Hideo Takamatsu
Also Known As: Hiderô Takamatsu, Tetsuro Takeichi , Хидэо Такамацу, هیدئو تاکاماتسو
Biography: Hideo Takamatsu (高松英郎) was born on October 24, 1929 in Nagaoka-gun, Kochi, Japan as Tetsuro Takeichi (武市 哲郎). He was an actor, known for El último emperador (1987), Shogun (1980) and A Wife Confesses (1961). He died on February 26, 2007 in Kanagawa, Japan.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagaoka-gun, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: October 24, 1929
Deathday: February 26, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Yokohama Bakkuretai
Overview: Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-05
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A Geisha on Horseback
Overview: Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early Taisho era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-15
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誘拐
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
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Road to the Don
Overview: The first 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Road to the Don 2
Overview: The second 'Road to the Don' film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-18
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Road to the Don 4
Overview: The fourth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-16
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Road to the Don 3
Overview: The third 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-03
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Road to the Don 6
Overview: The sixth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-21
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Road to the Don 7
Overview: The seventh 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Thug Business Worker Sabu
Overview: The truth of a sniper becomes clear in the turmoil of a drug robbery that shakes the underworld.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-09
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Road to the Don 8
Overview: The eighth "Road to the Don' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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Road to the Don 9
Overview: The ninth 'Road to the Don' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-30
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Road to the Don 11
Overview: The eleventh 'Road to the Don' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-26
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Road to the Don 12
Overview: The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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雀狼伝2 必殺！！亜空間殺法
Overview: The second full-fledged mahjong drama presented with the full cooperation of the Japan Professional Mahjong Federation! The strongest rival appears. The most formidable rival appears. What will Ando Mitsuru do? Will the subspace killing method be defeated?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-21
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Kurohyō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-17
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雪の降る街に
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-04
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Goryokaku
Overview: After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.
Genres: Action History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-30
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Resurrection
Overview: When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-18
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Judo for Life
Overview: Naoya Ichijo uses special judo techniques to succeed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-19
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Tokyo Crime Map
Overview: An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-04
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Shura ga Yuku 2
Overview: A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-10
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Giants and Toys
Overview: Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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Tosei Burai
Overview: Ryoji Minami, an elite trading company man, falls in love with Minako Kano, the daughter of the fifth president of the Kanto Kano family, overcomes obstacles, and has a wedding. A sudden misfortune befell Ryoji. On the day of the wedding, his father and daughter were killed by a bomb planted in a package. In anger and sadness with nowhere to go, Ryoji vows to take revenge on the bomber, and as the sixth head of the Kano family, confronts the Kyoei Alliance.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-11
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Elegant Beast
Overview: A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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A Wife Confesses
Overview: Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-29
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The Romance of Yushima
Overview: Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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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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Kodokan Under a Morning Moon
Overview: The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-16
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I can’t study
Overview: Hidemi is bored of school, and decides to find another way to succeed in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-08
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Asakusa at Night
Overview: A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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Shura Group
Overview: Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-16
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Fūshinraishin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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The Pachinko Game Drifter II
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Bokyo
Overview: In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-10-09
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Rennyo and His Mother
Overview: Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a background of great poverty and hardship, at the age of 16 he set out to spread the word across the land.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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Black Test Car
Overview: Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-30
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Advance Patrol
Overview: In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
Genres: Drama War Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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Horror of the Giant Vortex
Overview: Japanese horror move from 1978.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-05
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Shura Group Part 1
Overview: Denzaburo Kato, the third generation leader of the Horii family whose territory encompasses the Yokohama area, has a dramatic encounter at a certain judo hall with a young man who would later shake up Japan's yakuza society. The man's name is Ryuji Inahara, the future president of the Inahara-kai!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Secret Agent 101
Overview: Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Gone Without Saying Goodbye!
Overview: This TV drama special depicts the obsession of a sister and two detectives searching for her missing brother who witnessed the crimes of a political fixer.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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Black Report
Overview: After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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Typhoon Reporter
Overview: Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Ginza is square in its sights!
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Yakuza Hooligans
Overview: A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-15
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The False Student
Overview: A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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The Last Emperor
Overview: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-04
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A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
Overview: A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder where the monster will head next.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-26
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Company Executives
Overview: A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-10
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Ninja in a Business Suit
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Overview: Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-17
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Secret Information
Overview: A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-14
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
Overview: The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Overview: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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Accomplice
Overview: Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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Patterns of Love
Overview: Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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The Messenger from the Moon
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-22
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The Detective
Overview: Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him dead in order to rescue the hostage, but the public denounces his actions as stemming from the personal grudge of a detective whose wife was just murdered, and he is demoted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-22
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Black Dividend
Overview: Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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Forbidden
Overview: Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-15
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The Rockabilly Lady
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-08
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The Black Trademark
Overview: Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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Samurai Secret Agent
Overview: A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory being used by two samurai clans that try to usurp power and gain the position of shogun for one of their own.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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The Midday Trap
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-19
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The Snowy Heron
Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Overview: A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-23
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
Overview: During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu clan, who, along with Katsuro Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma, sought to fulfill the dream of a new peaceful era in Japan. Can he realize his ideals or will he die in the chaos of internecine fights...
Genres: Action Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-16
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-17
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五十円横町
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-22
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The Story of Jiro
Overview: Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-04
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Black Money
Overview: The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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Turning Point
Overview: A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-06-18
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Across the Darkness
Overview: A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Love and Life
Overview: Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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A Storm Zone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-26
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Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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The Judo Champ
Overview: When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to use the school for teaching the Ryukyu art of Karate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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Daiei Studio is Bustling
Overview: A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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Wild Touch: Pachisuro Daikōryaku
Overview: Original video
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Warrior's Justice 3 - Termination
Overview: Kojima Takeshi, who has strayed from the yakuza world, launches a gang that draws a line in the sand with today's yakuza society. However, the Sekiyama and Jinno gangs, who find this an eyesore, attempt to crush Takeshi and his gang. The Sekiyama and Jinno gangs send in an assassin, Kishigami, a former brother of Takeshi...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Ah Special Attack Corps
Overview: Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
Overview: The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-02
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Zero Escape Visibility
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-30
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Emperor of Upheaval
Overview: The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-12
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