Toshiya Ito
Also Known As: 伊藤 栄八（本名）, Binpachi Itou, Binpači Itó
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 08, 1947
Deathday: June 12, 2007
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Gender: Male
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Space Riders
Overview: British 'Semi-Fictional' sports drama featuring Grand Prix motorcycle racing world champion Barry Sheene as himself. It tells the story of Sheene's pursuit of the world title, including his recovery from a near-fatal accident at Silverstone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay
Overview: A meteor lands in Japan and the fallout creates a “shield” around Tokyo, encasing the city in a foggy darkness. A state of martial law is declared. People are in a panic as violent crime and corruption spreads throughout the region and punk gangs are ruling the streets. As if things weren’t bad enough, a chemical reaction from the meteor unleashes a deadly virus and now the dead are coming back to life as flesh-eating zombies!
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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Jingi 2
Overview: The battle gang Yakuza Hitoshi Kamibayashi (Riki Takeuchi) and the brain gang Yakuza Yoshiro Yazaki (Toshihiko Sakakibara) from the University of Tokyo challenge the summit decisive battle of the extreme society.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Rape
Overview: Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Master Dochu, Grudge and Love
Overview: Who are “Dochu-shi?” They are street thieves. Ankuro’s blissful holiday with his parents is shattered when a group of thieves frame his father for theft and violently take his mother’s life. Fueled by grief and a thirst for justice, Ankuro vows to become a thief himself and challenge his parents’ killers to a match of thievery skills someday. 15 years later, having mastered his skills under the training of Oshin, his adoptive mother, he prepares to face his enemies in a series of matches adhering to the Dochu-shi’s code.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-25
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Ran
Overview: With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles
Overview: The female ninjas need to protect their particular master's unborn infant from enemies. They use all types of intimate tricks to obtain the work done.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-21
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Shadow Hunters
Overview: The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayers of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa Takashiwa, Tadamaru was assaulted by a kage on his way to Edo. Zyubei and Gennnosuke, the Kagekaris, try to carry injured Tadamaru to Edo.
Genres: Drama History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-06
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Legend of the Devil
Overview: A gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her family exchange her for the family treasure. The world's greatest swordsman, Shuranosuke Sakaki, is called in to get the sword back.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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History of Japan's Yakuza - Cry of Honor 5
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-01
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles 3: Sacred Book of Sexual Positions
Overview: The government is worried that the Emperor will have no children because he can’t get an erection. The female ninjas try to find a sacred book that will help him, but they face a stiff challenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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Hissatsu shimatsunin
Overview: A former assassin is drawn into a conspiracy which leads him to return to his old ways, endangering his brother who suspects that something is afoot...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-01
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Heaven and Earth
Overview: Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-11-24
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Dreams
Overview: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
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Kagemusha
Overview: Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-26
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A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era
Overview: In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to the armed police of the shogunate in Kyoto. Very few knew that Souji was not a boy, but a woman. Souji loved the vice-leader of the armed police, Toshizou Hijikata. Souji suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and coughed up blood during a battle. Toshizou helped her but said that he did not care for the girl with a smell of blood. Souji had a real talent for swordsmanship and no one but Ryouma Sakamoto could compete with her. Ryouma was a liberal intellectual and tried to carry out a revolution without blood. However, the bloody Meiji Restoration broke out and Souji killed Ryouma who lost his dream. Because a friendship had sprung up between Toshizou and Ryouma, Toshizou got angry and slashed at Souji with a sword. Unwillingly, she unsheathed her sword and thought that she might get love if she was killed by the man she loved.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-07-06
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Kagerō 4
Overview: In the Tosa in the early Showa era, the fourth series of Tempo active series that depicts the activity of the woman trainer involved in the conflict of two pairs of confrontation yakuza.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-07
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The Great Shogunate Battle
Overview: The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush the heir to the shogun’s seat is brutally cut down by those who hope to install the emperor’s 5th son as military leader of the nation.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-14
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