Tadayuki Okamoto
Also Known As: 岡本忠行, 岡本忠幸, 岡本正幸
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: October 04, 1937
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
Overview: A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Overview: Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-08
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Gan-chan no keisatsu nikki
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
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Visitor After Dark
Overview: Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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The Blazing Sword
Overview: Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Hijikata Toshizo is a samurai eager to test his skills and sword and make his first kill. The dojo he belongs to practices the Tennen Rishin style and teaches this to farmers. Not considered real samurai by other dojo's, they receive a request for a duel by a rival dojo practicing the Kogen Itto style. Sohaku Rokusha, a teacher there, challenges them and fights with Hijikata Toshizo. The outcome of the fight creates a deadly animosity between them that lasts through the ages.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-12
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Curse of the Blood
Overview: A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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The Great Department Store Robbery
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-12-26
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Miyamoto Musashi
Overview: In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-13
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Black Lizard
Overview: A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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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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August without Emperor
Overview: Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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The Three Undelivered Letters
Overview: A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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The Legend of Love & Sincerity
Overview: Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-13
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Demon Pond
Overview: When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-10-20
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