Akira Hisamatsu
Also Known As: 久松晃, 久松洪介, Kosuke Hisamatsu
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Japan
Birthday: February 22, 1909
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
Overview: A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-11
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Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-18
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Hana no saigetsu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-28
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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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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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Youth of the Beast
Overview: When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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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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Teenage Yakuza
Overview: A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Hitotsu no inochi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-27
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Tokyo Drifter
Overview: After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland
Overview: A group of corrupt police detectives go on a manhunt for an ex-collogue who they believe could blow their whole rotten operation wide open.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-23
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Branded to Kill
Overview: After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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The Call of Blood
Overview: Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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Penitentiary Brothers
Overview: Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Story of a Prostitute
Overview: Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-27
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A Woman Called Sada Abe
Overview: The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-08
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Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-15
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Nagasaki Butterfly
Overview: Oman travel from Shanghai to Japan in search of her mother, only to be betrayed by her companion and sold to a brothel, where she becomes a geisha and gambler.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-18
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The Angry Rambler
Overview: Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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Take Aim at the Police Van
Overview: A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
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Break Down that Wall
Overview: A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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Romantic Tale: Otomi and Yosaburo
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-27
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Kill or get killed!
Overview: When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-07
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Taiyō no yō ni akaruku
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-13
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Silent Tears
Overview: Roman Porno from 1972.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-18
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Wakai tsume ato
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-09
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Me o tsubutte tsuppashire
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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The Last Laugh
Overview: Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-06
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Kidō sōsahan Minato no ryakudatsu-sha
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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Sun and stars
Overview: It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Asakusa Sisters
Overview: A young chef at a small restaurant in Asakusa, with a past conviction for breaking into a safe, defeats the evil boss and ends up marrying his lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-20
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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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Wakai futari
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Jūdai no kawa
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-28
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Satsujin-sha o oe
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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Tattooed Life
Overview: After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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Time of First Love
Overview: 3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-01
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Fight of the Gamblers
Overview: Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Satan's Town
Overview: A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-11
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Hana to musume to shiroi michi
Overview: One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-06
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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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The Boy Who Came Back
Overview: Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-29
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The Heart
Overview: In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-31
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Fighting Delinquents
Overview: This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-23
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Kanto Wanderer
Overview: Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-23
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Hellish Love
Overview: Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-28
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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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Smashing the 0-Line
Overview: Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-25
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Gate of Flesh
Overview: In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-31
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The Sleeping Beast Within
Overview: When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-09
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Fighting Elegy
Overview: Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Genres: Comedy Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-09
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Eight Hours of Terror
Overview: A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Tokyo Knights
Overview: A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Pure Emotions of the Sea
Overview: A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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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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JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei
Overview: 1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, who followed the whereabouts of the distressed aircraft. It is an adaptation of the prize-winning broadcast drama recruited by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Week in 1958. The original author was Tsuneyuki Mori.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-25
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Shōjo
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
Overview: A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous
Overview: Shuichi and Nobuko are an ordinary, young couple, a promising company employee and his pretty wife. They think nothing can mar their peaceful life but nothing is permanent in this world and Shuichi's company goes bankrupt. Shuichi feels lost. He misses the good times he had at bars and cabarets, especially Hiromi, a hostess. Nobuko offers to work while he hunts for a job and finds an opening at an advertising company. But as Nobuko makes the rounds of restaurants and cabarets, she finds she cannot get ads just by dint of hard work alone. All the shop owners and managers expect her to sleep with them for each big ad they buy. At first, Nobuko is shocked but, to eat, she must meet their demands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-29
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Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
Overview: 1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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The Flame of Devotion
Overview: The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-22
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