Ken Yamauchi
Also Known As: Ken Kubo, 久保賢, Noriaki Fujise, 藤瀬賢晁
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: December 09, 1943
Deathday: September 24, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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An Urban Affair
Overview: Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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Goodbye Mr. Tears
Overview: An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-30
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Return of the Wolf
Overview: A Nikkatsu sun tribe / youth film set in a small seaside town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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Facing to the Clouds
Overview: A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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Beyond the Hills
Overview: Story of young love in the hills.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-02
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Northern City
Overview: Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blossomed in a beautiful northern spring with a lot of young dreams. Based on the novel "Memory of Snow" written by Takeo Tomishima.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-20
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Flowering Maidens
Overview: The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on the hit Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-24
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A Girl of the Plateau
Overview: Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. One day, Kazuo is attracted to the beautiful young lady who is visiting the villa when he goes out to the town…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-05
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Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
Overview: In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in a feud with a rival gang. Though he successfully settles their differences he is turned out of the organization for the way in which accomplishes it. Upon his return he finds that the fortunes of the group have declined - there has been treachery and desertion. This time with the approval of the seniors he settles the differences with a duel. After winning, however, he declines the position of gang-boss, preferring his freedom, and once more leaves town.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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Harbor Light Yokohama
Overview: A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-04
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Wakai futari
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Journey to the North
Overview: Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. However, Yuko, having returned home, has just become engaged to a local young man, and the sudden appearance of Eikichi makes others worry that their good relationship will be spoiled. An epic about pure love, which tells the story of a man who leaves his beloved woman, praying for her happiness. Adapted from the novel "Kiri no Naka no Shojo" Yojiro Ishizaka.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-03
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Onigiri: Arcadia monogatari
Overview: A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know no one. One inn employee finds out about their dilemma and introduces them to a local farmer who offers them work and a home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-17
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あゝ青春の胸の血は
Overview: College student Kunio Shimizu ended up helping a girl named Yuko Nishizawa who was being chased by someone. From that encounter, Kunio naturally falls in love. However, he is tormented when he learns from a thug-like man who is Yuko's friend that she had been in a facility because she had committed theft in the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-09
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Summer Clouds
Overview: A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-02
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A Whistle in My Heart
Overview: The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-29
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Bright Sea
Overview: On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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Born Under Crossed Stars
Overview: A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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The Young and Bad
Overview: Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-09
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Overview: In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-14
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The Incorrigible
Overview: Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-21
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Youth A Go Go!
Overview: Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-27
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Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-15
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The Song of Love
Overview: Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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I'll Never Cry!
Overview: The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world before her and has the determination to lead a normal life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-29
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Welcome, My Baby
Overview: Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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The Black Sheep
Overview: Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who is related to the family hosting them and whom they keep running into, but can't help but to feel sympathy for. Of course, rumours start fast in a small town, but delightfully she doesn't really care at all. This is another very solid Shogoro Nishimura film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-03
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Eddy Currents of Life
Overview: It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursion trip. Still, she gets a temporary job at a factory and tries to make ends meet. A film about bright side of youth adapted from the television serial of the same name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-22
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Spirit of Youth
Overview: Japanese youth film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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My Sweetheart
Overview: It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-03
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Distant Love
Overview: A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-27
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Four Young Sisters
Overview: Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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The President's Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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The School Cap
Overview: A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-15
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Rainbow Over Kinmon
Overview: Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a big-shot politician. He was discharged from the hospital and had since sailed around the world as an on-board doctor. As he was about to reach the Taiwanese piers of Kinmon Island, thoughts of his days in Japan crossed his mind - he reminisced about the Taiwanese girl, Yan, who had scooped him out of his misery during the time of the medical accident. At times of war, the two rekindle an old flame.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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The Sunset Is Crying
Overview: The Spiders hit song made into a movie.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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The Spiders' The Reckless Operation
Overview: The Spiders, a Japanese pop group, in their first starring role, walk from Yokohama to Tokyo, to prove their love for a girl who told them "the person who can overcome any obstacle will be my lover"! Neither traffic, buildings, nor the police can stop them, in this madcap rock musical adventure!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-26
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The Will to Live
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-08
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The Sweet Interns
Overview: The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-03
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Ticket to Hell
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-28
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Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
Overview: Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few days later, she visited Kunio. She was working at a toy factory called Tomoko Nishizawa. Kunio naturally became attracted to Tomoko, but for some reason Tomoko refused to talk about her past. One day, the two went to the bowling alley and were approached by Tempira...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-09
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Tomo o okuru uta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-25
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Tokyo Night
Overview: A girl runs away form her house in Kyoto to find fortune in the Japanese capital.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-07
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Ginza for Two
Overview: The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the composer about adversity into a real hit. The film adaptation of the hit of the same name by the duo Izumi and Yamauchi, inspired by the single by the British band "The Ventures".
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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Tokyo Olympics
Overview: Adapted from the song " Tokyo Olympic Ondo " , which was the theme song for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics held in October 1964 . Song was composed by Masao Koga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-09
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Hanayome wa jū go-sai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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