Kappei Matsumoto
Also Known As: Каппэй Мацумото
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: April 25, 1905
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 03, 1995
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The Chop Professor

Overview: Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-04-04
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Rhapsody in August

Overview: The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-25
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Kwaidan

Overview: Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-06
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Zesshou

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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-15
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Invasion of the Neptune Men

Overview: Astronomer Shinichi Tachibana has a secret identity as the superhero "Iron Sharp" and is well beloved by children. When they are attacked by a group of metallic aliens, Iron Sharp drives the aliens away. The resourceful Tachibana helps develop an electric barrier to block the aliens from coming to the Earth. After several losses by the aliens, they announce that they will invade the Earth, throwing the world into a state of panic.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Hitotsu no inochi

Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-27
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Police Precinct Part 13

Overview: On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents of the murdered child. They use a towel, baby diapers and bruises on the baby's body as clues in the investigation. Who killed the baby?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-07
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Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman

Overview: Detectives of the First Investigation Division are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled corpse was found in the bay of the Tama River. The ugly behavior of adults hidden in the name of social welfare is exposed by the investigation. 16th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Hell's Companion

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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Police Precinct: Nothing Left At The Scene

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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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Mid-August Commotion

Overview: A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-22
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Kataashi no ēsu

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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Flower Season

Overview: Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of the Kitamori family, Hana entrusts everything to Yuki, but wants her entire family to come see her on her birthday. At that time, her second son Keisuke's daughter Megumi, who is her private taxi driver, made a mistake, and she was overwhelmed and approached Yuki for advice. Eventually, her mother Kayo of Megumi learned about this, but a period was quietly struck by her women coming to a conclusion that should be the food for Megumi's growth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-02-27
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

Overview: On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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Zankokuna tsuki

Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
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Police Precinct: Car 108

Overview: Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the policeman investigates he is shot and the truck makes its getaway.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-09
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Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face

Overview: A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license plate number three days ago at Shin-Arakawa Ohashi Bridge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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Police Precinct Part 21

Overview: A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage, smashed his face with an oil canister and burned the body, trying to hide the identity of the victim. But the investigation establishes that the victim is a former criminal named Hisashi Sayama. According to Sayama's daughter-in-law, a man named Kitamura got him a job, so he left home with a copy of the family register. Trying to find the killer, the First Investigation Department is investigating all over the country, including Akita, Yokkaichi and Okinawa.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy

Overview: Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-28
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Floating Weeds Diary

Overview: A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, however, a miners' strike is announced, creating an uproar. In addition, the players find they have been cheated out of their profits by a crooked impresario.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-15
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The Garden of Women

Overview: A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Police Precinct: Confession

Overview: The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. During interrogation, Kinoshita said that he was the one who killed Sakai. However, after a while, he admitted that he lied, because he thought that in prison he could eat plenty of rice for free. The investigation established that Sakai was a repatriate from Manchuria, and after returning to Japan, he had a wife, Rie Kawai. The investigation begins the search for Rie... The 23nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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Hanatarō Jumon

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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-05
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Sea-Boy and Mountain-Boy

Overview: Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Police Precinct: Missing Person

Overview: Two people disappeared, engineers of the companies Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol together. According to the sushi restaurant employee who delivered an order around 9 p.m., the two were arguing loudly. Traces of blood were found at the scene, and it looks like a murder occurred. The Investigative Department begins an investigation… The 24th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-05
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The Forest Is Alive

Overview: Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-08
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Seishun no Sabaki

Overview: University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization

Overview: The fourth installment of G-men of Japan
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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風雲児

Overview: Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike

Overview: First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-04
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Blood Type: Blue

Overview: UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-23
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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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Apostasy

Overview: In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-11-30
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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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Detective Duel

Overview: A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-06
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Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan

Overview: Gekko Kamen faces off against Satan's Claw, who is after the treasure of the Kingdom of Baradai.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-22
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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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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

Overview: In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-22
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Street of Violence

Overview: An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-02-26
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Song of Farewell

Overview: After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a life of sincerity and love of the younger generation, and love but parting, in this lyrical and melancholy touching story of Ishizaka literature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-20
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Demons

Overview: Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-13
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Thirst for Love

Overview: Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-01
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A Thousand Suspects

Overview: Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-08
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August without Emperor

Overview: Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

Overview: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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The Face

Overview: A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming model.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-22
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Sword of the Beast

Overview: Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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The Black Cat

Overview: Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-13
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The Brick Factory Girl

Overview: This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-02-14
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Long Journey into Love

Overview: A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her work, designing and creating plaited cords for kimono.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-07
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Victory of Women

Overview: Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-04-18
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G-Men in the Pacific

Overview: G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-22
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Only She Knows

Overview: A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla

Overview: Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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0計画を阻止せよ-総理大臣誘拐!!-

Overview: Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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The Story of Pure Love

Overview: Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-15
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The Challenge

Overview: Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-28
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Men in a Rough Town

Overview: An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-28
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

Overview: In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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Murder on The Last Train

Overview: One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-21
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Stray Dog

Overview: A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Willful Murder

Overview: The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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Police Precinct

Overview: A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, who suspect the perpetrator as a habitual offender, flew to Yanagibashi using the remains as clues, and suspect a forester, but before this case was closed, a new incident using the same method occurred in Shinbashi, and this time the driver's corpse was not found.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-18
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Police Precinct Part 2

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Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-08
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Secret of Naruto

Overview: From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-29
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The Castle of Sand

Overview: Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-19
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Hell's Juggler

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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Police Precinct Part 5

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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Dancing Girls of Izu

Overview: A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-31
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Flame of My Love

Overview: A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-02-13
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Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor

Overview: Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in a small seaside town and the film favours detective and watadori film influences over westerns. Like its predecessor, the film runs barely over one hour and never drags. It’s a little less goofy, but doesn’t have as beautiful landscapes the first movie had. Not an especially good film, but for fans of Fukasaku and Chiba it’s an entertaining if flawed 60 minutes.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-22
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Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

Overview: After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wallet that did not fit the field, earrings, and other valuable materials, which led them on a foot search. The woman's purse had been picked up by a male prostitute on the subway, and from the prostitute's testimony, they were able to identify the pickpocket's face, but the next day, the man was found dead in a road accident, apparently murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-22
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Police Precinct Part 7

Overview: The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin manufacturing company. At the age of 26, she was a widow with a child, and she went missing after he went to collect her salary from the bank. A colleague at work said the victim was wearing an opal ring, but the bank clerk says she wore a jade ring when he came to withdraw money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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Police Precinct Part 8

Overview: Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol car, veers off and hits a tree. Three men run out and escape. From inside the truck comes the body of the taxi driver.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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Across the Darkness

Overview: A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Women's House

Overview: After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
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Lucky Dragon No. 5

Overview: An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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Ganpeki

Overview: 1953 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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悲劇の将軍 山下奉文

Overview: When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and was praised as a "Malay tiger." However, the situation in Japan changed steadily by the failure of Sai pan from the GA Talca translation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Midori naru hito: zenpen wakare no yogisha

Overview: 1956 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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Midori naru hito: kōhen ai no honryū

Overview: 1956 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-15
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The Boyhood of Dr. Noguchi

Overview: Depicts the boyhood days of Dr. Noguchi, world famous bacteriologist, who was born in a poor village as a farmer's son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-25
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Kiriko's Tango

Overview: A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a working-class neighborhood.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-25
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Mermaid Murder Case

Overview: The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-29
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