Ken Yoshizawa
Also Known As: 吉沢健
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: May 10, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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One Left Hand Shot
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-14
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Violent Cop
Overview: A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-08-12
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My Brother, The Android And Me
Overview: A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Yoko
Overview: A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-07-28
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Ecstasy of the Angels
Overview: A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-11
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Completed Like a Beast
Overview: Kenji Takeda is back after five years in prison. In the meantime, the yakuza society has disappeared and has been transformed into a world of betrayal!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-06-12
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Entrails of a Beautiful Woman
Overview: A nurse starts to investigate why a woman who came to her office committed suicide. She discovers that a Yakuza gang is using an unusual drug to sexually enslave women. But she gets caught and when she is injected with the drug rather gruesome side effects appear, much to the surprise of the gang.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-23
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Tenshi No Yokubō
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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Hitozuma ryôjoku
Overview: Pink film by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Night of the Felines
Overview: Set in a Shinjuku bathhouse brothel, the film uncovers the sexual eccentricities of everyday people. Focusing on three female prostitutes, the colorful, unpredictable look into the hidden underbelly of Japanese nightlife is playful but also unafraid to explore the darker sides of the business. The fleeting nature of relationships in such an environment and the consequences of toying with feelings are presented with a melancholy tinge.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-17
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Lesson in Murder
Overview: Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when Haimura was committing his murders, he ran a bakery store. At that time, Masaya was a middle-school student and a customer at his bakery store. According to the letter, Haimura confesses to having committed eight murders, but he insists that he did not commit the last murder. Masaya begins to investigate the last murder case involving Haimura.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-05-06
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Secret Flower
Overview: A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Wet Highway
Overview: With her wedding only one day away, Mina spends a night with her former lover Ozaki at a highway motel on the outskirts of Yokohama. On her way back from her last adventure, Mina’s car hits a hippie-like youth called Ryo. Shocked by the accident and, moreover, left alone by Ozaki, who hated to be involved in the trouble, Mina places the unconscious youth in the back seat and drives toward a lake...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
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Burning Skin
Overview: Shimako Yano once caused an accident in the car she was driving and left her husband, Kazuhiko, who was a passenger in the car, impotent, and she lives a life of frustration every day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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Kiss & Hurt
Overview: Shun Kosaka has a dream of becoming a novelist and lives in a byte at convenience stores at night. He happened to meet Natsuki, and his life began to change. However, they get involved in an incident related to the local mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Dawn of the Felines
Overview: A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-14
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The Orgy
Overview: A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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空、みたか?
Overview: Beginning in the 1960s, a story is told of the sex and romances of eight young people wandering into adult life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-04
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Sex Play
Overview: A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggles. The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students. The subtext intended by Adachi informs the rest of the film – that there is a world of difference between direct action politics, and merely talking the talk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-24
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Misshitsu dokyumento: Yubi to shita
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-09
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Ready to Shoot
Overview: A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-17
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Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
Overview: Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-25
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Photograph of Memories
Overview: A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman who lives alone. There she slowly finds purpose in life by taking "photographs" that spin memories instead of ghosts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-01-29
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Running in Madness, Dying in Love
Overview: During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-22
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The ishoku document: Uma to onna Film
Overview: Pinku distributed by Shintoho.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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A Womb to Let
Overview: A wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom. The husband is a commanding chauvinist and this soon turns out to be an investigation into authority, patriarchy and conservatism vs. free love and youth culture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Naked Bullet
Overview: A girl becomes a pawn in the game between two rival gangs gangster.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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Gushing Prayer
Overview: High-school student Yasuko, indulges in sex to liberate herself from a corrupt adult society. Driven by the encouragement of her peers to feel what it is like to be a prostitute, Yasuko sets out an odyssey of self-exploration in search of complete satiation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-04
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Season of Terror
Overview: From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon
Overview: A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal their property by beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. Believing the brother to be dead, scheming to kill the sister, and making both deaths look like accidents... unbeknownst to them, the brother survives and proceeds on a mission to slaughter those responsible in the hamlet.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-30
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Backside of 17
Overview: Pinku from 1972.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-06
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Dare to Stop Us
Overview: In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-13
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The Pistol That Sprouted Hair
Overview: Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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Swimming with Tears
Overview: In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as a mail-order bride. Although she tries hard, she cannot get on with her husband, either verbally or emotionally. After a year, she flees her snow-country husband with only the clothes on her back and sets out in search of work in Toyko. She wanders through Toyko asking for help in churches and at the Philippine Embassy. She needs to find work to earn enough money for a flight home. She finally finds a job and a place to stay with a Chinese man who is sympathetic to her situation. He introduces her to two of his Japanese neighbors who, when they hear Fey's life story, immediately decide to help her find her Japanese father whom she has never met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-28
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Young Wife: Modest Indecency
Overview: Shinji, who has been writing a screenplay that is not going to be made into a movie, has a girlfriend who is a model. One day Shinji receives a call from the husband of his old lover Yoko, and goes to see her. When he meets Yoko again after five years, he cannot resist embracing her. A sensual film of love and jealousy, directed by and starring Kazuhiro Sano.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-06
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Capturing: Dirty Foreplay
Overview: Sho is a loner who works at a small factory. He has no friends, hardly associates with his work-mates and is regarded as a weirdo because of his love for gun models. One day he buys a real gun from a local yakuza. This boosts his self-confidence and he overcomes his insecurities and presents a bouquet of flowers to Eiko, who lives in a classy apartment and with whom he had fallen in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-11-11
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Red Snow
Overview: Thirty years after aboy's disappearance, a journalist revives interest in the case, which in turn compels the victim's brother to look for this woman's daughter in the snowy hinterlands of northern Japan. This sets off a series of events that causes the brother and the woman's daughter to glimpse the truth that has been concealed by their vague and painful memories.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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Sea of Revival
Overview: After a man gets fired from his work at a printing plant, he moves with his couple to her hometown in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. There, the woman opens up a beauty salon. They enjoy peaceful days, but small problems occur which leads to an irrevocable situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-28
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Nikutai no yokkyu
Overview: Pinku from 1968
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-12
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Sex Crimes
Overview: Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-17
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Caterpillar
Overview: The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-08-14
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Hajimari mo owari mo nai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-14
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Hana-Dama: Phantom
Overview: “Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and their rationality collapses wherever the flower is in bloom. And even today, the “Hana-Dama” continues to blossom profusely somewhere in the world. The story is set in a film theater, the facility keeps on closing one after another during recent years. The last day has come to a film theater which has been maintained by a film-loving owner, the staff, and their unique audiences. The symbol of human desire, “Hana-Dama,” blossoms at the theater and instigates people’s erratic behavior. Upon facing its closure, tremendous chaos that will be noted in the history of Japanese film takes place within this film theater.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-27
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The Notorious Concubines
Overview: Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-27
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Business Trip
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-30
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Target
Overview: A business man visits his hometown to search for a missing employee
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-20
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Innocent Curse
Overview: A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A mysterious "child whisperer" phantom appears before journalist Shunya, who is investigating the incidents, and his girlfriend Naomi.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-17
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Burst City
Overview: Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Genres: Action Music Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood
Overview: Jiro's only target is a mysterious assassin. Faced with an enemy whose true identity is unknown, Yuki decides to become a decoy herself. The assassin relentlessly pursues Yuki, and Jiro also pursues the assassin. Killing after killing, they end up at the destination, where an unexpected person is waiting for them.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-30
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The Inerasable
Overview: A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from a room in her apartment. They begin to investigate incidents involving former residents, and eventually discover the shocking truths lurking inside the building.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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Shodo Girls: Blue Blue Sky
Overview: Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really made conversation with her mom in a year. Shinko's friend Misato (Mayuu Kusakari) then recommends to her to join the school's calligraphy club. Shinko is impressed by Teacher Yatsushiro's (Kazuki Namioka) words. Teacher Yatsushiro is the one who takes care of the calligraphy club. Shinko decides to join the calligraphy club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-05
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Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
Overview: A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa, answers his call and warmly accepts him. Pretending as her grandson, he settles down in the town. He gets used to his friendship with young villagers, the sound and landscape of Amakusa, and the old lady’s everyday life.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-07-11
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