Jirō Tamiya
Also Known As: Jiro Tamiya, Goro Shibata , Дзиро Тамия, Тамия Дзиро, Gorō Shibata , 柴田吾郎
Biography: Jirō Tamiya was born on 25 August 1935 in Kyoto City, Japan. He was an actor and producer, known for Miyamoto Musashi (1973), 3000 kiro no wana (1971) and Kuro no tesuto kâ (1962). He was married to Yukiko Fuji. He died on 29 December 1978 in Tokyo, Japan.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 25, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 28, 1978
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
Overview: A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-22
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Yume de aritai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Their Legacy
Overview: Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Gonin no totsugeki tai
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-26
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Back Stairways
Overview: A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-06
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Black Temptation
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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Fangs of Vengeance
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-25
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B.G. monogatari: Ekinyūmon
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-29
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Black Test Car
Overview: Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-30
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The Creature Called Man
Overview: A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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The Great White Tower
Overview: The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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Three O'clock in the Morning in a Big City
Overview: To avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. An entertaining action drama and an interesting love story.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-22
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Order of Yakuza
Overview: Order of Yakuza
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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Homeless Dog
Overview: First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-02
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Rampaging Dog
Overview: Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-06
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Quick-Draw Dog
Overview: Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-27
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Return of Gun Dog
Overview: Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-09
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Stray Dog
Overview: Stray Dog is a 1966 film directed by Yoshio Inoue. It is the seventh film in the Inu series.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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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 Speeding
Overview: Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio Yazawa, the boss of the Sakamoto Motorcycle Club.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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Black Challenger
Overview: Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming from those at the very top of society.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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Black Weapon
Overview: Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-20
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Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-28
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Sexy Sign Suki Suki Suki
Overview: Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting and an advertising poster. The other is about coaching the hockey team. Simultaneously, however, he is head over heels for three gals, one is a hairdresser, one is a fashion model and of course the third is part of the cheering squad for the hockey team.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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The Family
Overview: Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-26
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Cobra 2
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-26
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A Night to Remember
Overview: Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Cobra
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Typhoon Reporter
Overview: Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Ginza is square in its sights!
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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Chase That Man
Overview: The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-23
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The Spy
Overview: Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-04
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The Time of Reckoning
Overview: "The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-29
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Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
Overview: Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly loves Fuyuhiko Kanae, an architectural engineer who is designing her villa. For Reiko, the life of the Todo family is completely different, but when she meets the bright and intelligent Fuyuhiko, she feels more than just affection for him, going beyond Reiko's circumstances. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko also begins to love the neat and beautiful Reiko. The relationship between the two develops rapidly, but Reiko's heart is complicated. This is because Reiko has an older sister, Ginko, who works in a red-light district...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-11
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The Woman Who Touched Legs
Overview: Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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Ninja in a Business Suit
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Main Line to Terror
Overview: Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-06
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Tough Guy
Overview: Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-30
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Sword and Flower
Overview: Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-14
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Professional Killers
Overview: Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-09
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Theater Of Life
Overview: Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-15
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Flower and Dragon
Overview: Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-17
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The Silent Gun
Overview: A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-14
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Yellow Dog
Overview: A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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Superexpress
Overview: A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-31
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Overview: This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-16
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Love and Greed
Overview: Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-24
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Black Dividend
Overview: Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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The Notorious Man's Return
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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Stolen Pleasure
Overview: Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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Operation Underworld
Overview: A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-19
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Clamouring Canines
Overview: The second film in the "Inu" series.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-17
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The Dedicated Gunman
Overview: Third film in the "Inu" series.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-13
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Trigger Happy Romeo
Overview: Fifth film in the "Inu" series.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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Bury Me Deep
Overview: A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-08
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She Came For Love
Overview: Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-28
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Les Mesdemoiselles
Overview: A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-15
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Fool's Love
Overview: A young man (Eiji Funakoshi) lavishes his complete attention and resources on a beautiful young girl (Junko Kano) who was picked up in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-17
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A Woman's Testament
Overview: The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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Sweet Seventeen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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Night Mist Makes Women Cry
Overview: A love melodrama.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
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The Midday Trap
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Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-19
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The Third Will
Overview: A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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A Design for Dying
Overview: Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-28
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Bad Reputation: Imposter's Paradise
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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Bad Reputation: The Big Drum
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-08
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Bad Reputation Returns
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-17
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Bad Reputation of the Big Three
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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New Bad Reputation Continues
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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Bad Reputation: Cherry Blossoms
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-12
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Lips of Ruin
Overview: Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-30
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Kirai Kirai Kirai
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-17
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Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-27
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A Woman's Life
Overview: One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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The Great Villains
Overview: Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-24
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Black Trump Card
Overview: Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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A Man Worth the Money
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-26
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Goodbye, Hello
Overview: Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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You and I
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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Giants and Toys
Overview: Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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The Blue Sky Maiden
Overview: Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-08
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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Overview: A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a strange buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs. Is the killer invisible or possibly some other incredible creature?
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-25
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Chikaiteshi
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-14
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A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
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Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-06
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That Complicated Guy
Overview: Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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A Storm Zone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-26
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A Drop of Grease
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-03
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The Informer
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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Medal from the Devil
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-29
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Tokyo Gambler
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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Nocturne of a Woman
Overview: A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-14
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The Battle Begins at Night
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-28
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Fossil of Love
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Invitation to Jail
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-02
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School for Thieves
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-06
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Let's Dance Tonight
Overview: A drama about the sex industry.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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The Corporation
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-14
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Trump Card of Revenge
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-29
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Prison Release Loyalty Offering
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Territory of the Night
Overview:
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-16
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The Last Loyalty Offering
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-02
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Spy on the Masked Car
Overview: An industrial espionage film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-28
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300 Million Yen Mission
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-21
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Overview: An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop of the turbulent history of the Showa period and the magnificent nature of Hokkaido.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-22
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Kyukei no Koya
Overview: A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his country, his wife and children, and risked everything to save his country from ruin, and the bond between father and daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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Diary of a Substitute Doctor
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-27
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The Person I Chose
Overview: A 1959 film directed by Hiromu Edagawa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-13
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Oniisan to oneesan
Overview: A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-08
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A Mother's Journey
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-21
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Kawaii mendori ga utatta
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-10
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New Couple's Guide: The Young Wife is Popular
Overview: A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young wife is a female doctor who has made a name for herself in sex medicine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi
Overview: A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-15
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Ripe and Marriageable
Overview: 1959 youth comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-17
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The White Road Across the River
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-19
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A Secret Night
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Precipice
Overview: Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-17
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The Crowded Train
Overview: Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Love, Fireworks and Fire Bombs
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-22
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Bride Candidate
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Nine Hours of Terror
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-20
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Tokyo Eyes
Overview: A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around these four characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Love River
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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Morning Whistling
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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Hey, Nakamura-kun
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Mother
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Mr. Minami is Very Embarrassed
Overview: Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-19
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Hit and Run Gang
Overview: Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit. His younger brother Matabei vowed to challenge the culprit in front of his brother's grave. A fast-paced action-packed story.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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The Judo Champ
Overview: When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to use the school for teaching the Ryukyu art of Karate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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Thirst
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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Daiei Studio is Bustling
Overview: A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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