Kiyoshi Hitomi
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yokote, Akita Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 01, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 22, 1985
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Overview: Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-08
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Bridal Cruise
Overview: Daisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out they are rivals bidding for control of a major resort hotel. During the bargaining sessions each accuses the other of misconduct because of their escapades, thus getting them in trouble with their families. Shinichi's ecology group and Daisuke's wife's women's lib movement become involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-04
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Overview: Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-12
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Examination Hell
Overview: A student, running late on the day of the University of Tokyo entrance exams, calls in a fake bomb threat in order to arrive on time.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-12
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I Are You, You Am Me
Overview: 9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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Code of Ruffians
Overview: Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
Overview: Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Inferno of Torture
Overview: Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-02
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Industrial Spy
Overview: Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a new engine invented by a rival company. Kogure manages to obtain the secrets, but Sawada's goal was not the secrets themselves, but to use them to obtain the position of president of the company. Angered by Sawada's dirty tricks, Kigure begins to take revenge.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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Break Town Story
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-24
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Downtown Blues
Overview: The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
Overview: A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-03
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Wolves of the City: Checkmate
Overview: This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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Code Between Brothers
Overview: Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
Overview: Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebed to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harrassed by a gang of thugs. When the harrassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Hot Springs Geisha
Overview: A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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The Hotspring Resort Masseuse
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-24
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Overview: Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-25
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Murder Unincorporated
Overview: When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry showcases some of the most peculiar killing tactics to ever hit Japanese cinema!
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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Women's Doctor
Overview: Life of a bachelor gynecologist in a hospital for women.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-18
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Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy
Overview: Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-23
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Showdown in Gangland
Overview: Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-07
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Gamblers and Racketeers
Overview: Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take over the territory. Masakichi will do all he can to protect and support the people. Ryutaro Kijima is senior son to Masakichi, though disowned, he keeps interest in the family from a distance. He will be there for his father and his hot tempered younger brother Katsuo, if they should need his loyal help.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-24
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Sex Up and Down
Overview: A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-22
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Secret Love
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-03
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Inferno of Torture
Overview: Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-02
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ラーメン大使
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-11
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