Hiroshi Hayashi
Also Known As: Kan Hayashi, 林幹, 林干, 海上 晴帆
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto City, Kyoto, Japan
Birthday: January 01, 1894
Deathday: April 23, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Attack from Space
Overview: The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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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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Evil Brain from Outer Space
Overview: An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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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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Ken ni kakeru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-16
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Atomic Rulers
Overview: Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-10
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Sandai no sakazuki
Overview: 1942 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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Jigoku
Overview: A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-30
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Hiroba no kōdoku
Overview: Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
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Hibari no san'yaku: Zoku Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-23
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Hibari no san'yaku: Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-17
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-11
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
Overview: After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It was thought that Igarashi, who valued righteousness and principles and had the respect of others, would become the second-in-command. However, he was an annoying presence to Ryūzaki...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-20
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Invaders from Space
Overview: A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-31
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Death Row Woman
Overview: Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-13
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Kaiki warau neko
Overview: Film about Ghost-Cat.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-23
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Hanran
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-03
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-21
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Taiyô to Chi to Suna
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Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-22
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Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite
Overview: The 6th Super Giant film. Although he was believed to be destroyed by the Nazi-like army, Super Giant breaks into the satellite, and a long, riotous battle ensues. (Part 2 of 2)
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Super Giant Continues
Overview: The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. (Part 2 of 2)
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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The Ghosts of Kagami Pond
Overview: A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Lust of the White Serpent
Overview: A work with the motif of a legend that remains in the mountain villages of Shinshu and Hida. A white snake helped by a young man transfers to a girl's body, longing for him and burning in an endless passion.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-19
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Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity
Overview: The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. (Part 1 of 2)
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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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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Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Gekkyū dorobō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-08
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Godzilla
Overview: Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
Genres: Thriller Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-03
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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Overview: Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Seven Samurai
Overview: A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-26
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Ikiru
Overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
Overview: In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi’s lineage, specifically from his wife, Fushihime. Outraged but facing annihilation, Yoshimi gives Fushihime a string of eight ancestral beads and urges her to escape to loyal retainer Inuda Kobungo. Instead, she goes alone to Anzai, followed by her dog, Hachibo. In a twist, Hachibo attacks and kills Anzai, allowing Fushihime to escape. She later reveals that the beads protected her and predicts that eight warriors bearing these beads will someday defend the Satomi family before passing away. Yoshimi finds one of the beads in Inuzuka Nobuno’s armor and convinces her to serve him. Meanwhile, Baka Daiki, plotting to overthrow Satomi, imprisons Inukawa Shosuke, who tries to intervene, under the watch of vassal Aminen Saomojiro.
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Overview: Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-21
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Woman Diver's Terror
Overview: Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a magazine. Later, Yuki is found dead in the sea. Yoshi, Chie's sister, along with sailor Shunsuke, try to find Chie. Soon they learn about a conspiracy with diamonds in a ship sunk in the sea.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-22
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Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni
Overview: The last film produced by Shintoho.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-02
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Emperor Meiji and General Nogi
Overview: In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an invincible fortress at Port Arthur, and the relations between two countries have become strained to breaking point. General Nogi has retired to the first reserve and is now a gentleman farmer, but he is prepared for sudden mobilization. Finally, Japan declares war against Russia and Emperor Meiji appoints General Nogi as the commander of the force to attack Port Arthur. However, in spite of several all-out attacks, the fortress is strong and the casualties increase among the Japanese. Because of these reverses, there are loud cries for a change in command. However, the Emperor places his confidence in General Nogi.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-01
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An Inn at Osaka
Overview: An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-20
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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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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Overview: Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-29
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Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
Overview: After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction tried to usurp the rightful heir and take over the honored clan. Before his untimely death, the lord of the Kuroda bestowed “Nihongo”, a magnificent spear, on his finest warrior, which ultimately brings him into contact with two of Japan’s most famous historical figures, Yagyu Jubei and Miyamoto Musashi. Can the three masters of martial art join forces to defeat their enemies and save the nation?
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
Overview: A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-10
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Shitto
Overview: Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Stormy Virtue
Overview: Yuri is looking forward to marrying her fiancé Minoru. However, a few days before the wedding she falls victim to his brother Takehiko, and against her will, she becomes Takehiko's wife. The day after the wedding, Yuri begins her silent revenge by not talking to her husband. She retains her love for Minoru and never gives herself to Takehiko's embrace again. She also contributes large sums of money from Takehiko's fortune to charity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-03
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トップ屋を殺せ
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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南郷次郎探偵帳 影なき殺人者
Overview: Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-19
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Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
Overview: Japanese mystery film.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-10
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Kaachan
Overview: Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-15
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皇室と戦争とわが民族
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-11
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Overview: In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Overview: Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-10
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The Big Boss
Overview: Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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The Cannery Boat
Overview: Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-10
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Overview: During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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Brutal Woman
Overview: Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home and soon takes a lover, but leads a wanton life without paying heed to his advice. However, the younger sister Yoshiko, is an innocent and kind girl. One day, with the sudden death of their mother in a car accident, Keiko learns that she and Yoshiko are actually stepsisters, and that she is the daughter of a murderer. She now plans extortion from Yoshiko's true father who is the president of a well-known trading company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-04
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The Mother Tree
Overview: A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife, the painter's ghost seeks revenge on the samurai, and saves his wife and newborn child.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-13
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This Is a Man's World
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-20
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Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
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Genres: History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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Super Giant
Overview: The 1st film in the Super Giant movie series, in which the title hero saves the world from foreign terrorsts threatening Japan with a nuclear attack (Part 1 of 2)
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-30
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怒号する巨弾
Overview: At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused as spy suspects and his father died in prison after being tortured. Ten years later, Amada seeks for revenge on the three men responsible for his father death.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-12
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History - Part I
Overview: History film directed by Tomu Uchida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-15
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剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-22
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Sutâ dokusatsu jiken
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-03
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