Shō Natsuki
Also Known As: Akira Natsuki
Biography: Akira Natsuki was a Japanese actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 06, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
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Gamera vs. Barugon
Overview: Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
Genres: Fantasy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-17
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High School Affair
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-22
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Yume de aritai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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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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Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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Snow Country Elegy
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Rikugun rakugo-hei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Kigeki: Ohi Kaenasutte!
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-16
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Wicked Nun
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-20
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Her Brother
Overview: Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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A Wife Confesses
Overview: Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-29
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Forbidden
Overview: Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-15
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The Most Valuable Wife
Overview: Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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Being Two Isn't Easy
Overview: The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Triangle Moods
Overview: Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Sutekina 16-sai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-08
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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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Ten Dark Women
Overview: Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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Kodokan Under a Morning Moon
Overview: The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-16
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The Precipice
Overview: Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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Ashita au hito
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-16
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The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game
Overview: 13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Closing Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Beauty the Enemy
Overview: In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-12
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The Genius and Delinquent
Overview: A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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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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Fires on the Plain
Overview: In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-03
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Ninja in a Business Suit
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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雲を呼ぶ講道館
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-27
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A Woman's Gamble
Overview: Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Overview: Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Woman Gambler and the Nun
Overview: Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-30
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The Woman Dicer
Overview: Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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The Silent Gun
Overview: A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-14
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The Pit of Death
Overview: Horror film directed by Koji Shima.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-15
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The School of Spies
Overview: Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-04
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Live and Learn
Overview: Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after school is out and they are caught by the old school janitor. Tsuneo's mother, orders Tetsuko to pay for what she did to her son but Tetsuko blackmails her instead, saying that she is ready to inform a news company of what has happened to Tsuneo and receives one million yen hush money. Expelled from school, she comes to Tokyo, intending to take a round-the-world trip. But Sankichi (Yoshihiko Aoyama), a jack-of-all-trades, cheats her. So, she makes up her mind to catch him and get back her money.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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The Wanderers
Overview: Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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Blood End
Overview: Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-15
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
Overview: Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem when suspicion arises and Nemuri Kyoshiro gets involved.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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The Black Trademark
Overview: Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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Advance Patrol
Overview: In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
Genres: Drama War Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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A Woman's Testament
Overview: The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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Warning from Space
Overview: Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular singer.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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Giants and Toys
Overview: Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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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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Girls Born in August
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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The Great White Tower
Overview: The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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Black Test Car
Overview: Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-30
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Hoodlum Soldier
Overview: A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Genres: Action War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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Gamera vs. Viras
Overview: As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabitants, including Viras, a squid-like monster that grows to colossal size to battle Gamera.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-20
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Princess Yang Kwei Fei
Overview: In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-03
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The Beloved Image
Overview: A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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Across the Darkness
Overview: A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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The Lowest Man
Overview: A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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New Couple's Guide: The Young Wife is Popular
Overview: A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young wife is a female doctor who has made a name for herself in sex medicine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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The White Road Across the River
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-19
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Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Thirst
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
Overview: The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-02
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Black Speeding
Overview: Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio Yazawa, the boss of the Sakamoto Motorcycle Club.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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Quick-Draw Dog
Overview: Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-27
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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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The Informer
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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The Story of a Blind Woman
Overview: At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a businessman named Tsuruko and falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-20
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A Storm Zone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-26
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A Woman's Life
Overview: One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Gamera vs. Jiger
Overview: When a giant stone statue on Wester Island is disturbed, the legendary monster Jiger appears and heads for Japan. Gamera tries to stop this new rival, only to be injured when Jiger lays eggs inside of him. As two boys in a submarine go on a dangerous quest inside of Gamera's body to save him, Jiger threatens the Expo '70 world's fair in Osaka.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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She Came For Love
Overview: Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-28
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While Yet a Wife
Overview: A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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新・与太郎戦記
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-27
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G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Ocean Floor Crime #1
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-05
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六人の女を殺した男
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-31
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わが愛を星に祈りて
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-26
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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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Prize of Flesh
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Original Language: ja
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