Ikio Sawamura
Birthday: 1905-09-04
Place of Birth: Tochigi, Japan
Biography: Ikio Sawamura (沢村いき雄 Sawamura Ikio) was born on September 4, 1905 in Tochigi, Japan. He was an actor, known for Yojimbo (1961), The Hidden Fortress (1958) and Throne of Blood (1957). He died on September 20, 1975.
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The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
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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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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Atragon
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. Wh...
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company...
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Sazae-san's Marriage
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae...
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Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's par...
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Battle in Outer Space
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on...
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Hello, Baby
A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arr...
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Operation Mad Dog
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda...
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All Monsters Attack
Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant st...
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The Dangoro Party in the Sky
The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success a...
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The Scarlet Camellia
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the grea...
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into tel...
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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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Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...
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Japan's No. 1 Traitor
The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man"....
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Sir Galahad in Campus
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series....
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Desperado Outpost
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second ...
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Down Town
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a k...
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Master Fencer Sees the World
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style o...
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Destroy All Monsters
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Mons...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown....
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The Mad Atlantic
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. M...
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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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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and...
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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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Anything For Success
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His big...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te...
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan t...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...
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Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...
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Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
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The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
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The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...
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King Kong Escapes
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil ...
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Terror of Mechagodzilla
A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur nam...
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The Secret of the Telegian
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to l...
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The Legend of the White Serpent
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in lov...
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Oh, Bomb!
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candida...
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Westward Desperado
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anyt...
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The Age of Assassins
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target ...
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The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, e...
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Operation Enemy Fort
Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attem...
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Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last da...
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures through...
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Warring Clans
A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan a...
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Room for Let
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Blueprint of Murder
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is ...
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Fort Graveyard
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the las...
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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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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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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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 Youth and His Amulet
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god ...
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The Hotelman's Holiday
Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his...
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Young Challengers
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based...
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The War of the Gargantuas
Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the ...
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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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A Man in Red
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year ...
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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 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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Sazae-san
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series....
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Teenage Sazae
Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color....
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for a...
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Operation Sewer Rats
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese ...
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Me and Me
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original r...
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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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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Marco
A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the myster...
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Life of a Country Doctor
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov...
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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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Geisha Hidekoma
As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geis...
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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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Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over ...
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A Swindler to the West: A Con Man to the East
A satirical comedy starring Makoto Fujita, depicting the two East and West con artists swindling ill...
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Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitima...
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A Man in the Storm
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k...
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Settlement of Love
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four ...
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Executive Chair
In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip...
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The White Rose of Hong Kong
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong ...
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Talkative Company President
A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold ...
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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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Imaginary Paradise
Comedy-fantasy about a salaryman (Tani) and his imaginary friends. A kind of Walter Mitty, Japanese-...
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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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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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Girls Behind Bars
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths o...
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Vagabond Employee: Revenge Version
Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and sett...
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Vagabond Employee: Outcry Version
When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young sala...
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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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3 Raccoon Dogs
A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their scheme...
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Reign of Terror
Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for dr...
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Ant Hell War
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima...
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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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