Chie Kobayashi
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 30, 1950
Deathday: N/A
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Flame and the Code
1966-03-05
Flame and the Code
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-05
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Be with You
2004-10-30
Be with You
Overview: When two souls find one another, nothing can tear them apart. Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji after the loss of wife and mother Mio. Yuji unfailingly remembers her promise to him: "I'll be with you again in a year's time, when the rains come." On the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji are taking a walk in the woods when they come across a woman sheltering from a monsoon downpour.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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The Dragon Tamers
1975-03-15
The Dragon Tamers
Overview: Carter Wong plays a young chinese martial arts student who travels to Korea to learn Taekwondo. Soon he comes up against a vicious gang who want all the local martial arts schools to join their evil association. But before he can defeat the bad guys, he has to learn to master his own strong desire to fight.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-03-15
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A Flower in a Neon Jungle
1973-06-20
A Flower in a Neon Jungle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-20
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Girl in College
1969-03-30
Girl in College
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-30
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
1970-01-20
Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
Overview: After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It was thought that Igarashi, who valued righteousness and principles and had the respect of others, would become the second-in-command. However, he was an annoying presence to Ryūzaki...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-20
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Kokkuri-san
2008-07-11
Kokkuri-san
Overview: A group of Japanese girls forget the number-one rule for avoiding demonic possessions and foolishly use an Ouija board in a house where a murder was committed. Now they've got the spirit and the spirit is definitely out to get them!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-11
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Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
1996-12-28
Salaryman Senka: Tanshin Funin
Overview: Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-28
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Wolves of the City: First to Fight
1971-12-29
Wolves of the City: First to Fight
Overview: Pinku from 1971.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
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Neon Jellyfish: Shinjuku Flower Streetcar
1973-12-18
Neon Jellyfish: Shinjuku Flower Streetcar
Overview: 17 year old naïve country girl Emiko Yamauchi has a hash wakeup call when she’s welcomed to Tokyo by a bunch of rapey hoods. Fast forward past the opening credits and we have her working in Mitsuko Mori’s Shinjuku girlie bar managed by manager/pimp Takeo Chii, who is dreaming of making it big once the plan comes together. Meanwhile she gets romantically involved with young chap Seiji Sawada who’s trying to make it as a bike racer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
1974-06-01
Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-01
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Green Lovers
1975-06-21
Green Lovers
Overview: Pinku from 1975.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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Troops of Darkness
1971-11-10
Troops of Darkness
Overview: A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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A Single Flower Withered
1974-10-05
A Single Flower Withered
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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Girl Boss Guerilla
1972-08-12
Girl Boss Guerilla
Overview: Miko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there. Successful for a short time in ruling the streets it isn't long before Miko and her crew run afoul of the local Yakuza, and are forced to turn to Reiko Ike, a ronin Yakuza girl, and sister to one of the top Yakuza in Kyoto, for help, leading to a murderous showdown at a small coastal resort.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-12
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1973-12-01
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Overview: This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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The Armed Organization
1971-11-10
The Armed Organization
Overview: Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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The Gambler's Counterattack
1971-10-14
The Gambler's Counterattack
Overview: Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-14
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Love Lost in Tears
1973-08-11
Love Lost in Tears
Overview: Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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Three Little Geisha
1973-07-04
Three Little Geisha
Overview: A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
1971-05-08
Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
Overview: Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-08
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974-04-24
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Overview: In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
1973-02-03
Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
Overview: A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-03
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Sympathy for the Underdog
1971-01-12
Sympathy for the Underdog
Overview: A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-12
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972-10-25
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
Overview: The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-25
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973-01-13
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-13
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Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me
1975-08-30
Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me
Overview: The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their skills in driving fast and evading the police while transporting commodities throughout the country. Chance encounters with people along the way help them to come to terms with events clouding their past and offer them a shot at redemption.
Genres: Romance Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-30
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Wolves of the City: Checkmate
1970-01-09
Wolves of the City: Checkmate
Overview: This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
1973-07-04
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Overview: After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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Karate Killer
1973-10-13
Karate Killer
Overview: Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-13
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The Swindlers
1970-12-30
The Swindlers
Overview: Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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Farewell to Rock'n Roll
1973-09-25
Farewell to Rock'n Roll
Overview: There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-25
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The Horrible Obsessions
1972-12-16
The Horrible Obsessions
Overview: Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-16
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Cash Calls Hell
1966-01-15
Cash Calls Hell
Overview: Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-15
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
1969-03-06
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Overview: Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-06
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
1972-08-25
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
Overview: After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
1973-07-29
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Overview: Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-29
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Military Comfort Woman
1974-07-17
Military Comfort Woman
Overview: Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-17
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Yokosuka Navy Prison
1973-11-17
Yokosuka Navy Prison
Overview: When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-17
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
1972-04-01
Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Overview: Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
1976-11-17
New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Overview: Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Sex Up And Down
1972-01-22
Sex Up And Down
Overview: A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-22
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Delinquent Street
1972-02-22
Delinquent Street
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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Port City Blues
1969-07-08
Port City Blues
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Street Mobster
1972-05-06
Street Mobster
Overview: After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-06
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Quarreling with Yakuza
1973-03-03
Quarreling with Yakuza
Overview: Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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The Grudge and the Cat
1979-07-15
The Grudge and the Cat
Overview: A wife murdered by her husband borrows the forms of her supposedly dead sister and a cat and takes revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-15
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Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972-06-15
Shōwa Gokudōshi
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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