Goro Kataoka
Also Known As: Mitsuo Kataoka, 片岡光雄
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: January 24, 1944
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Gender: Male
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Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
Overview: A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together to defeat their rivals or face disgrace and the disbandment of the sumo club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-15
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江戸女刑罰史 ～女郎雲～
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-25
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G.I. Samurai
Overview: A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
Genres: Action Science Fiction War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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Shura ga Yuku 5
Overview: The fifth installment of the Gokudo Action Series, which depicts the process of the yakuza organization walking on the path to national domination, centered on the confrontation between the two gangsters who became their nemesis. This work is set in a certain area of Hiroshima, which is shaken by the construction problem of an industrial waste treatment plant.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-16
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Stop the Bitch Campaign Version 2.0
Overview: Confusingly, this is actually the first “Stop the…” movie of what (to date) has been a trilogy. Kuni (Kenichi Endo) runs a Phone Sex service, where middle-aged men talk too, and arrange to meet, schoolgirls for “Compensated Dating” (enjo kosai) – the men provide gifts in return for “dating” the schoolgirl (although no money changes hands, this is effectively teenage prostitution). Kuni discovers that one group of schoolgirls are using his service to ambush (and then blackmail) his clients and decides to embark on a moral crusade against them (hence the title, Stop the Bitch…). Unfortunately, this crusade takes the form of arranging to meet the schoolgirls, having (kinky and degrading) sex with them and then running off without paying. The logic goes that if these girls are not making money from their “dating”, they will give it up, making the world a safer place for everyone. Unfortunately for Kuni, these schoolgirls decide to fight back….
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-28
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Graveyard of Honor
Overview: A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-06-22
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Akuma no hitojichi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Iro zange
Overview: A river crossing is blocked and various traveling couples are stranded at an inn. Everybody has their secrets and the police are looking for a suspect in their midst.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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Uno Koichiro no joi mo nureruno
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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Climax! Okasareru hanayome
Overview: The owner of a small roadside restaurant tries to arrange a marriage to a young woman who she adopted. But the woman falls for a truck driver who is in trouble with the yakuza.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-08
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Shall We Dance?
Overview: A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-27
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Baku
Overview: A film about an armoured truck, a bomb, a man and his girlfriend.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-11
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Rope Sisters: Strange Fruit
Overview: Muraki is a failure in his job as a salesman and has to deal with his wife's disappointment and criticism at home. One day, after sleeping in a park, he happens upon two women who look like they've been victims of a sexual assault. He helps them but as night comes an increasingly twisted mindgame unfolds between the involved parties and it is no longer certain who's the victim and who's the perpetrator.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Proof of the Man
Overview: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-08
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Station
Overview: A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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White Rose Campus
Overview: Two delinquents and a pervy bus station janitor hijack a bus full of upper class high school students and a female teacher. They proceed to rape and terrorize the ones they find attractive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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See You
Overview: Even while having tremendous technology, now have a funeral shop walk picking up the car was retired in the desert Honma (Ken Takakura) is invited from the team DANKAI which declined to Paris-Dakar Rally, the team because of the publicity to supporting popular star had to join. Eventually Among the various speculation of various people, rally began ....
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-18
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The Man With No Name
Overview: A detective infiltrates the yakuza
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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