Also Known As: Kenji Shīya , 椎谷健治
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Japan
Birthday: March 06, 1947
Deathday: March 27, 1997
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Gender: Male
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Overview: Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the name of Yataro Tanigawa. Yaheiji meets Yataro again in Edo, by which time Yataro has become a dark hunter (Hired Assassin). The boss of thieves to whom Yaheiji obeys is killed, and Yaheiji participates in the battle to take his place Yataro helps him defeat and save his life, and Yaheiji also tries to save Yataro from the world of assassins... The drama "Dark Hunter" is based on the novel by Shotaro Ikenami, who is best known for his TV series Onihei Hankacho, Kenkaku Shobai and Fujieda Baian's Shikake-nin. The film version directed by Hideo Gosha is well known, but this version is more faithful to the original.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-04-01
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Overview: The film portrays the life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture. This handsome rapist seduces women, then brings them to the basement of the mansion he inherited from his well-to-do parents, where he indulges in lengthy sessions of sado-sexual violence. Based on manga by Masaaki Sato.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-27
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Overview: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-15
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Overview: After twelve years of school - twelve years of a strict, regimented life-style - high school graduation can be a very scary moment. It's a time when a student suddenly realizes everything is about to change. And many are not ready for the drastic fluctuation in their lives. This film concentrates on traumas facing two different graduates. Hideo and his friends always hang out at The Joint, a sand-wich/soda shop near the school. Just prior to graduation, the place is closed up. This gives an unsettling message to the kids who are already queasy over their own future. They react badly by going to school and raping their homeroom teacher. Meanwhile, Ichiro, who failed the University Entrance Exam, has barricaded himself - along with girlfriend Ranko - in a hotel with a rifle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-05
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Overview: A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-27
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Overview: A Kamui family who governs N prefecture and exerts its power on the central political and business world. The mighty power was only allowed to be inherited by the "patriarch". But now, over the patriarchal power, the current patriarch Hidemine and his four sons are in a fierce conflict. In the presence of his guardian, Kiyoshi Nakajo, Hidemine gathered his sons together. However, the discussion broke down. The sons seeking the extinction of the patriarchal power finally turned their muzzle to their father, Hidemine!
Genres: Crime Drama Action Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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Overview: Mio is a young woman whose husband is a millionaire's son. When he becomes impotent following an automobile accident, she begins an affair with their gardener and chauffeur, Nitta. After her husband discovers Mio's infidelity, he forces her to leave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-20
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Overview: Factory worker Osamu (Akira Sakai) has been despondent ever since he saw his girlfriend getting gang-raped. He has a difficult time thinking of anything else. Meanwhile, his boss asks him for a favor. Apparently, the bossman’s son is too-o-o serious about a girlfriend, Yuki (Minako Mizushima). The boss wants the relationship destroyed and asks Osamu to arrange an “unforgettable situation.” Osamu and his friends stalk the lovers to a secluded vacation house where rape delirium erupts (although Osamu isn’t capable of participating). A bit later the boss and two women show up, presumably to check on the results. But Osamu’s gang is completely unhinged from the assault and they attack the newcomers, turning the place into a sexual hell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-03
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Overview: A stripper contends with bad boyfriends, a demanding boss and the yakuza while entertaining a nightly crowd of horny spectators.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-25
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Overview: A suspense work starring Junko Natsu. One night, Saiko Ogata, a popular female DJ on a late-night radio music program, discovers a strange letter among a pile of postcards. It was a letter written in the style of a 5 or 6-year-old child, beginning with, "Mom, I am in a dark and cold world right now." Saiko is shocked. That letter was a letter from her own child, whose father was Kazuo Yamazaki, whom Saiko had fallen in love with six years ago when they were trainees at a certain theater company, and who had sprouted in Saiko's womb but passed away without being born...
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-20
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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Overview: Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy with a heart of gold, is fresh out of prison, but it's not long before he lands himself in trouble again. The courier company he works for is attacked by a local yakuza gang. Joe takes matters into his own hands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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Overview: A group of female commandos confront evil criminals Zombie-Man and Zombie-Woman.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-01
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Overview: A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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Overview: An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-02-14
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Overview: A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's been fooling around with gangsters she brings trouble with her. Kuroki gets tied up and beaten, his wife and customers get tortured and raped, and it is finally up to the mousy cuckold to set things right, Straw Dogs-style.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-20
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Overview: On the advice of their horoscopes, a scenario writer, a producer and a director take a working vacation to a hot spring in the hopes of finishing their porn script. For the next week, the three men conduct interviews with many young women, seeking to discover their next starlet.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-02-04
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Overview: The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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Overview: A schoolteacher gets a phone call regarding one of her female students. It seems that the young girl has been accused of prostitution, and requests help from her teacher. The young girl's situation brings to mind some dark incidents from the teacher's past that she is still trying to deal with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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Overview: Set in the wilderness of Hokkaido, the story of a couple in their 30s and a couple in their 20s is drawn, and the subtle emotions of the two men and women are depicted with intense Eros and delicate images under the theme of marriage exchange.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-06
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Overview: A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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Overview: A young professional mahjong player, Sakurai Shoichi (Shimizu Kentaro), who graduated from university, was employed at a real estate company. While on a business trip with the company president (Hamada Akira) to a secluded hot spring town, he learns that an elderly couple who are the president's benefactors are in trouble. The old man was a former gambler who ran the town with honor and compassion, but his business was taken away by an emerging gangster (Hiura Tsutomu). When Sakurai Shoichi finds out that the emerging gangster is making a shady profit from mahjong, he offers to play as a substitute for the player without payment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-22
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Overview: The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-12
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