Seizaburō Kawazu
Also Known As: Kawazu Seisaburo, Сэйдзабуро Кавадзу, 河津淸三郞
Biography: Seizaburō Kawazu (河津 清三郎 Kawazu Seizaburō) was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Yojimbo (1961), Tōmei ningen (1954) and Rōnin-gai (1957). He died on February 20, 1983.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nihonbashikakigaracho, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: August 31, 1908
Deathday: February 20, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
Overview: Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without Chicago bros. Yamashiro & Watanabe and the film is just that much less fun. It's also a little bogged down by an out-of-place environmental message. In return one does get Willie Dorsey (who would go on to lose his balls in The Street Fighter) in a rather big role as Capone's right hand man. There's a legion of other gaijin as well, Osman Yusuf among them of course. The rating could be a notch higher on a good day.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-23
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
Overview: A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka stylishly plays a constantly intoxicated geisha in this all-star entertainment film.
Genres: Adventure History Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-13
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Wild Spirit
Overview: It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Bodyguard from Hell
Overview: Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-11
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Yojimbo
Overview: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-25
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Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-28
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The Insect Woman
Overview: A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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Yasubei Nakayama
Overview: Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-31
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お洒落狂女
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-03
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Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
Overview: A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-08
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Chûshingura
Overview: After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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続サラリーマン清水港
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Duel in the Sun
Overview: A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-07
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-04
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The 47 Ronin
Overview: In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-12-08
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A Geisha
Overview: Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Hail the 3 Gents
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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New Tale of Zatoichi
Overview: Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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Mothra
Overview: Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-30
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Attack Squadron
Overview: Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air force to gather its most brilliant pilots into an elite squadron and use the unit to pinpoint attacks on the Americans. Disrespected by the kamikaze pilots who think the "non-suicidal" pilots are afraid, the unit redeems itself by stunning victories. But success leads the military leaders to expect too much of the unit, and new orders portend disaster.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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Kanto Street Peddlers
Overview: Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bosses (Watanabe, Amatsu and Kawazu).
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-08
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Overview: Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Yakuza bayashi
Overview: Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-30
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Ôban
Overview: A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-05
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Overview: Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-19
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The Last War
Overview: A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-08
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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
Overview: Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-18
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
Overview: Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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The Witness Killed
Overview: Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda
Genres: Action Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-17
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Kingdom of Samurai
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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The Storm of the Pacific
Overview: Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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Rônin-gai - Dai-san-wa: Tsukareta hitobito
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Overview: Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-06
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
Overview: The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by pollution from a local factory. They seem to work out an agreement, but Oryu must help the poor villagers when the greedy factory owner and corrupt politicians betray them…
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-01
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Ah, My Hometown
Overview: A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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Samurai Saga
Overview: Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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The Enchanting Devil
Overview: Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-25
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East China Sea
Overview: Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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The Straits of Love and Hate
Overview: A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-17
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Umineko ga tonde
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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君と僕
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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Sex and Fury
Overview: Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Invisible Man
Overview: When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery Horror Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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女と海賊
Overview: In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known as Misaki Shogoro, who was infamous for his devilish cruelty. Shogoro had a rule: he would kill all the men from the ships he raided, while the women would be distributed among the crew for their pleasure. However, he himself never touched any woman. Aboard the ship was a young girl named Kogane, who had been raised on the ship since she was a child and dressed as a boy. Unbeknownst to others, she had grown to secretly adore Shogoro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Jirocho Rises in Fame
Overview: The rise of the famed gambler.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Overview: Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-11
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Overview: A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-22
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Return of the Outlaw
Overview: Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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Kanchō umi no bara
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-02-22
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Return of Gun Dog
Overview: Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-09
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風来物語 あばれ飛車
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-28
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風来物語任侠篇
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-28
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Evening Calm
Overview: A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Overview: Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-13
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Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-17
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-30
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The Approach of Autumn
Overview: A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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Gorath
Overview: In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Marriage of the sky and the sea
Overview: A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Oiwa Nagaya
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-08-08
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Dogora
Overview: A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-11
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Victory Is Ours
Overview: A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun Suzuki's directorial debut.
Genres: Music Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-21
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The Gay Masquerade
Overview: The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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Freelance Samurai
Overview: One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
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Daikichi Konomura
Overview: A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen in love with the samurai's daughter and conspires to report the father to the authorities in order to snatch the girl. The samurai's daughter has a boyfriend who hides the father and daughter from the thug.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
Overview: A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-31
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The Big Boss
Overview: Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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The Secret of the Telegian
Overview: Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-10
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Such is Life
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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Late Night Confession
Overview: Japanese mystery thriller.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-06-21
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Overview: Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-26
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)
Overview: Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Overview: Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-09
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Glorious Fights
Overview: A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-29
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The Last Gunfight
Overview: Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruyama of the Kozuka gang, probably at the hands of one of the Oka gang. During a gang gunfight, Maruyama is rescued by Detective Fujioka and the two become friends. But Maruyama insists on avenging his wife's murder, even if it means conflict with his new friend.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Blueprint of Murder
Overview: Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Interpol Code 8
Overview: Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-31
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Mermaids and Sea Robbers
Overview: Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-21
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Street of Ronin
Overview: Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who patronize a restaurant and bar on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. One disgraced and disillusioned former warrior gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to retrieve a famous knife from a corrupt lord. This is the third version directed by Makino Masahiro and is considered a true classic.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Satan's Town
Overview: A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-11
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Snake Woman's Curse
Overview: An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-12
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Ghost Man
Overview: A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-10-13
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Wings of Victory
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-14
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Bouquet of the South Seas
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Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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The Protector
Overview: Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to continue the five generation long run of the business, Mine is put to the ultimate test when a former gangster sets his sights on closing her down.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-13
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The Cruel Sea
Overview: It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts a limit on the number of warships any country can possess. As a result, Japan has to decommission a ship to its makers' disappointment. An institute of technology's laboratory designs a new ship. Due to less ships, sailors have to retire and are also disappointed. The laboratory's manager and an admiral are visiting a patient at a hospital and meet coincidentally. The former has a daughter who worries about her father's workload. She asks him to accompany her to a concert. Father has little time, but is convinced for her sake. He is inspired for a ship's design at the performance. The film is inspired by the life of Jo Hiraga.
Genres: Action War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-05-25
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Gambler's Farewell
Overview: The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf
Overview: The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro of the Shimazu family. When the boss of the Shimazu is killed, Shigejiro takes revenge and is sent to jail. Upon his release, he meets the dying widow of one of hid followers and takes her to her father, Boss Shiomasa, who take him into his family. But when Shiomasa is killed by an old enemy, Shigejiro is obligated to take revenge...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-09
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Organized Violence II
Overview:
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-29
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Judo Showdown
Overview: In the end of 19th century Japan, followers of judo and jujitsu battle for supremacy in Japanese martial arts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Stop the Old Fox
Overview: Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of the shogun Ienari Tokugawa comes to the fore in the plot. Based on the novel of the same name by Matsumoto Seicho.
Genres: Mystery History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
Overview: With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-01
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Beheading Place
Overview: This film tells the story of a ronin falsely accused of a crime and unable to convince others of his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-09-20
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Daredevil in the Castle
Overview: During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Tsuki yori no haha
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-24
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Hazardous Graduation
Overview: Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
Overview: Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike but finds his views changing when he loses his job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-05-02
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Overview: Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-08
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Overview: Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-05-25
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The Dawn of Freedom
Overview: This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the Japanese invasion and takeover of their country.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-02-10
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Honno-Ji in Flames
Overview: The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the temple Honnoji. Historically, the general Akechi Mitsuhide is credited with causing Nobunaga's downfall. Kato's novel focuses on Mitsuhide's nephew Samanosuke, who fought alongside his uncle during the assault on Honnoji.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-11
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Scars of Honor
Overview: Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing their blades in a duel to the death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-20
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
Overview: Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebed to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harrassed by a gang of thugs. When the harrassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Karate Cop 2
Overview: Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-02
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The Bullet and the Horse
Overview: A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents of one of their number.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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Pure White Nights
Overview: "Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-31
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Snow-Flake
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-17
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Once and For All
Overview: Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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A Thousand Flying Cranes
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Overview: Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-14
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Clothes of Deception
Overview: The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-13
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Game of Chance 2
Overview: Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo and Kenichi, in their search for Teruko, arrive in a new place and find work running a peddling stall for the upright Tatsumaki family. However, the drifting father and son soon find themselves caught up in a struggle for territory. Boss Negishi, the head of the yakuza family responsible for the death of the former Tatsumaki leader, will stop at nothing to take over the marketplace. Sickened by the injustice, Bungo takes on the rival boss knowing it might cost him his newly acquired freedom..
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
Overview: A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-27
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Tales of Ginza
Overview: In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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Evil Man of Edo
Overview: A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less samurai who founded a school for underprivileged children in a poor neighborhood. Into the mix comes a young woman running away from a forced marriage disguised as a teenage boy and becomes a student of the beloved Sensei, while he staves off the advances of a skilled pickpocket and prepares for a bloody showdown against a direct retainer of the shogun!
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-13
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Senka o koete
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-09-02
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City of Love
Overview: Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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Her Captive Gamblers
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-03
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Jirocho's Home-Coming
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-23
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Overview: Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-03
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Jirocho, the Hunted
Overview: A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-15
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Overview: Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Jirocho's New Year
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-03
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The Masterless 47 – Part II
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-25
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Jirocho in Disgrace
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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Last of the Wild Ones
Overview: A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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Autumn Interlude
Overview: The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-31
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Passion and Rifle Bullets
Overview: Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Overview: Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his gold bullion somewhere.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-26
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The Opium War
Overview: The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Overview: Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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The Paradise Island Story
Overview: Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-29
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The White Orchid
Overview: A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-24
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As Long as I Live
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-08-01
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Gamblers: The Raid
Overview: 5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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Gamblers
Overview: Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-28
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Tattooed Life
Overview: After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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Hanatarō Jumon
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-05
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Hebihime sama
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-25
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
Overview: The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-11
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The Dangerous Kiss
Overview: Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-26
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Samurai Town Story Part I
Overview: All that remains of the first Samurai Town Story is the concluding battle.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-10-13
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Dokonjo Taisho
Overview: Ryosuke Kotaki's life motto was his grandfather's will, "Study, make money, drink alcohol, and win the first prize". So, first of all, he went to Osaka to win the first prize with favorite shogi. In the car, he hit it off with a woman named Okichi and decided to live in the Shogi Kaisho, which is run by Okichi's father, Yoichi. Ryosuke's skill was strong, and he was happy to make a lot of money in gambling shogi. However, he lost to a middle-aged man by dropping four cards. This man was actually Heihachi Kudo, who is said to be the best of both worlds in the Kansai chess world at the time...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-02
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Invitation to Happiness
Overview: Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-10-30
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A Man of the Arts
Overview: Based on Matsutaro Kawaguchi's novel "Geido Ichidai Otoko." Considered a lost film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-02-09
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Overview: The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-03
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The Frolic of the Beasts
Overview: The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya, who was working part-time at a shop, was able to see the unparallel rag, and brought her to the cheerful site. Furthermore, Kenji will cause serious injury to the spot. Koji who came to the end of her uniform and started her bizarre living in Izu villa home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-11
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Ambush at Iga Pass
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-15
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The Swishing Sword
Overview: A beautiful girl who seeks revenge, disguises herself by dressing up in men's clothes, geisha, etc. A young swordsman helps her uncover the plot and take revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-03
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A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Overview: Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-31
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At the Time Men Have Seen Blood
Overview: A group of men obsessed with oil gather in a remote oil field region. Ichiro Kitazawa (Tatsuzaki) was one of them. He had a daughter-in-law named Harue Saijo (Takasugi), but he felt no affection for her. Ichiro, however, had spent the inheritance Harue had inherited from her father to find oil. Ichiro was now being bled by Butterfly (Hidaka), an eccentric female waitress at the Kinryu-tei. Harue took a train one day to visit Ichiro. She then befriended a man called Ken Matsuki (Dainikata), who had saved her from a crisis. Matsuki was a friend of Kitazawa, a man who was also passionate about the oil search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-01-11
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Trigger Happy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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The Dead Beauty Incident
Overview: A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a now retired drug crime specialist, to cooperate. Kubota and his friends soon find the house of the murdered beauty and upon entering, they are surprised to find another corpse, this time of a man…
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-25
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Rikidozan: Man of Fury
Overview: The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-27
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すっ飛び駕
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-08-21
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三万両五十三次
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-25
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A Female Doctor's Examination Room
Overview: A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child. Will she be able to confess her feelings to him before her worsening heart disease claims her life?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-19
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Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-23
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The Terror of Z
Overview: Marune Santaro directed this actionner about two fearless Kobe Harbor Patrol Officers who fight to keep the city safe from the dreaded Crimson Z smuggling gang!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-05-25
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Dokuritsu bijin-tai
Overview: 1963 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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