Hiroyuki Ôta
Also Known As: Хироюки Оота
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: November 25, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
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The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
Overview: When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt the castle.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-15
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Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
Overview: 1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-15
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Adventure With Him
Overview: Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko learns of the trip by chance and tells Mitsuo and his friends that she will join them, and they reluctantly agree. However, on the day of the trip, Akira suddenly decides not to join. Mitsuo and Noriko, a man and a woman, begin their journey together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Cyborg 009 and the Monster Wars
Overview: Cyborg 009 and his team are re-united to fight the latest menace from the Black Ghost. Before they can tackle their foe the team must overcome an army of monsters sent to stop them, including giant jellyfish, stingrays, plesiosaurs and treacherous cyborgs.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-19
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Yokosuka Navy Prison
Overview: When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-17
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
Overview: The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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The Little Runaway
Overview: During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Traitors of the Blue Castle
Overview: Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-03
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Wind and waves of the South
Overview: Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-19
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Cyborg 009
Overview: Cyborg 009 movie based on the manga of the same name. Features 009's origin and an epic battle against Black Ghost and their evil robot forces.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
Overview: A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes
Overview: Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other demonic creatures.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-11
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The Big Wave
Overview: Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-02
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The Angry Sea
Overview: A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-16
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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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The Cross of Vengeance
Overview: Film with Junko Miyazono.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-24
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Admiral Yamamoto
Overview: As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Why Are We Young?
Overview: After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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おゝい雲！
Overview: 1965 Toei Drama / Comedy
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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The Suitors
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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