Sanshō Shinsui
Also Known As: Shinsui Sanshou
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: May 05, 1947
Deathday: December 30, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Eel
Overview: A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-12
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ペルソナの微笑
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-03
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Parasite Eve
Overview: A scientist realizes his dead wife is an organization of mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-02-01
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The Ballad of Narayama
Overview: In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Conquest 2
Overview: Second film in the 'Conquest' series.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-03-12
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Men of the Underworld: Chapter 2
Overview: 2nd film in a 6-part series. Shock and suspicions circulate in the aftermath of the death of the WRC Chairman, and the competition between Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) and Tamura (Sugata Shun) begins in earnest. An internal spy was discovered and executed, but rumours of another one circulates the WRC and plagues the guilty conscience of Tadano (Namioka Kazuki). However, the interference of the Chinese Mafia is discovered, and Umehara has suspicions about Tamura's involvement with them ...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Men of the Underworld
Overview: 1st in a 6-film series. The W.R.C. is the largest yakuza-run conglomerate in Japan, and a war for succession begins when the current Chairman suffers a fatal traffic "accident". Tadano (Namioka Kazuki), the secretary to the current Vice-Chair Konno (Noguchi Masahiro), is the only survivor and is haunted by flashbacks. His brother-in-arms, Board Director Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi), a fellow Zainichi Korean, is in competition with the ruthless Director Tamura (Sugata Shun) for the top spot. The feud is goaded by the secret placement of spies within the WRC by the Tokyo Police's "Unit Zero", spearheaded by the sly Inspector Sano (Shinsui Sanshou), and cracks begin to form in the organization and between brothers ...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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Men of the Underworld: Chapter 3
Overview: 3rd film in a 6-part series. Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) finds further proof of the internal spy within the WRC organisation's ranks, and moves in to expose the traitor, concerned more with the protection of the organization and his brotherhood than the Chairman's seat itself. Meanwhile, Tamura (Sugata Shun), partners with the Chinese mafia to further plague - if not eliminate - Umehara's faction. Meanwhile, Tadano (Namioka Kazuki), beginning to buckle under pressure, visits the hideout of Yuko (Sasaki Kokone) who is revealed to be part of the mysterious Unit Zero and becomes face-to-face with Inspector Sano (Shinsui Sanshou) ...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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Men of the Underworld: Final Chapter
Overview: The finale of a 6-part series. Finally, the time has come for the election of the chairman at the WRC executive meeting. Chairman Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) was thought to be the sure candidate, but Vice Chairman Konno (Noguchi Masahiro) puts his name forward as a candidate for the position in a surprise move. Chairman Tamura (Sugata Shun) is arrested, but is released by Inspector Sano (Fukimizu Sansho) and sets out to assassinate Umehara. Meanwhile Tadano (Namioka Kazuki) has uncovered the entire truth about his assignment into the WRC, the "accident", and must ask himself: What is loyalty, when your "allies" use you and your "enemies" protect you? A bloody finale ensues!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Men of the Underworld: Chapter 4
Overview: The 4th entry in a 6-part series. Searching for more information about the spy within the WRC and needing networks and leverage to do so, Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) takes off to South Korea with his loyal second, Han (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) in tow. Meanwhile, Director Tamura (Sugata Shun), contacts Inspector Sano (Shinsui Sanshou) with info on Umehara's movements to bring his downfall. And Tadano (Namioka Kazuki) still pursues the truth about the "accident" he survived, and the burgeoning memory of a familiar pair of silhouettes ...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-26
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Men of the Underworld: Chapter 5
Overview: The 5th film in a 6-part series. After his beloved Ji-hyun (Otsuka Rina) is murdered, Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) hides his grief while searching for the spy, armed now with information from the North Koreans. Tadano (Namioka Kazuki), who is indeed one of the WRC embedded spies, is informed by Inspector Sano (Shinsui Sanshou) that his record in the police database has been erased. Meanwhile, Umehara is arrested by Sano at the scene of a transaction with the Hong Kong mafia, and the goods in question are the trigger point where all factions begin to collide and the truth emerges from the wreckage...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-14
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Swindler's Ippei 2
Overview: Sequel to Heron Master Ippei.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-23
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Swindler's Ippei
Overview: A trio of fraudsters, Ippei, Saki, and Gen, who work seriously (?) every day with the motto, "My life is solidified with lies, I'm a serious hard worker!" They are geniuses when it comes to tricking people with their kuchihacchode haccho. The person they set their sights on is the director of Okawara General Hospital. There is no mercy for the unscrupulous doctor who uses exorbitant medical bills on the weak to fill his pocket and threatens to donate his organs if he can't pay them! Will Ippei and his friends be able to win a lot of money!?
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-22
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Swindler's Ippei 3
Overview: The third and final 'Heron Master Ippei' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-20
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Gokudō Tenka Fubu: Act 4
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-30
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Gokudō tenka fubu
Overview: A yakuza society that has turned into a world of warring states, a story of inferiority unfolded by men who aim to unify the world with force. Conquer this turbulent world and win the unification of Japan...!!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Gokudō Tenka Fubu: Act 5
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-23
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Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed
Overview: A young man is conflicted. He is trying to raise his high school aged sister and keep her out of trouble in their rough and tumble neighborhood. But he is also a leader of a motorcycle gang of psycho rapists who are targeting school girls. Can he get his priorities straight before things get out of hand?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-22
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Film Noir
Overview: The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as the snow that surrounds them. The take on Melville's "Samoraï" from -67 is obvious, but Kobayashi turns the image around and portrays the killer as the weakest person in the movie - haunted by his demanding wife and the moaning contractor, who is one of the most mysterious characters ever portrayed in a movie.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-04
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Life Cycles
Overview: Nowadays, abandoned bicycles are a common sight in front of stations in Tokyo. The number of abandoned bicycles is unparalleled in the world, and there are concerns about how to deal with them. The protagonist is a worker who removes such abandoned bicycles. The job involves removing other people's bicycles without asking, which naturally leads to constant trouble during the work. Is it his own fault? Is the world to blame? The man begins to ask himself. The stress of his job causes him to start taking pleasure in riding his bicycle around town at night. But what he sees is nothing but a wild landscape. One night, while riding his bike as usual, the man sees something else...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
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Closing Time
Overview: A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is always a willing lady to spend the rest of the night with. In the street he has countless semi-philosophical discussions with fellow drinkers, male and female, (shot in black-and-white, as prologue to the different chapters) but in the end it often comes down to one thing: the bottle of whisky that has to be finished. An encounter with a homeless young man with AIDS marks a turning point in the life of the writer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-01
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New Third Gangster X
Overview: New development of rage! The army of backpacks is now starting to move toward the great evil that is trying to dominate the dark world! An unidentified group claiming to be the Untenichi faction begins to judge the shab at the Munakata group's sima. Reijiro Masaki, the chairman of the Wuxia Association, begins to hunt down the Untenichi faction with Naoji Hanai, a member of the Munakata group.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-21
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Conquest
Overview: A massive yakuza war begins when the most powerful clan in Kansai plans to conquer all control of the country after attacking several headquarters of other clans in Japan and China.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-11
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Why Not?
Overview: The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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Zegen
Overview: At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region grows, so does Iheiji's prosperity and patriotism.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-02
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Adultery
Overview: A wife, bored with her husband, meets one of his old friends at a party. He manages a strip club. Intrigued, she goes with him to visit one of his clubs. One of the strippers is upset and the manager has to pleasure her to calm her down. The wife is aroused by the sight of this and later invites him to her house. There they begin a passionate affair behind her husband’s back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Overview: In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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The Choice of Hercules
Overview: When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-11
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Detective's Wife 2
Overview: From a trivial request, a tremendous shadow of organized crime rolls out... A kind-hearted detective and his wife confront a difficult case in a big city!
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
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Detective's Wife
Overview: Private detective Shunsuke Akagi and his wife Misaki take on the various human patterns woven by the lights and shadows of the big city, and the evil that is crawling in the darkness.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
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Have You Seen the Barefoot God?
Overview: 2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet who only sees his future in his mother's business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-26
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Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers
Overview: The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Kagerô 3
Overview: The third series of action series depicting the success of a woman torpedo who was caught in two groups of conflicts at a small port town in the Seto Inland Sea.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-29
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The Road to Sirius
Overview: Tatsumura Yusuke, Toho Advertising's deputy sales manager was a childhood friend of Akiko and Katsuya. In fact, there is a secret that cannot be divulged about the relationship between Akiko and her father and the truth behind his death between these three people. They don't contact each other after they grow up but 25 years later, that secret comes back to Akiko in an extortion letter. Meanwhile, Tatsumura's division suddenly competes in a big project with a budget of 1.8 billion yen. Tatsumura works towards a successful pitch with Tachibana, Hirano, and Totsuka but interference within the company from envious parties and a heated contest with a rival firm remains. Then Tatsumura learns that there is a link between this project and that secret from his past...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-14
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Desperate Pursuit
Overview: In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's lawyer, Yamamoto, receives a visit from two men that attempt to steal the deceased CEO's will. This is witnessed by two detectives, Tsuzuki and Ōnuki, but they fail to catch the perps. Yamamoto hands the detectives a set of keys before he stops breathing. Tsuzuki and Ōnuki now have to investigate Kurata's murder...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-05-17
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Colorful
Overview: Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-07
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A Madcap Corporation
Overview: A comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-17
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The Apology King
Overview: Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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The Audition
Overview: Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-17
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Sensen fukoku
Overview: War between North Korea and Japan
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-05
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The Scythian Lamb
Overview: Based on a manga written by Tatsuhiko Yamagami, the story is set in a former seaport town Uobuka, where 6 former criminals were sent to live there by the government, with the intention of re-socialising them. Aside from the few who know about the project, the general townsfolk has no idea of the former convicts' identities. Tsukisue is the pleasant and efficient municipal official put in charge of the programme. As he slowly learns about their past, a body is discovered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-02-03
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Mahjong Demon 4: Mahjong Proxy War
Overview: Kabukicho, Shinjuku. Shoichi Sakurai meets a man who goes to a mahjong parlor from 9am to 5pm and realizes that there is something missing in his mahjong. Next, a soba restaurant owner from Karuizawa who lost his land because of mahjong appears before Sakurai. Sakurai teaches him mahjong when he asks for his help, but...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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再会・殺意の方程式
Overview: One day, Mio, a reporter, is shown a manuscript for a contest by Kuribayashi, the editor-in-chief. The manuscript, which she is told will likely make it to the final round, is that of Kashiwagi, who was supposed to marry Kuribayashi's daughter. Hearing the familiar name, Mio learns that Kashiwagi is now married to the daughter of a top company and holds a high position. The two are nostalgic about their reunion, but soon after, a series of murders occur. Mio investigates the case to prove Kashiwagi's innocence, even though he was suspected of murder.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-06
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Nagisa
Overview: Set in the late 60s in a small seaside town, this coming of age drama centres on a young girl named Nagisa. She spends her summer holidays working in a local seaside bar, searching for her lost cat, dancing to rock’n’roll and discovering first love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-10
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