Mie Hama
Also Known As: 滨美枝, می هاما
Biography: Mie Hama (born 20 November 1943, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress, best-known outside Japan for her role as Kissy Suzuki in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice. Description above from the Wikipedia articleMie Hama, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: November 20, 1943
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Female
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You Only Live Twice
Overview: A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-13
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
Overview: The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-11
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
Overview: A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-22
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Overview: In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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The Cleanup
Overview: A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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Long Way to Okinawa
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Chûshingura
Overview: After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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Fumiko's Five Benefactors
Overview: A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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King Kong Escapes
Overview: An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-22
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
Overview: Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-28
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Sazae-san Plays Cupid
Overview: An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-28
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Overview: Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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Ankokugai zenmetsu sakusen
Overview: The 1965 Japanese yakuza film is the last episode of the Ankokugai series.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-14
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Japan for Sale
Overview: The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-02
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Yearning
Overview: War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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Different Sons
Overview: In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden unemployment later in life causes friction among the siblings of the Akagi family. Kensuke, a salaryman at a top company, refuses to support his parents while his brother, Shoji, determines to care for them despite only working as a taxi driver. The concern over money affects Noriko's own love life as she courts a wealthy salaryman to the chagrin of her mechanic boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-12
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The Weed of Crime
Overview: Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-08
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A Woman's Identity
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-22
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Ironfinger
Overview: After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-05
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Toilet Manager
Overview: The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-07
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Samurai Pirate
Overview: An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-26
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Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Overview: Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-22
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The Mad Atlantic
Overview: Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and exhaustion. Just when the ship has taken a huge catch of tuna in its nets, Murakami learns that his ship is the only one in position to rescue the crew of another ship, sinking in a storm. He must choose between saving the catch or saving lives. Either choice may mean his ruin.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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Two in the Shadow
Overview: A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-18
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You Can Succeed, Too
Overview: A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-30
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Shin kitsune to tanuki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-29
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Key of Keys
Overview: Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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Wakai kisetsu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-20
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Bond Girls Are Forever
Overview: Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ursula Andress and Diamonds Are Forever's Jill St. John), the documentary traces the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy (but still decorative) participant in the action.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-06
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Best Ever Bond
Overview: Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
Overview: The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-05
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The Merciless Trap
Overview: Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Botchan shain seishun wa ore no monoda!
Overview: 1967 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Botchan shain seishun de tsuppashire!
Overview: 1967 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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ホラ吹き太閤記
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-31
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Kitchen
Overview: The story centers around Mikage, a young woman who loses her parents when young. She grows up in a lonely household with her grandmother who dies when Mikage reaches adulthood. Grief-stricken, she finds solace in the kitchen. Yuichi, a friend of Mikage's deceased grandmother, invites her to live with him and his mother. Then Mikage discovers that Yuichi's mother is actually his cross-dressing father. On the other hand, Mikage realizes that the wealth of gadgetry in Yuichi's kitchen is lovingly detailed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Blueprint of Murder
Overview: Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Siege of Fort Bismarck
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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A Night in Hong Kong
Overview: Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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The Night of the Seagull
Overview: A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
Overview: The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-28
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Acchan no bebi gyangu
Overview: Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-17
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Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
Overview: Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-24
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Legacy of the 500,000
Overview: During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is now working as a business executive. He meets Mintsura Gunji, the boss of a large company, who offers him to go to the Philippines and bring back the gold.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-18
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Man of a Stormy Era
Overview: The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable employment conditions, and political corruption was a major issue. Out of fear that the great nation would soon fall, a group of young patriotic men gathered to lay out plans to assassinate the crooked politicians. One of these young terrorists was Shinsuke Kusaka. He receives orders to kill the Prime Minister.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-22
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The Best Playboy In Japan
Overview: The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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The Youth and His Amulet
Overview: Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-17
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Monsieur Zivaco
Overview: International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Overview: Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-03
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Mexican Free-for-All
Overview: A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-27
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
Overview: When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-26
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
Overview: A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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The Sandal Keeper
Overview: The second installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-11
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Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-26
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Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-29
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Roaring Prison Escape
Overview: Ryusuke and Joe Oki escape from prison. Ryusuke was incarcerated for killing his younger brother Yasuhiko, who was a bouncer at the cabaret "Three Cats" and Junko's lover who worked at the same restaurant. Of course, Ryusuke did not commit this crime...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-15
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Young Girls Are Everywhere
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-03
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風来忍法帖
Overview: The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-16
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I'm a Bodyguard
Overview: Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a writer living in the area while working at a police box. His dream is to become a bodyguard (BG) for the Prime Minister, just like his senior, Detective Inspector Takagi (Ryu Chishu). Kita Ippei is very successful in both work and love, getting attacked while guarding a female minister, getting some perks as a BG for a foreign princess, and becoming friends with a woman at his favorite bar.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-16
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Wakai suhada
Overview: 1960 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-22
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Jiyūgaoka fujin
Overview: 1960 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-18
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Lovers of Ginza
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Sensation Seekers
Overview: 1963 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-16
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Hiroshi Moriya Sandogasa Series: I Want to Weep
Overview: A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small town. As tensions escalate, epic duels and betrayals lead to a final showdown that shifts the balance of power. The swordsman departs, leaving a lasting impact on those he helped.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-23
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Hiroshi Moriya Sadogasa Series: Thank You, Sandogasa
Overview: When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against corruption. Teaming up with a rogue monk, bold tea-picking girls, and even a reformed thug, he battles a violent crime boss exploiting local families. Amid betrayals and brawls, justice and solidarity triumph.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-06
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Nippon ichi no gorigan otoko
Overview: The film depicts Ueki's all-around intelligence and how he manages to do difficult jobs for the company without a fixed salary and how he marries Mie Hamamie, the president's daughter, in a well-told story.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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Nippon ichi no warunori otoko
Overview: The ninth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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