Sumiko Minami
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: February 24, 1931
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Female
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汚れた顔
Overview: 1959 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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Women of Ginza
Overview: At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Striving to Live
Overview: Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-02-25
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The Beautiful Nuns
Overview: A samurai who slashes a young girl's mage appears in Edo, and she is never caught.
Genres: Romance History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-07-26
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Return to Kanto Prison
Overview: Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock… The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-09
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Kidō sōsahan muhō chitai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-25
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Dôkoku
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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Cat Changed Into Tiger
Overview: A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his surprise, the elderly are all healthy thanks to a special local sake. Along the way, he meets an eye-patch-wearing killer, which only confounds his misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-23
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Three Wives: Wild Nights
Overview: A suspense drama that comically depicts the intersection of love, sex, and money between men and women. One day, an affair with Taro Mishima's wife, Itsuko, and his subordinate Akizuki was discovered. Mishima blames them, but the relationship with hostess Noriko is pointed out. After all this, they divorce and each remarry. However, Mishima's carnal desire extended to a young housekeeper Kimiko. Noriko's son Takashi marries his former lover, Etsuko. They start a new life at the residence of Mishima. Two men and three women cross each other under one roof, and a storm of desire blows up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-28
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Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-22
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
Overview: East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name suggests. Daikichi was a driver working for the East-West transportation company, and Rokuheita served as his assistant. The Daikichi truck, which was packed with luggage today, has left for its destination. And soon after Daikichi's truck left, Rokuheita heard a cat meowing from behind, so Daikichi stopped the car and turned to check the cargo, and there in a large basket he saw a crying baby...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-29
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Gunman's Alley
Overview: Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the killer of the hood's brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-06
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Apartment Wife: Agony Afternoon
Overview: A young couple and his wife's sister live in a housing complex. When her wife becomes suspicious of the relationship between her husband and her sister, she falls into an unexpected trap.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-05
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Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-20
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Sukeban Deka: Dirty Mary
Overview: A tough female cop matches wits with a blackmailing killer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-20
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Rope Hell
Overview: Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the behest of Hanamura. Hanamura has formed a new gang and intends to use Akiko as a hostage to take over her clan's territory. During the torture and abuse sessions which follow, Akiko comes to enjoy the treatment and forsakes her gangland empire.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-24
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Sex Report From a Female Private Detective: Housewife Prostitution
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Afternoon Affair: Kyoto Holy Tapestry
Overview: An upwardly-mobile banker's boss introduces him to the adopted daughter of a wealthy client. He falls in love with the girl and wants to marry her, not knowing that she is involved in a kinky sadomasochistic relationship with her artist father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-04
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Office Lady Journal: Ruined Lust
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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Kindan: Seifuku no modae
Overview: A high school girl has a secret crush on her older cousin. When he has an accident mountain climbing she decides to give herself to him. He roughly tries to take advantage of her pure love and she runs away. Later she discovers that an older woman has been paying him for his intimate attentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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Eigo ni yowai otoko azuma wa azuma, nishi wa nishi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
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Red Light Tobita Brothel
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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Fangs of Night
Overview: A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Asu no hanayome
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-09
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Frankie the Milkman
Overview: Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-05
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Jokôsei: Kikenna Mebae
Overview: A high school girl gets into trouble when she takes on a part-time job as a substitute bride. At the wedding hall, she runs away with a man just before the ceremony, and ended up involved in a kidnapping ransom of 20,000,000 yen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-19
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Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!
Overview: A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-23
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Lady Chatterly in Tokyo
Overview: Mio is a young woman whose husband is a millionaire's son. When he becomes impotent following an automobile accident, she begins an affair with their gardener and chauffeur, Nitta. After her husband discovers Mio's infidelity, he forces her to leave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-20
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Satsujin-sha o oe
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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Utau abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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Immortal Guy
Overview: Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months later, Kosuke suddenly appears in Kagoshima and reunites with his partner, the vagrant Kumagoro. However, Kosuke's relief does not last long, he learns from Kumagoro that Toseikai are acting ruthlessly here too.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Victory Is Ours
Overview: A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun Suzuki's directorial debut.
Genres: Music Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-21
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Eight Hours of Terror
Overview: A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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東京午前三時
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-12
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快傑耶茶坊
Overview: 1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-18
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Fight of the Gamblers
Overview: Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Nagasaki Butterfly
Overview: Oman travel from Shanghai to Japan in search of her mother, only to be betrayed by her companion and sold to a brothel, where she becomes a geisha and gambler.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-18
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The Hunter's Diary
Overview: Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-19
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Kanto County Sex Unit
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-26
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Female Beautician Rope Discipline
Overview: Hairstylist Misa meets S&M enthusiast Ippei and is convinced to give it a try. Then later, Ippei's ex-wife, who happens to be one of Misa's beauty shop clients, begins a sexual relationship with her. The lesbian affair is also accentuated by some more S&M.
Genres: Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-27
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The Shadow of Fear
Overview: In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-11
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Dice and Swords
Overview: The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
Overview: A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-07
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Red Handkerchief
Overview: A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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Love Hunter
Overview: Kyōko is a woman with a promiscuous past who is sexually unsatisfied with her marriage. Her frustrations lead her to have hedonistic dreams, such as her mother and grandfather having sex together. Seeking to rejuvenate her marriage, she throws a wild party. The ploy is a success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-19
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Gambling Kitten
Overview: Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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Ai to shi no katami
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Apartment Wife: Secret Call Girl
Overview: A blackmail ring uses illicit photos of an unfaithful wife to force her into prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-09
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Zoom Up: Graduation Photo
Overview: For a little extra money a college student agrees to pose as a nude model for a magazine. But she finds out too late that the magazine is a pornographic one. When it gets published it causes problems with her boyfriend who happens to see it. She is persuaded into do a few more sessions and each time the setups becomes more extreme. She begins to lose herself in heat of passion and doesn’t notice the camera is shooting when the action turns into the real thing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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Dancing Sisters
Overview: It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daughters. Haruko, the eldest, is the lead vocalist in a band. Natsuko is the conscientious type, who spends her days in ballet classes beautifying herself. The youngest of the three, Akiko is a bookworm who found her niche in philosophy. Although the sisters may appear to have nothing in common, there is one thing they all agree on; "Mom needs a new husband".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
Overview: For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love. Intent on climbing up in the world, Ayuko uses all her wiles to get her patron, who is putty in her hands, to move her from her grubby apartment house to a dreamboat of a place. She then tries to find a place to work more befitting her new home but all the elite night clubs will have nothing to do with her and with time heavy on her hands, the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-18
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Hirate Miki the Swordman
Overview: The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without overcoming the hardship of life.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-10-19
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Student Double Suicide
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-27
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The Story of a Salesman: Every Man Has a Dream
Overview: A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman pursuing a man's dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-02
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Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Overview: The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-27
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Aoime no Sugao
Overview: A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of youth.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-08
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Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
Overview: Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-03
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風の噂のリル
Overview: Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his disciple Shimaki Tetsuo. One day, the two of them joined five others who were going to the cabaret Kurofune in Shimoda and went on a journey together, where they discovered a pretty young woman named Keiko, called Lilu. When the group returned to Tokyo, Keiko, who wanted to be a singer, followed them and asked them to accompany her to Tokyo. Keiko settled on the second floor of Tetsuo's aunt's tobacco shop in Tokyo, but Sanada went on a journey as a musician with the female swordsman Oe Midori's troupe to take care of Keiko's immediate living expenses. During his absence, Keiko was able to make her debut as a radio singer thanks to the kindness of Tetsuo's friend. Hearing Keiko's voice coming from the radio, Sanada rejected Midori's advances and returned to Tokyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-03
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Half Virgin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-25
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For This We Fight
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-14
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Kiriko's Tango
Overview: A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a working-class neighborhood.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-25
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Boku dōshite namida ga deru no
Overview: 1965 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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高校四年
Overview: 1957 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-06
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