Toshio Kurosawa
Also Known As: 黒沢年男, Тосио Куросава
Biography: Toshio Kurosawa (黒沢年雄) was born on February 4, 1944 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He is an actor, known for Lady Snowblood (1973), Urutora Q (1965) and Samurai Assassin (1965).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 04, 1944
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Gender: Male
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Lady Snowblood
Overview: Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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The Wolves
Overview: After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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The Water Margin
Overview: The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Oriental Robin Hoods - the Honorable 108. Mountain bandits who nevertheless live by a scrupulous code of conduct, the Honorable 108 pledge to end the repression of the brutal overlords.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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Neko Ramen Taisho
Overview: Taishô's father is a supermodel cat, and everybody believes that Taishô will be a supermodel as well. His family has great expectations of him, because he is the eldest son, but he can't bear all the pressure and runs away from home. Unfortunately, he has no clue how to survive on his own, having always been fed and pampered as a model cat. Taishô passes from one job to another, homeless, until he finds his place in a noodle shop, where he becomes a successful cook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-29
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Overview: Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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Rebel Against Glory
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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Rookies Gotoshi Co., Ltd. ~THE MOVIE~
Overview: The fifth 'Gotoshi' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-03
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Rookies 2
Overview: The sixth and final 'Gotoshi' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-20
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Samurai Assassin
Overview: Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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Pomegranate Time
Overview: Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Attack at Daylight
Overview: A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-08
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How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
Overview: A salaryman comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-22
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Shinobido
Overview: A hidden Ninja village exists deep in the mountain. OKOU who was raised as a lady Ninja is ordered a secret mission by the patriarch..
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
Overview: Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
Genres: Drama Action Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-03
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Sodachi zakari
Overview: Japanese movie released on September 30 , 1967 . Produced and distributed by Toho . Color , Toho scope . Running time is 88 minutes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-30
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Hymn to a Tired Man
Overview: Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-08
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Duel at Fort Ezo
Overview: 1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-09
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Overview: Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-01
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Overview: As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-15
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The Resurrection of the Beast
Overview: Crime film released in 1969
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-06
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Hageshii Kisetsu
Overview: After being hit by Kyouko's car, office worker Hideo starts regularly meeting up Kyouko after the accident. With each meeting their feelings for each start to grow and they soon fall in love. The only problem is that Kyouko is married to and has a child with a yakuza boss who is currently in prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-01
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Evil of Dracula
Overview: A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-20
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 1
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Admiral Yamamoto
Overview: As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Our Wasteland
Overview: Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day. Meanwhile, his best friend Jun wants to build a home on some local wasteland. Yet the introduction of Yuki, who they both fall in love with, begins to tear their friendship apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-28
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Horror of the Giant Vortex
Overview: Japanese horror move from 1978.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-05
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The Beast Shall Die
Overview: Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-15
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Horror of the Wolf
Overview: Enigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful young teacher, and copes with a ruthless teen gang leader, whose yakuza father murdered Akira's parents years before.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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Campus A Go-Go
Overview: Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-19
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The Thin Line
Overview: Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-12
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 3
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 4
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 5
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 2
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Militarists
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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Flower Cross
Overview: Japanese horror television movie from 1978.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-13
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Overview: The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-05
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Moment of Terror
Overview: When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-16
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Two Hearts in the Rain
Overview: Love story of a working-class boy and girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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The Dump Truck Rascal
Overview: Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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Father of the Kamikaze
Overview: Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-14
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BEST GUY
Overview: Two pilots compete to be the best jet fighter. A commander with a troublesome past, a female director who wants a good scoop, a competition that is looking for their best guy.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-15
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The Truck Rascals Go to The North
Overview: Eighth movie in the Torakku Yarō series
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
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Good-bye Moscow
Overview: Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the dissident youth of the city, and again finds life empty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-27
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What the War Meant
Overview: The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month period between the Imperial Conference (Gozen Kaigi) on September 6, 1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-24
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Take It Easy
Overview: Coming of age film about rock musicians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-04-12
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Spoonful of Happiness
Overview: Youth movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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A Young Female Instructor
Overview: A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-15
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Young Challengers
Overview: A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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Come Marry Me
Overview: Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-20
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Karafuto 1945 Summer
Overview: The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-17
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０計画を阻止せよ－総理大臣誘拐！！－
Overview: Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus
Overview: A documentary about the 1974 film Prophecies of Nostradamus, released to coincide with the latter's release. It featured several prophets and experts on meteorology and food ecology giving their respective takes on the 1999 apocalypse which Nostradamus predicted. Performers Hiroshi Itsuki, Shizue Abe and Linda Yamamoto appeared as well as the film's stars, Tetsuro Tanba, Yoko Tsukasa, Toshio Kurosawa and Yumi Kaoru.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-25
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The Human Revolution
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-08
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Part-Time Detective 2
Overview: The housewife and part-time private detective Noriko Yamada plays her old tricks again, uncovering mysterious corruption cases. But this time she will solve it adopting the style of "Beatrix Kiddo" from Kill Bill.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-22
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Too Young to Die
Overview: A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Part-Time Detective
Overview: Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems with the bank. But while looking for work will Hitoshi befriending Hibino, president of "K & D Research" a detective agency. This will give you the opportunity to spend a trial investigating an infidelity. So get to be a part-time detective Noriko.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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City of Beasts
Overview: University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely getting more embroiled in his dirty dealings.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-23
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Japan's Longest Day
Overview: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-03
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The Last Days of Planet Earth
Overview: In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great change for Japan, some of his students revolt, calling his words heresy and his wife flees with a book of Nostradamus’s predictions… In the present day, Dr. Nishiyama has to combat increasingly bizarre goings on which seem all to familiar to the prophet's predictions…
Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-18
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