Yoshihiro Takayama
Also Known As: 高山善廣
Biography: Yoshihiro Takayama is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Takayama is well known for his ability to endure massive amounts of punishment, especially after his fight at PRIDE 21 against Don Frye. He is one of two men to hold all 3 of puroresu's major heavyweight titles (the IWGP Heavyweight Championship, the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, and the GHC Heavyweight Championship), the other being Kensuke Sasaki.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: September 19, 1966
Age: 58 years old
Gender: Male
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Cromartie High School: The Movie
Overview: When a good student named Kamiyama gets placed in a high school filled with disobedient kids, he steps up to the plate and takes a position of leadership. Urging the young slackers and rebels to clean up their act, Kamiyama is in store for a lot of resistance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Pride 21: Demolition
Overview: Pride 21: Demolition was a mixed martial arts event held by the Pride Fighting Championships. It took place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan on June 23, 2002.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-23
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Pride 18: Cold Fury 2
Overview: Pride 18: Cold Fury 2 was a mixed martial arts event held by the Pride Fighting Championships. It took place at the Marine Messe Fukuoka in Fukuoka, Japan on December 23, 2001.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-23
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Pride 14: Clash Of The Titans
Overview: PRIDE 14: Clash of the Titans was a mixed martial arts event held by the PRIDE Fighting Championships. It took place at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan on May 27, 2001.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-27
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The Calamari Wrestler
Overview: This wild comedy pokes fun at the world of pro-wrestling by placing its accomplished wrestler protagonist Koji Taguchi against a giant squid known as the Calamari Wrestler. The Calimari Wrestler not only proves to be Koji's most difficult opponent yet, but also has an effect on several people's personal lives when he becomes the unlikely object of a young girl's affection.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-30
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Don's Road 14
Overview: The fourteenth 'Don's' Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-15
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Don's Road Final
Overview: The final 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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NOAH Navigate For Evolution 2002 - Day 10
Overview: Pro Wrestling NOAH's Navigate for Evolution tour continues, headlined by a tag team match between Jun Akiyama & Yuji Nagata vs Kenta Kobashi & Mitsuharu Misawa
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-17
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NOAH Navigation Over The Date Line 2003 - Day 13
Overview: Pro Wrestling NOAH's Navigation Over the Date Line tour sails on, headlined by a GHC Heavyweight Title match between champion Kenta Kobashi and Yujii Nagata
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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NJPW Bisshibishi Tradition! Makai World 2003 - Day 8: Memorial Rainbow Dash35
Overview: NJPW returns to the Nagoya Rainbow Hall, headlined by an IWGP Heavyweight Title #1 Contenders match between Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Manabu Nakanishi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-14
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NOAH Summer Navigation '07 - Day 12
Overview: Pro Wrestling NOAH's Summer Navigation tour rolls on from Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-15
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NJPW G1 Climax 2003 - Day 3
Overview: The G1 Climax tournament continues on, featuring some of NJPW's top stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-12
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Tokyo Tribe
Overview: In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is about to boil over into all-out war.
Genres: Music Science Fiction Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-30
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Nagurimono: Love & Kill
Overview: A foppish English businessman (Christian Storms) stages a martial-arts contest between champions of two rival yakuza gangs to resolve a dispute over a wonder drug he is dealing and that both sides want.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-03
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AAA Lucha Libre World Cup 2015
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-05-24
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles: Legend of Yagyu Part 2
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-23
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Hong Kong Underworld: Kenka-Gumi 2
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Bloody Crest: Kenka-Gumi
Overview: After being released from prison, Ichigo Muromachi, the greatest fighter known by the yakuza, the raiser of their empire, decides to start his own gang. However, with a vengeful man searching from him, a mysterious group causing mayhem, and betrayal around the corner, it will be far from as easy as he though it would be.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 6
Overview: Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion, which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2012. It was the 21st January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the sixth held under the "Wrestle Kingdom" name. This was the final Wrestle Kingdom where a Roman numeral was used as part of the event's name. The event featured twelve matches (including one dark match), three of which were contested for championships.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-04
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NJPW The New Beginning 2012
Overview: The New Beginning (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). The event took place on February 12, 2012, in Osaka, Osaka, at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. The event featured eight matches, four of which were contested for championships. It was the third event under the New Beginning name, and the first major event held by NJPW after the promotion had been sold to Bushiroad.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 5
Overview: Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion, which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2011. It was the 20th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the fifth held under the "Wrestle Kingdom" name. The event featured thirteen matches (including two dark matches), four of which were contested for championships.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-04
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NJPW G1 Climax 21: Day 10 (Final)
Overview: The tenth and final night of the tournament took place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan on August 14, 2011.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-14
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Silence
Overview: In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-23
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NJPW Wrestle Kingdom IV
Overview: Wrestle Kingdom IV in Tokyo Dome was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion, which took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2010. It was the 19th January 4 Tokyo Dome Show and the fourth held under the "Wrestle Kingdom" name. The event featured ten matches, five of which were contested for championships.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-04
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Muscle Heat
Overview: In the year 2009, a young policeman must collapse a Yakuza family whose members make a large profit with a new drug.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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NOAH: Departure 2004
Overview: Departure was a major professional wrestling event produced by Pro Wrestling Noah. The event took place on July 10, 2004 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, and marked Noah's first ever show in the arena. The main event was marketed as the culmination of the long running feud between former allies and tag team partners Kenta Kobashi and Jun Akiyama for the GHC Heavyweight Championship, then held by Kobashi. Beginning on Noah's very first show in 2000 and having spanned over four years since then, it marked the first time Akiyama and Kobashi had faced off in singles competition since August 6, 2000 where Akiyama won by referee stoppage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-10
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NJPW Nexess
Overview: NJPW presents a wrestling pay-per-view event from the Tokyo Dome in Tokoy, Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-03
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AJPW October Giant Series 1997 - Day 18
Overview: All Japan Pro Wrestling's October Giant Series rolls on with an epic clash between Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-21
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AJPW Super Power Series 1999 Finals
Overview: The 1999 Super Power Series comes to a close with its 14th day of action, headlined by Mitsuharu Misawa taking on Kenta Kobashi in an instant classic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-11
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AJPW October Giant Series 1998 - Day 18
Overview: AJPW's Giant Series comes to a conclusion as Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi face off in a classic encounter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-31
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NJPW Best Of The Super Junior X - Finals
Overview: The 10th Best of Super Juniors tournament comes to a close as some of the world's greatest junior heavyweights square off.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-14
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TNA One Night Only: Global IMPACT Japan 2014
Overview: On March 2, 2014, 14 TNA wrestlers were part of a TNA/Wrestle-1 supershow in Tokyo, Japan. TNA taped the event to air as a One Night Only pay-per-view. The TNA World Heavyweight, X Division and World Tag Team Championships were all defended during the event. The event also featured several matches not involving TNA wrestlers, dubbed "Part 1". Below are matches taped for the One Night Only PPV from "Part 2", which was Aired on PPV on July 4, 2014. Also aired on the One Night Only PPV was a 6-man tag team match originally aired at Lockdown (2014).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-04
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Hustle Aid 2007
Overview: Hustle was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion managed by Nobuhiko Takada. Hustle can be described as an industry experiment to market the sports entertainment style of professional wrestling in Japan. HUSTLE AID is one of the main annual shows put on by the promotion. This years event was held in the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-17
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NOAH: Accomplish Our First Navigation 2001 - Day 9
Overview: NOAH concludes their first Accomplish Our First Navigation Tour., headlined by Mitsuharu Misawa defending his GCW Heavyweight Title against Jun Akiyama.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-27
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Pro Wrestling Expo Part I: Green Chapter
Overview: Pro Wrestling Expo was a three part series of pro wrestling shows in Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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NOAH: Great Voyage
Overview: December 23rd, 2000 :: Pro Wrestling Noah presents The Great Voyage. In the wake of the great Exodus from All Japan Pro Wrestling the young upstart Pro Wrestling Noah promotion embarks on one of its' inaugural shows which took place in Tokyo at the Ariake Colosseum. The show marked third event held by the Pro Wrestling Noah and was considered the biggest show up to that point. Matches include: ⦁ Kenta Kobashi vs. Jun Akiyama ⦁ Mitsuhara Misawa vs. Vader ⦁ Shinya Hashimoto vs. Takao Omori ⦁ Akira Taue vs. Yoshihiro Takayama ⦁ Daisuke Ikeda & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Akitoshi Saito & Masashi Aoyagi ⦁ Tsuyoshi Kikuchi & KENTA vs. Scorpio & Kishin Kawabata ⦁ Naomichi Marufuji & Tamon Honda vs. Kodo Fuyuki & Tetsuhiro Kuroda ⦁ Kentaro Shiga, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takeshi Morishima vs. Masao Inoue, Takeshi Rikio & Takashi Sugiura ⦁ Rusher Kimura, Mitsuo Momota & Makoto Hashi vs. Jun Izumida, Satoru Asako & Haruka Eigen
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-23
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NOAH The Second Navigation 2009: Day 7
Overview: NOAH The Second Navigation 2009: Day 7 was a professional wrestling event that took place on March 1, 2009, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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