Birthday: 1917-03-28
Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Japan
Biography: Toru Abe (安部 徹, Abe Tōru, 28 March 1917 – 18 July 1993) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1944 to 1985.
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...
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Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro....
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Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to ...
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Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the d...
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Amsterdam, June 12, 1942. Anne celebrates her 13th birthday and begins her diary, which she calls Ki...
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The film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and who ...
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End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of t...
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Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news ...
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Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continu...
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The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continue...
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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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The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds h...
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After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Y...
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In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime) societies. ...
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Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the ...
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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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A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customer...
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complica...
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A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer....
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Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good ...
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Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place...
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Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but a...
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Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over ...
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Yoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teach...
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A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a vill...
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Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involv...
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Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him i...
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A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds ...
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Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl g...
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A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style o...
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A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule t...
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Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics...
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A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroyi...
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The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took respons...
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1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of vi...
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Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her buddin...
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The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replace...
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Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped ...
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Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi sl...
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In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to...
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Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shi...
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In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was ...
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In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the promi...
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Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman....
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Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss tak...
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The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men at...
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Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his...
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After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Tos...
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In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave la...
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Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginz...
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Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his ...
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Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot...
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Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs in...
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A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his exce...
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After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor....
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During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small t...
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The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...
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Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying sa...
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A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate th...
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Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in ...
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A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. Wh...
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A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter...
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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 mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artis...
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Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from...
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In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arriva...
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The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....
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Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, youn...
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Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga....
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Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone....
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This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montr...
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A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheate...
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1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan....
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Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being cap...
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Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karat...
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A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller...
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At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler,...
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The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand...
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A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rook...
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A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ish...
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Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land....
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An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chie...
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The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as ...
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A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many yea...
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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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The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night ...
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A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few ...
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Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoi...
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Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with hi...
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Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. ...
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A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent...
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The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to f...
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When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic...
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When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in ...
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Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas....
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Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove t...
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Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and ru...
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Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who cros...
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This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1...
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Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional ba...
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The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamas...
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In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. Af...
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Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf ba...
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Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping...
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Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trad...
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When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do ever...
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Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school ...
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A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. ...
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Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camara...
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Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes ...
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A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the villa...
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Two sisters involved in rival underworld sex trade factions compete against each other in this tale ...
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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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A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, t...
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Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop....
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A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him....
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Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an ...
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A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage....
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Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Dia...
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The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murder...
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Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison....
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The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami....
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A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friend...
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In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband...
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Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous w...
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Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes t...
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A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by t...
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Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern J...
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Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Decidin...
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Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business...
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A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon...
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A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs ...
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It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a smal...
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Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his ...
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When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead...
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The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...
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A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lin...
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Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations ea...
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Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio en...
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Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which s...
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Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Cham...
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Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet mu...
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A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the...
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Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking...
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As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
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As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a vil...
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A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested...
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One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose trav...
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A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. ...
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A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new ci...
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A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis...
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Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was...
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The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
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From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark s...
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Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister....
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A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manz...
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This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza....
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Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He u...
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A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two b...
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Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when...
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A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high ...
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This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968...
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Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pre...
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During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Tak...
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An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe...
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The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty o...
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A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the se...
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A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is par...
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In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines,...
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A wife remarries after her doctor husband dies in a stormy lake, but is distressed when he appears i...
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Late Taishō period. The Shibatora family, led by Naojirō, held power over the Tomigawara area in Jōs...
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Following the well-received previous film “Confrontation”, Asahi returns as the wandering drifter Ma...
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Olympic gymnast Yukiko resists marriage plans, stumbling into a newspaper job under reporter Tsubasa...
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Rookie reporter Yukiko helps save the failing Miyako Times with her friends, while romance and comic...
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An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the pass...
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Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwel...
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A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company...
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