For All Pt.2
Once and For All Pt.2

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro....

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
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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The Bad Sleep Well
The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...

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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
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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Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking...

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The Trail of Blood
The Trail of Blood

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a ...

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out i...

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Eleven Samurai
Eleven Samurai

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, s...

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Socrates
Socrates

Based on the story "Gokudō Socrates"...

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Ohyaku: The Female Demon
Ohyaku: The Female Demon

Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment ...

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Branded to Kill
Branded to Kill

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another ...

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Three Generations of Yakuza
Three Generations of Yakuza

The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowin...

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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the ...

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Night Guy
Night Guy

Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-u...

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Pomegranate Time
Pomegranate Time

Comedy-drama about university tennis players....

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Zero Focus
Zero Focus

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip...

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Manchurian Sunset
Manchurian Sunset

A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of ...

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The Kuroda Affair
The Kuroda Affair

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is...

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Black Jack
Black Jack

Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of ...

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Gokutsubushi
Gokutsubushi

The original is a manga work by Shigeru Tsuchiyama serialized in the magazine "Leed Comic". The dire...

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At the Side of the Bridge
At the Side of the Bridge

1962 Japanese movie...

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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A...

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Love Under the Crucifix
Love Under the Crucifix

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...

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Debt King Part VI: Legendary Speculator in Naniwa
Debt King Part VI: Legendary Speculator in Naniwa

Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka a...

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Abashiri Prison
Abashiri Prison

Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped ...

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Homicide
Homicide

This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Af...

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Kyūjin ryokō
Kyūjin ryokō

1962 Japanese movie...

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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the G...

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Where did Sharaku go?
Where did Sharaku go?

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed,...

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Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka

1962 Japanese movie...

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Murder on The Last Train
Murder on The Last Train

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, T...

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At the Side of the Bridge 2
At the Side of the Bridge 2

1962 Japanese movie...

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その手にのるな
その手にのるな

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag conta...

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Avalanche
Avalanche

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Door of Flowers
Door of Flowers

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now f...

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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi

1962 Japanese movie...

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Remembrance
Remembrance

The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao...

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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 7 - The Woman's Cold Hand
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 7 - The Woman's Cold Hand

Seventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....

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A Flame at the Pier
A Flame at the Pier

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama...

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The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....

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Botchan
Botchan

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel....

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The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business....

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Foul Play
Foul Play

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate th...

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The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces

Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series....

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The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom

First film in the Boy Detectives Club series....

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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Evil Spirits in the Darkness

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period...

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The Human Wall
The Human Wall

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....

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Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy
Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of h...

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The Third Ninja
The Third Ninja

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga....

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Spring Voyage
Spring Voyage

Japanese youth film....

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The Call of Flesh
The Call of Flesh

A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexu...

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The Bad Boss
The Bad Boss

The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last...

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Warrior of the Wind
Warrior of the Wind

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and roman...

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Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!

Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the...

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Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of vi...

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Oishinbo
Oishinbo

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun...

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Visitor After Dark
Visitor After Dark

Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case....

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Demon Pond
Demon Pond

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in ...

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Sex Peddlers
Sex Peddlers

A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She ...

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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a...

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Danger Stalks Near
Danger Stalks Near

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house the...

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Bloody Shuriken
Bloody Shuriken

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love...

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Towering Waves
Towering Waves

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto....

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Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle
Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle

In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create an e...

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The Chivalrous Life
The Chivalrous Life

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with...

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Daring Girls
Daring Girls

Two sisters involved in rival underworld sex trade factions compete against each other in this tale ...

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Stepbrothers
Stepbrothers

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic ...

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Gambler's World 2
Gambler's World 2

Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks....

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Gambler's World
Gambler's World

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Art of Assassination
Art of Assassination

A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking t...

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Hadashi no hanayome
Hadashi no hanayome

Japanese comedy film....

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Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist...

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Villain Field
Villain Field

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Samurai Banners
Samurai Banners

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th...

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Maria of the Ant Village
Maria of the Ant Village

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...

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Kanto Drifter
Kanto Drifter

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of h...

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Hermes - Winds of Love
Hermes - Winds of Love

The creator of the world orders Hermes to defeat the evil King Minos, tyrant of Crete. With his beau...

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Mahiru no wana
Mahiru no wana

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amids...

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The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard

At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Che...

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A Taxing Woman's Return
A Taxing Woman's Return

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a...

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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai...

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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection com...

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Ghost of Saga Mansion
Ghost of Saga Mansion

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat...

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Sanctuary - Part 2
Sanctuary - Part 2

Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto re...

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Storm on the Silvery Peaks
Storm on the Silvery Peaks

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Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer
Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer

A robbery and murder occurred at a gas station facing the national highway at 1:00am. Detectives Nag...

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Police Precinct
Police Precinct

A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the ...

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Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever mor...

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Police Precinct Part 2
Police Precinct Part 2

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Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon
Police Precinct: Crime at High Noon

A luxury car was stolen near a certain nightclub in Akasaka, and the owner of the car was shot and k...

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Blue in Isezaki
Blue in Isezaki

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Three-Headed Tower
Three-Headed Tower

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that...

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The Chop Professor
The Chop Professor

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One da...

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I Want to Be a Shellfish
I Want to Be a Shellfish

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Sh...

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I Want to Be a Shellfish
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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Brutal battle
Brutal battle

The president of the Hong Kong Almond Cola company, Liu's grandfather, signed a purchase and sale ag...

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At the Side of the Bridge 3
At the Side of the Bridge 3

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At the Side of the Bridge 4
At the Side of the Bridge 4

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Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi
Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi

The film depicts the resilient life of the daughter of a Kyushu boss who becomes a Ginza hostess wit...

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Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce...

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Okinawa Interlude
Okinawa Interlude

1959 Japanese movie...

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Shiroi Kiba
Shiroi Kiba

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Maboroshi Kaito Dan
Maboroshi Kaito Dan

This is the first film in the third installment of the adventure film for boys that depicts the batt...

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Lady Weapon: Female Leopard
Lady Weapon: Female Leopard

After her beloved brother is killed, Kaori Haruna vows to avenge his brother and joins an Italian te...

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恐怖の空中殺人
恐怖の空中殺人

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ミラーマン(パイロットフィルム版)
ミラーマン(パイロットフィルム版)

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