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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: March 23, 1936
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Gender: Male
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Overview: Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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Overview: A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another Ishii-directed film from 1970, also starring Watase, Yoshida and Sato called PRISONERS' BACK LIST.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-31
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-04
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Overview: Sequel to Tokyo Drifter
Genres: Crime Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-09
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Overview: The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-11
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Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Overview: 1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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Overview: After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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Overview: Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Overview: A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-28
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Overview: It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his lover. The other is a woman pick-pocket who is entrapped by the organization's schemes involving their crimes. Fate places them together, and they start to investigate the prostitution ring run by the organization...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Overview: Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's discarded lovers vanish and Tatsuno faces a similar fate. Tatsuno confesses to his identity under torture and this leads to the murder of his undercover colleague. He realizes that his career is ruined and this, plus Maki's charm, induces him to join the smugglers. Before submitting his resignation, however, he leads the police on a wild-goose chase while a big narcotics transaction is taking place in another part of town, and this puts him among the leaders of the underworld. When Maki turns her attention to a youthful singer, Tatsuno realizes that he has gambled his whole life and lost. So he stabs the tantalizing beauty, and is in turn shot down in a gangland revenge killing.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-11
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Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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Overview: Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mikami's specialty is sexual clarification... The world's best-selling sex literature was filmed here in a manner close to the original. And the openness of the image shows the shocking conflicts of young people in scenes that were never filmed. Shocking documents about sex life from the doctor's office.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-11
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Overview: 1963 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Overview: Japanese action film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-16
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Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Overview: Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-02
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Overview: Sixth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-08
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Overview: Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-15
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Overview: A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-21
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Overview: An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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Overview: Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Overview: Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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Overview: The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Overview: Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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Overview: In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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Overview: Rumi (Yoko Mihara) and Emi (Masayo Banri) are sisters who dance nightly at the Blue Moon cabaret, which happens be the headquarters of a drug ring. Offstage, Rumi captivates the gang boss, Iwahara (Shuntaro Emi); while Emi attracts the portly club manager, Yajima (Saburo Sawai). Meanwhile their older brother Shinichi (Ryo Kuromaru), a seaman, is unwittingly assisting Iwahara with his drug running. When Shinichi’s ship is sea-jacked by another drug gang, an outraged Iwahara suspects him of treachery and has him beaten and confined in a dungeon-like basement. Rumi and Emi try to free him, but a gang hitman discovers them - and their attempt ends in failure. Now under suspicion themselves, the girls try to escape, but luck goes against them and they are taken to an island where Iwahara and his crew plan to ambush the rival gang.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-09
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Overview: A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-19
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Overview: Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-09
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-27
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Overview: This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-16
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Overview: A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-27
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Overview: A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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Overview: A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Overview: Film concerning warring yakuza families.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-07
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-20
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Overview: Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-16
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Overview: Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-23
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-29
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Overview: Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-14
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-20
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Overview: Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo, and directed by Ishii Teruo of "Kamba 101: Killing Bouncer" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also directed "Abashiri Bangaichi: Confrontation in the South" in the same series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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Overview: This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big Bad" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also worked with Ito.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Overview: A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-30
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Overview: Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-07
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Overview: Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses for a young boy with polio. But when Toru learns from his fiancee Itsuko that his own mother has died, things take a turn for the worse.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-15
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Overview: 1963 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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