Shoji Nakayama
Also Known As: Shôji Nakayama, Shōji Nakayama, Nakayama Shouji
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 26, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 01, 1998
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Police Precinct Part 12
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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Attack from Space
Overview: The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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Fateful Birthplace
Overview: A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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The Life of Rikisha-Man
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Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Police Precinct Part 14
Overview: An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The detectives had a bad feeling which hit the mark, an unidentified drowned body is identified as Hirasaka. Some prime real estate he owned was also mysteriously sold. Suspecting that this is a planned murder and fearing the escape of the criminal, the Department begins to investigate secretly, without creating an investigation headquarters.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-21
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Police Precinct Part 13
Overview: On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents of the murdered child. They use a towel, baby diapers and bruises on the baby's body as clues in the investigation. Who killed the baby?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-07
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Woman His Prey
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-30
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Atomic Rulers
Overview: Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-10
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Police Precinct Part 17
Overview: The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-13
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Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
Overview: An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-28
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A Charming Devil
Overview: Movie adaptation of the TV series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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Anatahan
Overview: From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-28
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あの空の果てに星はまたたく
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-20
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Invaders from Space
Overview: A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-31
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The Chastity Boy and Miss Brassiere
Overview: Early pinku.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-18
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The Desperate
Overview: A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-18
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Detective
Overview: The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastically plays a police inspector who pursues a criminal who kidnapped his sister.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-05
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Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2
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Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-21
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Tomorrow's Joe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-22
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花笠太鼓
Overview: In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works as a delivery boy for the caterer "Yaoyorozu." His brother, Chōjirō, who disliked being a plasterer, ran away from home and became a subordinate of the yakuza Yamashita no Gonsuke. On a delivery, Sanshirō catches a vagrant child, Erippē, stealing a flower hairpin from Ochiyo, the daughter of the wealthy merchant Narumiyaya Bunzaimon. Impressed by Sanshirō's character, Bunzaimon considers him as a potential son-in-law for Ochiyo, who admires Sanshirō.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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Super Giant Continues
Overview: The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. (Part 2 of 2)
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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Kaze no uchi so to
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-24
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Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
Overview: A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled is thrown into turmoil when a murderous demon is unleashed in the headquarters office. Can the slow witted son of the company founder and a punk rock band of monsters (don’t ask) stop the evil forces before the employees are butchered?
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-28
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The Hoodlum Brothers
Overview: A crime film released in 1965
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts
Overview: A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-21
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Queen Bee
Overview: Earlier version or Prequel to Queen Bee and the School for Dragons.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-15
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Ghost in the Regiment
Overview: Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brother.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-09
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Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
Overview: In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi’s lineage, specifically from his wife, Fushihime. Outraged but facing annihilation, Yoshimi gives Fushihime a string of eight ancestral beads and urges her to escape to loyal retainer Inuda Kobungo. Instead, she goes alone to Anzai, followed by her dog, Hachibo. In a twist, Hachibo attacks and kills Anzai, allowing Fushihime to escape. She later reveals that the beads protected her and predicts that eight warriors bearing these beads will someday defend the Satomi family before passing away. Yoshimi finds one of the beads in Inuzuka Nobuno’s armor and convinces her to serve him. Meanwhile, Baka Daiki, plotting to overthrow Satomi, imprisons Inukawa Shosuke, who tries to intervene, under the watch of vassal Aminen Saomojiro.
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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King of the Ring: The World of Glory
Overview: Boxing film directed by Teruo Ishii in his directorial debut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-10
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The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
Overview: The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-06
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Queen Bee's Anger
Overview: Part of the Queen Bee series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-28
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剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Overview: Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-29
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Traitors of the Blue Castle
Overview: Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-03
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太陽娘と社長族
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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Queen of Asia
Overview: Japanese war film based on the true story of Yoshiko Kawashima, played by actress Miyuki Takakura in her film debut.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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The Sand City in Manchuria
Overview: When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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Yasen kangofu
Overview: Japanese war drama.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-14
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幽霊沼の黄金
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-22
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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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Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-13
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紋三郎の秀
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-15
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The Battleship Yamato
Overview: The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-15
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Evil Brain from Outer Space
Overview: An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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Kimi yue ni
Overview: Japanese drama film and Setsuko Miyuki's film debut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-03
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Nitōhei monogatari: Banji yōryō no maki
Overview: Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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The Tale of Jiro
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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乾杯！女学生
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-29
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Biotherapy
Overview: A group of Japanese scientists are stalked and viciously butchered by a creepy alien in a trenchcoat.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-25
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The Man of Seven Faces
Overview: Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
Overview: Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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The Warrior from Kishu
Overview: This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his parents, hating his legacy and embracing everyone else from simple background. Only love can help him mature, hopefully in time to be a great lord for the people. A story of young Yoshimune, the future Shogun.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
Overview: The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-10
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The Escape
Overview: Film about the 2-26 Incident.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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A Life of Intimidation
Overview: Japanese action film.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-07
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
Overview: After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Tale of Army Brutality
Overview: Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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The Hidden Treasure
Overview: Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-05
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Shin ono ga tsumi
Overview: 20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-09
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Appeal on the Cross
Overview: Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-27
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Nude Model Murder Case
Overview: Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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The Harbor Lights
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-26
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Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
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Genres: History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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The Imperial Navy
Overview: A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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The War in Space
Overview: The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Showdown of Men 2
Overview: Part two.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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Zero
Overview: Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-11
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Hell's Kitchen
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-12
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花眞珠
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-22
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Earth Defense Girl Iko-chan 3: Big Operation in Big Edo
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-21
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Mid-August Commotion
Overview: A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-22
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Satsujinhan nanatsu no kao
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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Ningyō Sashichi torimonochō: Koshimoto Irezumi Shibijin
Overview: The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomizo, the film was adapted by Mitsuo Kaneda (The Nude Model Murder Case), directed by Tatsuo Yamada, who worked on The Golden Bugyo, and shot by Kikuzo Kawasaki. Keiko Hibino, Shigeru Amachi, Tomisaburo Wakayama
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-05
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ウルトラセブン：ヴァンパイアの恐ろし
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Silver Snake Spell
Overview: The eleventh episode of the Denshichi Torimonocho series. Around the time of Shogun Ienari, a murderer known as a ghost hikyaku appeared in Edo, raping and killing young girls one after another. One night, a notice was recieved that Oichi, the daughter of Wakasa Kanayu of the small construction group, would be taken away. The mansion was surrounded by ten and twenty layers of people including Denshichi, who was asked to guard the house, and Sesshinsai Ohba, the owner of the dojo. Four seconds later, a violent explosion suddenly occurred.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-02
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