Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Also Known As: Кацухико Кобаяси
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 15, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 06, 2005
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Yamaotoko no Uta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-08
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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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Road to the Don 2
Overview: The second 'Road to the Don' film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-18
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Road to the Don 3
Overview: The third 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-03
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Road to the Don 17
Overview: The seventeenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-22
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Road to the Don 18
Overview: The eighteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-05-22
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Road to the Don 19
Overview: The nineteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-26
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Road to the Don Gaiden White Tiger Conference
Overview: 'Road to the Don' spinoff.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-13
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Road to the Don Theatrical Version
Overview: A young yakuza experiences various conflicts, tactics, betrayals, rules, etc. in the gangster world, stands out in the organization, and climbs to the top of the organization. The theatrical version of the popular video series adapted from the original work by Murakami Kazuhiko.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-18
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The Actress and the Three Rascals
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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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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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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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
Overview: The final 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-12
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
Overview: Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double crosses. The leader of the Kaga clan, who thinks he has killed his smuggling partner, fears that the shogunate will discover his illegal activities. He learns of evidence that will prove his guilt. Meanwhile, his partner is not dead, and, assisted by a master of Shorenji boxing, is looking for revenge and for his loot. The Kaga leader sends the beautiful Chisa to enlist Nemuri's aid. The unexpected happens: the hard-bitten Nemuri falls in love. Can he protect her, topple the criminals, and avoid the boxer's deadly skill?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-02
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Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
Overview: [Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in Osaka castle. Ieyasu's ninja are the only ones who can penetrate the fortress, but unfortunately for Ieyasu, Kirigakure Saizo and the other Toyotomi ninja can just as easily get out. As armies of samurai maneuver for battle, the fate of the nation will be decided by a desperate struggle in the dark!
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-10
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The Most Valuable Wife
Overview: Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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Sōran wataridori
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Overview: Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Ame no Kudan-zaka
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-30
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When Women Lie
Overview: Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-30
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What Price Love?
Overview: Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Overview: Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.
Genres: Crime Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-13
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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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風来物語 あばれ飛車
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-28
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風来物語任侠篇
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-28
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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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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
Overview: One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
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Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
Overview: Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without success. Saburouta is rescued by his niece, Keisuke at the last moment. Keisuke is a a good-for-nothing. Since that event, he always turns to his uncle when he needs money. Recently Keisuke feels his uncle isn't as generous as he used to be, he suspects that Saburouta has found out the illicit relation between Keisuke and his uncle's young mistress, Ohasu.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-23
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Tabiwa Oiroke
Overview: Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman take your chastity? On the Tokaido Highway of Flowers, a beautiful swordsman is in peril! Tokaido is a journey of women's peril! Pink Kumudo no Kenjidoshu! A swarm of beautiful women chases after him! The forest of white blades that ambushes! Tokaido is in full bloom!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-26
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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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Yakuza Ladies
Overview: While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-11-15
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A Taxing Woman
Overview: Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-07
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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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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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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Overview: Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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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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Tasogare no Tokyo Tower
Overview: A sweet and melancholy story that depicts, with beautiful sentimentality, the day when a dreamy and lovely young girl first discovers love in the twilight of Tokyo Tower.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
Overview: The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.
Genres: Drama War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-06
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Overview: Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-08
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The Third Shadow Warrior
Overview: In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
Overview: [Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'. Staying one step ahead of the Shogun’s forces, “Mist” Saizo tries to save the Sanada Clan, and avenge the death of his lord by assassinating the first Tokugawa Shogun. Following the first four films in this remarkable series, more previously unknown Ninja skills are shown to the world for the first time. The action heats up as Saizo single-handedly attacks the Shogun’s Palace!
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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Scars of Honor
Overview: Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing their blades in a duel to the death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-20
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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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Bronze Magician
Overview: Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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Vagabonds from Badgerville
Overview: A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Princess Sen in Edo
Overview: A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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Rabble Tactics
Overview: The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks more like a boy than a girl, to join, disguised as a man.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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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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The Path I Remember
Overview: Japanese drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-27
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Cut the Shadow
Overview: The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to regret this laziness when he falls in love with the daughter of a higher class samurai and is informed on their wedding night that he must defeat her before their marriage can be consummated....
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Overview: While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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Lord Tadanao
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-22
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Bara daimyo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-07
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Nuregami botan
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-08
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Yôki na tono-sama
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-15
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The Scarred Man
Overview: Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold diggers) currently on the Amazon forest, there is a Japanese known as Rio Baraki. Reaching their destination, her crew member is promptly attacked and she is raped as a warning to stop their work and return immediately to their home country. Determined to do her job, she stays and finds out from the attacker that he is none other than Baraki, a white haired muscular man with a large scar on his back. Later she discovers that his real name is Keisuke Ibaraki. Once a promising quarterback, he ended up falsely incriminated by a powerful organization known as GPX.
Genres: Drama Adventure Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-05
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Overview: The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-03
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Disobedience
Overview: A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-14
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Flowery Hood
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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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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The White Road Across the River
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-19
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Jitsuroku: Hokkaidō yakuza sensō: gyakuen
Overview: Original video
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-09-08
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Dokonjo Taisho
Overview: Ryosuke Kotaki's life motto was his grandfather's will, "Study, make money, drink alcohol, and win the first prize". So, first of all, he went to Osaka to win the first prize with favorite shogi. In the car, he hit it off with a woman named Okichi and decided to live in the Shogi Kaisho, which is run by Okichi's father, Yoichi. Ryosuke's skill was strong, and he was happy to make a lot of money in gambling shogi. However, he lost to a middle-aged man by dropping four cards. This man was actually Heihachi Kudo, who is said to be the best of both worlds in the Kansai chess world at the time...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-02
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Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-22
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刑事部屋
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-04
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現代インチキ物語 ど狸
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Original Language: ja
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お嬢さん三度笠
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-11
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