Hideo Saeki
Also Known As: Hideo Mihara, 三原秀夫
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Akasaka-ku, Tokyo, Japa
Birthday: January 09, 1912
Deathday: November 01, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Actress and the Poet
Overview: Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neighbour. In the meantime, life is imitating art across the street, which may end up providing for either a happy ending or a rude split - eventually that is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-21
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Japan's Don
Overview: A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Amai daeki
Overview: Pinku from 1965.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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The Road I Travel with You
Overview: The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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The Love Robots
Overview: In this bizarre world of distorted human pleasures, we have come to accept the most heinous crimes against mankind as just another example of the degeneration of our species. Even the most jaded individual could not forgive the creators of the Love Robots. Love Robots are beautiful young girls, abducted right off the street who, through a procedure that rivals anything the Marquis de Sade might have dreamt of, are turned into monsters, capable of killing a man or loving him on command.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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Not Forgotten
Overview: Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to fight back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-23
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Avalanche
Overview: The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-21
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The Beautiful Hawk
Overview: One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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Sugata naki teki
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-01-25
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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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The Bridal Night Again
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-01-18
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Black Narcissus of Lust
Overview: Pinku from 1967.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-21
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Saigo no kikyō
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-07-26
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珍説忠臣蔵
Overview: A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-03
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A Woman's Sorrows
Overview: Japanese domestic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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Mad Passion Highway
Overview: Pinku from 1968.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Nonkina tosan
Overview: Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-12-01
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Haunted Cave
Overview: The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family were under a curse. Yumi is surprised by the ghost of a dead sister who looks the same as the grim figure who jumped into the old well alter stabbing herself with a sword. Fearful that a similar fate awaits her, Yumi seeks the help of her friend Kyoko. Later the ghost appears before Kyoko and her fiancé, Detective Nonomiya. In a haunted cave, Kyoko and Yumi are in deadly peril from those who seek treasures of the Aoyamas.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-17
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Shanghai Landing Party
Overview: This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Last of the Wild Ones
Overview: A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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Jirocho in Disgrace
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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Lovetide
Overview: An Ishiro Honda film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-09
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Iemitsu and Hikoza
Overview: A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-26
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Shanghai Moon
Overview: It is presumed to be a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-07-01
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
Overview: The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-08-16
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On Wings of Love
Overview: On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-13
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The Black Fury
Overview: A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exploration of the criminal facts behind the explosion of a freighter in the harbor. He goes undercover with a band of drug smugglers, but his methods threaten to destroy him as well as his case.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-30
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Rainy Night Duel
Overview: Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-29
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はりきり社長
Overview: The third installment in the Shacho Series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-13
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Sky of Hope
Overview: What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-01-14
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Rainbow Hill
Overview: A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named Hasegawa checks into the hotel in order to recuperate in a calm environment with fresh air. She is the mother of the store employee. The mother and daughter were separated due to the Kanto earthquake. The girl was practically raised by her older half brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-03-11
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Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu
Overview: Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His company hasn't paid his backsalary and he doesn't know how he will pay for the new baby. His friend Suihei tells him about a job at a bar, but on his way there, Tokunosuke meets a mysterious man who sells him a newspaper...for tomorrow!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-09
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