Terumitsu Kawashima
Also Known As: 川島照満
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
Overview: A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Price of Life
Overview: Comedy of a phony doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-24
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The X from Outer Space
Overview: The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-25
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Blackmail Is My Life
Overview: Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-28
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Black Lizard
Overview: A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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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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The Lovable Tramp
Overview: Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-12
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Stray Dog
Overview: When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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Flame and the Code
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-05
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It's Tough Being a Man
Overview: Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sakura's chance to marry someone, as well as just being a real pain to those around him. There is a sentimental side to him also, and the best way to describe him is that he grows on you.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Miyamoto Musashi
Overview: In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-13
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Overview: After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-26
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Rainbow Over Paris
Overview: A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many difficulties, he somehow feels empty, because his spirit has always been aroused against barriers before him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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I, the Executioner
Overview: Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Beyond the Rainbow
Overview: One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with him without asking her any questions. Turmoil ensues with the reaction of the crew when the runaway girl starts working alongside with them.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Fangs of a Female
Overview: Japanese crime film
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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