Teruko Omi
Also Known As: Teruko Ômi, 大美輝子
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: February 01, 1920
Deathday: January 01, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Akado Suzunosuke Destroys the Devil Mask Gang
Overview: The heroic warrior uses his magical powers and great sword skills to battle a criminal gang who all wear devil outfits.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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Night River
Overview: In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Yume de aritai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Reminiscence
Overview: Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-15
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The Actress and the Three Rascals
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Dynamite Doctor
Overview: Film by director Kenji Misumi
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-04
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Drunken Harbor
Overview: Third film of the yoidore hakase series
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Otemoyan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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Adventures of Zatoichi
Overview: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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Three Stripes in the Sun
Overview: A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-23
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Her Hidden Past
Overview: Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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The Good Little Bad Girl
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-22
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Kataashi no ēsu
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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Wakaki hi no kōdōkan
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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Hiding-Place in the Storm
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-16
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Kumo no Yuna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-20
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Ô abare Songokû
Overview: Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952)
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-04
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Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
Overview: One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from home with a woman he was in love with and had been living here. But this funeral was actually a kyogen (a farce) orchestrated by a gardener named Yunosuke, who had planted it without telling his wife, Okinu, in order to bilk his parents out of their money. Matasaburo believed Yunosuke, who said he would dig him up right away, and was buried in the ground. ......
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Overview: Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advisors from his entourage were assassinated, calling into question the possessions of the Date family.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Bakeneko goyō da
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-21
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風来物語 あばれ飛車
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-28
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Sisters of Gion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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Black Challenger
Overview: Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming from those at the very top of society.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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Thirty-three footprints
Overview: Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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A Spectacular Murder
Overview: When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all were fake. That same night, a dancer in the troupe went missing and a police officer was shot with the same caliber gun. Kawano suspects they are all related to a gun smuggling case.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-20
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An Heir's Place
Overview: This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichikawa Kon fans as Yukinojo in An Actor's Revenge, which was also co-written by Ito, adding to the relatedness of An Heir's Place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-03
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Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Overview: Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl. The dead woman's cat licks her blood and becomes a demon, seeking revenge on Okoyo
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-29
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Sansho the Bailiff
Overview: In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-31
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The Invisible Man Appears
Overview: Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the "Tears of Amour."
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-26
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Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
Overview: A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature, depicted with a wry and stylish touch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-11
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The Elephant Who Waited
Overview: The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro and Hanako at the Metropolitan Zoo.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-11-20
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Overview: Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-07
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
Overview: In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Overview: A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Claws of Iron
Overview: During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a monster like creature who kills with his claw like fingers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-24
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Zatoichi the Fugitive
Overview: After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-09
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Okoto and Sasuke
Overview: One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-14
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Broken Swords
Overview: The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-30
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Zatoichi on the Road
Overview: Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-30
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The Hot Little Girl
Overview: A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-03
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Assignment Cloud
Overview: A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.
Genres: Action War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-17
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
Overview: Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-11
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Overview: The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-filled conflagration.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-12
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Masseur’s Curse
Overview: One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-20
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Overview: Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-12
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Gambler and the Princess
Overview: Film directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-28
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The Lord Pretends
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-13
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The Fencing Master
Overview: The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Buddha
Overview: An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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Tanuki Battle of Awaodori Festival
Overview: A tanuki-themed musical.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-13
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Zoku Isoginchaku
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-07
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Child Bride
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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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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Seven Miles to Nakayama
Overview: When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hiding from the law, Masa eventually meets a young woman named Onaka, who looks exactly like Oshima. Tales having two look-alike heroines are a commonplace in Japanese period films, a plot affectation inherited from the kabuki theater. Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa, Nakayama shichiri was already twice filmed in 1930, one version directed by Namio Ochiai, and from which less than 40 minutes survive, the other directed by Kyotaro Namiki. Both are silent films, preserved by the Makino film institute.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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Samaritan Zatoichi
Overview: Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang. Osode and Zatoichi are caught in a dilemma as she must rely on her brother's killer for protection and Zatoichi wrestles with the injustice he has caused.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Ghost of Saga Mansion
Overview: A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako Irie's first bakeneko (ghost cat) movie; it started a Daiei cycle which was very popular at the time in Japan.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-03
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Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
Overview: A remake of Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953).
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-18
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New Journey of Yaji and Kita
Overview: Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-14
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The Third Will
Overview: A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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A Geisha
Overview: Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Ugetsu
Overview: In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
Overview: It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be the heir to a fortune get what is rightfully hers. Matsuo Kayo, who first rose to international stardom as ‘the supreme ninja’ in “Shogun Assassin” gives an outstanding performance in this clever and exciting caper tale set in the samurai era. Ryuzen agrees to help her, but is he just in it for himself, and is she really who she claims to be? When they come up against Boss Tobei it’s a virtual free-for-all as everyone struggles to walk away with a fortune in gold!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-06
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The Lightning Sword
Overview: Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-08
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The Angry Sword
Overview: Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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The Snowy Heron
Overview: The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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Tsukinode no ketto
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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Zatoichi at Large
Overview: Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Overview: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-17
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Overview: Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-10
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Crimes of Sex
Overview: An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-08
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The Second Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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The Well-known Magistrate
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-07
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Sisters of Destiny
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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Flowery Hood
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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Fighting Birds
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-25
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Tokyo Gambler
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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Oniisan to oneesan
Overview: A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-08
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A Fool's Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-10-16
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The Curse of the Ghost
Overview: About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-28
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