Robert Ito
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Biography: Robert Ito (born July 2, 1931) is a Canadian-born voice, television, and movie actor of Japanese descent who is perhaps best known to television viewers for his roles as Sam Fujiyama on the NBC-TV series Quincy, M.E. and Lawrence 'Larry' Mishima on the CBS-TV night time soap opera series Falcon Crest. Description above from the Wikipedia Robert Ito licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Birthday: July 02, 1931
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Overview: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story
Overview: After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all persons of Japanese descent in Canada were sent to internment camps. The former Asahi members survived by playing ball. Their passion was contagious and soon other players joined in, among them RCMP officials and local townspeople. As a result, the games helped break down racial and cultural barriers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-01
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Soylent Green
Overview: In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-18
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Pray for Death
Overview: Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to move to the United States so that Aiko can teach the children about their American heritage, they pack up and head for Houston, Texas and run a restaurant. This is where the trouble begins....
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-11
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Airport 1975
Overview: When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo
Overview: After a battle with a high-tech villain named, Saiko-Tek, the Teen Titans travel to the city of Tokyo where they find themselves embroiled in a conflict with an ancient enemy.
Genres: Animation Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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Once a Thief
Overview: Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong Kong, Mac is forcefully recruited into a clandestine international crime-fighting unit by a hard-nosed, menacing Director. He is teamed in Vancouver with Li Ann, who thought Mac was dead, and her new fiancé Victor Mansfield, an ex-cop who is attracted to the unorthodox methods of the agency. Conflict flares between Mac and Victor as the trio take on their assignment. They soon learn that their principal target is their foster brother Michael Tang, who had been given Li Ann as his future wife and who has vowed to hunt down the pair for their disloyalty to the "family".
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-29
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What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
Overview: A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of sophisticated con men who force her, because of her remarkable resemblance, to impersonate a wealthy socialite. Based on E.V. Cunningham's (Howard Fast's) novel, "Shirley."
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-18
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The Magic Paintbrush
Overview: A young boy receives a magic paintbrush as a gift, which can make anything he draws come to life.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-22
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Hollow Point
Overview: Livingston is trying to merge the Russians, Chinese and Italian gangsters into one group with huge amounts of money and power. FBI agent Susan and DEA agent Max are trying to stop them.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-21
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P.I. Private Investigations
Overview: A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-05
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Fer-de-Lance
Overview: An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
Genres: Horror Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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The Great Pretender
Overview: A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers dangerous reprisals at his work.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-14
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The Naked Ape
Overview: Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.
Genres: Animation Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects
Overview: The evil Dr. Zin has genetically modified household pests into disturbingly large insects that he calls assassinoids, fearless and devoted warriors that will carry out his plan for world domination. Team Quest, headed by internationally respected scientist Benton Quest, is Earth's only hope. When the good doctor becomes Zin's captive, the stakes - and the action quotient - grow higher. Enter Jonny Quest, Dr. Quest's bright, excitable, imaginative and heroic young son, ex-special agent Race Bannon, Jonny's child genius pals Hadji and Jessie (Race's daughter), their robotic pal 4-DAC and bulldog Bandit to complete the job of vermin extermination before it's too late. Your quest for colorful animated excitement ends here with this high-tech feature-length adventure based on the beloved Hanna-Barbera series.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-19
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Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects
Overview: The evil Dr. Zin has genetically modified household pests into disturbingly large insects that he calls assassinoids, fearless and devoted warriors that will carry out his plan for world domination. Team Quest, headed by internationally respected scientist Benton Quest, is Earth's only hope. When the good doctor becomes Zin's captive, the stakes - and the action quotient - grow higher. Enter Jonny Quest, Dr. Quest's bright, excitable, imaginative and heroic young son, ex-special agent Race Bannon, Jonny's child genius pals Hadji and Jessie (Race's daughter), their robotic pal 4-DAC and bulldog Bandit to complete the job of vermin extermination before it's too late. Your quest for colorful animated excitement ends here with this high-tech feature-length adventure based on the beloved Hanna-Barbera series.
Genres: Action Adventure Animation TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-19
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Too Late the Hero
Overview: A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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Aloha Summer
Overview: It's the 60s and a bunch of crazy teenagers meet in the beautiful island of Hawaii during their summer holidays. Although they come from different backgrounds, they hang out together and shake up the island! They surf, dance, drink, fight and fall in love. As the summer approaches its end, they find themselves inseparable, friends for a lifetime...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Rollerball
Overview: In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-25
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Women of the Prehistoric Planet
Overview: A space ship crash lands on the third planet of a distant solar system, killing all hands except for a young boy named Tang. The rescue ship arrives some 20 years later. One of the crew, a girl named Linda meets Tang and falls in love with him. They are attacked by the native humanoids of the planet and many of them are killed off. Also, the crew encounters many strange beasts on this strange, but somewhat familiar world.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-14
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SST: Death Flight
Overview: On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
Overview: After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.
Genres: Adventure Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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Midway
Overview: This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-18
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American Geisha
Overview: On a trip to Japan, an American student watches the lives of the Geishas in a tea house.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-11
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The Best Bad Thing
Overview: After her husband's death, Mrs. Hata desperately needs help on her cucumber farm. Rinko' mother wants her to spend the summer helping Mrs. Hata, her life-long friend. But 12-year-old Rinko sees Mrs. Hata's traditional Japanese ways as being backward and "crazy." When she gives in to her mother's request, she discovers Mrs. Hata is kind and courageous, fighting to save her farm. Before summer ends, RInko comes to appreciate and defend "crazy" Mrs. Hata.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-05
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Dimension 5
Overview: An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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Crazy People
Overview: A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-13
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Some Kind of a Nut
Overview: A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-14
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Lima: Breaking the Silence
Overview: An intense drama based on the true story of Peruvian rebels who in 1997 kidnapped several hundred high-ranking diplomats and government officials in an attempt to force the release of 400 political prisoners.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-30
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Once a Thief: Brother Against Brother
Overview: Trained thieves (Ivan Sergei, Sandrine Holt) investigate a hit man and a power struggle within their former crime family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-14
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Once a Thief: Family Business
Overview: When thieves turned undercover agents Mac (Ivan Sergei) and Li Ann (Sandrine Holt) must get inside access to an organized crime family, they discover the family's "godfather" -- a teenage girl -- is a deadly force to be reckoned with. This feature-length martial arts thriller is a reedited compilation of two episodes from the "Once a Thief" television series. Victoria Pratt, Nicholas Lea and Jennifer Dale also star.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Helter Skelter
Overview: The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-01
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Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
Overview: Mater the tow truck travels from country to country as he retells his infamous but unbelievable stories.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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Tokyo Mater
Overview: A routine tow lands Mater in Tokyo, where he is challenged to a drift-style race against a nefarious gang leader and his posse of ninjas. With the help of his friend, 'Dragon' Lightning McQueen, and some special modifications, Mater attempts to drift to victory and become Tow-ke-O Mater, King of all Drifters.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-21
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Men of the Dragon
Overview: Two men and a woman, all friends and martial arts experts, visit Hong Kong, where they grew up. When the woman disappears, the men find out that she has been kidnapped by white slavers, and find themselves battling a gang of kung-fu killers in an attempt to rescue their friend.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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Trial at Fortitude Bay
Overview: Defence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie, accused of committing a violent crime. Her rival, prosecutor Daniel Metz seeks the maximum sentence possible under Canadian law, but Gina comes to understand the reasons why the Inuits own justice system has worked for thousands of years. Pauloosie is caught between two rivaling justice systems, and his acceptance of guilt according to the Inuit system, will lead to imprisonment according to the Canadian system.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Special Delivery
Overview: A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight, forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup. As he waits, he discovers that his hiding place has been observed by several other people, all of whom want a share of the loot.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-16
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The Terminal Man
Overview: As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-19
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Death Scream
Overview: Loosely based on the true story of the killing of Kitty Genovese: A young woman's murder is witnessed by fifteen of her neighbors who do nothing to help and refuse to cooperate with the police.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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Pueblo
Overview: Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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Peeper
Overview: A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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The Omega Code
Overview: An ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of apocalypse.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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Who Shrunk Saturday Morning?
Overview: A prime-time special previewing NBC's 1989-90 Saturday morning lineup, hosted by the cast members of NBC's "Saved by the Bell."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-02
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Aloha Means Goodbye
Overview: A young woman who is battling a rare blood disease must also fight against a greedy doctor who needs a heart-transplant donor, and has her in mind.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-11
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