Guts Ishimatsu
Also Known As: 铃木石松, 鈴木石松, 鈴木有二（本名）
Biography: Yuji Suzuki, known as Guts Ishimatsu or Ishimatsu Suzuki, is a former boxing world champion from Kanumashi, Japan. After retiring from boxing, he has gained popularity as an actor and comedian.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tochigi, Japan
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Sazae-san 3
Overview: A TV special movie aired in Japan.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-02
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Ninja Hunt
Overview: It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only does that, but has created an even better piece. While the original from 1964 starred the great old-time actor Konoe Jushiro, this version is perfectly cast with his son Matsukata Hiroki in the lead as Wadakuro, one of four ronin hired to fight against the Shogunate's plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, who are struggling to reinstate their young heir Tanemaru as their Lord. Facing the threat of the Koga Ninja, Wadakuro shows his own cruelty while on a personal vendetta. This is a very brutal film, with lots of realistic ninja action, violent deaths, a dark story line and is completely without any light-hearted 'humor' elements that Toei used to incorperate back in the golden era. And with Matsukata Hiroki's outstanding martial skills, the swordplay is even better in this one. This is definitely one of the best ninja movies ever made!
Genres: Action TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Overview: There is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with his family without running water or electricity. He has his son and daughter in tow and works hard for them. The folk in the area try to help. A couple of years pass and the older son moves back to Tokyo, attends school and works part-time. The daughter commutes to the city to attend school. She wants to become a nurse. To become a registered nurse she needs to study a further three years. This takes money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-22
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Road to the Don 14
Overview: The fourteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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Road to the Don 15
Overview: The fifteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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Road to the Don 13
Overview: The thirteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-28
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Space Travelers
Overview: Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise...
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-08
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The Perfect Education
Overview: Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in the room and 'educate' her to perform perfect sex where body and soul are united.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-30
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Ski Jumping Pairs: Road to Torino 2006
Overview: Consistently designed, hilarious mockumentary about the history of the sport doubles ski jumping at the Olympic Winter games in Turin 2006.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-01
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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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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
Overview: After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-14
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Shitamachi Ninkyoden Hawk
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-02-13
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Blood
Overview: Police Detective Hoshino (Kanji Tsuda) investigates the murder of a maid at a mansion belonging to Miyako Rozmberk (Sugimoto), a seductive vampire mistress and "cougar" all in one. Ukyo Kuronuma (Jun Kaname), an Edo-era swordsman who was turned into a vampire by Miyako is fingered for the crime but before anything can be done about it Hoshino ends up under Miyako's spell as well. This leads Hoshino and Ukyo to battle one another for the privilege of staying with Miyako for eternity.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Overview: An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-16
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Aurora Borealis
Overview: The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-08-03
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Jesus is My Boss
Overview: A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life "Mission Barabbas," a Christian evangelistic group of ex-Yakuza.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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Oshin
Overview: A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial condition. Nevertheless, the young girl lives strongly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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True Record: The Life of Masahisa Takenaka Raging Lion Second Part
Overview: The second half of the true story of Masahisa Takenaka, 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest yakuza gang
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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Hawaiian Love: Dangerous Honeymoon
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-03
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田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
Overview: A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and detective Kiyoshi Atsumi heads to Tokyo, but... The upstart Keiju Kobayashi, his old friend Etsuko Ichihara, and Atsumi. The postwar experiences of three people who were tossed about by the war overlap. The screenplay by Satoru Hayasaka, the music by Kousuke Kanno, and above all, the performances of Atsumi and Ichihara make this a masterpiece in the history of TV dramas. A two-hour version was later created as an art festival award-winning work.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-02
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Battle Anthem
Overview: The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
Genres: War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-04
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Mr. Lady Cinderella at Dawn
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-07-10
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Shinran: Path to Purity
Overview: In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-02
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Mr. Hacchaki's Tokyo Game
Overview: A movie starring Meijin Takahashi, the God of Famicom. Based on the Hacchaki Sensei manga.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Overview: During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-04
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Okoge
Overview: A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-09
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Onigiri: Arcadia monogatari
Overview: A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know no one. One inn employee finds out about their dilemma and introduces them to a local farmer who offers them work and a home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-17
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The Shogun Assassins
Overview: This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police
Overview: After one of their group is caught for speeding a group of trouble-making teenagers decide to prank the local police officer. It starts with simple speeding pranks but gradually moves to more elaborate and bizarre pranks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-05
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Empire of the Sun
Overview: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-09
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Dead Angle
Overview: Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-04
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修羅之魂 ～侠客立志編～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2
Overview: Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-11-21
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Black Rain
Overview: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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The International Gang of Kobe
Overview: In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-14
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Overview: Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-06-17
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The Last True Yakuza
Overview: A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-16
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JUDGEMENT
Overview: An ex-boxer awakens in an unfamiliar room, chained from escape. His name is Machimura and he's not alone.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-10
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The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor
Overview: A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small room in a local boarding house, but he was unprepared for what life will throw at him. The room next to him boards a local gangster whose gang is a menace to the neighborhood, a bit further down lives a boy who dresses like a woman. And the old people managing the boarding house are quite peculiar too. Based on the manga by Leiji Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-16
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Space Monster DEMEKING
Overview: Junior high school student Hiroshi, who will only play with younger children, meets the young, taciturn Hachiya as he rides his bike. Shortly after, a strange friendship begins to blossom between them. But then Hachiya disappears, leaving behind only the puzzling words, "I am going to fight Demeking."
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-07
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Waru
Overview: A former gangster gets released from prison and goes to work for a group of people. The leader of this group becomes his mentor and the fight to combat criminals and for world peace. The whole resulting in the wanted and are chased of all families mob in Japan. They may however be a little unexpected help from the police.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-25
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell
Overview: The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword actor Takahashi Hideki takes over as the former shogunate decapitator, and his stunning swordsmanship is second to none! The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-22
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The Karate Man and the Spy
Overview: In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a famous Karate and Kempo master.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-04
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The Skull Soldier
Overview: Narumi, a man out for revenge with the powers he received and a bit of help from the one who saved his life, he creates the persona of Skull Soldier and attempts to discover who really killed his sister.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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A Violent School Revolution
Overview: A Violent School Revolution
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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Fuckin' Runaway
Overview: Hana, 21-year old, is sent to a mental hospital for attempting a suicide. She suffers from hearing a deep male voice in her head almost everyday that goes, "Twenty yards of linen are worth one coat..." She gradually regains her peace of mind by traveling across Kyushu dragging with her Nagoyan, a guy from Nagoya who is suffering from depression. They take on their journey on Nagoyan's old faithful car, Luce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-20
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Moon Dream
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-06-29
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Action Captain Legend: Blood Pact
Overview: The fate of three men who have lived as brothers since childhood
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-30
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g@me.
Overview: A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-11-08
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Pachinko Battle Royale II
Overview: The Second Pachinko Battle Royale Movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-03
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Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
Overview: In 1988, Hokkaido's Hokusei Yoichi High School became the first high school in Japan to accept students who had previously dropped out of high school from nationwide. This special follows Yoshiie Hiroyuki (based on a former graduate of Hokusei Yoichi) and his friends from the time they enroll in the school during it's first year accepting delinquents. This is a brilliant tale of troubled youths trying to break free from their former lives- fighting through various gut-wrenching challenges on their way- while the teachers struggle to help them every step of the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-03-27
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Haru Urara
Overview: Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single horse race she entered since her 1998 debut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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