Misao Seki
Also Known As: Zensaku Watanabe , Дзэнсаку Ватанабэ, Мисао Сэки
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 23, 1884
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
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The Breath of the Gods
Overview: While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-25
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A Page of Madness
Overview: A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1926-09-24
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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Tôribêyama shinjû
Overview: The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-12-26
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Benten kozo
Overview: First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-01-04
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Serpent
Overview: This is the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstandings and follows the plots of his enemies.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1925-11-20
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Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-01-16
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Two Lanterns
Overview: A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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Mystic Faces
Overview: Yano is a small delivery boy for his uncle, who keeps a curio shop in Chinatown. His loves are Tama, his sweetheart, and Bengi, his dog. Bengi is seized by dog catchers, but is rescued by Letty Stanford, for which Yano promises his fealty. Later Letty is kidnapped by Germans because of her war activities, and it is Yano who goes to her rescue and gets her free in spite of his diminutive size. The Little Japanese has paid his debt.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-08
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Navy
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-12-08
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Nogitsune Sanji
Overview: A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-01-05
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Yôma kitan
Overview: Japanese horror movie from 1929.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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The Outside Woman
Overview: The Outside Woman is a lost 1921 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Douglas Bronston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-08
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Bored Hatamoto on the Nakasendo
Overview: Bored Hatamoto film #6
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-01-07
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Bored Hatamoto Judges 100,000-koku
Overview: Bored Hatamoto film #7
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-02-08
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Crossroads
Overview: After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-05-11
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Man-Slashing Horse-Piercing Sword
Overview: In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the local lord and substitute his own "heir", an orphan, in order to get control of the late lord's estate and rule as the impostor's "regent". However, a mysterious stranger appears and sets out to thwart the magistrate's plans and free the people from his oppressive rule.
Genres: Drama Action War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-09-20
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Akanishi Kakita
Overview: A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-06-18
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Where Lights Are Low
Overview: The Chinese prince T'Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to study in the United States, the young man promises his beloved that they two will be together soon. Having finished university, one day T'Su Wong Shih visits the market of San Francisco, and at an auction of slaves, he finds Quan Yin auctioned. To save her, he agrees to pay a price of five thousand dollars but, not possessing the full amount, he makes a deal with the auctioneer for a three-year extension in which he must work to raise the money needed to rescue the girl. T'Su Wong Shih has no great success until he manages to win a large sum in a lottery. However, Quan Yin is now in danger because a Chinese gangster wants to have it and, to do that, goes to threaten the auctioneer who is forced to comply. T'Su Wong Shih is then engaged in a struggle to liberate his beloved: he defeats the gangster, rescues Quan Yin and claims her as his...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-04
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Daikatsugeki Sôtô
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-08-15
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An Actor's Revenge
Overview: An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-27
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Yotsuya Kaidan
Overview: This is a classic Japanese Ghost Story.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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Chichi yo izuko e
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1923-08-31
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The Vermilion Pencil
Overview: The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based on the eponymous 1908 novel by Homer Lea. The film stars Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa in multiple roles, and white actors Ann May, Bessie Love, and Sidney Franklin, all in Asian roles. It is now a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-19
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Flowers of Patriotism
Overview: A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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With a Single Sword Bale
Overview: Period film from 1934.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-07-14
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Kagaribi
Overview: A young vassal is betrayed by his corrupt lord.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-03-16
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