Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Also Known As: Хироси Кавагути
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: August 22, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 17, 1987
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Musume no boken
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-01
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Venus Wars
Overview: The new frontier of Venus has degenerated into a dystopia ravaged by the civil war between Ishtar and Aphrodia. Bubbly reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capitol of Aphrodia just before it's captured by Ishtar. She falls in with a bunch of teen-agers who live for a sort of motorcycle version of Roller Derby. Daredevil rider Hiro and his friends reluctantly join the struggle to free Aphrodia from the invaders. Not surprisingly, Hiro proves an ace at piloting the mono-cycles that are the Aphrodians' secret weapon in the key battle.
Genres: Action Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-11
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Victory and Defeat
Overview: After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title fight, but his comrade Hata (Kojiro Hongo) is not happy with this choice, and so he moves to the gym run by the criminal businessman Goda (Toru Abe) and burning desire to beat Yamanaka.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-27
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スーダラ節 わかっちゃいるけどやめられねぇ
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
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雪の降る街に
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-04
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Their Legacy
Overview: Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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The Great Wall
Overview: In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-01
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Gonin no totsugeki tai
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-26
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The Big Chase
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-25
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Giants and Toys
Overview: Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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Her Brother
Overview: Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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A Wife Confesses
Overview: Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-29
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Black Lizard
Overview: The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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The Venus' Tear
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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The Betrothed
Overview: Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-05-28
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Shogun's Holiday
Overview: During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuke (Kazuo Hasegawa) to help him understand the world. Tasuke, who does not know that Takechiyo is the shogun's heir, trains him harshly. Tasuke's wife Naka (Michiko Ai) is concerned about his harsh teaching style, but Takechiyo gains strength day by day and adapts to his new life. Soon, Takechiyo begins secretly talking about love with a city girl named Otoyo (Hitomi Nozoe), but...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-12
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Kisses
Overview: Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-23
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-01
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
Overview: Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they have not had. While Asako is a sweet young lady, Momoko, the eldest, goes out with whomever she wants, thus hiding the trauma caused by seduction and abandonment during the war by young Keita Aoki. One day Keita re-enters her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-19
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Konto 55: Grand Outer Space Adventure
Overview: A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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Punishment Room
Overview: Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-28
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Sexy Sign Suki Suki Suki
Overview: Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting and an advertising poster. The other is about coaching the hockey team. Simultaneously, however, he is head over heels for three gals, one is a hairdresser, one is a fashion model and of course the third is part of the cheering squad for the hockey team.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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The Crowded Train
Overview: Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Wakai yatsura no kaidan
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Buddha
Overview: An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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Training Ship of Yearning
Overview: A youthful film filled with youth and passion, set against the backdrop of the ocean and filled with admiration for a dynamic young man and the heart of a girl whose eyes are filled with pure love!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-10
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A Woman's Testament
Overview: The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
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On This Earth
Overview: Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Bridge of Japan
Overview: Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Chance Meeting
Overview: Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Refresher Course for Wives
Overview: One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and invites them to " P " Hotel to see for themselves. They have been married for many years and are bored with their husbands, and are about to secretly carry on affairs with the other's mates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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The Last Betrayal
Overview: A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-10
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Nocturne of a Woman
Overview: A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-14
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Goodbye, Hello
Overview: Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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The Ginza Three Boys
Overview: The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Triangle Moods
Overview: Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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The Rockabilly Lady
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-08
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Les Mesdemoiselles
Overview: A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-15
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Floating Weeds
Overview: When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-17
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Beauty the Enemy
Overview: In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-12
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Closing Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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The Most Valuable Wife
Overview: Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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The Lowest Man
Overview: A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-07
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Gateway to Glory
Overview: A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
Overview: During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu clan, who, along with Katsuro Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma, sought to fulfill the dream of a new peaceful era in Japan. Can he realize his ideals or will he die in the chaos of internecine fights...
Genres: Action Romance History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-16
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Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-29
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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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Disobedience
Overview: A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-14
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The Burdened Sisters
Overview: Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-17
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Tokyo Eyes
Overview: A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around these four characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Love River
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Daiei Studio is Bustling
Overview: A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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Shin Jinsei Gekijo
Overview: 1961 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-31
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