Kozo Yamamura
Also Known As: 山村弘三
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Department: Acting
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This Transient Life
Overview: Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-08
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Heso no taisho
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Strong Women, Weak Men
Overview: After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become hostesses at a cabaret.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-30
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Overview: About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and falls directly into disfavor with the yakuza.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Shadow Hunters
Overview: The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayers of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa Takashiwa, Tadamaru was assaulted by a kage on his way to Edo. Zyubei and Gennnosuke, the Kagekaris, try to carry injured Tadamaru to Edo.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-06
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The War Without Weapons
Overview: It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-08
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Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
Overview: A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin. As she develops into a master swordsman, her profession becomes that of a bounty hunter. Many test her sword and many die by her skills. She travels throughout the countryside to seek her mother and her revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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The Earth
Overview: For some reason, Ryohei, an elementary school student, becomes interested in garbage trucks and starts helping an uncle who works there. Ryohei's classmates and family members, who had initially ridiculed him, are impressed by Ryohei's single-minded demeanor and begin to help him without realizing it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-21
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Overview: In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
Overview: The fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble. Hikosaemon Ookubo (Eijiro Tono) heard of it from Tasuke, and ask about it to Iemitsu (Ken Tanaka). However, on the contrary, Hikosaemon received penitence for a bribe that he doesn't know.
Genres: History Comedy Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-30
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