Kōichi Mizuhara
Also Known As: Koichi Mizuhara, Mizuhara Hirokazu, 水原浩一, 水原洋一
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 01, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 07, 1969
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower
Overview: The swordsman again crosses paths with the murderous Devil Mask Gang -- who as the name suggests, all wear hideous devil masks.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-21
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
Overview: Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-03
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Scarred Yosaburo
Overview: The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and emotional scars he now carries with him, Yosaburo falls for a young noblewoman. The rest of the film follows the two as they fend off attacks from gangs and the police.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-10
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Overview: Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-14
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Asataro the Crow
Overview: Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-28
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The Phantom Samurai
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Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-19
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
Overview: Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-12
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Freelance Samurai
Overview: One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
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Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
Overview: The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Bara daimyo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-07
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Ojo-kichiza
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-21
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Straw hat of Itako
Overview: A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-25
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Otemoyan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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Adventures of Zatoichi
Overview: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
Overview: Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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Her Hidden Past
Overview: Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Sword Devil
Overview: Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-16
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Conflagration
Overview: Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-22
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Kojiki taishō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-28
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Homeless Dog
Overview: First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-02
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Assassins for sale
Overview: Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here, three wandering samurai who earn their living by killing get to know each other. Soon they learn that government officials will be transporting a large cargo of gold and decide to steal it.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-08
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The Homely Sister
Overview: In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu learns of this decision, she takes matters in her own hands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
Overview: Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-12-05
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The Man From Chungking
Overview: Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-11-11
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駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-06
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Overview: Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advisors from his entourage were assassinated, calling into question the possessions of the Date family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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母山彦
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-24
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An Actor's Revenge
Overview: In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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Rampaging Dog
Overview: Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-06
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Jigoku bana
Overview: Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-25
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Flowery Brothers
Overview: Early film by Kenji Misumi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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The Old Temple Well
Overview: Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-05
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Hell's Assassin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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Conflagration
Overview: Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-22
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The Gay Masquerade
Overview: The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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The Devil's toast
Overview: Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in the hotel. But when an ex-actress who is also a guest there mentions an unsolved murder that occurred on the spot over a year ago, Kurusu decides to investigate.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-10-21
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Koga's Messenger
Overview: The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and witchcraft, a mystery and revenge swirl around the mystery of the hood, in the demon tower, in the underground castle, and at the bottom of the lake!
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-18
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Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
Overview: A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature, depicted with a wry and stylish touch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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The Life of a Horse Trader
Overview: The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and a husband he is frequently drawn to taverns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Overview: A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Zatoichi the Fugitive
Overview: After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-09
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The Funeral Racket
Overview: The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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Jirocho Fuji
Overview: Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-03
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Samurai Vendetta
Overview: Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-22
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Satan's Sword
Overview: The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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A Woman's Gamble
Overview: Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Overview: Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
Overview: Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-08
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The Woman Champion
Overview: Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-01
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Woman Gambler and the Nun
Overview: Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-30
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Two Enemy Women Gamblers
Overview: Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-08
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Sworn Brothers
Overview: Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-22
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Young Boss: Prison Release
Overview: The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-14
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The Sister Gamblers
Overview: Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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The Woman Dicer
Overview: Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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The Silent Gun
Overview: A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-14
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Secret Assignment
Overview: In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.
Genres: Action War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-17
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Obsessive Snake
Overview: Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdered Ochiyo and took over the Ise-ya's shop with Hikoroku a head clerk of Ise-ya. Moreover Utaji killed Hikoroku. But...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Bloody Shuriken
Overview: Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-20
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Overview: During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government supporters and is persecuted. Can Nichiren persevere before the Mongol fleet reaches Japanese shores?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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The Saga of Tanegashima
Overview: Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the first firearm ever seen in Japan. But like a great stone hurled into placid waters, this simple gift will start a revolution. Tokitaka tasks Kinbei, his greatest swordsmith, to copy this musket and build guns for Japan. While Kinbei struggles to forge Japan’s first musket, a great love blooms between Captain Pinto and Kinbei’s daughter Wakasa. But for Kinbei, to let Wakasa marry Pinto and go to Portugal is unthinkable. And as Kinbei creates Japan’s first matchlock factory, Lord Oda Nobunaga will seize upon firearms as the key to sweep all other clans before him, tearing a blood-soaked path of destruction through Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-18
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Overview: Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-01
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Ken
Overview: Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-14
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The Woman Gambler's Revenge
Overview: Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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On the Road Forever
Overview: A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the village is run by criminals who sell the poorest peasants into slavery.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-08
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
Overview: [Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-10
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Overview: Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
Overview: [Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces. In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-12
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Overview: Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-09
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Overview: Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-12
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
Overview: A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.
Genres: Mystery Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
Overview: A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-17
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
Overview: As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
Genres: Action Thriller War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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Gonpachi
Overview: Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-28
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
Overview: Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan, and while the swords of some angry samurai may not cause Kyoshiro much trouble, the deadly wiles of two women may be more difficult to survive!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-30
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess
Overview: The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends waves of ninja warriors to kill the samurai and plots diabolical schemes / ambushes without much success.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-12
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Overview: Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political reformer that pushed for better provisions for the lower classes until he was assassinated by Shogunate agents. Their plot, to set fire to the oil refineries of two rich merchants and unleash a raging inferno that will hopefully burn down the Edo Castle.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-09
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The Blind Menace
Overview: This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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The Fencing Master
Overview: The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Buddha
Overview: An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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A Lustful Man
Overview: Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
Overview: When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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Zatoichi Challenged
Overview: Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-30
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Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
Overview: Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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Champion Woman Gambler
Overview: Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-21
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Maiko and the Assassin
Overview: 19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-28
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The Front Line Showdown
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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The Betrayal
Overview: A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a master-less ronin, if not hunted down and killed.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-02
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Overview: Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-10
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The Magnificent Five
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Ken ni kakeru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-16
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The Gambling Samurai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-14
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Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Young Swordsman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-22
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The Magistrate
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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The Dancer and Two Warriors
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-26
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Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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Song of Sado
Overview: Sentaro (Raizo Ichikawa) from Ipponmatsu sets out to commit evil and gain dignity, but his good-natured nature does not allow him to do anything bad. Along the way, Sentaro saves a young woman named Okimi (Yuko Miki) from a bad womanizer and meets a Yakuza named Katsugoro (Yoshie Mizutani). He then visits Katsugoro boss Kanjiro Inariyama (Ganjiro Nakamura II) to train to be a yakuza, but to his surprise discovers that Katsugoro is Kanjiro's only daughter, Okatsu. He also finds out that the young yakuza working in Kanjiro's house is his younger brother Hanji (Yukio Hashi). Then the Shigezo family, who had been annoying Kanjiro for a long time, set fire to his gambling hall!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Flowers of Chivalry
Overview: Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his younger brother Shinjiro (Yukio Hashi), who has completely changed. Shinjiro abandoned the quiet samurai life and began to lead a Yakuza lifestyle. The older brother is angry at the younger one for his depravity, and the younger one laughs at him for being tied to old-fashioned traditions. As a result, they quarrel. Ichinoshin hears that the person he has to take revenge on has become a Yakuza, and in order to get a hint, he takes care of the Otsu family, to which Shinjiro owes, but later discovers that the boss of Otsu Kanemon is the one he is looking for.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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The Lord and the Gambler
Overview: Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protest from Minister Horio, it is decided that young Chonosuke is to succeed as ruler of the clan. Horio determines to murder Chonosuke on his way to Edo so that his own grandchild may rule the Takatori Clan. "Odd" Han, a travelling gambler happens to stop at the inn where Chonosuke's party is staying in secret. The assassins come to attack Chonosuke on the riverbank where he is viewing the fireworks alone but are driven off by Han. Now Chonosuke travels with Han disguised as a gambler during which he begins to learn the hardships of the peasants and is struck with the contrast between the life of a feudal and those whose labour provides his luxurious living.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Yutaro kodan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-14
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Three-Fingered Detective
Overview: Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large tracts of land. The bride is a former teacher and was rumoured to have had an affair, which explains why the groom's family opposed the union. On the night of the ceremony the bride and groom are killed in a sealed room. There is evidence left, however, as there is a hand print on the wall albeit with only the trace of three fingers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-12-09
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The Bride from Hades
Overview: On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-15
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The Young Lord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Zangiku monogatari
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-23
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Migratory Birds of the Flowers
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-03
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Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi
Overview: Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unparalleled. Gisuke, a weather-beaten yakuza with nostalgia and memories of love in his heart.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-07-22
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Jiraiya
Overview: Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Koina no Ginpei
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-27
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The Man Disappears Yesterday
Overview: Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become his personal assistant. In a rice shop, Yoshimune meets a simple ronin Ohashi Kenshiro, and receives permission to stay at his house, but a mysterious corpse awaits him in the house... And then the second, third and fourth murders occur...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-18
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Spy on the Masked Car
Overview: An industrial espionage film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-28
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Oniisan to oneesan
Overview: A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-08
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Marathon Samurai
Overview: The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda Shozo ("The Return of the Ghost"). The main cast includes Katsu Shintaro ("Flower of the Wandering Bird"), Saga Michiko and Mita Tokiko ("Matashirou's Fighting Journey")
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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晴小袖
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Overview: Second in the Nage Utasamon series
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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Mangorō Tengu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-06
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ほんだら剣法
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-11
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Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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Three Young Samurai
Overview: During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-22
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出獄四十八時間
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-08
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殺人者
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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The Two Musashis
Overview: During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu clan's top instructors and then taking on Sasaki Kojiro!
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Tange Sazen
Overview: The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swords owned by Onozuka Tessai.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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