Ichiro Araki
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Japanese actor, singer, music producer, novelist and card magic expert.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: January 08, 1944
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
Overview: Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Agent Zero is let out of prison with the mission of going undercover to find the politician's daughter and return her safely. Using her deadly red handcuffs, she disposes of the criminals one by one.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-05-21
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A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
Overview: When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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Dynamite Doctor Returns
Overview: Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-17
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The Kyoto Connection
Overview: Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants the rapist and he is soon consulting his 'How to Stimulate a Woman' sex book in an effort to please her...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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Sing a Song of Sex
Overview: Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-23
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A Flower in a Neon Jungle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-20
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
Overview: A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a successful big-shot and embarks the life of a yakuza hitman.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-10
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The Revelation of a Geisha
Overview: After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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Ankoku gai jingi
Overview: A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's organization and emerging powers. A huge gangster story depicting a three-way turf war on a large scale.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-13
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Delicate Skillful Fingers
Overview: A girl falls for a pickpocketer who gets arrested, so she hooks up with his ex-girlfriend and his ex-cellmate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-07
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Madame Scandal
Overview: Pinku from 1973.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-28
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Secret Club 000
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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Queen Bee's Challenge
Overview: When two Girl Bosses fight each other over territory, their enmity is difficult to solve - they are equals in looks, strength, determination, and power of their respective girl gangs. So, the way is open to a mischievous Yakuza Boss who invites them for a peaceful way to decide their feud: a sexual challenge for him to decide who is the better Girl Boss. Trapped, both are subject to the man's lust and sadistic assaults. They escape by joining forces against the yakuza gang, though it costs one of the young women her life - when she was friends already with her former enemy.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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The Most Dangerous Game
Overview: The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-07
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The Last Swordsman
Overview: Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-02
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Yakuza Hooligans
Overview: A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-15
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Wangan Midnight Final: GTR Densetsu ACT 2
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Wangan Midnight Final: GTR Densetsu ACT 1
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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Wangan Midnight 2
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-28
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Wangan Midnight 4
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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Wangan Midnight 3
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-25
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A Woman’s Road
Overview: Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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Manon
Overview: A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-09-26
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My Sweetheart
Overview: It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-03
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Prison Tales
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-10
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
Overview: The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by sinister underworld thugs. After breaking free, the girls set their sights on one thing: revenge. Miki Sugimoto stars as girl boss Komasa, the ruthless and sadistic leader of the Kanto Gypsies who possesses more than enough brains to match her killer looks.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-13
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Pretty Devil Yoko
Overview: Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here (Hayato Tani) the first boyfriend. Director Yasuo Furuhata (his first picture) lets his camera roll in trendy clubs amongst partying youngsters in a way that could've been out of 60s England or a Nikkatsu film. The film was inspired by an article in Life magazine (Volume 57, 1964) titled The Young Rebellion.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-19
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Overview: The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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Dianas of the Campus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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Ambition in The Mirror
Overview: Kaori, the principal of Tanimoto Gakuen, a major player in the beauty industry, is aiming to expand into Shinjuku in order to make further progress. However, she is overtaken by the president of the Beauty Association and others. Then, a mysterious man, Segiyama, appears before her. He tells Kaori that he will take back the rights to the salon in Shinjuku in exchange for campaign expenses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-05
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Let's Dance Tonight
Overview: A drama about the sex industry.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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おゝい雲！
Overview: 1965 Toei Drama / Comedy
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
Overview: A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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