Kenichi Hagiwara
Biography: Kenichi Hagiwara (born 26 July 1950 in Omiya, Saitama, Japan), also known as Sho-Ken, was the lead singer of The Tempters, the "bad boys" of the Group Sounds Japan pop scene in the mid and late 1960s. A teen idol with a legion of loyal fans, Hagiwara was known for his good looks and arrogance, which appealed to both young male and female Japanese fans. After The Tempters, he formed the band PYG along with Kenji Sawada, the first true Japanese supergroup, a unit which included members of The Tigers, The Tempters and The Spiders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenichi Hagiwara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 26, 1950
Deathday: March 26, 2019
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Summer Days Across the River
1973-10-26
Summer Days Across the River
Overview: Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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Betrayal tomorrow
1990-09-14
Betrayal tomorrow
Overview: A violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989-06-17
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Overview: Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-17
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Memai
1971-03-20
Memai
Overview: Based on the song by Mari Henmi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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The Petrified Forest
1973-09-01
The Petrified Forest
Overview: Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Tajomaru: Avenging Blade
2009-09-12
Tajomaru: Avenging Blade
Overview: TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along the way which lead him back to where he came from, and then disinheriting his past to become the bandit TAJOMARU.
Genres: Action History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-12
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Kagemusha
1980-04-26
Kagemusha
Overview: Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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Capone Cries a Lot
1985-02-16
Capone Cries a Lot
Overview: Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-02-16
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Village of Eight Gravestones
1977-10-29
Village of Eight Gravestones
Overview: The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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The Triple Cross
1992-09-12
The Triple Cross
Overview: Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-12
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Two in the Amsterdam Rain
1975-03-20
Two in the Amsterdam Rain
Overview: Akira, a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam, falls in love with a Japanese woman at Schiphol Airport who he thinks is his high school love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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The Seburi Story
1985-05-11
The Seburi Story
Overview: The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-11
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Summer of Demon
1981-05-23
Summer of Demon
Overview: A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of another clan's retainer, her father tries to poison him but the substance instead claims an innocent victim...
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-05-23
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Bitterness of Youth
1974-06-29
Bitterness of Youth
Overview: A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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Desert Moon
2001-06-19
Desert Moon
Overview: A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know that their precarious relationship will soon be transformed by a stranger, the enigmatic Keechie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-19
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The Rendezvous
1972-03-29
The Rendezvous
Overview: The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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Traffic Jam
1991-04-27
Traffic Jam
Overview: A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for the 1991 new year holidays. He decides that they will go by car to save on expenses. Unfortunately, the long drive from Tokyo to his hometown becomes a much longer journey than expected due to traffic, sickness and other misfortunes and by the time they arrive three days later, they only have time for a short but happy visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-27
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Night Train
1987-01-17
Night Train
Overview: A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-17
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Over Your Dead Body
2014-08-23
Over Your Dead Body
Overview: An actor named Kosuke plays the role of Iemon in a stage version of Yotsuya Kaiden and his new lover Miyuki plays Oiwa. However, as they delve deeper into their respective performances, the line between fantasy and reality becomes obscured until the murderous, vengeful themes of the play bleed into their own relationship.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-23
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Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
1975-07-12
Oh Seagull, Have You Seen the Sparkling Ocean? An Encounter
Overview: Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window cleaner Kurata Katsuo. This was to be their first encounter. Completely enchanted by Kumi, Katsuo does everything he can to get close to her. Katsuo is a man with a terrible past. With the death of his coal miner father, his family was broken up and he was forced to follow in his father's footsteps laboring away in the mud. In spite of this, Katsuo still has dreams. He dreams of living in Resiporuko, a utopian fantasyland that exists only in his imagination. When Katsuo and Kumi finally meet they find themselves unable to communicate. Katsuo spends all his time talking about Resiporuko with a starry look in his eyes, while Kumi dreams of living the high life in the city. One day when the two travel to the seashore, they discover a wounded seagull.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-12
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Ghost Pub
1994-10-29
Ghost Pub
Overview: One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if she dies, he will never remarry. Thinking she is just being dramatic, he promises and tells her to go to sleep. When he wakes the next morning, however, Shizuko is dead. Sotaro keeps his promise, until one day he meets Satoko. The two quickly fall in love, and agree to get married. Their first night together, however, is interrupted by Shizuko, who is angry over her husband's broken promise. Sotaro and Satoko must find some way of appeasing the spirit before she drives them from their home.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
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Yakuza Ladies 3
1989-04-08
Yakuza Ladies 3
Overview: Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Will Hazuki be able to assume her husband’s position as the head of the established yakuza clan?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-08
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Light of Africa
1975-06-21
Light of Africa
Overview: Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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To Trap a Kidnapper
1982-09-25
To Trap a Kidnapper
Overview: Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-25
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The Wanderers
1973-04-07
The Wanderers
Overview: Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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South to the Horizon
1986-08-30
South to the Horizon
Overview: Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with Tetsu's girlfriend and Max an ex US soldier to extract revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-08-30
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Women Who Do Not Divorce
1986-10-25
Women Who Do Not Divorce
Overview: Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want to divorce but are trapped in meaningless marriages. While being undecided of who he wants to chose, Keiichi witnesses passions boil to an unforgiving climax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-25
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Love Letter
1985-10-05
Love Letter
Overview: A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and the friendship that develops between his wife and his former lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-10-05
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Modori River
1983-04-16
Modori River
Overview: The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-16
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1979-05-26
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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1750 Days of Turbulence
1990-09-15
1750 Days of Turbulence
Overview: After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-15
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西村京太郎スペシャル 日本一周「旅号」殺人事件
2003-04-20
西村京太郎スペシャル 日本一周「旅号」殺人事件
Overview: Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ticket for a train trip around Japan is found in the professor's pocket. However, nobody then could have known the shocking truth hidden behind the tour the dead man was supposed to attend...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-20
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The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
1987-10-17
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Overview: The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-17
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Doubles
2001-04-21
Doubles
Overview: A hard-up locksmith and a vengeful computer nerd meet online, adopting the monikers Key and Gun respectively. Together they hatch a perfect heist against a consulting company -- Gun's former employer. At first everything goes perfectly. Gun's expert hacking from his laptop and Key's veteran touch quickly open the safe. Unfortunately, an overzealous security guard makes an unscheduled visit. After dispatching him, the two flee to the closest elevator, only to get stuck between the eighth and ninth floors
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-21
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The Tempters: Smile After Tears
1969-03-29
The Tempters: Smile After Tears
Overview: Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a tragic discovery about his family weighs on Shoken heavily.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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Price of Life
1971-07-24
Price of Life
Overview: Comedy of a phony doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-24
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Beyond the Rainbow
1972-09-29
Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with him without asking her any questions. Turmoil ensues with the reaction of the crew when the runaway girl starts working alongside with them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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