Chiharu Kuri
Also Known As: Yamazaki Yoshiko, Chiharu Kuri
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tōkyō, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: July 29, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Female
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Jidanya
Overview: Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the insurance companies to avoid time-consuming legal actions that could come when no settlement is reached (while cheating both parties out of some piece of the settlement pay). Genkichi is a well versed old-timer, that sees how his freshly out of collage son struggles to fit into the business, while at the same time facing one of his lowest rivals in a car crash incident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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King of Pornography
Overview: Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimensions (obviously a role tailor made for star Umemiya's ego). He visits a doctor, impresses ladies and opens a porn shop before running afoul with yakuza...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-02
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Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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Cat Changed Into Tiger
Overview: A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his surprise, the elderly are all healthy thanks to a special local sake. Along the way, he meets an eye-patch-wearing killer, which only confounds his misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-23
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Secret Club 000
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Notorious Bastard
Overview: When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind this scheme.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-03
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The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon
Overview: In this influential cult-classic animated film based on Japanese folklore, Susano is the youngest son of Izanagi and Izanami, the heavenly couple who created the Earth. Still a young boy, Susano is devastated by the passing away of his mother. Determined to find her despite the reprimands of his father, he embarks on a journey to find his brother and his sister for spiritual guidance.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-24
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Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi
Overview: Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a traveling performer.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-17
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Young Jack and the Witch
Overview: Jack is a boy who lives with his animal friends Barnaby Bear, Dinah Dog, Squeeker Mouse and Phineas Fox. He's challenged to a race with Allegra, who turns out to be a witch. She takes Jack to the queen witch, Auriana. She plans on turning all her slaves into evil harpies.
Genres: Animation Horror Fantasy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-19
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The Lucky Status Symbol
Overview: Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-09
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Overview: A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Nettai rakuen kurabu
Overview: Straight-laced, honest Japanese travel agent Misuzu gets a job as a tour guide so that she can the world. On her first assignment in Bangkok, Thailand she does her best for her ungrateful charges, but gets fired when the hotel (through no fault of her own) misplaces all their passports. She also finds herself the victim of a scam by two Japanese con-artists (innocent-looking Tondabayashi and half-Thai Thuy) living in Bangkok. When the hotel finds the passports, she decides to buck the system and sell them on the black market. She teams up with the two con-artists to scam, rip off and rob all the Japanese tourists in Bangkok. They keep trying to pull off bigger and bigger jobs, and end up in trouble with two dumb, sightseeing yakuza, among others. Also, a love triangle forms as Tondabayashi falls for Misuzu, and Misuzu falls for the older Thuy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-17
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
Overview: Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-04
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Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
Overview: Comedy centered on a stripper agency
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-24
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Hore tatte dame yo
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
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Utau abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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Black Lizard
Overview: The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 9 - Ghost Story of the Evening Mist Tower
Overview: Ninth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-05
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Kigeki: Hanayome sensô
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror III
Overview: Third "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-10-25
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The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love
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Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-20
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The Incorrigible
Overview: Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-21
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The Lovable Tramp
Overview: Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-12
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Wolves on Motorcycles
Overview: Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-31
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Welcome, My Baby
Overview: Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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The Beautiful Teenager
Overview: A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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School in the Crosshairs
Overview: Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-07-11
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Nerves for Victory
Overview: A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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Good Luck Love
Overview: Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-20
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The School Cap
Overview: A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-15
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Women Can't Be Beaten
Overview: An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Blood Is Dry
Overview: An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-09
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Overview: Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-19
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Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories
Overview: Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre actress for TV commercials, and the five men are wearing beards and have formed a psychedelic rock band. One day, Nobuko meets Jun, who draws cartoons based on his experiences.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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King of the Widow-Killers
Overview: The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by fighting with women. However, when he returned to his hometown in Kyushu for his father's memorial service, his gambling partner Masa not only confiscated Hiroshi's store and bankbook, but was also saddled with debts in Hiroshi's name. Although Hiroshi was angry, he made a decision and decided to start over using his body. Starting with a female designer, he battles an antique art dealer, Master Nagauta, a female doctor, and many others, and finally battles a rich man's widow.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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Mappira shain yūkyōden
Overview: 1968 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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アッと驚く為五郎
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-27
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