Masakazu Tamura
Also Known As: Tamura Masakazu, 타무라 마사카즈, Масакадзу Тамура, ماساکازو تامورا
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: August 01, 1943
Deathday: April 03, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Furuhata Ninzaburo vs SMAP
Overview: Furuhata is called in to investigate a murder committed by the well-known Japanese boy band SMAP.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-03
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Deadly Swords in Search of Hidden Gold
Overview: The secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa. A fight over the treasure that the map shows happens among the Rozyu, a Ronin, a thief, and the Hyodo family. Is the treasure there? Who will get it? Masakazu Tamura plays the role of a ronin from Edo, Hayato Arakida, from the Mumyo Tenshin school dojo and a swordmaster working for Lord Awa. The film is based on the original work of Kyotaro Nishimura. A period show with a fierce fight on a raft going down a river and romance.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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The Wild Sea
Overview: Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the outbreak of violence by radical students and blockade of classrooms make studying impossible and Yoji goes home. Fortunately, he meets Katsuyuki Shinoda, a childhood friend, who works on a whaling vessel. Yoji decides to join him and rediscover a meaning in life. But finding sidework on a whaler is not so easy and Ogaki, a veteran harpooner, curtly turns him down. But finally, deeply touched by Yoji's earnestness, Ogaki reluctantly agrees to take him with them. Rules are very strict, for even one slight slip-up may jeopardize the safety of the entire ship. For a long time, it seems like a living hell, but with patience and courage, he begins to learn the ropes. And the day they sight their first whale, Yoji comes into his own and finds the real meaning of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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樅ノ木は残った
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-02-20
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Kono sora no aru kagiri
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-14
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A Sky Full of Tears
Overview: Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara. On the way home from the Tohoku tour, he rescued Akiko, a girl who had passed out in a car accident. Ahead of him was the bustle of Tokyo. He suddenly met Akiko during a noisy party with friends. He tried to persuade Akiko, who wanted to become a singer, to return to the village, but it didn't work. One day he invited Akiko to play in Yokohama. When they returned to childhood and talked about their dreams, they felt love for the first time. Meanwhile, returning home, Yoko turned her jealousy on the two of them, and announced the death of Shunsuke's mother...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-21
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Women and Miso Soup
Overview: Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-04
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The Soundless Cry
Overview: Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-30
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Love Under the Crucifix
Overview: The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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Samurai Desperadoes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor
Overview: Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this world that he loves, Shiho (Emi Wakui) but when he meets her again, she is already someone else’s wife. Her husband is a key person in the Chushingura incident. Love reignites between Keinosuke and Shiho but they get caught up in the spiral of fate of the Chushingura incident...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-14
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映画村殺人事件
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-05-24
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Roman Holiday
Overview: A newscaster meets and falls in love with a woman in Rome who is the spitting image of the Crown Prince's bride-to-be.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-04
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East China Sea
Overview: Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
Overview: Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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Sky Scraper!
Overview: A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
Overview: After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi. Kanzaki-gumi captures the Toshin-gumi oil fields mined by the first boss. Umebayashi explodes in anger and attacks Kanzaki-gumi, but...
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
Overview: Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-29
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Kojiki taishō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-28
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A Samurai's Sorrow: The Deadly Sword
Overview: The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the role of "Udege Shujo," the official taster for the shogunate. Tamura's unmatched charm in portraying cynical characters is fully showcased in this exhilarating period drama. Audiences can thoroughly enjoy the familiar "Ten'ichibō Incident" in this lively historical play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-26
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Odokumiyaku Shushou Kawaite sōrō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-17
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300 Million Yen Robbery
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-18
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Rokumeikan
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-05
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Love for an Idiot
Overview: A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-29
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Island of Horrors
Overview: Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cliffs, overseen by both an unforgiving sun and a crew of abusive male wardens. Meanwhile, the arrival of a newcomer among the island’s administrators, a disgraced policeman who is also the son of Nagasaki’s governor, creates dissension between the officials that, along with an untimely outbreak of bubonic plague on the island, ultimately sets the stage for a daring escape attempt on the part of the prisoners.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Immortal Love
Overview: The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-16
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Overview: A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-02
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Black Rose Mansion
Overview: When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-30
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Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
Overview: In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the Asano family in Ako domain is shocked to learn that his feudal lord, Asano Takumi-no-kami Naganori (Tamayama Tetsuji), had stabbed Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka (Nishida Toshiyuki), the master of ceremonies, at Edo castle. Lord Asano was ordered to commit ritual suicide and the Ako clan abolished. Facing up to the gravity of this unfair ruling, since only one party was being punished instead of both as would be usual, Oishi decides to lead the loyal former retainers in an attack on Lord Kira so that he could take Kira’s head to his lord’s gravesite so that Lord Asano could finally rest in peace.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-25
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Giwaku
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-24
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
Overview: A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his wife is murdered and evidence is produced that he was plotting against the Shogun the Code of Bushido calls for him and his son to commit sepuku. Instead he defies the Shogun's orders and takes up arms against his enemies, becoming an assassin for hire.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-02-06
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Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori
Overview: Based on Shinichi Mori song
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-10
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Revenge Court
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-07
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The Cursed Plate: Dish Mansion at Hell's Banchō
Overview: Strange events plague the Aoyama family's residence, led by samurai Aoyama Harima. Three months earlier, Harima was asked to show a family heirloom, a red Goryeo dish, to his uncle and a senior official. The dish was found broken, and Harima's attendant, Okiku, was blamed and punished. After Okiku's death, Harima, tormented by guilt, contemplates suicide but is stopped by another attendant, Oyuki. The dish must be presented to an imperial envoy, and mysterious deaths among the servants suggest supernatural involvement. As Harima seeks the truth behind the tragic events, he must confront vengeful spirits and uncover the mystery with Okiku's restless spirit aiding him in this tale of love, intrigue, and revenge.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-07
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古畑任三郎 笑うカンガルー
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-12
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The Rokumeikan
Overview: TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-25
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Curse of the Blood
Overview: A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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Village of Eight Tombs
Overview: Japanese horror thriller from 1969.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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古畑任三郎 しばしのお別れ
Overview: Furuhata Ninzaburo 1996 TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-27
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古畑任三郎ファイナル ラスト・ダンス
Overview: Furuhata Ninzaburo 2006 TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-05
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古畑任三郎 黒岩博士の恐怖
Overview: Furuhata Ninzaburo 1999 TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-06
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古畑任三郎ファイナル 今、甦る死
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-03
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消えた古畑任三郎
Overview: Furuhata Ninzaburo 1996 TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-09
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古畑任三郎 すべて閣下の仕業
Overview: Furuhata Ninzaburo 2004 TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-03
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古畑任三郎ファイナル フェアな殺人者
Overview: Furuhata Ninzaburo 2005 TV Movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-04
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An Ode to Yakuza
Overview: Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-11
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
Overview: In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate choice of disobeying the wishes of his lord.
Genres: Drama History Action TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Love in the North
Overview: Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-06
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Nemuri Kyōshirō
Overview: Kyoshiro rescues Shizu who was being abused by her husband, even since she had been violated by the man posing as Ieyoshi. He then learned that Ieyoshi had been acting oddly ever since returning from Kyoto six months ago. Sir Fumiya's investigation of the O'oku (Shogun's harem in Edo Castle) uncovered the plot and reported that Sir Higo-no-Kami had been controlling the fraud. That's when Kyoshiro heads to Kyoto to find clues...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-22
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Nemuri Kyōshirō 4: The Woman Who Loved Kyoshiro
Overview: Tamura Masakazu returns as Nemuri Kyoshiro for the fourth and final time. Gensai, an eccentric Ukiyoe artist, urgently requests Kyoshiro to kill his wife. He believes that the moment she is killed will represent the ultimate state of beauty, and wishes to see Kyoshiro's signature “Engetsu Sappo” (“Full Moon Cut”) killing technique for the purpose. But this unusual request comes not only from Gensai, but also his wife, Orin, who has a tie to Kyoshiro's past. Meanwhile, Tenzen wants to hire Kyoshiro as their master sword instructor for the Kurume Clan, whose lord has an unhealthy obsession with Kyoshiro and his Engetsu Sappo…
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-28
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Nemuri Kyôshirô 2: Conspiracy in Edo Castle
Overview: Sakai Nobunari an Elder in 'Honmaru' (or the main enclosure) and Mizuno Tadakuni an Elder in 'Nishinomaru' (or the south-east enclosure) have been at odds behind the scenes over the marriage of Tokugawa Ieyoshi, heir to the Shogunate. Kyoshiro, who has come back in Edo after 3 years is involved in it against his will. It's because he gets to know Lady Mihoyo who is a spy for Sakai and looks exactly like his late mother. As she couldn't complete her mission she has nowhere to go. Kyoshiro shelters her from both parties that seek her life. The original story is from "Nemuri Kyoshiro Burai Hikae" written by Shibata Renzaburo. Not only is one of Japan's greatest legends kept alive, but some secrets of Kyoshiro's past are finally revealed for the first time.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-09-30
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Nemuri Kyōshirō 3: The Man with No Tomorrow
Overview: In the continuing adventures of Nemuri Kyoshiro, noted film actor Tamura Masakazu stars again as the red-haired ronin with foreign blood in his veins. The son of a foreign missionary and a samurai's daughter. His mother died when he was a child, and he was forced to bury her himself, praying that her soul would rest in peace. He became an expert at swordsmanship, despite being in the shadow of isolation and nothingness, and walks the bloody path of destruction carrying his only friend, a razor sharp sword made by the Master, 'Peerless Masamune' to go with his unique Full Moon Sword style. After being accused of being a government spy, he falls ill and accepts the aid of a prostitute who nurses him back to health. As he prepares to leave the Chief Retainer of the Akita Clan asks him to help save the clan from an evil plot. Kyoshiro's deadly full moon cut will have to come into play against many who seek his life!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-20
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
Overview: A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. How did this woman know the novel is serialized in the newspaper? And why does she want to start reading it in the middle of the story? Which article was she actually interested in? Sugimoto cannot help making his own investigations about Yoshiko, but the more he searches, the more astonishing facts come to light...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-12
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The Fixer
Overview: Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-27
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Furuhata Chugakusei
Overview: Young Furuhata, a 3rd-year junior high student from Tokyo, transferred to a school in the countryside due to family circumstances. He doesn't fit in at first, but he eventually gains a reputation as a detective and opens his own detective agency. One day, he hears about the town's legend of buried treasure, and he immediately begins unraveling the mystery.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-06-14
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A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Overview: Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-31
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Naked Ambition
Overview: Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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Kogoro Akechi vs Kaijin Nijyuu Menso
Overview: At the end of World War II, a secret human experiment was being conducted in Manchuria, which was in the sphere of influence of the Japanese military. One man's face was to be transformed into that of a completely different person through plastic surgery. Shortly after operation, Japanese military facility where the man was staying was involved in a battle and collapsed, and he disappeared. In 1948, a letter of warning from the Twenty Faces was posted on the wall of the Japanese Museum. The notice read, “All national treasures will be taken away. The police, aware of the warning letter, rush to the Japanese Museum...
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-27
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Samurai Banners
Overview: Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
Genres: Action War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-01
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Nemuri Kyōshirō: The Final
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Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-17
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Last Love
Overview: Akira was a sax player in New York, but retired from it because of his wife's sudden death. One day, Akira Agawa met Yui Uehara, a young woman who works for the cleaning station, and eventually reunited in New York. Since then, they have opened up their hearts and are gradually attracted to each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-16
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This Year's Love
Overview: Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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奥飛騨二重心中
Overview: A man who lost his wife and a woman whose husband died have a fateful meeting in connection with a double suicide and fall madly in love.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-30
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The Scent of Incense
Overview: After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-24
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A Samurai's Sorrow
Overview: A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting tale of a series of attempts on the life of Shogun Yoshimune. The Owari have longed for the post of shogun, and are willing to do anything, including murder, in order to achieve their goal. Directed by master filmmaker Inoue Akira, this action packed movie, based on a manga by Koike Kazuo who created the Baby Cart (Lone Wolf) series, is loaded with splendid swordplay and an intelligent story line. It all starts when poison is discovered in the shogun’s food. Can the brilliant swordsman Mondo (Tamura Masakazu) manage to save Japan’s leader from certain death?!
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-04-07
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One in a hundred thousand
Overview: Tamura Masakazu plays Shohei Yamauchi, a freelance reporter obsessed with finding out the truth about a traffic accident in which his beloved daughter died. Judging by the photo of the accident, which appeared in the news described by photojournalists as "one coincidence in a hundred thousand", and the survivor's testimony that "I saw a red fireball" immediately before the accident, the circumstances of the accident are questionable. The film is based on a late masterpiece by Seicho Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-15
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Secret Report From A House Of Women
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-13
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Sea of Wonders
Overview: A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls in love with her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-03
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