Kōtarō Bandō
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: May 04, 1911
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 28, 1981
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Saiyûki
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-10
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Cases of An Actor in Disguise: Mansion of beauties
Overview: The first work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the original work of Tatsuro Jinde. Kasumi Ippei is a popular ronin actor, and when he is not on stage he is investigating intricate crimes, in this film Ippei will solve the abduction of seven beautiful young girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Coral Mansion
Overview: Bored Hatamoto movie #29
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-23
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鷹天皇飄々剣 吉野の風雲児
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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Gate of Hell
Overview: Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-30
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Diary of Good Conduct Matashiro: A beautiful bat
Overview: Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-05
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Ōedo no taka
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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Judge of the Ashuras
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-15
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
Overview: The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling against the contradictions of feudal society.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-15
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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Utamaro and His Five Women
Overview: Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in his life vie for lovers. And, occasionally, his art gets him into trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-12-17
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Ghost of the 53 Stations
Overview: Kota and Kosuke, from the Hikyaku-ya shop in Edo, went to Kyoto. Contrary to their carefree appearance, they carry a secret letter concerning the Aoba clan from Kyoto. A samurai who calls himself Okuma Danemon joins them on their journey, and soon people begin to appear one after another, seeking to get a secret letter...
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-07
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Ô abare Songokû
Overview: Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952)
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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Nagurikomi Songokū
Overview: Second sequel to Saiyuki (1952)
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-05-11
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Kisaragi Sword
Overview: The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan's corrupt Lord. It's a colorful bunch, a drunk samurai, a master thief, a sword instructor and a Lord who is disguised as a ronin since it is an executable offense for a lord to wander outside of their domain without permission. As the Chief Magistrate becomes suspicious of the Owari plot to send men to Kodenmacho Prison to start a riot he begins to investigate the rumors. He soon calls upon the Lord of Mikazuki Castle and the Shogun's best friend to help thwart the evil ambitions and battle the rouge swordsman hired by the Owari Clan.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-08
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Monsters Catcher Oedo Seven Changes
Overview: Film about Ghost-Cat.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-11
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Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Overview: Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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Izayoi kaidō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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Way of Morning Mist
Overview: Jidaigeki by Tai Kato
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Overview: Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl. The dead woman's cat licks her blood and becomes a demon, seeking revenge on Okoyo
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-29
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Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
Overview: A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his excellent fighting spirit and endurance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-27
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Yūkyō no mure
Overview: 1948 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-28
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Overview: A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
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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Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Overview: The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in the castle.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-13
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Kobushidake denki
Overview: 1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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Kyōen Kobanzame
Overview: Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-08
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Elegy of a Geisha
Overview: 1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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The Phantom Goblin
Overview: An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his behalf.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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決闘不動坂の大仇討
Overview: 1959 Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-14
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Family of Sorrow
Overview: Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-04
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Kingorô no omawari-san
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-14
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Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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Daitengu shutsugen
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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The Shadow Avenger
Overview: For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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復讐秘文字峠
Overview: 1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-15
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Military Song of the Morning Mist
Overview: At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Overview: In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Poison Fang Oran
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-19
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The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
Overview: A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her sister falls victim to a scheme, he and his friend manipulate events, but their plans lead to supernatural vengeance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-02
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The Shogun’s Guard: Valor in Turbulence
Overview: The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by Shirai Kyoji. The battles between the royalists and Shogunate supporters come to a fever pitch during the Gion Festival as the exclusionists plot to burn Kyoto and kidnap the Emperor. From its earliest beginnings as a group of ronin brought from Edo to protect the Shogun when he is in Kyoto to see His Imperial Highness, the group had to face difficulties both from within and without. Commander Serizawa Kamo's corrupt practices threaten the group's very existence, as they try to recover from the bad reputation he left them with. Their redemption comes when they learn of Katsura Kogoro plans to gather men at Kyoto's Ikedaya Inn for his attack on the city. Along with Hijikata Toshizo and Okita Soji, Kondo leads the group in an attempt to save Japan from the rebels.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-10
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Hibari’s Favorite 2
Overview: Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
Overview: A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-08
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Duel at Sundown
Overview: A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-24
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Ghost of Saga Mansion
Overview: A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako Irie's first bakeneko (ghost cat) movie; it started a Daiei cycle which was very popular at the time in Japan.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-03
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Ship of Outlaws
Overview: Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in Hokkaido.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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The Tale of Genji
Overview: Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-11
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The Opium War
Overview: The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
Overview: Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-07-14
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Little Tengu
Overview: A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-25
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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Overview: A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescue them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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Case of a Young Lord 8
Overview: A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's Council of Elders. Young Lord decides to take on the Shogun's vile chief attendant.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
Overview: Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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Road Warriors
Overview: A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow, Ayame 's Gantaro, with the turbulent and exciting Wakizashi Hitoshi .
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-17
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Osaka Woman
Overview: When Ochika, from a rich family, marries Danpei, a poor shamisen player, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions within the Jōruri troupe in which her husband plays. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-09-19
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Dance of the Capital
Overview: Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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The Siege of Osaka
Overview: The Siege of Osaka
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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Ruten
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Rikugun Daikoshin
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-05-06
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Vanished Glory
Overview: In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training. Yoshitake's father was called, and his mother lived in the house where he used to work, but Midori, a female student at that house, secretly loved Yoshitake.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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Ōedo kenka matsuri
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Overview: The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-27
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A Young Samurai
Overview: A jidaigeki movie about the strange fate of Ranmaru Mori.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Rumble Festival
Overview: 1960 Toei film
Genres: History Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-26
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Traveling of Two Young Men
Overview: At the crowded Komatsuya in Kawadome, travellers are holding a secret art contest to relieve boredom. However, a thief goes around. During the sudden commotion, a young man called Gentaro begins to perform magic tricks. This magic trick brings out the lost wallets of the travellers one after another. Even the thief himself, Shinzo, is surprised by this trick. Gentaro hears that Okinu, daughter of Kutsukake Jinbei, is looking for Eijiro, the young boss of Omaeda. Gentaro arrives and introduces himself as Eijiro Omaeda. He moves to Kichibei's family in Sakamoto-juku where he meets Okinu's father who needs help.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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上州鴉
Overview: This happened at a post station on the Shinshu road. Takizo Hoshigoe, a wanted man who has been missing since breaking through the Oto checkpoint, came to this post station longing for his hometown and stayed at Shinanoya. A farmer named Sakubei, who was struggling to pay his taxes, came to sell his daughter Omitsu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-25
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Holiday in Japan
Overview: Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-15
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Queen of the Treasure Island
Overview: At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei Tsuchihashi, is murdered by unknown assailants, Tadakazu is summoned to Akane-ya, the landlord of this area. He promises to ensure the safety of Mino for three days, during which the Benten family must not harm her...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-15
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