Sakae Kimura
Also Known As: 木村荣
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: March 06, 1955
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Male
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To End All Wars
Overview: Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-02
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Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Overview: An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-11
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Shura ga Yuku 5
Overview: The fifth installment of the Gokudo Action Series, which depicts the process of the yakuza organization walking on the path to national domination, centered on the confrontation between the two gangsters who became their nemesis. This work is set in a certain area of Hiroshima, which is shaken by the construction problem of an industrial waste treatment plant.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-16
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Nisō gokumon jō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-23
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True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Overview: Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.
Genres: Crime Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-13
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The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt
Overview: #31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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Abduction
Overview: The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags of money through downtown Tokyo as the media documents his every move. When the first old man almost dies from exhaustion, a second, and eventually a third elderly corporate fat cat is ordered to do the same. The police detective assigned to the case (Tetsuya Watari) and his younger partner (Masatoshi Nagase) are livid with indignation at this sorry spectacle. They learn that these four men were involved in a massive industrial spill that poisoned an entire rural hamlet 20 years previous. Suddenly, the detective -- who studied in the States and apparently absorbed some John Wayne-like mannerisms in the process -- isn't sure who are the victims and who are the villains.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-07
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Gedobo 2
Overview: Sequel of gedobo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-25
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Gedobo
Overview: Mashiba works hard for a group called Wakagashira's However, Mashiba was not satisfied with the people who loban, including the boss, who were blinded by money and had no humanity. One day, he meets a monk doing alms on the street. With that encounter, Mashiba's destiny begins to change.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-25
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Dreams
Overview: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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All Under the Moon
Overview: A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-11-06
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The Choice of Hercules
Overview: When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-05-11
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Yakuza Zombie
Overview: Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a story of the baddest Yakuza of them all, Naruo Ryuuji (shown in cut scenes played by Ozawa Hitoshi). Naruo Ryuuji was a fearless killer who eventually got into heroin and, exactly like Ishimatsu Rikuo in Takashi Miike's Graveyard of Honor, eventually leaps to his death from the top of a prison, claiming he'll be back. I'm assuming this is a reference to real life crazy Yakuza Ishikawa Rikio, whom the original Graveyard of Honor was based on. It's established that the corpse of the fierce Yakuza Ryuuji is buried in the graveyard beneath a marker with the Japanese characters "Jingi" (Honor), and then we are taken to the modern day.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-15
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Onihei's Detective Records
Overview: A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-18
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実録 広島やくざ戦争外伝 義兄弟 ～山口英弘の半生～ 激流の章 完結編
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-25
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実録 広島やくざ戦争外伝 義兄弟 ～山口英弘の半生～ 怒濤の章
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-25
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Cicada
Overview: Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future. These glimpses lead him to a series of cicada shells, which become symbolic of his desire to shed his old self. Though his lineage ends with himself, Jumpei starts anew as a father-figure to his sister's young son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-04
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Persimmon
Overview: Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or supernaturally, holds out from drying, so Tamotsu tries his hardest to keep the man alive. Only when Tamotsu has let go can the persimmon take its natural course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-11
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Kamome
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-04
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A Brief Message from the Heart
Overview: A young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-23
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