Shirō Amakusa
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: January 18, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 25, 1986
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A Good Man, A Good Day
Overview: The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Kimagure tosei
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-18
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Machi ga nemuru toki
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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Cell No. 8
Overview: A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
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I Hate But Love
Overview: A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-09
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早射ち無頼 大平原の男
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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Hitori tabi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
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If You're Man Enough
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-29
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Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Overview: Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his gold bullion somewhere.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-26
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Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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The Yellow Climate
Overview: Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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Asakusa Sisters
Overview: A young chef at a small restaurant in Asakusa, with a past conviction for breaking into a safe, defeats the evil boss and ends up marrying his lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-20
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The Human Cyclone
Overview: The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Man, popular and longing everywhere, and who is on the side of justice of the divine ghost.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-20
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Overview: Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-18
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The Balloon
Overview: Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-19
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I'll Kill the Women
Overview: A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unaware that he has fallen into a trap set by his younger brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-05
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Hibari the Traveling Performer
Overview: Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly sees her father, who had abandoned the family 20 years ago. Her hopes for a happy reunion are quickly dashed as her father, having married into a wealthy family, wants nothing to do with her. Will Kimie be able to regain her father’s love?
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-20
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Here Because of You
Overview: An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki’s career is threatened as a result of a false accusation from the school’s PTA, the students band together to stand up for their beloved teacher and help him to save his good reputation and job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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Anatahan
Overview: From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-28
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A Slope in the Sun
Overview: The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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Fight of the Gamblers
Overview: Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Cosmetic Sales Competition
Overview: A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-09
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Immoral Lecture
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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Red Pier
Overview: Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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Blackmail Is My Life
Overview: Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-28
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Overview: Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
Overview: When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-14
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Pure Emotions of the Sea
Overview: A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
Overview: Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-02
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Falling Blossoms
Overview: Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-23
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Overview: In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-29
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-29
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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Overview: A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescue them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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Merciless Bullet
Overview: Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sawamura clan (Kaneko), who is with his mistress, impassively pulls the trigger of a pistol with a silencer. Kenji was hired by Sawamura's advisor, Matsumoto (Ashida). It was a cunning plan: eliminate Sawamura, sell the smuggling rights to the Hamasaki clan and make a profit. And for Kenji, the motive did not matter, as long as he was paid, his job was to kill opponents without a miss.…
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Shiroi natsu
Overview: Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post office, this youthfully bright and humorous story depicts the intricacies of life experienced by a rookie young postal worker. Depicting the subtle intricacies of life experienced by a young protagonist in a simple post office setting. This bright and humorous story evokes a heartfelt sense of empathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-23
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A 1971 crime film
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-04-24
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Shōjo to fūsen
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
Overview: The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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群集の中の太陽
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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青春蛮歌
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-30
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Kawaii Onna
Overview: A unique erotic mystery about the murder of a husband.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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Notorious Bastard
Overview: When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind this scheme.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-03
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
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Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-12
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Doing What I Please
Overview: Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that have been damaged in accidents at a low price and scraps them for his own company. He uses the money he earns in this way to pay back Kanda Trading. Morita, the president of the company, is suspicious about the identity of Kanda Trading, from whom he borrowed money. However, what is borrowed must be repaid, and Koichi drives to Toyokawa to beg his grandfather for money as his scrap business is not going well. In addition to begging for money, Koichi has another secret purpose...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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