Teruo Matsuyama
Also Known As: Akio Matsuyama
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: September 08, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
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Yôen: Niku shibari
Overview: A woman accidentally kills her husband during S&M play.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-28
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チンピラ仁義 極楽とんぼ2
Overview: The follow up to the very popular first instalment.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-12
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Ballad of Orin
Overview: A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-11-19
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All About Our House
Overview: Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed to build homes, so they call in the wife’s father, a retired carpenter, to help out. When Yanagisawa’s contemporary ideas clash with the old carpenter’s traditional Japanese methods, the project becomes a huge mess.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-09
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My Way
Overview: Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-07
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Sex Hunter
Overview: A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a dark side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-25
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Elegy of the North
Overview: A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Overview: In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor
Overview: Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. The two become a couple and find themselves being pursued by some criminals. Seigen plunges deeper into a life of crime and sin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-14
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Darkness at Noon
Overview: Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-26
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Overview: A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-31
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New Hoodlum Soldier Story: Firing Line
Overview: The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in Manchuria, near the Soviet border, long-serving corporal Arita hates the military and looks forward to the day he may leave. Although a university graduate, he has several times deliberately failed the exam for promotion and thus remains a corporal after four years' service.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-22
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Love Hunter: Lust
Overview: Toda, a disillusioned journalist that was once a part of the student movement, recalls his former youth when he meets a confident young woman through his work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-02
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Overview: Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-30
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Zatoichi in Desperation
Overview: After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel - but this causes more problems than solves them.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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The Gentle Japanese
Overview: A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-05
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Kyukei no Koya
Overview: A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his country, his wife and children, and risked everything to save his country from ruin, and the bond between father and daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
Overview: An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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