Miwa Takada
Also Known As: میوا تاکادا
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto City, Japan
Birthday: January 05, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Daimajin
Overview: A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-17
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Zatoichi the Fugitive
Overview: After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-09
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The Two Bodyguards
Overview: Film directed by Kenji Misumi
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-24
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Drunken Harbor
Overview: Third film of the yoidore hakase series
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-24
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Adventures of Zatoichi
Overview: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-30
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Zatoichi Challenged
Overview: Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-30
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
Overview: A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-20
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
Overview: Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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天使と悪魔の美女 江戸川乱歩の「白昼夢」
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
Overview: Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advisors from his entourage were assassinated, calling into question the possessions of the Date family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Lady Karuizawa
Overview: A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman from a wealthy family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-06
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Onna no Kyūka
Overview: It depicts a few days in the life of a farmer's wife who takes her first vacation in Tokyo.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-07-28
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High School Third Graders
Overview: In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo also appears in the movie, which depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-16
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The Fencing Master
Overview: The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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牝犬脱走
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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Secret Assignment
Overview: In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.
Genres: Action War Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-17
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Overview: Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-09
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Maiko and the Assassin
Overview: 19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-28
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Green Fruit
Overview: Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-22
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Journey of Honor
Overview: The son of a besieged Shogun in war-torn 17th century Japan travels to Spain to buy weaponry from the king.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-27
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Sweet Seventeen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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The Third Will
Overview: A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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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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Yôki na tono-sama
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-15
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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning I
Overview: Kenji Matsushita is a reportage writer. While he was interviewing the tattoo contest, he met a woman with a tattoo of a large snake, Kinue. Kineda is the mama of the bar and the wife of the president of the earth-moving company, Mogami. She was a sympathetic woman, and Kenji was drawn to her body and spent the night together. The silk branch was found in a dismembered corpse in the bathroom of her apartment, and the carved torso of the snake disappeared. Since the bathroom was completely closed, the investigation was stopped. So Kenji consults with his lover, Nobuko's older brother, Kyosuke. Kyosuke is a genius, and he solved the mystery of the closed room without difficulty. However, the criminal cannot be identified yet.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-24
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Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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