Masashi Ishibashi
Also Known As: 石桥雅史
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hualien City, Taiwan
Birthday: January 04, 1933
Deathday: December 19, 2018
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Karate Bear Fighter
Overview: Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oyama flees away to a small town where he both learns lessons in martial arts philosophy from a wandering master and helps a young boy take on a challenge to fight a ferocious captured bear to win money for the boy's injured father.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-27
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City of Beasts
Overview: University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely getting more embroiled in his dirty dealings.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-23
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The Terrifying Revelations of Nostradamus
Overview: The main theme is "the battle between light and darkness" that takes place on the earth, but individual stories on the following themes progress and contains: Evil thoughts and global consciousness, The secret of the spirit world, Structure, Angels, Reborn System, Aliens and UFOs, Law of Salvation and El Cantale.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-10
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Karate Bullfighter
Overview: Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After turning down the chance to fight at future tournaments he returns to his simple village life. He reluctantly returns to karate for a final showdown against the students of a rival school.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-09
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Karate for Life
Overview: The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend finds herself in desperate need of medical supplies, Oyama steps back in the ring to raise the money—but will he be able to follow the script this time?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-14
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Return of the Street Fighter
Overview: Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-27
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Sister Street Fighter
Overview: Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, his sister Li Koryu turns to his former martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for help in the inevitable battle royale.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-31
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J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai: The Movie
Overview: Ryu obsessively pursues a CRIME agent who steals a powerful new explosive and takes control of a powerful supercar. This is a theatrical presentation of episode 7 of the J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai television series.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-17
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Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
Overview: Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu's older sister, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly, if unhappily, involved with the gangsters.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-07
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G.I. Samurai
Overview: A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
Genres: Action Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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Shura ga Yuku 9
Overview: The 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at the top of the gangster society as a unit.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-18
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Garōden
Overview: Based on the Baku Yumemakura martial arts serials
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon
Overview: After killing his brother, Prince Yamato is banished from his father's kingdom until he can bring his dangerous powers under control. On his journey, he meets and joins with the magical priestess Oto, and together they go to fight against an evil god that has been ravaging the Earth in the form of an enormous hydra. Will Yamato ever return home to reclaim his rightful place on the throne?
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-09
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Roaring Fire
Overview: On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly thereafter Joji goes to Japan is search of his sister and his twin brother Toru. Joji’s quickly finds his sister Chihiro who is now blind and lives with their uncle. Joji one evening accidently over hears his uncle who has ties to the criminal underworld discussing his various illegal operations. Joji ‘s eavesdropping is discovered by his uncle who offers him a chance to join the organization. Joji promptly turns his uncle’s offer down which immediately puts his life in danger.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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Kousoku Sentai Turboranger: The Movie
Overview: The Turboranger must prevent a Bouma from unsealing his father in order to utilize his hellfire to burn the Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-18
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Battle Fever J: The Movie
Overview: Egos kidnaps the children of Information Supervisor Sakaguchi, Yoko and Kenichi. They then blackmail him into stealing the blueprints and completion status of the Battle Fever robo. Tetsuzan Shogun, who joined the Defense Department at the same time as Sakaguchi, is greatly concerned and confronts him. Sakaguchi escapes but vows to make amends. He appears at Egos factory, where they too are building a giant robo, and discloses a false timetable. When Egos orders them killed, Sakaguchi reveals dynamite strapped to his body. He backs away with his children and gets them to safety. He then returns to the factory, and blows himself up to destroy it. Unfortunately, his sacrifice is in vain, as their evil robo is already completed. But Battle Fever’s giant robo is also complete and ready to save the day!
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-21
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J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Gorenger
Overview: While investigating a UFO in the Sky Ace, J.A.K.Q. is caught off guard by the return of Iron Claw, with the Big Four now leading the remnants of Crime and the Black Cross Army.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-03-17
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Juken Sentai Gekiranger: Nei-Nei! Hou-Hou! Hong Kong Decisive Battle
Overview: While in the middle of fighting, the Gekirangers and Mere are teleported to Hong Kong, along with Rio and various other martial artists around the world. Just as Rio and Jyan were about to fight, they meet the mysterious Lao Fan before seeing others brought to the island as well.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-04
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Fighting Fist
Overview: The Yakuza of Japan has infiltrated the universities of Hong Kong and are conducting illegal activities such as underground bare knuckle fights,gambling and drugs. Hong Kong Police team up with the Japanese Secret Service to bring down the ruthless gang but their agents always seem to wind up dead. As a last resort they have a female detective (Sibelle Hu) infiltrate the organization in order to bring them down.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X
Overview: A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of a new, tougher, head of security arrives to take up her new job....
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-18
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Black Panther Bitch M
Overview: An assassin trained as a ninja carries the code name M. Hayami is a yakuza boss and a divorced father who is not allowed to come near his young daughter Mutsumi from his ex-wife Kazuko. In the big port city of Yokohama, M targets Hayami, who has angered the president of his group.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-14
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Shogun's Ninja
Overview: In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village
Overview: Tarao’s services are called upon to solve the mysterious death of bride-to-be, Mariko, who was found dead with an eerie mask of a devil.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-12
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Flames: Yakuza Picture of Hell
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-03
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The Return of Sister Street Fighter
Overview: When Koryu's childhood friend Shurei is abducted by gangsters, the desperate young woman recruits a female martial artist and a tough-as-nails stranger to join her for a dangerous rescue mission.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-30
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Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger?
Overview: Yasuaki Kurata plays a masked ring brawler who is out for revenge against an evil, megalomaniac entrepreneur played by Japan's most reliable bad guy of the '70's, Masashi Ishibashi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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Karate Killer
Overview: Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-13
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Dragon Princess
Overview: A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-31
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The Karate Man and the Spy
Overview: In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a famous Karate and Kempo master.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-04
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The Street Fighter
Overview: Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-02
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Space Sheriff Shaider: Pursuit! The Strange Kidnappers!
Overview: Pursuit! The Strange Kidnappers! is the second movie of Uchuu Keiji Shaider. This movie takes place between episodes 39 and 40, and was released on December 22, 1984.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-22
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The Goodbye Girls
Overview: When 22-year-old Ikuko gets fired from her editing internship right before her college graduation instead of getting hired, she turns to her schoolteacher father for advice. Instead, he tells her, "I've decided to become a singer! Sort your own life out!" Confused, Ikuko gets on a boat to the town of Takarazuka, home of the musical industry, to see her classmate Mari. Mari introduces her to an accountant named Yoshie, and together the three of them move into a house they call "The Women's House: Die Fraulein".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-05
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Lady Battle Cop
Overview: When a four-man terrorist group known as Team Phantom begins raising havoc in downtown Tokyo, the city is in desperate need of a hero. An unexpected champion appears in the form of Lady Battle Cop, a former female tennis champion who has been transformed into a seemingly unstoppable cyborg.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-09
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Port Arthur
Overview: Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
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Tarao Bannai
Overview: Legendary detective returns
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-08
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Kagaku Sentai Dynaman: The Movie
Overview: The Dynaman must prevent a powerful new gun invented by a friend of Doctor Yumeno from falling into the hands of the Jashinka.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-03-12
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The Great Chase
Overview: Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase" to be seen, Shihomi does pursue a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese yakuza types. While the story is pure 70's exploitation and gritty crime drama, the best reason to see it is for the Martial Arts Action of Etsuko Shihomi. The action is over-the-top and at times hilarious (i.e. Shihomi battling the lead criminal atop a moving gondola or Shihomi battling a whip-wielding Catholic Nun).
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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Mad Dog
Overview: A beast awakens within ordinary office worker Hirose when his wife is abducted by yakuza. Full of wild charm and full-scale martial arts action!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-07-15
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Sukeban Deka 3: Shojo Ninpo-cho Denki TV Special
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-23
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