Taizô Sengoku
Also Known As: 千石泰三, Yasuzo Sengoku
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Department: Acting
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Keshin
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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170 Leagues to Edo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Zatoichi's Revenge
Overview: Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Overview: Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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The Third Shadow Warrior
Overview: In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
Overview: Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-12
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Overview: [Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of captured ninja and decides that, in the future, he needs a much crueler method of execution. The daimyo Hideyoshi comes to visit.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-06
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
Overview: A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.
Genres: Mystery Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-23
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
Overview: As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
Genres: Action Thriller War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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Bronze Magician
Overview: Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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The Hoodlum Priest
Overview: The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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The Man Disappears Yesterday
Overview: Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become his personal assistant. In a rice shop, Yoshimune meets a simple ronin Ohashi Kenshiro, and receives permission to stay at his house, but a mysterious corpse awaits him in the house... And then the second, third and fourth murders occur...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-18
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Oniisan to oneesan
Overview: A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-08
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