Natsuko Oka
Also Known As: 丘夏子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 22, 1950
Adult: No
Gender: Other
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The Last Samurai
Overview: The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-20
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Kataashi no ēsu
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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Wakaki hi no kōdōkan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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Ā dokushin
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-16
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Secrets of a Woman's Temple
Overview: A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare her for the horror and depravity that takes place behind the convent walls.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-25
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The Little Hero
Overview: A five year old boy leaves his mother and grandparents to see his father who has gone to work in Osaka.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-23
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Haunted Castle
Overview: This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes revenge for the death of its master as well as for the corruption in the feudal system.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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The Daring Nun
Overview: One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquaintance of a young girl named lkuko (Kayo Mikimoto) and saves her from the advances of a gangster named Goro (lchiro Nakatani). In the meantime she turns down several propositions and, in revenge, one of her admirers denounces her to the Mother Superior (Kuniko Miyake). This lady is of liberal views, however, and refuses to do anything about it. Then Shunko is visited by Goro's gang boss who wants lkuko back and says he will blackmail Shunko unless she agrees.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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Sex Revolution
Overview: Story exposes free-sex among highschool students.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Masseur’s Curse
Overview: One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-20
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Island of Horrors
Overview: Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cliffs, overseen by both an unforgiving sun and a crew of abusive male wardens. Meanwhile, the arrival of a newcomer among the island’s administrators, a disgraced policeman who is also the son of Nagasaki’s governor, creates dissension between the officials that, along with an untimely outbreak of bubonic plague on the island, ultimately sets the stage for a daring escape attempt on the part of the prisoners.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Lefty Fencer
Overview: As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Naked Ambition
Overview: Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
Overview: The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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