Haruya Katō
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: June 22, 1928
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
Overview: The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-11
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Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Overview: Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the newlywed life that started at the Isono family was a disaster. At the Isono family, where bonito and Wakame pranks and neighbors visit, it is difficult even to be alone.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-23
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Overview: Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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Kane nara kaesen!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-08
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Japan for Sale
Overview: The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-02
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
Overview: A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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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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Ai no uzu shio
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-22
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Assistant President
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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喜劇 駅前飯店
Overview: The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-08
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A Boy and Three Mothers
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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Hadaka no Machi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-23
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Overview: After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-20
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The Mysterians
Overview: In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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Mothra
Overview: Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-30
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The H-Man
Overview: Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-24
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
Overview: During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-08
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Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
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Dogora
Overview: A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-11
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The Battle of Okinawa
Overview: The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-14
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The Big Boss
Overview: Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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The Gambling Samurai
Overview: Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-28
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
Overview: A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-21
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The Beast Shall Die
Overview: A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-09
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Echo Mountain
Overview: An Ishiro Honda film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-22
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Blood on the Sea
Overview: Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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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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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Overview: Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-03
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The Angry Sea
Overview: A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-16
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All About Marriage
Overview: Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-26
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Westward Desperado
Overview: In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-30
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The Blue Revolution
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-10
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The Third President
Overview: The fifth entry in the Company President Series
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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The juvenile
Overview: A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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風来忍法帖 八方破れ
Overview: The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-08
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風来忍法帖
Overview: The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-16
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