Kokinji Katsura
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: October 06, 1926
Deathday: November 03, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Samurai's Honor at Pawn
Overview: A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-04
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Wild Lion
Overview: A gripping historical drama that follows the explosive growth of Katsu Kaishu, the hero of the Meiji era, and the interesting human image of his father, Kokichi, who lived for the common people, his neighbors and his children. A film about paternal and maternal love and conjugal love in the creation of mankind, about the healing power of which laughter and tears have. The film that became the last work of the giant star Tsumasaburo Bando.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Overview: Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-20
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Stories about Jirocho: Ishimatsu and Oiwake Sangoro
Overview: Ishimatsu is strong in fights, but weak in relationships with women and enjoys great popularity among them, and we see how an exciting historical drama about love, enmity and friendship is played out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-23
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Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Beautiful Calendar
Overview: Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just started, and a chemistry teacher Murao who she respects, and is enjoying every day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-11
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Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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Hito mo arukeba
Overview: A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-09
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My Hobo
Overview: Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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Modern Children
Overview: After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-02
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Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-15
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Yajikita min'yō dōchū Ōshū kaidō no maki
Overview: 1959 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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Kyū-chan ondo
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Hana to ryu
Overview: Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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Beautiful Gonpati
Overview: A foot soldier from Tottori domain named Shirai Gonpachi showcased exceptional swordsmanship that even surpassed the domain's champion Honjo Sukehichi during a ceremonial match. Though Gonpachi was promised a promotion to samurai status due to his skills, Sukehichi's father Sukezaemon's intervention out of jealousy prevented this. In anger, Gonpachi killed Sukezaemon and, without realizing it, also mistakenly killed Tomoe, his lover's brother Tsushimo Uemon. Following this, he fled to Kyoto, seeking shelter at the "Murasa" inn operated by Uemon's aunt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-03
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素浪人日和
Overview: At the Fugenji temple in Koishikawa, Edo, a memorial service for the 49th day after the passing of Kyogoku Takanori, the lord of the Tanba-Miyazu domain, was held. Despite being sons of Takanori, three brothers, who had different mothers, gathered, each having grown up in different circumstances.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble
Overview: During the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one night a carver named Fujijiro was murdered. Immediately launching an investigation, Denhichi, accompanied by Otoshi and Take, toured the entertainment houses of Ryogoku. There, they discovered a connection between an acrobat and the incident. On their way home, Otoshi unexpectedly encountered an old friend, Inosuke, nervously buying a dagger. Inosuke, a clerk at the Kashimaya store, was in love with Oko, a secret lover of Bunzaemon. Amidst this, Seihei, the head clerk, was murdered by someone, and a dagger belonging to Inosuke was found at the scene, leading Gohei to suspect Inosuke as the culprit. However, Otoshi was hiding Inosuke. Driven by Otoshi's plea and a professional instinct that Inosuke wasn't the perpetrator, Denhichi desperately searched for the real culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-06
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Kyūjin ryokō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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のんき侍大暴れ
Overview: In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth shogunate to young Lord Manguro of Owari domain. This document became the center of a struggle between the current shogun, Yoshimune, and Manguro. Iida Daisuke, a member of the shogunate's secret intelligence group, the Kurokuwa Group, stole the document from Owari but was killed by Manguro's men. The document then fell into the hands of Yozakura Ogin, who had pledged her life to Daisuke.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-13
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その手にのるな
Overview: A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-16
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Tekka Wakashū
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Hore tatte dame yo
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
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New Tokyo March
Overview: Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Naite waratta hanayome
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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A Bold Life
Overview: Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hardships to win a major victory.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-22
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Dancing Mistress
Overview: Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is avenging the death of his brother. Jinzo, who wants to win over a rich merchant, pours boiling water on One's face...
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-30
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Showdown in the Red Valley
Overview: Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometown with his own eyes. Ken, who was entangled in this land's boss Samejima and collapsed, was rescued by Shingo Kazama, a mountain man who works at the quarry. Samejima, who doesn't like Shingo, tries to interfere with Shingo's work...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-29
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Botchan
Overview: 1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-14
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Dai nippon kosodoro den
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-06
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Furimuita hanayome
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-16
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Sararīman monogatari shin'nyū shain dai ikka
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-29
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Sararīman monogatari: Teki wa ikuman aritotemo
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-20
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The Bronze Monster
Overview: In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
Overview: A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Temptation on Glamour Island
Overview: Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Hobo Village
Overview: Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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Welcome, My Baby
Overview: Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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Snow in the South Seas
Overview: Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Little Adventurer
Overview: Mickey, a smart student from England, is on his trip to Japan for vacation. He meets with a Chinese girl Lin Fang on the way. They each have the same model of camera. But they have their cameras exchanged without their knowing it prior to their departure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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Tsubakiyama's Send Back
Overview: When middle-aged salary man Tsubakiyama suddenly dies, he leaves his family high and dry. But suddenly he's given another chance: a few days in which to return to Earth and straighten things out. The thing is, he's come back in the form of a strikingly beautiful young woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-18
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Room for Let
Overview: When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-02
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Tiger of the Sea
Overview: A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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Tales of President Mito
Overview: Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a large Chinese company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-04
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Murderous Intent in the Pacific
Overview: A ferry captain named Sugisaki (Takahashi Hideki) and his first officer, Kojima (Funakoshi Eiichiro), participate in a photoshoot conducted by camerawoman Yamaka Shiori (Ohama Tomoko) of the ferry. The ferry reaches Miyazaki and Sugisaki and Kojima go to the hotel where a showing of Yamakawa's photos is being held. Yoshizawa (Nakajima Hisayuki), a magazine editor, is waiting for Yamakawa at the hotel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-26
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro
Overview: Genji Kurô is a master swordsman and entrusted with protecting the ancient sword Kaen by the Otsubo family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-15
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Young Miss Executive
Overview: A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But Madoka wants to be a stage dancer, so she won't concentrate her office job. Madoka meets Akiyama, a stage director. Akiyama introduce her to his neighbors. In among poor but open minded people, Madoka has changed. Her new ambition is her company provide nice sweets for children. She decide to focus on the office job. But she doesn't know that company executives has conspiracy against her...
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-29
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Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
Overview: Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in an art auction. However, when people with links to the auction start getting killed one after another, Nami sets out to find the criminal with her detective husband Ryohei.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-30
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Always in My Heart Part 2
Overview: Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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The Flower and the Sword
Overview: A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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The School Cap
Overview: A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-15
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The Scent of Incense
Overview: After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-24
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The Rambler Returns Home
Overview: Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Girls of the Night
Overview: In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Free and Easy 18
Overview: Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
Overview: Akane is the young mistress of Notoraku Inn in Ishikawa Prefecture. She is trained by her mother-in-law, Takako, daily. One day, as Yohei, Akane's husband, and Takako are on their way to a friend's wedding, Rekiko, Yohei's childhood friend, confesses her feelings for Yohei in front of everyone at the hotel. The next day, Reiko's body is found and Akane and Yohei become murder suspects.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-14
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Mother Country
Overview: In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-29
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This Madding Crowd
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-28
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A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
Overview: Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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Temptation on Glamour Island
Overview: Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Zokuzoku bantōhan to detchidon
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Salaryman's Medal
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-13
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Why Are We Young?
Overview: After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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腰抜け女兵騒動
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-26
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The Scarred Crest
Overview: A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-01
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Aces Wild
Overview: Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil of his native land, his first thought was to visit Otanuki Fudo, the guardian deity of the Otorigumi, but the Otorigumi had fallen and Otanuki Fudo was on the verge of eviction for the construction of an expressway. Keisuke and Joji put on the striped suits left to them by their late boss, and set out to rebuild the clan...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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The Bronze Devil
Overview: A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a prized clock, leading to a uranium deposit. He deduces the fiend is his nemesis, the Fiend with Twenty Faces.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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