Heikuro Imanari
Also Known As: 今成平九郎
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Other
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Zoku Hebihimesama
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-08-14
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The Outsiders
Overview: A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Five Paths to Revenge
Overview: The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on his late father's enemies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-22
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Iso-no-genta's Sword
Overview: Iso no Genta accidentally kills a magistrate and becomes a yakuza. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-02-04
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Kantaro of Ina
Overview: War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-01-03
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Nangoku taiheiki
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-11
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The Cannery Boat
Overview: Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-10
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Ishimatsu from the Forest
Overview: The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-18
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
Overview: This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-11-30
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China Night
Overview: Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known as "Chinese Continental Friendship" made by the occupying Japanese in China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-01-02
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Detective Umon's Diary, Story No. 6
Overview: An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan (The Samurai Detective, aka The Detective Records of Umon, aka Detective Umon Diary: Exploit Number Six, 1930). Umon on his shining white horse stops a conspiracy against the Shogun. Umon was played by Kanjuro Arashi in this early film, & long after in the post-Occupation jidaigeki revival he reprised the role in Kajiro Yamamoto's Muttsuri Umon torimonocho (1955), helping to launch the renewed interest in such films.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-05-29
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Kunisada Chūji
Overview: Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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Priest of Darkness
Overview: A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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Ogasawara Ikinokami
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-06-15
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Kuriyama Daizen
Overview: Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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Gantaro Path
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Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-29
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Itahachi shima
Overview: Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-07-03
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