Ichirō Ryūzaki
Also Known As: Итиро Рюдзаки, 竜崎一郎, Ichiro Reuzaki
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 19, 1912
Deathday: June 28, 1988
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Spring Snow
Overview: The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Shin Aizen Katsura
Overview: 1948 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-06
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Hebihime sama
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-25
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Riverside Fish Market Empire
Overview: Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-03-14
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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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The Blue Mountains: Part I
Overview: Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-19
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慶安水滸傳
Overview: Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's bodyguard, Maruhashi Tadayasu, and Kaku, a priest. He ended up settling at the Kasugaya, the house of Oko, whom he had saved. When Oko decided to go to Edo, where her biological father lived, Daisuke accompanied her. Along the way, at Suruga Abe River, they encountered Sawanojiki's theater group, which had departed from Osaka earlier heading to Edo. A scuffle initiated by Tadayasu over a ferry boat with the students of Yui Masayuki but was amicably resolved through Masayuki's intervention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Married Woman: Another Law of the Night
Overview: The film takes place in Yokohama, a night city where you can revel in the neon mood. A bartender who wants to become a singer and a beautiful married woman burn fierce and ephemeral love in a confrontation with a ruthless yakuza.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-15
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情艶一代女
Overview: Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue this new path, but falls in love with a naval officer who is the younger brother of Kikugoro and who saves her from a stalker monk. Kikugoro hears of this and becomes enraged. The naval officer dies in the Second Sino-Japanese War, causing the lead to go back home to her mother where she meets, and falls in love with, a poet who resembles her now-deceased fiancé. This poet leaves her in order to force her to dedicate her entire life to dancing, which he sees as her true pursuit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-03
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情艶一代女
Overview: Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins training with the Onnagata Kikugoro VI as a dancer. She leaves her geisha life to pursue this new path, but falls in love with a naval officer who is the younger brother of Kikugoro and who saves her from a stalker monk. Kikugoro hears of this and becomes enraged. The naval officer dies in the Second Sino-Japanese War, causing the lead to go back home to her mother where she meets, and falls in love with, a poet who resembles her now-deceased fiancé. This poet leaves her in order to force her to dedicate her entire life to dancing, which he sees as her true pursuit.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-03
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Wakaki sugata
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Currents of Youth
Overview: It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less assertive as his bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-02-14
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Once More
Overview: A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the events of those tumultuous days.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-04-01
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Minamoto Yoshitsune
Overview: A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune, based on the novel by Genzo Murakami. The action of the first part takes place in the late Heian period, when the Taira clan came to power, and Genji was oppressed. The great dream and ambitions of Genkuro Yoshitsune in his youth are depicted, he joins forces with his older brother Yoritomo to raise an army to defeat the Taira clan, and the second part depicts the fall of the clan, persecution and murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-30
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A Woman's Face
Overview: 1949 drama film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-11-28
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風雲児
Overview: Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Sanshiro Sugata
Overview: The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo. The main character is based on Shiro Saigo, a legendary judoka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-03-25
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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Overview: A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess, though neither realizes the other's identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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旗本退屈男謎の伏魔殿
Overview: In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Sosuke Saotome, appears and helps a woman being chased by a spy named Genshichi. Unfortunately, the woman is shot and killed. Later, Genshichi explains that the woman was a member of a band of thieves, and because she was let go once, the police officer, Genjuro Mazaki, was demoted to a desk job. Consumed by guilt, Boredom Otoko...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-25
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The Shiinomi School
Overview: A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under Hiroshi Shimizu’s skillful direction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-28
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Akagi no komori-uta
Overview: Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-10
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美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-02
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東京の夜は泣いている
Overview: Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Overview: Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-29
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Geisha Waltz
Overview: 1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-02
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Fûun Shinsengumi
Overview: 1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Overview: Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-14
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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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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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Onna kanchō akatsuki no chōsen
Overview: Japanese spy film.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-03
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Dawn of Judo
Overview: The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-25
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Mother Never Dies
Overview: The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-09-24
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The Poppy
Overview: 1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-06-18
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Street of Ronin
Overview: Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who patronize a restaurant and bar on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. One disgraced and disillusioned former warrior gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to retrieve a famous knife from a corrupt lord. This is the third version directed by Makino Masahiro and is considered a true classic.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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A Visage to Remember
Overview: During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he meets the professor's lovely young wife, Sachiko (Hamada Yuriko), and is unsettled by the striking resemblance she bears to his wife, who died three years earlier. Attracted to Sachiko, he does his best to hide his feelings. The couple, however, senses a deep-seated melancholy in him. Attributing it to the loss of his wife, they urge him to marry their niece, Kaoru, but he is not interested. Shortly after, Fumiko , Sachiko's older sister, realizes that Sachiko and Kawasaki have feelings for each other, but she keeps her counsel. One day Kawasaki, Sachiko, and Kaoru go boating when a storm forces them to stay overnight at a hotel. Unable to sleep, Kawasaki takes a walk along the beach where he finds Sachiko, also unable to sleep. He declares his love for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-04-04
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The Blue Mountains: Part II
Overview: Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-26
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Prison Boss
Overview: Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-18
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Wings of Victory
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-14
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Who Are You, Mr. Sorge?
Overview: French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he was found supplying classified information to the Russians.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-29
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Five Paths to Revenge
Overview: The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on his late father's enemies.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-22
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Red Peony of Night
Overview: A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Prison Tales
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-10
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
Overview: In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-26
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Lady From Hell
Overview: Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are against the T-Men organization. Mibu whats to kill all of the T-Men one-by-one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-03-15
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Case of a Young Lord 3
Overview: Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had served the Shogun came home in fear for her life. Will the Young Lord uncover the truth of what went on at the Palace, and does it relate to a series of murders that have been occurring just before the festival?
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-21
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Goblin Warrior
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-21
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-21
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