Chikara Gonoue
Also Known As: Chikara Gonokami
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 04, 1935
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
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Tasogare ni hyōteki o ute
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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Virus
Overview: Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-06-26
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Overview: Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-29
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Lady Battle Cop
Overview: When a four-man terrorist group known as Team Phantom begins raising havoc in downtown Tokyo, the city is in desperate need of a hero. An unexpected champion appears in the form of Lady Battle Cop, a former female tennis champion who has been transformed into a seemingly unstoppable cyborg.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-09
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Battle Anthem
Overview: The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-04
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Violent Fraternity
Overview: Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Overview: This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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The Armed Organization
Overview: Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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Graveyard of Honor
Overview: A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-15
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Violent Streets
Overview: With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-13
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A Kamikaze Cop
Overview: An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-23
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Overview: After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-30
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
Overview: After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Quick-draw Okatsu
Overview: This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of her brother, and real child of the man who adopted her. Her brother unfortunately has a gambling habit, and it plunges the family into trouble when he loses a lot of money in a crooked dice game. After releasing he is unable to pay the debt he owes; the blame is shouldered by the father, who is killed, leading Okatsu on a path of revenge.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-10
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Proof of the Man
Overview: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-08
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Port Arthur
Overview: Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
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Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
Overview: Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-08
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Overview: An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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Gang Warfare
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-14
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Overview: Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a deranged soldier.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-04
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