Jun Ōtomo
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Originally a music teacher, Jun joined the Toho Mobile Culture Corps during WWII. He ultimately became active as a character actor in Toho and Shintoho productions in the '50s and '60s. Noted for his menacing onscreen countenance, he was remembered for his mild-mannered and affable nature in private life.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: November 21, 1899
Age: 125 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 28, 1978
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Secret White Line Zone
Overview: First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-21
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Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
Overview: First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-26
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-11
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Female Slave Ship
Overview: The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is sent on a critical mission to deliver micro-fiche war plans to Tokyo from his base in Malaysia. But while flying over Chinese waters his plane is shot down and he is taken aboard a ship bound for Shanghai to deliver its merchandise - a ship filled with Female Slaves kidnapped from Japan. Will he abandon the women to pursue his main objective? Or will he fight foes, spies and pirates to save these women against all odds?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Jigoku no hatoba
Overview: A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witnesses two men shooting each other and collapsing on the quay while his assistant Shinsuke is away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-04
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Yojimbo
Overview: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-25
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Nightingale
Overview: An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-11-09
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Throne of Blood
Overview: Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Overview: After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Overview: Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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Kuro to aka no hanabira
Overview: Crime film distributed by Taiho.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
Overview: Japanese action film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Yellow Line
Overview: The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
Overview: 1959 film directed by Teruo Ishii for Shintoho.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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Ghost Story: Cruel Phantom
Overview: Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-17
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トップ屋を殺せ
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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皇室と戦争とわが民族
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-11
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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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Black Line
Overview: Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-13
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Cave Queens
Overview: Rumi (Yoko Mihara) and Emi (Masayo Banri) are sisters who dance nightly at the Blue Moon cabaret, which happens be the headquarters of a drug ring. Offstage, Rumi captivates the gang boss, Iwahara (Shuntaro Emi); while Emi attracts the portly club manager, Yajima (Saburo Sawai). Meanwhile their older brother Shinichi (Ryo Kuromaru), a seaman, is unwittingly assisting Iwahara with his drug running. When Shinichi’s ship is sea-jacked by another drug gang, an outraged Iwahara suspects him of treachery and has him beaten and confined in a dungeon-like basement. Rumi and Emi try to free him, but a gang hitman discovers them - and their attempt ends in failure. Now under suspicion themselves, the girls try to escape, but luck goes against them and they are taken to an island where Iwahara and his crew plan to ambush the rival gang.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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Five Violent Girls
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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Women of Whirlpool Island
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-27
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Black River
Overview: A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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Stakeout
Overview: Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Jigoku
Overview: A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-30
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Fire Line
Overview: Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Devil's Rose
Overview: The first installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-24
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Broken Blossoms
Overview: War drama about army nurses.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-25
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The Street Without Sun
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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怒号する巨弾
Overview: At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused as spy suspects and his father died in prison after being tortured. Ten years later, Amada seeks for revenge on the three men responsible for his father death.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-12
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剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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Onna kanchō akatsuki no chōsen
Overview: Japanese spy film.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-03
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男の嵐
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-28
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Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Disappearing Gentleman
Overview: The second installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Challenge from the Dead
Overview: The third and final installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-08
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