Birthday: 1919-07-27
Place of Birth: Awaji Island, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with t...
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The second work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the ...
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Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies....
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Akitaro Orizuru, who set out on a journey to avenge his father's death in the darkness, returned to ...
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Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino...
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After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...
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A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...
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A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergeneration...
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Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...
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A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harasse...
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At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, the ronin Kurayoshi Norizen rents the second floor of a hardw...
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1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie...
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A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...
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At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un...
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A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take rev...
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This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o...
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Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the...
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A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses ...
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A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from ...
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Ginpei, in an act of desperation to get money for his gravely ill mother, was laughed at and ended u...
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In the town of Izu known for its hot springs, Den Shichi from Kuromon Town sets off for a healing tr...
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Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved ...
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Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they in...
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This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunos...
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Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the ...
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Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had ch...
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Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series....
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Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and hi...
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Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent...
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In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearl...
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Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engin...
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About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he...
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Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed b...
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The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes ...
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The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, ...
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Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima...
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Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and trag...
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First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....
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In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives C...
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Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of de...
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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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Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...
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Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro....
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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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Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart an...
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A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train ac...
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When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...
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One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds...
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An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f...
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Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Z...
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The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s rele...
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Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain ...
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A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
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Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirst...
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After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. ...
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Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters....
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Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love...
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The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters....
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[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken...
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Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending t...
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As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...
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This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi....
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Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot ...
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Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's...
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Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her m...
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Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...
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Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. Whe...
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Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Kats...
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This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit hara...
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The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He r...
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The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami....
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Two woodcutters spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spir...
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Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh...
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Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daught...
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Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
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Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th...
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Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels ...
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The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develo...
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Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
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When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is s...
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A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko,...
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Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politi...
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Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family ...
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The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mothe...
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The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi to take action to crush a plot to...
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A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes thr...
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A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution...
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Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who ...
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Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn betw...
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Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was ...
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Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern....
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After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a ...
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Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his hench...
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A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying...
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A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hid...
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During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...
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Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now f...
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The story follows Keiko, a dancer in the "Maiko Odori" theater in Kyoto, who tries to climb the soci...
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[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread...
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