Yūsuke Takita
Also Known As: Susumu Takita, Yusuke Takita
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Setagaya cho, Tokyofu, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: November 29, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 03, 2015
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Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-18
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Double Suicide
Overview: Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-24
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Musume to watashi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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事件記者 影なき侵入者
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-02
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Romance Express
Overview: Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Overview: A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-31
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The Shadow Within
Overview: When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-13
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Lill, My Darling Witch
Overview: Set against the background of a giant newspaper company. A girl reporter on the staff of the newspaper witnesses the accidental killing of one of the top executives, whose wife is having an affair with the head of the company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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Irezumi
Overview: To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-11-27
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Gassan
Overview: Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-20
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Overview: The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Overview: A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi) fell in love with each other. They could not see each other for a while, but Otsuyu visited Shinzaburo's place late at night, led by a servant Oyone (Shoko Yagi). Tomorrow night and next night as well.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Overview: Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years later, she seeks out the relatives of the pilots when the piano is old and about to be discarded.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-12
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The Forest Is Alive
Overview: Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-08
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Kobayashi Takiji
Overview: A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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Anne Frank's Diary
Overview: During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Genres: Animation History Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-19
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Legend of the Assassin
Overview: The Saika clan, that had succeeded in battle against the large armies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, had in the Tokugawa era of Ieyasu, been driven into the mountains 7 generations later, forced into subsistence hunting. A man comes to them offering revenge: to assassinate current Tokugawa Shogun Yoshimune. (Made-for-TV movie)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-22
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The Fossil
Overview: An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Song of Vengeance
Overview: Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of the company with a long-standing grudge who is responsible, but he died in the first ten minutes of the movie. Or did he? This may aptly be described as a giallo-noir for the unrelenting string of murders by a mystery man and the black-and-white gritty urban setting.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-17
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Silence
Overview: Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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The Sex Check
Overview: Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi’s unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a “sex check” which all professional athletes must pass.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Illusion of Blood
Overview: The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-25
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The Longest Tunnel
Overview: After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-16
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
Overview: TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Onryō! Azawarau ningyō
Overview: The mysterious death of a trading company employee on an overseas business trip triggers a corruption and bribery case. A bizarre mystery surrounding the bereaved family.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
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Chibusa o daku musume tachi
Overview: Japanese drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-07
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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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Woman Gambler Is Coming
Overview: Sixth 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: 1968-07-31
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
Overview: In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously assassinated, however, when his car was blown up. The General Staff Headquarters in Japan, sends Lieutenant Shiina, a graduate of the famed Nakano School of Spies inaugurated by Colonel Kusanagi, to investigate the matter. Arriving in Shanghai, he disguises himself as a Chinese coolie and sets out to watch for developments, the only clue being a silver dollar found beside what was left of the victim.
Genres: Action War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-03
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High School Juniors (Part II)
Overview: A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity and find fun and happiness in helping others.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-22
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Man on a False Flight
Overview: The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with the money...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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The Rockabilly Lady
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-08
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A Violent School Revolution
Overview: A Violent School Revolution
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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The Shootout
Overview: A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly desperate as events spin out of control, culminating in an audacious hijack at sea...
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-15
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Love Stopped the Runaway Train
Overview: Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-15
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The Wayside Pebble
Overview: In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going well at home, however, where his father does not work leaving the mother to toil . With the boy's family having no money he cannot progress his education and has to drop out of school. A neighbour, who is a bookstore owner, offers the family money to allow the boy to continue his schooling, but the father is too proud to accept and rebuffs the offer forcing the boy to work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-31
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Submersion of Japan
Overview: A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-29
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Make-Up
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-05-02
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The Three Undelivered Letters
Overview: A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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Willful Murder
Overview: The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Tenchu!
Overview: A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-09
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Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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The Beast Shall Die
Overview: A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-09
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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 Informer
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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The Last Loyalty Offering
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-02
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Wakai hito-tachi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-08
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Tidal Wave
Overview: Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller continents and islands. Thirty million years ago, the country of Japan was part of the continent of Asia, and has since split off into its own archipelago. Another landmass shift is about to occur...
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-28
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The Blue Beast
Overview: Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle
Overview: The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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Love and Fascination
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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