Kaku Takashina
Also Known As: 高品直吉, 髙品格
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Iioka-machi, Chiba, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 22, 1919
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 11, 1994
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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Return to Kanto Prison
Overview: Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock… The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-09
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Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-25
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Hana no saigetsu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-28
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Roar of the City
Overview: This action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman hidden in a wallet, and the justice and love-hate relationship between the men involved in the case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-25
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Machi ga nemuru toki
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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Yami ni kieta shisha
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
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The Angry Rambler
Overview: Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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Cell No. 8
Overview: A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
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I Hate But Love
Overview: A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-09
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Black Tight Killers
Overview: Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-12
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In Love With Him
Overview: It depicts a young man who challenges a 2600km traverse of Japan from Hidaka in Hokkaido to Kagoshima in Kyushu with Hokkaido horses.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-05-30
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The Frozen Plains
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-22
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Robot Detective: The Movie
Overview: Robot Detective K and his human colleagues battle the criminal organization BADDO. Theatrical release re-edited from episodes 1-9, 11, and 12 of the TV series with newly-added narration.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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零戦黒雲一家
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
Overview: Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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Confessions of a Lovelace: At Lust's End
Overview: Jun Aisaka seduces one woman after another. His victims were flirtatious married woman Noriko, student Keiko, widow Mitsuko and dancer Rumi. As a result, he ends up in prison, but after escaping with another prisoner, he continues his criminal adventures with a partner. It is clear that this will not end well. Moreover, a couple of detectives are already on the trail of the criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Overview: Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-12
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Man Who Causes a Storm
Overview: Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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Girl Boss: Broken Justice
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-22
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A Chorus of One Million People
Overview: A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being harassed by the Hashimoto group, a local gangster group which manages the city's entertainment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-26
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Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-13
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Mahjong Horoki
Overview: A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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Women's Police: Part II
Overview: Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about attempts to lure hostesses from Club Rose. Aron's madam Hisayo reminds him of a tragic experience five years before, when a lovely girl named Kumi committed double suicide with a man in a hotel. For Aron's madam is Kumi's elder sister. Kagari's friend Hayazaki introduces him to Chie, the young sister of the man who died with Kumi, who has come to Tokyo to learn the truth about her brother's death. Kagari sends them both away. But he continues to be haunted by the warmed-over memories. When Club Aron is found selling bootleg whisky Kagari learns that Hisayo has been a tool in the hands of the Akune group who are also responsible for trying to steal his girls, and that Fujikura, the public prosecutor who presided over the case of Kumi's death and ruled it suicide, is now the personal lawyer of the Akune group...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-28
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Standing Towards the Great Forest
Overview: Strife between competing lumber mills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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Wind Whistle in Field, Demon Sword: Matsudaira Tadateru cutting the world
Overview: Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa, was exiled for not taking part in the attack on Osaka Castle. 10 years before his exile expired, he was attacked in a clandestine Yagyu operation believed to have been ordered by his older brother Hidetada. In order to correct his brother's true intentions, Tadateru broke the law and went all the way from Hida Province, where he was exiled, to Edo Castle. However, the Yagyu do not stop trying to kill Tadateru...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-01
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Umi no jōji ni kakero
Overview: 1960 action film.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-17
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Sun and Stars
Overview: It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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He Killed Dad
Overview: The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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早射ち無頼 大平原の男
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
Overview: "Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara.
Genres: Crime Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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A Man With Dragon Tattoos
Overview: In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many across Japan. A vigorous young man with a look of fearless determination, sets foot on the northern part of Kyushu, an area where Yakuza thrived. His name is Kingoro Tamai (Yujiro Ishihara). With plans to travel the world, Kingoro worked diligently at a coal mine. His loyalty and hard work earned the respect of his peers, his courage won the heart of the beautiful Mon (Ruriko Asaoka), and his success evoked jealousy in his enemies.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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The Story of Shunkin
Overview: Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-27
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The Hungry Shinjuku Detective
Overview: The private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his integrity in a dirty, dangerous world.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Overview: Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his gold bullion somewhere.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-26
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The Resurrection of the Beast
Overview: Crime film released in 1969
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-06
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Jigoku no yoru wa makka da ze
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-22
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Inn of the Floating Weeds
Overview: Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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Fighting Delinquents
Overview: This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-23
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Pursuit
Overview: Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-10
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Return of the Whirlwind
Overview: Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the fifth in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi dressed as a hero of the dead ghost. Familiar Takuya Nikaido challenges the international call girl organization.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-10
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Asiapol Secret Service
Overview: A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police organization that pursues global criminal organizations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-10
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Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
Overview: A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the underground organization of fear. The final work of Asahi Kobayashi's "Ginza Whirlpool Child (Mitsugai)" series.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-31
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The Return of the Filthy Seven
Overview: A 1967 crime film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-21
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Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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Hitoribotchi no futari daga
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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The Human Cyclone
Overview: The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Man, popular and longing everywhere, and who is on the side of justice of the divine ghost.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-20
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Journey to the North
Overview: Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. However, Yuko, having returned home, has just become engaged to a local young man, and the sudden appearance of Eikichi makes others worry that their good relationship will be spoiled. An epic about pure love, which tells the story of a man who leaves his beloved woman, praying for her happiness. Adapted from the novel "Kiri no Naka no Shojo" Yojiro Ishizaka.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-03
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
Overview: In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Return of the Vagabond
Overview: The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again. Of course, Noriko is in trouble. Of course, Shinji's yet another skilled rival named "Tetsu, the Gunman" comes to Sado shortly. Of course, the villain tries to kill Shinji and Tetsu. Of course, Shinji solves the problem and leaves Sado suddenly.
Genres: Music Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-23
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Tattooed Life
Overview: After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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Ruthless Gambler
Overview: Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing his family's minions, and his lover is tortured by the enemy, but rescued by the imprisoned young man's nemesis.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-28
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Wounded Beast
Overview: A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective who is trying to catch a fleeing young criminal.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Overview: In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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Retaliation
Overview: Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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The Flower and the Angry Waves
Overview: A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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The Singing Gunman
Overview: Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the bullion transport.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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Lightning
Overview: The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
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Brother and Sister
Overview: The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-19
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Outlaw: Heartless
Overview: Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Smashing the 0-Line
Overview: Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-25
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Asia-Pol
Overview: Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives and destroying most of the shipment before it can be confiscated. In the process, Ming Xuan's partner is killed, and the young agent is brought to the unwelcome attention of the leader of the smuggling operation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-06-22
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The Reckless One
Overview: Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe from Omura Sangyo. Kosuke's partner Kumagoro investigates and finds out that Hasebe, who killed the head of the Muraoka clan, made Takehara disappear in order to keep him silent. The third film in the series.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-09
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I'll Kill the Women
Overview: A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unaware that he has fallen into a trap set by his younger brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-05
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無情の夢
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Mujo no yume" by Mitsuo Sagawa.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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The Long Death
Overview: On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-12
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Drunken Ghost
Overview: A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-26
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クレージーの殴り込み清水港
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Endless Desire
Overview: Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-18
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Story of a Prostitute
Overview: Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-27
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Birth of a Fighter
Overview: A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy
Overview: Rumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu Munefuyu is assigned to deal with the problem and the rebellious clans will be crushed! Meanwhile, a former vassal of the Kazama clan is shot and killed. Moments later a second man is killed by a mysterious master swordsman. Matsudaira Choshichiro and his companions arrive at the crime scene and find a new type of repeating gun. The carved seal on the gun stock belong to the Saiga; a ninja clan abolished by the shogunate many years ago. The blame for the murders is placed on the Kazama clan. Are they guilty or is this a wise cunning plan by Lord Yagyu to be able to destroy the Kazama clan? Choshichiro sets out to reveal the truth and try to save the doomed Kazama clan! In his way are the Owari, Lord Yagyu and his ninja assassins, and the mysterious master swordsman! Will Choshichiro prevail against impossible odds...?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Voice Without a Shadow
Overview: Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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Mehyō to Narazu Mono
Overview: A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose love and action unfold against the backdrop of a rice field in the middle of a vast forest.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-17
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Massacre Gun
Overview: Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-06
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Sympathy for the Underdog
Overview: A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-12
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
Overview: A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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The Heartbreak Yakuza
Overview: A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.
Genres: Crime Romance Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-09-12
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Tiger of the Sea
Overview: A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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Kakedashi keiji
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-25
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A Turning to Hell
Overview: Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-06
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Wind of Volcano
Overview: An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
Overview: When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-14
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Murder Unincorporated
Overview: When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry showcases some of the most peculiar killing tactics to ever hit Japanese cinema!
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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The Stars and I Decided...
Overview: The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-14
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Song of the Underworld
Overview: A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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Love in Ginza
Overview: Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and his sweet heart, Hisako decide to get married, Hanjiro is faced with a tough decision. Needing to buy a ticket back home to tell his mother the good news, he compromises his creative principles for love and sells his portrait of Hisako. Hisako heads to the station to see him off, but gets hit by a car...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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Kanto Wanderer
Overview: Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-23
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Living by Karate
Overview: Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-16
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Gambling Kitten
Overview: Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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The Vampire Doll
Overview: A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-04
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
Overview: Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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Teenage Yakuza
Overview: A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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The Dragon Crest
Overview: A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-10
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The Flower and the Sword
Overview: A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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The Gun Like Lightning
Overview: Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart, who he now finds is engaged to Noboru, a detective and son of Jinsaku, boss of the Otsu gang. That night at the night club, headquarters of the Highlight Group - which Noboru is investigating, Majima meets Joji who knows of his attempt to kill Jinsaku, and resolves to kill him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-14
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The Spiders' The Road to Bali
Overview: The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but the boys just want to Rock and Roll!
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-28
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The Guys Who Put Money on Me
Overview: An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-09
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A Warm Misty Night
Overview: When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-11
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Detective Story
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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The Man of Victory
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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The Call of Blood
Overview: Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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The Boy Who Came Back
Overview: Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-29
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Underworld Beauty
Overview: The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Passion and Rifle Bullets
Overview: Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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Till We Meet Again
Overview: Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-29
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Heat Wave
Overview: Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-02-09
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A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
Overview: Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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The Man's Crest: I Shall Kill
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-08
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Overview: Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-02
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
Overview: From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-17
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Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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The Devil's Sigh
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-09
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Gambler in the Sea
Overview: Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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Afternoon When Flowers Fell
Overview: A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband's best friend, a private detective, to investigate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-07
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Merciless Bullet
Overview: Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sawamura clan (Kaneko), who is with his mistress, impassively pulls the trigger of a pistol with a silencer. Kenji was hired by Sawamura's advisor, Matsumoto (Ashida). It was a cunning plan: eliminate Sawamura, sell the smuggling rights to the Hamasaki clan and make a profit. And for Kenji, the motive did not matter, as long as he was paid, his job was to kill opponents without a miss.…
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Why Are We Young?
Overview: After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Gambling is My Destiny
Overview: Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on the scenic Manazuru Peninsula, the action is set amidst rugged rocky terrain and raging waves!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-04
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Shōjo to fūsen
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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群集の中の太陽
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Overview: Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-20
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Furankī no uchūbito
Overview: Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super speed. He contacts the newspaper about it, but the editor dismisses him, saying he's gone mad and doesn't take him seriously at all. This is the imaginative sci-fi comedy "Frankie 14," featuring a groundbreaking and innovative story with flying saucers of unparalleled rarity and the appearance of artificial satellite people produced from single cells.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-27
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Return to Kanto Prison
Overview: Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock… The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-09
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Kokoro no nichigetsu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-15
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Beneath the Gallows
Overview: Who is the vicious criminal challenging the investigation team? Mysteries lead to more mysteries, and deductions lead to more deductions in this bizarre and terrifying thriller!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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Kage no nai yōfu
Overview: 1960 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Blood Shed
Overview: Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
Overview: A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Doing What I Please
Overview: Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that have been damaged in accidents at a low price and scraps them for his own company. He uses the money he earns in this way to pay back Kanda Trading. Morita, the president of the company, is suspicious about the identity of Kanda Trading, from whom he borrowed money. However, what is borrowed must be repaid, and Koichi drives to Toyokawa to beg his grandfather for money as his scrap business is not going well. In addition to begging for money, Koichi has another secret purpose...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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Nippon ichi no shokku otoko
Overview: The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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