Fujio Murakami
Also Known As: 三村恭二, 三村俊夫
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: May 24, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
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The Performers
Overview: Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the prosperity of others. He wishes his daughter Kasumi, gifted like himself, to take over and develop the Fujihana, but she wishes to marry Hiroshi, head of a jazz band which her father opposes. Kisaburo, Seijuro's No.1 disciple, wants to marry Kasumi and take over the Fujihana with the backing of the chairman of the supporters' association.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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誘拐
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
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Gonin no totsugeki tai
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-26
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Back Stairways
Overview: A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-06
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Black Temptation
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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Fangs of Vengeance
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-25
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The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-03
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Tokyo Emmanuelle
Overview: After the director's message, "I visualize the romance of Roman Porn and I attempt to share that image," a loosely-connected series of softcore sex scenes unfolds. The plot concerns Kyoko, a young Japanese woman married to a man in France. When he abandons her, she returns to Japan. With her sexual appetite now at a high pitch, she engages in sexual escapades with a wide assortment of people, including old friends, both male and female, and an entire soccer team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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The Money Dance
Overview: Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-02
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The Venus' Tear
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Order of Yakuza
Overview: Order of Yakuza
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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What Price Love?
Overview: Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
Overview: The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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Soldiers' Girls
Overview: Women endure hardship and struggle to keep away from prostitution in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The "Special Comfort Women Association" (RAA) creates a shelter for women to avoid falling into prostitution. Young Fumiko and Yuko will try their luck there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-04
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Fūshinraishin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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Gōdatsu sareta kenjū
Overview: 1958 Japanese film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-17
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Demon King of Yoja Manor
Overview: During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayatori, deputy director of Hayatori Hospital, grows suspicious of Akuri, founder of the new religion “Reihi-kyo,” who had predicted these incidents. Together with his fiancée Mitsuko Nogata and friend Chief Kamimura, he investigates Akuri. It’s revealed that Akuri conspired with Dr. Sakurada, a psychiatrist, using a brainwave-disrupting ray to cause Tsubota and Tsukita’s collapse. Disguised as “Busujima,” Sakurada operates from a nearby villa. Meanwhile, Dr. Stanley from Monotor Republic plans to assassinate conglomerate Maurice and enlists Sakurada to create a half-animal man. Soon after, Akuri predicts Tsubota’s death as Sakurada aims to showcase the creature’s power for profit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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Closing Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Kegareta nikutai seijo
Overview: A sensual love-story between two lesbian nuns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
Overview: The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-06
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Have Wings on Your Heart
Overview: Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-14
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Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima
Overview: Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-07-05
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太陽娘と社長族
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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Santōshain to onna hisho
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-18
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Typhoon Reporter
Overview: Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Ginza is square in its sights!
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Gamera vs. Gyaos
Overview: Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-15
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Weekend Shuffle
Overview: First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-23
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The Gambler's Code
Overview: One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man. In a brilliant performance from super-star Ichikawa Raizo, with strong support from two of the greats from Toho, Shimura Takashi (7 Samurai) and Aratama Michiyo (Sword of Doom) the heartfelt story reaches new heights. Tokijiro, having learned the true nature of the boss to whom he was obligated for having spent a night and eaten at the gang's headquarters takes up arms against them in a running battle fought across the back roads of the entire nation. Another powerful rendition of this superb story, it is not to be missed!
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-14
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Secret Information
Overview: A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-14
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Tengoku wa doko da
Overview: Japanese drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-23
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Dog of Fortune
Overview: From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-02
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Murder in the Deep
Overview: Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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Fun on the Run
Overview: Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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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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The Midday Trap
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-19
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Gateway to Glory
Overview: A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
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Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
Overview: Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-08
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Ghost in the Regiment
Overview: Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brother.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-09
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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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妖婦 夜嵐お絹と天人お玉
Overview: Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-29
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A Man Worth the Money
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-26
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You and I
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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Medal from the Devil
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-29
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Modae
Overview: This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who spends her days in a state of unfulfillment, is gradually attracted to a young playboy, but she is unable to cross the line. One day, her husband proposes to have a child through artificial insemination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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The Great Tokyo Yotsuya Ghost Story
Overview: Kazuko Murata, the head of the private detective bureau, takes on a bizarre murder case involving the wealthy Ninomiya family near the Oiwa Inari shrine in Yotsuya's Samon-cho!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-02
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Cursed Hand from the Graveyard
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Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-26
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Black Trump Card
Overview: Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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Botchan no yakyūō
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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六人の女を殺した男
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-31
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Asphalt Girl
Overview: 1964 musical.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-18
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Holiday in Japan
Overview: Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-15
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