Ryōnosuke Azuma
Also Known As: 東良之助
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Asakusa, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 24, 1891
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 17, 1971
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The Young Swordsman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-22
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-11
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Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
Overview: The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Bara daimyo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-07
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A Man from Akagi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-07
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
Overview: film directed by Tai Katô
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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Dynamite Doctor
Overview: Film by director Kenji Misumi
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-04
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The Magical Warrior
Overview: Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she is attacked by Ronin. in Asakusa, However, they come to be surrounded by doubtful Ronin after that. Moreover, Rikitaro is called to stop by Kajima of Edo-Karo of Nihonmatsu-Han. He calls him a young lord and treats Rikitaro as one, because his young lord, Tetsunojo is missing. Kuni-Garo makes a plan to carry out. Kikumaru, the younger brother of the mother difference in him instead of Tetsunojo, Since Rikitaro is just like Tetsunojo, then, they are convinced that it is Tetsunojo of Rikitaro. Rikitaro and Osayo decide to help Kajima and Tetsunojo. Finally they success to crush Kikumarsu's group.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-06
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Ô abare Songokû
Overview: Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952)
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Overview: Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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Shogun's Holiday
Overview: During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuke (Kazuo Hasegawa) to help him understand the world. Tasuke, who does not know that Takechiyo is the shogun's heir, trains him harshly. Tasuke's wife Naka (Michiko Ai) is concerned about his harsh teaching style, but Takechiyo gains strength day by day and adapts to his new life. Soon, Takechiyo begins secretly talking about love with a city girl named Otoyo (Hitomi Nozoe), but...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-12
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Overview: Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-12
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Oiwa Nagaya
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-08-08
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Masujiro Omura
Overview: A story about Ômura Masujirô
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-01-14
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Sansho the Bailiff
Overview: In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-31
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
Overview: A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.
Genres: Mystery Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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The Crucified Lovers
Overview: When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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Buddha
Overview: An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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Tanuki goten
Overview: A Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-10-12
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Koga's Messenger
Overview: The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and witchcraft, a mystery and revenge swirl around the mystery of the hood, in the demon tower, in the underground castle, and at the bottom of the lake!
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-18
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Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi
Overview: A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise of a good-natured fruit vendor and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-06
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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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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Samurai Vendetta
Overview: Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-22
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Overview: During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government supporters and is persecuted. Can Nichiren persevere before the Mongol fleet reaches Japanese shores?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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The Temple of Wild Geese
Overview: Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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The Blind Menace
Overview: This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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A Lustful Man
Overview: Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
Overview: Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through his tragic end this is the story of a beloved and loyal henchman.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-03
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Signal Fires of Shanghai
Overview: During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai. Although the Western powers are officially neutral, the British consul in Shanghai sides with the Qing imperial government, and counter to his own government's policy he retains American adventurer Frederick Townsend Ward to raise a mercenary force of foreigners in Shanghai and oppose the Taipings. Ward's force is routed, with heavy casualties, but since many of the casualties are British, the British army soon is drawn in on the side of the Qings. The only support for the Chinese comes from Japanese in Shanghai and anti-imperialist demonstrations in Japan. A family drama plays out against this historical background. After a Chinese home is destroyed by careless British shelling, killing the father and crippling a daughter, the surviving son vows revenge but begins to see that his true friends may be the Japanese.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-12-28
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Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
Overview: Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
Overview: The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until subduing almost all his enemies, the lonely comprehension of knowing that he actually can not take over the whole country because he was born too late.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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The 7th Secret Agent to Edo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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The Young Lord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Fighting Fire Fighter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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Peony on the Skin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Song of Sado
Overview: Sentaro (Raizo Ichikawa) from Ipponmatsu sets out to commit evil and gain dignity, but his good-natured nature does not allow him to do anything bad. Along the way, Sentaro saves a young woman named Okimi (Yuko Miki) from a bad womanizer and meets a Yakuza named Katsugoro (Yoshie Mizutani). He then visits Katsugoro boss Kanjiro Inariyama (Ganjiro Nakamura II) to train to be a yakuza, but to his surprise discovers that Katsugoro is Kanjiro's only daughter, Okatsu. He also finds out that the young yakuza working in Kanjiro's house is his younger brother Hanji (Yukio Hashi). Then the Shigezo family, who had been annoying Kanjiro for a long time, set fire to his gambling hall!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Flowers of Chivalry
Overview: Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his younger brother Shinjiro (Yukio Hashi), who has completely changed. Shinjiro abandoned the quiet samurai life and began to lead a Yakuza lifestyle. The older brother is angry at the younger one for his depravity, and the younger one laughs at him for being tied to old-fashioned traditions. As a result, they quarrel. Ichinoshin hears that the person he has to take revenge on has become a Yakuza, and in order to get a hint, he takes care of the Otsu family, to which Shinjiro owes, but later discovers that the boss of Otsu Kanemon is the one he is looking for.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-29
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Overview: Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been commemorated in kabuki theatre, folk songs, jidaigeki, and modern pop culture.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Zangiku monogatari
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-23
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On the Road Forever
Overview: A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the village is run by criminals who sell the poorest peasants into slavery.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-08
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Second Generation Married Couple
Overview: Second Generation Married Couple
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-12-15
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Fighting Letter for 29 People
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-04
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Chuji for Sale
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Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-02-28
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Goblin Courier
Overview: Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-01-04
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Flowery Hood
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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Marathon Samurai
Overview: The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda Shozo ("The Return of the Ghost"). The main cast includes Katsu Shintaro ("Flower of the Wandering Bird"), Saga Michiko and Mita Tokiko ("Matashirou's Fighting Journey")
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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すっ飛び駕
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-21
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Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Overview: Second in the Nage Utasamon series
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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Irohagana Yotsuya Kaidan
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-17
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Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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Three Young Samurai
Overview: During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-22
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上州鴉
Overview: This happened at a post station on the Shinshu road. Takizo Hoshigoe, a wanted man who has been missing since breaking through the Oto checkpoint, came to this post station longing for his hometown and stayed at Shinanoya. A farmer named Sakubei, who was struggling to pay his taxes, came to sell his daughter Omitsu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-25
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