Toshio Takahara
Also Known As: 高原骏雄, Тосио Такахара
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: May 01, 1923
Deathday: February 26, 2000
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Cases of Umon:Ａ Woman with An Umbrella
Overview: Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who is later himself killed. His dying words in Umon's arms were, "I didn't kill the guard." The murdered criminal had been a safe-cracker & only his girlfriend knows where he hid a fortune. She is kidnapped, so the plot gets thicker & thicker.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-30
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Hitotsu no inochi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-27
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
Overview: After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-28
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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Blue Fortress
Overview: A mission to take down a Black Cross fortress becomes hampered when a Masked Monster, under the direction of a returned general, takes Variblune from Shinmei for their usage. This is a theatrical version of episode 15 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-26
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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Red Death Match
Overview: The Gorenger try to retrieve rocket plans stolen by the Black Cross as Daita meets a mysterious girl he saves from them. This is a theatrical version of episode 36 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-10
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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Volcano's Last Big Eruption
Overview: When Magman makes a blunder that finally makes him lose the Black Cross Furher's trust, he begins a rampage against EAGLE with Navarone Fortress, the Gorenger must finally stop them. It features the destruction of Volcano Mask General Magman and his Mobile Fortress Navarone, as well as the Gorenger Machines, and the first appearance of his successor Commander-in-Chief Golden Mask. This is a theatrical version of episode 54 of the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-19
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Rusty Knife
Overview: Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-11
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Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-23
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Overview: Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-14
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Only Child
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-06
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Record of an Apprentice Nurse: Red Uniform
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-19
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Naku n janai ze
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-08
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The Diary of a Sex Counsellor 2
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-30
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Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi
Overview: A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-03
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-05
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Duel in the Storm
Overview: It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Yuganda tsuki
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Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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Scrap Collectors
Overview: Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-28
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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
Overview: Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a mysterious encounter.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-06-26
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
Overview: A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the baffling case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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Pirates
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-07-13
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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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Dai shusse monogatari
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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The Great White Tower
Overview: The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Overview: This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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Vacuum Zone
Overview: Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn about Kitani's past and reasons behind his prison sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-12-10
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Shadow of Deception
Overview: It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who owns a dry goods store. Minako travels to Tokyo on business every three months, during which time she continues to meet Sozo, who has married the daughter of his respected teacher.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Rebellion of Japan
Overview: Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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The Class of the Sewage Canal
Overview: The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-19
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Yellow Crow
Overview: In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida (Koji Shitara), who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus. Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô and Yoshiko Kuga also star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-27
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Overview: Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-29
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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Movie
Overview: A Masked Monster being chased for stealing a microfilm with EAGLE secrets hides on a houseboat to avoid Kaijo and Asuka's pursuit.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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Voice Without a Shadow
Overview: Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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Touch of Love
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-02
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Bad Girl
Overview: Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-16
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Age of Nudity
Overview: The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-07
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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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The Daring Nun
Overview: One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquaintance of a young girl named lkuko (Kayo Mikimoto) and saves her from the advances of a gangster named Goro (lchiro Nakatani). In the meantime she turns down several propositions and, in revenge, one of her admirers denounces her to the Mother Superior (Kuniko Miyake). This lady is of liberal views, however, and refuses to do anything about it. Then Shunko is visited by Goro's gang boss who wants lkuko back and says he will blackmail Shunko unless she agrees.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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The Man with a Shotgun
Overview: Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-03
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Pigs and Battleships
Overview: In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-21
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The Naked Sun
Overview: A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they have agreed on this procedure, it comes as a shock to the young woman to find out from her husband-to-be that he just loaned all the money they had saved to a friend. She is understandably miffed, and a big disagreement results. But after some time goes by, she discovers why the friend needed the money so badly, and the couple are back on solid footing again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Quick Draw Joe
Overview: One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the reward offered. He is told to wait until the driver of the armored car returns to identify the bandit and goes over to the Blue Star where he is introduced to Mishima, the owner of the cabaret, who is highly respected in the town. Joe then meets Saburo, while fishing, and his lovely sister, who seem to sense the real man beneath the rough appearance and take him into their home. Word reaches Joe that the bandit he'd captured had been shot and he hurries over to the hospital.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-09
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-29
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Ore wa Ginza no kiheitai
Overview: A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-04
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Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Bomb Hurricane!
Overview: The Gorenger head for Matsuyama to prevent the Black Cross from firing a missile to destroy Japan. Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Bomb Hurricane is a theatrical film based on the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series. It was originally shown on July 22, 1976 (between Episodes 56 and 57 of the TV series) as part of the Toei Manga Matsuri film festival. It was the only Gorenger film that was a completely original work and not a theatrical version of a TV episode.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-22
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The Sea Anemone
Overview: The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-30
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Twenty-Four Eyes
Overview: From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-15
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The Gambling Monk
Overview: One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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Barrow Gang BC
Overview: Film about a pirate radio station.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-27
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Waga seishun no eleven
Overview: Soccer movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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Shutsugeki
Overview: An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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Love in the Air
Overview: Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea. On land again Shoji goes to a cabaret where he is soon involved in a brawl. Kasamatsu, the owner of the cabaret, impressed by Shoji's strength, offers him a job as his bodyguard. The next morning Shoji visits Shingo's grave and meets Miyako, Shingo's former sweetheart, who is still a trapeze performer and now the star of the Kuroko Circus which Shoji realizes Kasamatsu intends to control.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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Ai Sureba Koso
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-05
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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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At the End of the Clouds
Overview: A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-09
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Tomodachi
Overview: Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate Prefecture two years ago, is a gloomy girl who suffers from asthma due to the polluted air in Kawasaki and is ostracized by her class. Shinta is placed next to Yoshiko in class and their stories will take a turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-24
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The Murderer Must Die
Overview: A year ago, Tetsuo Yazaki was unemployed and wanted money, attacked a police box in Kobe, robbed a policeman of his pistol, attacked Hamamatsu OS Theater and Nagoya Shinwa Bank, and succeeded in robbing a large amount of money.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-27
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Life of a Country Doctor
Overview: A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-14
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Man at the Bullfight
Overview: An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yujiro who risks his life to invite bullfighting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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