Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
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Popularity:
1951-03-31
Overview: Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-31
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1952-03-14
Overview: Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-03-14
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1965-10-01
Overview: Pinku from 1965.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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1957-04-23
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-23
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1957-10-08
Overview: The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-08
Popularity:
1957-10-01
Overview: The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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1940-12-18
Overview: This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-12-18
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1953-03-05
Overview: Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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1960-05-28
Overview: After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction tried to usurp the rightful heir and take over the honored clan. Before his untimely death, the lord of the Kuroda bestowed “Nihongo”, a magnificent spear, on his finest warrior, which ultimately brings him into contact with two of Japan’s most famous historical figures, Yagyu Jubei and Miyamoto Musashi. Can the three masters of martial art join forces to defeat their enemies and save the nation?
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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1967-04-04
Overview: romantic story and complications of a lingerie model.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-04
Popularity:
1958-02-04
Overview: 1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-04
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1950-01-22
Overview: Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-22
Popularity:
1956-07-26
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-26
Popularity:
1956-04-18
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-18
Popularity:
1955-10-25
Overview: Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-25
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1950-11-04
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-04
Popularity:
1968-01-01
Overview: Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent on committing suicide. The two embark on a passionate and violent affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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1969-01-01
Overview: Pinku from 1969.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Popularity:
1961-05-24
Overview: Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-24
Popularity:
1961-03-22
Overview: Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-22
Popularity:
1985-05-25
Overview: Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten days later in the shrubbery in front of the company. It is revealed that Chieko led a flashy private life and frequented a host club. Moreover, it seems that she was having an affair with Division Chief Yamazaki.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-25
Popularity:
1958-03-14
Overview:
Genres: History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-14
Popularity:
1956-11-07
Overview: A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by providing the screenplays/stories for the majority of the original Showa films.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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1949-08-23
Overview: Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-23
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1959-09-11
Overview: In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-11
Popularity:
1960-04-29
Overview: The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
Popularity:
1943-04-14
Overview: A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-04-14
Popularity:
1959-07-01
Overview: A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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