Yōichi Numata
Also Known As: Yōichi Numata
Biography: Yōichi Numata (沼田 曜一 Numata Yōichi) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 27 films between 1949 and 2001.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Okayama, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: July 19, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 29, 2006
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Known For:
Ring
Overview: A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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Ring 2
Overview: While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Island of Horrors
Overview: Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolated island in the Seto Inland Sea. Kosuke Kindaichi received a will from his friend Kito, which said, "Go to Gokumon Island to save my three younger sisters," and Kosuke went to Gokumon Island. Upon arriving at the residence of Quito, there were three beautiful sisters, a crazy father, a cousin of Sanae, and Kosuke plunged into a strange atmosphere. The film adaptation of the masterpiece novel of the same name by Seishi Yokomizo. Kyozo Kataoka plays Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, and Ryutaro Otomo plays Inspector Isokawa, who can be called Kindaichi's best partner.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-11-20
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G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
Overview: The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious radio signal, the coast Guard discovers that a smuggling transaction is taking place and goes to the place. It was supposed to be a big catch, but they lose sight of the smugglers by finding and rescuing a woman drowning in the sea. The rescued woman says she jumped into the sea while escaping from a slaver's boat... A luxury version featuring the two main stars of the Toei company – Chiezo Kataoka and Utaemon Ichikawa.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-01-03
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The Princess Blade
Overview: Raised by assassins, Yuki is the last of the Takemikazuchi royal bloodline. A deadly weapon in her own right, she learns the gruesome truth about the death of her beloved mother and joins forces with a mysterious rebel leader.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-15
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Jigoku
Overview: A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-30
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Hibari no san'yaku: Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-17
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
Overview: The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enough for a complete victory?
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-17
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Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
Overview: An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-28
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Dispersed Clouds
Overview: Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-23
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Death Row Woman
Overview: Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-13
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Sex and Life
Overview: Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mikami's specialty is sexual clarification... The world's best-selling sex literature was filmed here in a manner close to the original. And the openness of the image shows the shocking conflicts of young people in scenes that were never filmed. Shocking documents about sex life from the doctor's office.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-11
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Keirin Queen
Overview: It is a sport film about cycling.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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Ukiyo-e Artist
Overview: A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-19
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Hanran
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-03
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Man in the Storm
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-07
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Haunted Cave
Overview: The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family were under a curse. Yumi is surprised by the ghost of a dead sister who looks the same as the grim figure who jumped into the old well alter stabbing herself with a sword. Fearful that a similar fate awaits her, Yumi seeks the help of her friend Kyoko. Later the ghost appears before Kyoko and her fiancé, Detective Nonomiya. In a haunted cave, Kyoko and Yumi are in deadly peril from those who seek treasures of the Aoyamas.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-17
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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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Cordon at Dawn
Overview: 1957 crime film
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-14
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A Certain Woman
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-13
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Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
Overview: In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi’s lineage, specifically from his wife, Fushihime. Outraged but facing annihilation, Yoshimi gives Fushihime a string of eight ancestral beads and urges her to escape to loyal retainer Inuda Kobungo. Instead, she goes alone to Anzai, followed by her dog, Hachibo. In a twist, Hachibo attacks and kills Anzai, allowing Fushihime to escape. She later reveals that the beads protected her and predicts that eight warriors bearing these beads will someday defend the Satomi family before passing away. Yoshimi finds one of the beads in Inuzuka Nobuno’s armor and convinces her to serve him. Meanwhile, Baka Daiki, plotting to overthrow Satomi, imprisons Inukawa Shosuke, who tries to intervene, under the watch of vassal Aminen Saomojiro.
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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Invitation to the Enchanted Town
Overview: Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-08
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The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin
Overview: In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-11
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Overview: Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-29
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Reckless Drivers
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-09
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Yellow Line
Overview: The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Traitors of the Blue Castle
Overview: Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-03
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Shitto
Overview: Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Overview: This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima
Overview: Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-07-05
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The Fencing Collegian
Overview: Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
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Daigaku no kengō: Keiraku no abarenbō
Overview: Japanese youth film about kendo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Beyond the Hills
Overview: On September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled with victims, and rumors are circulating around. The military seized the opportunity to round up and kill many socialists, anarchists, and Koreans, culminating in the arrest and murder of Sakae Osugi. His comrades and students are outraged by this atrocity. The young man Furukawa also becomes stronger in his determination to overthrow the military...
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-30
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Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
Overview: During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not being able to take part in the fighting. They had been held back by orders from the Naval Ministry, but there was also a plot by saboteurs, who were trying to prevent the sailing of the Mutsu. Director Komori developed a suspenseful plot by including a fictional adaptation of the Russian spy Richard Sorge, who had been captured in Japan and subsequently executed. Komori brings a fictional Russian spy to the screen by portraying him as a military attaché at the German embassy. As Germany was an ally of Japan in WWII, a secret agent being a mole in the German embassy is a perfect cover. The interaction of the saboteurs and the officers and crew of the Mutsu make an exciting story.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Star Poisoning Case
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-03
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Fighting Horizon
Overview: Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-15
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Maboroshi Tantei: Kyōfu No Uchūjin
Overview: Second "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-19
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まぼろし探偵 幽霊塔の大魔術団
Overview: Third and last "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-12-03
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皇室と戦争とわが民族
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-11
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Overview: In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Overview: Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-12
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Yellow Crow
Overview: Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been estranged from his son for many years, pays no attention to the boy, often punishes him unfairly, and gives all his tenderness to his little daughter, who was born after his return. The boy sees all the injustice of his father and, offended, leaves home. The father realized that he was wrong, that he was guilty before his son. The mother finds the boy and brings him home. The father and the son become friends from that day on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-27
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Emperor Meiji and General Nogi
Overview: In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an invincible fortress at Port Arthur, and the relations between two countries have become strained to breaking point. General Nogi has retired to the first reserve and is now a gentleman farmer, but he is prepared for sudden mobilization. Finally, Japan declares war against Russia and Emperor Meiji appoints General Nogi as the commander of the force to attack Port Arthur. However, in spite of several all-out attacks, the fortress is strong and the casualties increase among the Japanese. Because of these reverses, there are loud cries for a change in command. However, the Emperor places his confidence in General Nogi.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-01
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スパイと貞操
Overview: Japanese spy film.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-22
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The Ceiling at Utsunomiya
Overview: Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger brother Tadanaga. Before learning of these plots, Ryutaro discovers himself in a predicament of his own when he rushes to the defence of a local girl who is caught between her boyfriend and a greedy businessman. The situation results in many violent one-on-one skirmishes between Ryutaro and the businessman’s many samurai defendants, one of whom enigmatically refuses to reveal his face or use more than just the one hand. Before long, Ryutaro’s top priority is not protecting Iemitsu as it should be, but rather unearthing the true identity of the mystery samurai.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-19
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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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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
Overview: Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-05
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Brothers of Capones
Overview: Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows his first venture to Japan with gangster brothers Frank (Shingo Yamashiro) and Joe (Fumio Watanabe). And being chased by gangster and the FBI, including the granddaughter of Eliot Ness. The whole thing is a good amount of fun, the performances especially (Wakayama, Yamashiro, Watanabe in a rare heroic role), making this one of routine director Takashi Harada’s best pictures.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-23
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Tengoku wa doko da
Overview: Japanese drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-23
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love
Overview: The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
Overview: The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by pollution from a local factory. They seem to work out an agreement, but Oryu must help the poor villagers when the greedy factory owner and corrupt politicians betray them…
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-01
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The Red Silk Gambler
Overview: With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site. Surrounding her are Omon, an outlaw star blind lone gambler; Onaka, a thief who’s after Okatsu to avenge her father’s death; Ohide, a tattoo artist whose back is covered by a dragon tattoo; and Oryu, a young girl sold as a prostitute to a gambling family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-21
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Female Thief and the Bomb
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-07
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The Golden Bat
Overview: A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately inducted into the secret program whose mission is to finish the Super-Destruction Beam cannon and destroy Icarus. The cannon is missing a special mineral for the lens. The team heads for a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific. There they find ancient ruins of Atlantis but they are suddenly attacked by a strange drill shaped metal squid spaceship. It's commanded by the evil being Nazu who has engineered the collision with Icarus! He doesn't want to share the universe with humans and he really doesn't want the cannon finished. The action is on and the team discovers the Golden Bat who has been asleep for over 10,000 years awaiting this very moment to save the earth!
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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North Sea Chivalry
Overview: Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the northern regions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-29
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Game of Chance 2
Overview: Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo and Kenichi, in their search for Teruko, arrive in a new place and find work running a peddling stall for the upright Tatsumaki family. However, the drifting father and son soon find themselves caught up in a struggle for territory. Boss Negishi, the head of the yakuza family responsible for the death of the former Tatsumaki leader, will stop at nothing to take over the marketplace. Sickened by the injustice, Bungo takes on the rival boss knowing it might cost him his newly acquired freedom..
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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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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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-09
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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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Big Time Gambling Boss
Overview: Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-14
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The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
Overview: Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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A Ripple in a Morning
Overview: Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Nude Model Murder Case
Overview: Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Night School
Overview: An Ishiro Honda Film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-18
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Happiness of Us Alone
Overview: The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Okatsu the Fugitive
Overview: Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry and actually she doesn't seem too upset about the situation. At the same time, a bunch of farmers are being slaughtered by a corrupt group running a tobacco smuggling ring. They're being investigated by a man who is documenting their crimes and when they find out about it, they torture him for information but get none. It's not long before he and Okatsu's mother wind up dead and she sets out for revenge.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
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Genres: History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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The Biggest Gamble
Overview: When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-19
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An Ocean to Cross
Overview: Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-01-26
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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
Overview: The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When threatened by a competitor, they employ Saburai, a nihilistic ronin on the verge of self destruction. Blood gushes and limbs fly for anyone who stands against Saburai as he instills the Way of the Bohachi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-02
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Miniature
Overview: Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
Overview: The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-08-16
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The Brawling Angel
Overview: Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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The Cross of Vengeance
Overview: Film with Junko Miyazono.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-24
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Deep River
Overview: A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-01
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Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'
Overview: A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-19
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The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Overview: The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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At the End of the Clouds
Overview: A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-09
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Overview: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-21
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The Great Chase
Overview: Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase" to be seen, Shihomi does pursue a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese yakuza types. While the story is pure 70's exploitation and gritty crime drama, the best reason to see it is for the Martial Arts Action of Etsuko Shihomi. The action is over-the-top and at times hilarious (i.e. Shihomi battling the lead criminal atop a moving gondola or Shihomi battling a whip-wielding Catholic Nun).
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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Satsujinhan nanatsu no kao
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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Shōwa Gokudōshi
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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Swift Current
Overview: The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, and the human relationships involved in building the dam. A masterpiece by director Senkichi Taniguchi, who has worked on numerous films starring Mifune.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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Konna onna ni dare ga shita
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-04
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Keiyaku kekkon
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-27
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Half Virgin
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-25
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Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
Overview: A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-21
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