Kayo Mikimoto
Also Known As: 三木本賀代
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Other
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Kanto Woman Infamy
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Zatoichi's Revenge
Overview: Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Overview: Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-10
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Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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The Daring Nun
Overview: One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquaintance of a young girl named lkuko (Kayo Mikimoto) and saves her from the advances of a gangster named Goro (lchiro Nakatani). In the meantime she turns down several propositions and, in revenge, one of her admirers denounces her to the Mother Superior (Kuniko Miyake). This lady is of liberal views, however, and refuses to do anything about it. Then Shunko is visited by Goro's gang boss who wants lkuko back and says he will blackmail Shunko unless she agrees.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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The Sisters and I
Overview: Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of their cuisine in jeopardy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-14
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
Overview: Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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The Hoodlum Priest
Overview: The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Hoodlum Soldier
Overview: A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Genres: Action War Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-18
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Overview: Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political reformer that pushed for better provisions for the lower classes until he was assassinated by Shogunate agents. Their plot, to set fire to the oil refineries of two rich merchants and unleash a raging inferno that will hopefully burn down the Edo Castle.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-09
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
Overview: The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-15
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
Overview: Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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Lefty Fencer
Overview: As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
Overview: When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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The Betrayal
Overview: A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a master-less ronin, if not hunted down and killed.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-02
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Return of Giant Majin
Overview: The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorable Lord Juro. Just when all seems lost, Daimajin rises from Lake Yakumo to settle a score of his own.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Crimes of Sex
Overview: An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-08
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Secret Report From A House Of Women
Overview: Japanese crime film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-13
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Sequel: Secret Report From A Women's Prison
Overview: Japanese crime film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-16
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The Informer
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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