Kan Sugi
Also Known As: Hiroshi Sugi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: August 14, 1889
Age: 135 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 07, 1974
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Yasubei Nakayama
Overview: Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-31
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Stolen Love
Overview: Romantic melodrama
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-08
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Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
Overview: Period film about the legendary detective Umon
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-03
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Forty-Eight Man
Overview: Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-26
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Bridge of Japan
Overview: Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Mole Alley
Overview: 33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy dorayaki as a gratuity and devour it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-07
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大吉ぼんのう鏡
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Koina no Ginpei
Overview: 1954 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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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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Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-07
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The Lady Vampire
Overview: Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-07
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The Symbol of a Man
Overview: In 1936, under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Shozaburo Oshima is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals, Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-14
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Seven Samurai
Overview: A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-26
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関八州喧嘩陣
Overview: 1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-04
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A Mother's Love
Overview: A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-27
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女大学野球狂時代
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-26
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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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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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Vampire Bride
Overview: Shintoho studio boss Mitsugu Okura was furious that actress Junko Ikeuchi had married against his wishes. In an act of revenge that could have come out of one of his movies, he cast her against the girl-next-door persona she had established to play a dancer who survives a great fall only to become a disfigured beast.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-27
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The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
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Genres: Mystery History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-01-09
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Black Cat Mansion
Overview: The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-13
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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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Haunted Cave
Overview: The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family were under a curse. Yumi is surprised by the ghost of a dead sister who looks the same as the grim figure who jumped into the old well alter stabbing herself with a sword. Fearful that a similar fate awaits her, Yumi seeks the help of her friend Kyoko. Later the ghost appears before Kyoko and her fiancé, Detective Nonomiya. In a haunted cave, Kyoko and Yumi are in deadly peril from those who seek treasures of the Aoyamas.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-17
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Snow-Flake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-17
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The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
Overview: Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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音楽大進軍
Overview: A 1943 film.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-03-18
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This Happy Life
Overview: A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-01-27
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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Overview: A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by providing the screenplays/stories for the majority of the original Showa films.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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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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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Overview: Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-11-08
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Living Image
Overview: A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-12
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Kekkon Sanjûshi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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Madam of the first class and husband of the third class
Overview: Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-13
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Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
Overview: A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-21
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