William Ross
Also Known As: ウィリアム・ロス
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: September 07, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 19, 2014
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The Alaska Story
Overview: A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Pineapple Butai
Overview: The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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The Yakuza
Overview: When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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The Last Dinosaur
Overview: Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-07
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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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Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
Overview: Comedy movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-15
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誰よりも金を愛す
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Watashi wa uso wa mōshimasen
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-05
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Graveyard of Honor
Overview: A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-15
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Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
Overview: During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not being able to take part in the fighting. They had been held back by orders from the Naval Ministry, but there was also a plot by saboteurs, who were trying to prevent the sailing of the Mutsu. Director Komori developed a suspenseful plot by including a fictional adaptation of the Russian spy Richard Sorge, who had been captured in Japan and subsequently executed. Komori brings a fictional Russian spy to the screen by portraying him as a military attaché at the German embassy. As Germany was an ally of Japan in WWII, a secret agent being a mole in the German embassy is a perfect cover. The interaction of the saboteurs and the officers and crew of the Mutsu make an exciting story.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Maria of the Ant Village
Overview: Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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The War in Space
Overview: The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Flight from Ashiya
Overview: Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for their location, the film flashes back to chronicle the pasts of each pilot to make clear their mixed feelings about their upcoming assignment.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Pink Lady's Motion Picture
Overview: The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a bulky, over-sized pink acrylic costume) who suffers acts of unusual cruelty by the keeper and ringmaster before the girls escape with the creature in a circus trailer.
Genres: Fantasy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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