Isamu Nagato
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 04, 2013
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The Night of Martial Law
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-07-05
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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Socrates
Overview: Based on the story "Gokudō Socrates"
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-12-21
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Shinibana
Overview: After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal 1.7 billion yen from a bank.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-08
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Three Outlaw Samurai
Overview: Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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Samurai from Nowhere
Overview: Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
Overview: A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling ronin. As she develops into a master swordsman, her profession becomes that of a bounty hunter. Many test her sword and many die by her skills. She travels throughout the countryside to seek her mother and her revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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Sucharaka Shain
Overview: Maeda Yoichi's film adaptation of the long-running TV comedy series of the same name (1961-1967; TBS) written by Kagawa Toshio and produced by Sawada Takaharu (Tenamonda Sandogasa). The humorous story of a group of likeable loser ("sucharaka") employees at an Osaka branch who learn that unless they band together and actually work(!), their company will go into bankruptcy. Miyako Chocho appears as the Company President.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Samurai from Somewhere
Overview: Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to think that he has gone mad with blood-lust. Never offering any explanation, he continues his seemingly unprovoked attacks until he is sent away from his domain.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-07
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Kanei Command Performance
Overview: During the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine whether or not Iemitsu was to remain in power or cede it to his uncle, Yornobu, the 10th son of Ieyasu. Among the contestants were many expert swordsmen who have become well-known to this day. Warriors such as Yagyu Jubei (Kaga Takeshi), and Miyamoto Musashi (Matsukata Hiroki) headed up the slate. This was to be the all-star samurai match of the century. An amazing TV movie with non-stop action as Yagyu Jubei must save an emissary of the Ming and reach Edo in time to fight the crucial match.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Lone Wolf Isazo
Overview: Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in Kiso Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was not unable to consummate a marriage due to the class differences between them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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Standing Towards the Great Forest
Overview: Strife between competing lumber mills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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I Am A Man of Honor
Overview: The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again... this time with a beautiful college student Masako.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
Overview: After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi. Kanzaki-gumi captures the Toshin-gumi oil fields mined by the first boss. Umebayashi explodes in anger and attacks Kanzaki-gumi, but...
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Dead Angle
Overview: Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-04
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Hanzaki Daimyojin, Gorosuke no uta
Overview: 1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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How to Make a Big Hit
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-05
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Tange Sazen
Overview: In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu Clan tries to raise funds by obtaining a sword which holds the key to a wondrous, hidden treasure. After learning the sword's secret, Tange Sazen sides with the Yagyu Clan, but his motive seems to be more than just pure interest in the treasure...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2
Overview: Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-21
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Seventeen Ninja
Overview: This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the younger son of Shogun Hidetada has signed a dangerous pact with the intention of preventing his older brother Iemitsu from taking his rightful place as heir to the shogun's seat. During the early years of the Tokugawa shogunate highly skilled ninja groups carried out secret missions, and it falls upon Iga Jigoza's force of 17 ninja to infiltrate the enemy's stronghold and steal the pact from Negoro leader Saiga Magokuro.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Our Teacher
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-24
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Overview: Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Bloodstained Clan of Honor
Overview: It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-31
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My Wife
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-16
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Kojiro
Overview: Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakami’s fascinating story. Despite his humble birth, the orphan Sasaki Kojiro (Onoe Kikunosuke) is determined to become the foremost swordsman in all Japan, a title that traditionally belongs to a nobleman. At fencing school, young Kojiro receives the contempt of his classmates because of his superior swordsmanship. When rumors of the upcoming civil war between Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans spread, Kojiro leaves the school and sets out, seizing every opportunity to realize his dream.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Song Festival
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Genres: Fantasy Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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The Cheating Underworld
Overview: Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Destroyer Yukikaze
Overview: Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-16
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King of the Highway
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Women's Doctor
Overview: Life of a bachelor gynecologist in a hospital for women.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-18
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Big Magnum Kuroiwa
Overview: Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with the gun?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-13
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Lefty Fencer
Overview: As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Praying Mantis
Overview: A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective in charge of an embezzlement case is tracking the whereabouts of disappeared money and suspects Masako. One year later, a real estate company president dies a suspicious death in front of Masako at her beauty salon. Was it an accidents or murder?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-08
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Sanctuary
Overview: A child suddenly disappears in a small village and his mother desperately searches for clues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-07
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A Gambler's Certain Death
Overview: Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato). The plot is standard stuff and features too much talk, but there's also a decent balance between melodrama and lyricism in the form and storytelling. Tsuruta was a perfect fit for these kind of roles, with the stoic and emotional sides nicely mixed in his screen persona.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-06
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The Honest Fool
Overview: Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Yasugoro can confess his love.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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My Destiny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-30
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Overview: Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-28
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Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-16
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The Claws of the Divine Beast
Overview: Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-06-20
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-17
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Monrō no yōna onna
Overview: 1964 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Ano hito wa ima
Overview: 1963 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-16
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My Life As Music
Overview: Story about a singer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-10
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Bôkenshatachi
Overview: A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-14
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