Ko Yamamuro
Also Known As: Eiji Murakami, 村上英二, Takeshige Nishimori, 西森高茂, Hajime Hikari, 光一
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: December 17, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
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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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新遊侠伝
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-05
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The Age of Beginnings
Overview: A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-07-15
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Endless Passion
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-29
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Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
Overview: An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-28
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Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako
Overview: 1954 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-14
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.1
Overview: The deputy shogun of the realm, accompanied by his loyal and capable aides, makes a stop at Jigokudani, a place along his journey through various provinces. Here, a lively and entertaining tale unfolds, filled with swordplay where heroes and villains clash, intertwined with heartwarming humor.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-14
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.2
Overview: At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin, Lord Kōmon's ingenious strategy swiftly overcomes the wicked bandits in this exhilarating and unrivaled episode.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-03-06
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Kaiketsu kuro zukin
Overview: First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-29
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Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru
Overview: Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-08-10
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The Singing Baseball Kid
Overview: A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to return a star player’s lost money.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-07-27
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大当り黄金狂時代
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-06-05
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続南国太平記 薩南の嵐
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-02-03
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Nangoku Taiheiki
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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のど自慢三羽烏
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion
Overview: Bored Hatamoto film #17
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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爆笑天国 とんち教室
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-13
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Escape at Dawn
Overview: Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-08
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Horse
Overview: Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-11
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Nonki saiban
Overview: A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
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Three Women of the North
Overview: The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-08-05
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音楽大進軍
Overview: A 1943 film.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-03-18
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Shanghai Landing Party
Overview: This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Iemitsu and Hikoza
Overview: A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-26
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Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode
Overview: The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji Kunisada, the legendary bakuto (or gambler, the precursors to modern-day yakuza). One of the two remaining segments of Ito’s original four-hour trilogy, it depicts Chuji’s attempt to save the geisha Oshina, a rebellion against the rigid social structure of Edo Japan. With socialist overtones, it’s a passionate artifact of early Japanese film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1927-12-27
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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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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Overview: Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-23
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One-Eyed Detective
Overview: Fifth delivery in the Tarao Bannai series, following the "master detective with seven faces" who uses his signature disguise to solve crimes with a double-barreled pistol.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-10
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Merciless Blade
Overview: The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-23
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Merciless Blade Part 2
Overview: The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-03
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The Naked Town
Overview: A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-13
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Overview: In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-05-03
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Ningen moyo
Overview: A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-06-14
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Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
Overview: Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-22
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The Tattooed Magistrate: Fallen Flowers Showdown Volume
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-23
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The Tattooed Magistrate: Cherry Blossoms Dance Volume
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-14
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Enoken’s Boxing Generation
Overview: Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-02-08
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