Masaya Takahashi
Also Known As: 高桥昌也
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 16, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 16, 2014
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Returner
Overview: A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-31
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Always - Sunset on Third Street
Overview: Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's evolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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Seinen no isu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-08
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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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Japan's Don
Overview: A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Bitterness of Youth
Overview: A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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Silence
Overview: Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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Tokyo Rendezvous
Overview: A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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The Worship of the Flesh
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-10
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Little Snack
Overview: Rebecca an incredibly successful image "upgrader" who specializes in bringing out the best version of one's self, is faced with her most formidable challenge yet in the charming but very stuck in his ways, Clive, a former soccer star.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-15
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Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance
Overview: 16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-21
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The Beauty of Black Pearl
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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The Desperate
Overview: A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-18
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Sapporo Winter Olympics
Overview: A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-24
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Rebellion of Japan
Overview: Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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The Night Clinic
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-04
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Edogawa Ranpo's Beauty Series: Beautiful Woman with White Breasts Edogawa Ranpo's "Hell's Clown"
Overview: Kogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another!
Genres: TV Movie Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-10-03
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University of Laughs
Overview: In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Belladonna of Sadness
Overview: An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-30
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 12 - The Mystery of the Ever-Changing Tamamushi Mansion!
Overview: Twelfth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-26
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Doterai Man
Overview: Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka, it depicts the activities of the main character Takezo Yamashita who repels adversity with a man's stubbornness and guts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-01
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Kindachi Kosuke: The Queen Bee
Overview: The movie is part of the Kindaichi TV movie series. Kindaichi is played by actor Goro Inagaki. The character's grandfather began with the written word. Kousuke Kindaichi started life in the novels of Seishi Yokomizo, written and set in post-war Japan. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, Kindaichi is still very much a unique character, giving the Japanese their very own literary hero-detective. Young Hajime Kindaichi is a young man with bad dandruff and worse dress-sense (decades before Columbo), who wears a trademark, scruffy sunhat. He also happens to be better than the police at deductive reasoning. Having gained publicity for solving a high-profile murder case, the detectives allow him to work with them again. This story is slimmer than the twisty plots of Inugami and Village, but is graced by the presence of Chiaki Kuriyama (Battle Royale, Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Great Yokai War) in the title role.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-01-06
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Classmates
Overview: A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-03
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The Complex
Overview: Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a reclusive old man who has refused all attempts at communication. Concerned over his well being, Asuka enters his home only to find him dead from malnutrition. Worse, it looks as if he had been trying to claw his way into her room. Asuka learns that there have been a number of strange deaths in the complex over the years from Shinobu, the handyman cleaning up the old man’s apartment. Even the girls at school whisper rumors of it being haunted.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-13
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The Spy
Overview: Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-04
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High School Third Graders
Overview: In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo also appears in the movie, which depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji
Overview: One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
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White Love
Overview: Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teacher Ken. Finally she found her father in Madrid and she also met Ken's ex-girl friend Taeko there. Ken came to Madrid and learned of their meeting. He wanted her to help to look for Taeko. Ken was caught in between the past and the present.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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The Human Wall
Overview: Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-18
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Flora on the Sand
Overview: One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later, they have a second chance encounter at the observatory. This time, Ichiro is the one who pursues her. Back at the hotel, Akiko begs Ichiro to give her sister – Kyoko, a bar hostess – absolute hell. Akiko resents her sister for lecturing on chastity, while wantonly indulging in promiscuous activity. Ichiro takes an interest in Kyoko and sets out towards her bar…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-29
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Air Doll
Overview: A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Junichi. She starts to date Junichi and gets a job at the same store where he works. Everything seems to be going perfectly for her until something unexpected happens.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-26
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Ame no meguri ai
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-21
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Sweet Revenge
Overview: Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Killer's Mission
Overview: Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a cowardly Ronin who becomes his assistant, as well as a female spy and a female warrior...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-13
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Just for You
Overview: Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house. Yumi is impulsive, out-going. And although she cannot claim to be good at Japanese dancing or playing musical instruments so necessary to a geisha, she is a whizz at go-go and will dance the hula at parties. But before becoming a full-fledged geisha, Yumi must go through the ceremony of the "mizuage", when a budding geisha surrenders her virginity to an experienced man who makes her a woman. Takida, a rich money-lender, is chosen for Yumi's mizuage but she offers herself first to Keiichi (Ryo Tamura), who she really loves although she knows that his world and hers are too far apart for a successful marriage.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-25
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The Black Gambler
Overview: Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-01
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Daring Girls
Overview: Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-27
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
Overview: The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Overview: This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-16
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Art of Assassination
Overview: A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Modori River
Overview: The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-16
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Ellie My Love
Overview: Based on the comic by Mako Takami.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-11
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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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But the Flesh is Weak
Overview: A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-29
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Kyokuhoku Rhapsody
Overview: Set in Kyokuhoku Citizen Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. "Kyokuhoku Rhapsody" follows the life of a young doctor for a one year period. Yoshio Imanaka works at the Kyokuhoku Hospital that is losing staff members and facing bankruptcy. During this difficult time, Yoshio Imanaka meets hairdresser Kozue Namiki and falls in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-03-19
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The Shogun and His Mistresses
Overview: Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-30
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Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
Overview: The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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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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Aspiration
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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オフィス妻のさけび
Overview: Natsuko is witnessed carrying on an affair with her boss, Misawa, by the unmarried Chieko. However, Chieko dies by falling and is found about ten days later in the shrubbery in front of the company. It is revealed that Chieko led a flashy private life and frequented a host club. Moreover, it seems that she was having an affair with Division Chief Yamazaki.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-25
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Sweet Seventeen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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The Gambling Monk
Overview: One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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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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The Imperial Japanese Empire
Overview: Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-07
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Translucent Tree
Overview: Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-30
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Otakus in Love
Overview: Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-20
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Take Me Away!
Overview: Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Tokyo but Tetsu didn't turn up. She went to look for him in San Francisco but all she found was him with his new girlfriend. Kyoko went back to Tokyo and eventually married a big corporate CEO.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-22
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A Woman's Life
Overview: One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
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Modae
Overview: This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who spends her days in a state of unfulfillment, is gradually attracted to a young playboy, but she is unable to cross the line. One day, her husband proposes to have a child through artificial insemination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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Main Line to Terror
Overview: Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-06
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