Daisuke Ban
Also Known As: 伴 大介, 伴直弥, 斎藤 清憲, 斎藤清憲, Kiyonori Saito, Saitō Kiyonori, Ban Naoya, Naoya Ban, Ban Daisuke
Biography: Daisuke Ban (伴 大介 Ban Daisuke), born Kiyonori Saito (斎藤 清憲 Saitō Kiyonori), is a Japanese actor. He was born on May 5, 1947 in Saitama prefecture, north of Tokyo. He is best known for his role as Jiro in Android Kikaider.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Birthday: May 05, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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HE-LOW THE SECOND
Overview: Sequel to HE-LOW (2018)
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-28
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The Spiral
Overview: A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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Ring 0
Overview: Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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Ring 2
Overview: While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s son, Yoichi, starts to develop the same psychic abilities as Sadako, Takano must find a way to keep the boy and herself from becoming the next victims.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
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Shojo kankin
Overview: Masao Nishimura is a cheerful young man who works at a pastry shop. But he has another face. At night, Nishimura peeks out his favorite telescope from the window... He is obsessed with Kyoko, a clothing store clerk. He followed Kyoko's life without missing a single moment... Based on a true story that happened in Osaka, where a lively and cheerful young man confined and assaulted a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-02
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Flying from the Movie Screen: Inazuman
Overview: The moth-like superhero Inazuman has the climactic battle with Emperor Bamba and the Neo-Human Empire Phantom Army while also confronting the rise of President Geisel and the Desper Corps. An alternate version of events depicted in the TV series, exhibited theatrically in 3-D.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-16
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Inazuman Flash
Overview: With the help of Interpol Agent Makoto Arai, the newly-powered Gorou Watari/Sanagiman/Inazuman continues his adventures, this time against the nazi-like Desper Army led by Fuehrer Geisel.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-25
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Ninja Captor: The Movie
Overview: A group of modern-day ninjas fight the Fuma Clan.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-19
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Nebagiba New World
Overview: A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicious religious group that preys on good people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-07-10
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Premonition
Overview: While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-02
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Overview: Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-02-04
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Blood of the Samurai 2
Overview: The sequel to the award-winning independent film about two ordinary guys who are thrown into a world of action and adventure after the discovery of ancient samurai swords. With the touch of the swords, the blades have the mysterious power to possess the handlers into master samurai, skilled in the art of swordsmanship and bounded by the code of bushido.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-18
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Ring
Overview: A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-31
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Flying at Ya', Android Kikaider
Overview: A sinister organization launches a wave of audacious attacks in an attempt to gain world domination. Commanded by the evil Professor Gill, masked androids and fearsome DARK Destructoid monsters terrorize innocent victims and wreak havoc throughout Japan. A solitary figure emerges to combat the menace. Whenever DARK attacks, a denim-clad road warrior appears, strumming a haunting refrain on his guitar. His name is Jiro, and a secret lies at the heart of his lonely existence. Jiro is a mechanical man. Vulnerable to Professor Gill's shrill flute wooing him to the DARK side, Jiro battles the evil menace by transforming into the mighty red-and-blue android known as...Kikaida.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Kikaider REBOOT
Overview: In the near future, the “ARK Project” has initiated a program to increase the quality of human life through the peaceful use of robots. Dr. Komyoji, the chief scientist on the project, has developed a process to create a robot with a figurative human “heart” through the installation of a “conscience circuit”, but his plans are violently opposed by researcher Gilbert Kanzaki. When Dr. Komyoji is killed in an apparent accident, his children Masaru and Mitsuko are targeted by mysterious forces within the ARK Project looking to gain control of the scientist’s research data. But the villains are opposed by Jiro, the android with a human conscience who fights for justice as the hero Kikaider.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-05-24
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Go for Broke
Overview: During the tumultuous year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a group of University of Hawaii ROTC students navigate wartime Hawaii and fight discrimination.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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HE-LOW
Overview: HE-LOW is a tokusatsu self-made film created and directed by Hassei Takano.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-03
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Earth Defense Girl Iko-chan 3: Big Operation in Big Edo
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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