Toshio Sugiyama
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: February 02, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
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The Lucky General
Overview: The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-26
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Aniki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-27
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Yami ni kieta shisha
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
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Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
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Wakai senpū
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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Comedy: The Face is Life
Overview: A comedic tale that follows several quirky individuals who navigate the twists and turns of their daily lives.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-03
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Taiyō no yō ni akaruku
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-13
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Sun and Stars
Overview: It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Teenage Wolf
Overview: In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which distorted energy explodes! A unique social drama that acutely depicts the psychological conflict bubbling in the chest of detectives who are chasing a gang of scoundrels who prey on innocent girls. Adapted from the novel "Kegareta Hankachi".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-02
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The Crimson Plains
Overview: The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over the ranch, which is run by his wife alone, but then the rancher's best friend, Joji, appears and saves the day. This is one of a series of Japanese westerns starring Jo Shishido.
Genres: Western Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-30
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The Harbor of No Return
Overview: A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see his girlfriend Kyoko, he walks in to find an unknown man attacking her. While struggling with the man, who is armed, Shiro accidentally shoots and kills her. The intruder knocks Shiro down and takes the drugs from Shiro's jacket. Shiro realizes that he was being used as a drag smuggler. He is sent to prison for three years for killing his girlfriiend. When he is released, he is determined to find out who set him up.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Hitoribotchi no futari daga
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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Loss of innocence
Overview: A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become a prostitute. Other stories are interwoven, and the journalist finally comes to the conclusion, which he publishes, that "keeping your virginity until your wedding day will never be a source of regret for either men or women."
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-20
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Story of a Prostitute
Overview: Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-27
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Savage Wolf Pack
Overview: A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-22
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Bright Sea
Overview: On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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Bad Girl
Overview: Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no one to talk to, until she is reunited with her childhood friend, Saburo, who brings warmth to her heart.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-16
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Welcome, My Baby
Overview: Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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Penitentiary Brothers
Overview: Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Fight of the Gamblers
Overview: Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Spirit of Youth
Overview: Japanese youth film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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Quick Draw Joe
Overview: One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the reward offered. He is told to wait until the driver of the armored car returns to identify the bandit and goes over to the Blue Star where he is introduced to Mishima, the owner of the cabaret, who is highly respected in the town. Joe then meets Saburo, while fishing, and his lovely sister, who seem to sense the real man beneath the rough appearance and take him into their home. Word reaches Joe that the bandit he'd captured had been shot and he hurries over to the hospital.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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Ore wa Ginza no kiheitai
Overview: A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-04
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Midnight Virgin
Overview: Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close, eventually leading to a lesbian relationship. Their affair drifts into sadism and involvement with a bizarre sex cult, resulting in the deaths of the two lovers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Four Young Sisters
Overview: Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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The Dragon Crest
Overview: A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-10
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The Flower and the Sword
Overview: A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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The Gun Like Lightning
Overview: Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart, who he now finds is engaged to Noboru, a detective and son of Jinsaku, boss of the Otsu gang. That night at the night club, headquarters of the Highlight Group - which Noboru is investigating, Majima meets Joji who knows of his attempt to kill Jinsaku, and resolves to kill him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-14
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Teenage Yakuza
Overview: A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Wait for Tomorrow
Overview: Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusioned when he is told he must work together with Miharu, a good looking girl in the film company's publicity department. Then the fun begins.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-26
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A Warm Misty Night
Overview: When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-11
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Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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Wakai toppū
Overview: On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. In Yokohama, there is an uproar because Kenji's father, Shozo Hase, a customs officer, has been accused of stealing confiscated drugs. The story unfolds with thrilling action as Kenji bravely confronts the gang of villains who framed his father and kidnapped him, all while seeking justice and vindicating his father's innocence.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-20
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The Scarred Crest
Overview: A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-01
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Sora no shita tōi yume
Overview: Set on a luxury ship sailing through the Far East, the film depicts the affection of young boys for a young girl traveling alone and the exchange of youthful feelings across borders.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-24
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Tokyo wa Koisuru
Overview: Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, Akio has become unforgettable with the mascot that Michiko has taken away... Akira Saiga of "Dainippon Chambera Den" wrote the story, and Nozomu Yanase of "Northern Town" directed this youth work. Film by Muneo Ueda of "Early Youth Blue Fruit".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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Ore no furusato wa dai seibu
Overview: George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had helped Tom around the time of World War I, and to perform some act of kindness in Japan using $300 pocket money. This was to test whether George was a suitable boy to inherit Tom's YES Ranch.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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Hanayome wa jū go-sai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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