Michirō Minami
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: September 25, 1926
Deathday: November 13, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Overview: Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-20
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The Eve of the Chinese Festival
Overview: A kabuki actor is assassinated during a New Year celebration show, in front of everyone, fortunately the great detective Umon is among the audience. Along with his quirky assistant they set on the trail of revenge killing. Revenge for what? Who and where is the killer? And what does a treasure and swastika spider tattoos have to do with the case?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-28
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Main Street in the Underworld
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-25
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Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-22
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Desperado Outpost
Overview: When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-06
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Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-07
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Overview: Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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Hotsprings Holiday
Overview: Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-14
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The Aftermath of War
Overview: After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the name of Kentaro before she died and this was something that people in this small section of downtown Tokyo remembered. Life went on, however, and local boss Hiramatsu Daizo decided to build a market, aided by his daughter Aya. They met opposition until one day a young man named Kentaro appears who it is rumored he was the vengeful lover of the murdered girl. He lives with Sabu and Yukari, the children the girl looked after before she died, and helps with the market, coming to the rescue with a bulldozer when Daizo is threatened by a rival group. When Daizo is finally killed, Kentaro carries on the work. Finally the market is completed, the rival group makes a last stand but is machine-gunned down by Kentaro who, after saying that he was not the one whose name the dying girl called out, leaves town for good.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-18
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An Actor's Revenge
Overview: In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-13
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The Imperial Navy
Overview: A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-08
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Third Generation Boss
Overview: Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-10
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Code of Wolves
Overview: In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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The Coin Thrower Zenigata
Overview: The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
Overview: The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest
Overview: First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-09
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Boss Takes to the Road
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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Age of Japanese Guerrillas
Overview: Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for vagrancy in Shinjuku and thrown in jail. Helped by a yakuza and a prostitute, he goes on a search for Yukiko but winds up on a journey of sexual discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-30
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Overview: The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-24
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Shimane Prison Riot
Overview: Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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The Phantom Goblin
Overview: An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his behalf.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Hot Springs Geisha
Overview: A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
Overview: After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-04
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Tale of Army Brutality
Overview: Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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Make Way for the Jaguars
Overview: A plot by an evil mastermind to eliminate the lead singer of the Japanese "Group Sounds" rock band, The Jaguars, leads the group through a series of psychedelic, comedic escapades.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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The Abalone Gals
Overview: South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-26
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Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
Overview: In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an armistice. When they get there, peace has been declared, but the sub's crew don't know as their radio has failed. They send their passengers ashore and go out to face a final battle...
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-04
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Tales of President Mito
Overview: Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a large Chinese company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-04
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Nerves for Victory
Overview: A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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The Tale of Zatoichi
Overview: The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Happiness of Us Alone
Overview: The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Port Arthur
Overview: Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
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The Forbidden Castle
Overview: From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass), "Destiny’s Son" etc. comes the complex story exploring the mystery behind why Ino Morimasa betrayed his sworn brother Ishida Mitsunari, thus leading to the defeat of the Toyotomi at the Battle of Sekigahara. Starring Nakamura Kinnosuke in one of the strongest performances of his career as Ino's estranged son seeking justice. Originally known as "The Forbidden Castle".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-24
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Hoero Datsugoku-shu
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-15
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A Texan in Tokyo
Overview: A Texan visiting Tokyo takes medicine that gives him strength.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-20
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The Princess and the Bearded Lord
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
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Bad Reputation of the Big Three
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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The Navy
Overview: A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-13
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Sucharaka Shain
Overview: Maeda Yoichi's film adaptation of the long-running TV comedy series of the same name (1961-1967; TBS) written by Kagawa Toshio and produced by Sawada Takaharu (Tenamonda Sandogasa). The humorous story of a group of likeable loser ("sucharaka") employees at an Osaka branch who learn that unless they band together and actually work(!), their company will go into bankruptcy. Miyako Chocho appears as the Company President.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Masura o hashutsu fukai
Overview: Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
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A Cheerful Yakuza
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-14
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