Kō Nishimura
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Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 12.071 |
Birthday | 1923-01-25 |
Place of Birth | Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
Also Known As | Ko Nishimura, 西村晃, Ко Нисимура, |
1973
Lady Snowblood
7.5/347
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother b...
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Lady Snowblood
1962
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
6.5/22
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to...
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
7.681/240
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d...
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The Bad Sleep Well
1963
High and Low
8.317/846
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped
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High and Low
1956
The Burmese Harp
7.9/148
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...
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The Burmese Harp
1967
Eleven Samurai
7.5/22
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, t...
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Eleven Samurai
1969
Quick-draw Okatsu
5.7/12
This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of h...
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Quick-draw Okatsu
1958
Stolen Desire
6.6/12
A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
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Stolen Desire
1972
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
6.3/45
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. H...
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
1973
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
6.274/31
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He s...
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
1974
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
5.919/31
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers prot...
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Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
1959
My Second Brother
6.4/7
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-...
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My Second Brother
1964
Intentions of Murder
7.083/42
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect o...
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Intentions of Murder
1976
Manhunt
6.447/19
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
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Manhunt
1966
The Sword of Doom
7.699/216
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a...
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The Sword of Doom
1963
13 Assassins
7.4/37
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring atte...
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13 Assassins
1967
Zatoichi the Outlaw
6.391/32
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
1968
Samaritan Zatoichi
6.561/33
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituti...
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Samaritan Zatoichi
1970
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
6.653/36
Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
1968
New Year Trip
0/0
A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.
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New Year Trip
1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.3/13
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1967
Samurai Wolf II
7/14
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dea...
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Samurai Wolf II
1960
Intimidation
7.1/18
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, a...
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Intimidation
1973
Tsugaru Folksong
7.2/9
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to...
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Tsugaru Folksong
1969
Black Rose Mansion
4.5/7
A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires transvestite singer "Black Rose"...
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Black Rose Mansion
1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
7.143/35
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1968
Living Skeleton
5.4/27
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kid...
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Living Skeleton
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
7.177/31
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various task...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1961
Zero Focus
6.6/17
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...
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Zero Focus
1964
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
6.8/5
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true ide...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1954
A Billionaire
5.7/3
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
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A Billionaire
1965
The Ghost of the Hunchback
5.5/12
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...
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The Ghost of the Hunchback
1956
Excursion to Treasure Isle
0/0
The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant f...
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Excursion to Treasure Isle
1961
Yojimbo
8.103/1377
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 loca...
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Yojimbo
1965
Red Beard
8.093/338
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
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Red Beard
1978
Love and Faith
5.9/4
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an un...
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Love and Faith
1962
Gorath
6.7/15
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 en...
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Gorath
1970
Play It Cool
4.8/4
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure...
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Play It Cool
1974
The Family
0/0
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The Family
1960
The Sleeping Beast Within
6.8/9
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequenc...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
1965
Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
6.2/6
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself enta...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
1982
The Old Bear Hunter
7/3
After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.
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The Old Bear Hunter
1967
Classmates
6.5/4
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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Classmates
1984
Kukai
9/0
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined infl...
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Kukai
1961
Pigs and Battleships
7.053/57
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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Pigs and Battleships
1967
Express Train
6/1
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to...
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Express Train
1959
The Song of the Cart
6.6/9
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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The Song of the Cart
1965
The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
0/0
Japanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.
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The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
1964
The Glamorous Ghost
6/1
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, th...
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The Glamorous Ghost
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
6.8/6
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some commun...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
1958
The Girl from Osaka
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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The Girl from Osaka
1956
Meiken monogatari
0/0
Japanese film.
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Meiken monogatari
1977
Love in the Mud
6.833/3
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her bigge...
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Love in the Mud
1961
Tale of a Company Boss
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Tale of a Company Boss
1961
Tale of a Company Boss 3
0/0
A story about the nature of office workers today.
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Tale of a Company Boss 3
1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
7.6/11
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
1961
Killers on Parade
6/11
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic compet...
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Killers on Parade
1958
Endless Desire
6.5/12
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...
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Endless Desire
1968
Snake Woman's Curse
6.3/6
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...
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Snake Woman's Curse
1960
The Lost Alibi
5.2/6
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lo...
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The Lost Alibi
1957
Harbor Rats
0/0
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed...
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Harbor Rats
1957
The Temptress and the Monk
0/0
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
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The Temptress and the Monk
1965
The Retreat from Kiska
8.5/2
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhe...
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The Retreat from Kiska
1990
Seventeen Ninja
0/0
This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the younger...
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Seventeen Ninja
1962
Gang vs. Gang
7/2
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his form...
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Gang vs. Gang
1977
Hokuriku Proxy War
6.8/8
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasak...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
1962
Chibusa o daku musume tachi
0/0
Japanese drama.
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Chibusa o daku musume tachi
1978
The Incident
6.3/3
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shi...
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The Incident
1966
The Threat
6.8/5
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family....
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The Threat
1962
Tokyo Bay
7/1
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...
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Tokyo Bay
1964
Warrior of the Wind
6.688/8
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find the...
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Warrior of the Wind
1961
Snow in the South Seas
0/0
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
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Snow in the South Seas
1968
The Bride from Hades
7.4/7
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuat...
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The Bride from Hades
1961
Blind Devotion
0/0
Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
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Blind Devotion
1991
Free and Easy 4
7.5/2
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.
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Free and Easy 4
1979
The Strangling
4.7/6
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromisi...
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The Strangling
1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
6.978/23
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice the...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1979
Down with The Big Boss
0/0
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
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Down with The Big Boss
1968
Black Lizard
6.696/23
A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.
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Black Lizard
1975
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
6.9/12
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The nex...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1983
Theater Of Life
0/0
Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
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Theater Of Life
1956
Fountainhead
5.8/8
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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Fountainhead
1957
Nikutai no hankō
0/0
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Nikutai no hankō
1957
The Eagle and the Hawk
5.7/7
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
1968
Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
6.8/9
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang...
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
1964
The Scarlet Camellia
5/4
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detec...
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The Scarlet Camellia
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Bad Sleep Well
0/0
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Bad Sleep Well
1964
An Impudent Man
0/0
Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent t...
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An Impudent Man
1962
The Temple of Wild Geese
6.318/11
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lasciv...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
1975
Without Complaint
0/0
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Without Complaint
1967
A Killer's Key
6/2
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.
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A Killer's Key
1966
Rub Out the Past
6/1
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
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Rub Out the Past
1963
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
10/1
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
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Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
1975
Solar Eclipse
6.8/5
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
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Solar Eclipse
1958
The Seasons of Love
1/1
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...
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The Seasons of Love
1960
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
0/0
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is empl...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1978
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
7/1
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1963
Tale of Army Brutality
10/1
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...
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Tale of Army Brutality
1974
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
6.5/2
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1961
Refresher Course for Wives
0/0
One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and in...
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Refresher Course for Wives
1984
The Detective
0/0
Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him...
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The Detective
1983
A Hunter's Diary
1/1
Adaptation of "The Lady Killer" by Masako Togawa.
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A Hunter's Diary
1976
Skyscraper Murder Case
1/1
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control...
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Skyscraper Murder Case
1963
The Maid Story
0/0
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...
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The Maid Story
1965
Tale of Ninja Duty
1/1
Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is exactl...
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Tale of Ninja Duty
1966
Seven Gamblers
6/1
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
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Seven Gamblers
1957
The Flesh Is Weak
6/2
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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The Flesh Is Weak
1962
Four Sisters
6/1
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
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Four Sisters
1966
Rise Against the Sword
6.5/8
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...
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Rise Against the Sword
1969
Lady with Seven Faces
0/0
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets up with her right-hand man: She intends to steal 5...
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Lady with Seven Faces
1960
Wait for Tomorrow
0/0
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the...
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Wait for Tomorrow
1978
Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
7.021/96
Interpol Inspector Zenigata embarks to Egypt in hot pursuit of world's most wanted master thief, Lupin the Third, who is seeking a stone artifact with...
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Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
1959
Farewell to Southern Tosa
0/0
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
1963
Doggie March
7/2
It tells the story of Rock, a puppy whose mother is killed by a tiger and a fox. To fulfill his revenge, will achieve together a large number of anima...
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Doggie March
1963
Pressure of Guilt
7/1
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Pressure of Guilt
1963
A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
0/0
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A Prisoner in Search of Daughter
1986
One Who Died in Vain
7.4/5
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
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One Who Died in Vain
1982
Highschool Scramble
0/0
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Highschool Scramble
1961
A Man in Red
0/0
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza run...
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A Man in Red
1979
Nomugi Pass
6.3/3
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which...
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Nomugi Pass
1964
The Great Duel
6/1
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home t...
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The Great Duel
1964
The Spying Sorceress
0/0
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connecti...
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The Spying Sorceress
1956
Nikoyon monogatari
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Nikoyon monogatari
1960
The Angry Sea
0/0
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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The Angry Sea
1968
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
0/0
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
1981
The Black Hood
0/0
A horse-riding samurai fights villains.
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The Black Hood
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
6.5/24
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
1965
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
8/3
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure y...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
1969
Goyokin
7.5/54
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Goyokin
1972
The Pirates of Buban
6.5/6
By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...
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The Pirates of Buban
1969
One Two Punch
0/0
Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles.
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One Two Punch
1954
The Street Without Sun
0/0
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The Street Without Sun
1989
The Men Who Made Ultraman
0/0
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
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The Men Who Made Ultraman
1957
Who's The Real Killer
0/0
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
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Who's The Real Killer
1977
Japan's Don
7.5/2
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Japan's Don
1967
Flower Cards Chivalry
10/1
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arreste...
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Flower Cards Chivalry
1958
Crimson Wings
0/0
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received fr...
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Crimson Wings
1966
The Pornographers
7.28/41
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, H...
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The Pornographers
1958
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
0/0
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his re...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1959
Umi wa kurutte iru
0/0
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Umi wa kurutte iru
1982
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
0/0
A re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.
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Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
1958
Nishi Ginza Station
5.625/16
This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.
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Nishi Ginza Station
1956
Frankie the Milkman
9/1
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a di...
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Frankie the Milkman
1980
The Claws of the Divine Beast
6/1
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the men...
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The Claws of the Divine Beast
1953
At the End of the Clouds
0/0
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
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At the End of the Clouds
1963
Bad Reputation of the Big Three
0/0
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Bad Reputation of the Big Three
1958
Breasts and Bullets
0/0
Japanese crime film
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Breasts and Bullets
1960
The Devil's Sigh
0/0
Japanese crime film
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The Devil's Sigh
1962
Woman of Design
6.5/2
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
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Woman of Design
1967
Shogun and His Mistress 2
3.5/2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. Wh...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
1963
The Life of a Horse-Trader
0/0
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick woma...
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The Life of a Horse-Trader
1969
The Wild Sea
0/0
Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the...
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The Wild Sea
1956
Dotanba
6/1
Dotanba - Last Minute
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Dotanba
1968
Neon taiheiki
0/0
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Neon taiheiki
1973
Summer Days Across the River
0/0
Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.
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Summer Days Across the River
1970
Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life
0/0
Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro
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Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life
1957
Saigo no totsugeki
0/0
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized by...
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Saigo no totsugeki
1995
Salaryman Senka
0/0
Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
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Salaryman Senka
1959
Break Down that Wall
0/0
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Break Down that Wall
1963
Escape from Hell
6.2/5
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...
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Escape from Hell
1969
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
0/0
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
1959
The Wild Reporter
0/0
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suici...
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The Wild Reporter
1969
Second Generation Young Boss
0/0
Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and bec...
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Second Generation Young Boss
1964
The Desperate
7/2
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo (H...
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The Desperate
1979
Nutcracker Fantasy
6.4/11
Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a stop-m...
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Nutcracker Fantasy
1958
Fangs of Night
5/1
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...
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Fangs of Night
1994
Free and Easy Special
7.5/2
Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but Michik...
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Free and Easy Special
1982
Goyou Sen Enjou
0/0
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Goyou Sen Enjou
1959
The Human Cyclone
0/0
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The Human Cyclone
1958
Wolves of the Night
0/0
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
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Wolves of the Night
1967
Sasayaki no Jō
0/0
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Sasayaki no Jō
1970
Waterfront Blues
0/0
Based on Shinichi Mori song
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Waterfront Blues
1959
Tokyo Romance Way
0/0
1959 Japanese movie
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Tokyo Romance Way
1994
47 Ronin
7.5/19
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal fo...
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47 Ronin
1969
Kanto Woman Infamy
4/1
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Kanto Woman Infamy
1962
Haru no sanmyaku
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Haru no sanmyaku
1983
Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi
0/0
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Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi
1958
The Invisible Wall
0/0
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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The Invisible Wall
1962
Kono ni uruwashi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kono ni uruwashi
1978
The Beauty in the Bathroom
0/0
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970...
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
1960
Sixteen years old
0/0
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and len...
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Sixteen years old
1959
The Fugitive
0/0
An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original...
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The Fugitive
1962
Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ika naru hoshi no moto ni
1961
Tale of A Company Boss Pt.2
0/0
1961 Toei comedy
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Tale of A Company Boss Pt.2
1958
The Ballad of Narayama
7.454/76
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in...
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The Ballad of Narayama
1960
Everything Goes Wrong
6.5/15
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...
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Everything Goes Wrong
1962
The Body
7/1
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
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The Body
1962
My Hobo
0/0
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who beco...
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My Hobo
1980
映画村殺人事件
10/1
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映画村殺人事件
1956
Tengoku wa doko da
0/0
Japanese drama.
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Tengoku wa doko da
1964
Life of Hishakaku 3
0/0
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
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Life of Hishakaku 3
1962
Mount Hakone
0/0
Japanese drama.
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Mount Hakone
1962
Ano hashi no hotori de
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ano hashi no hotori de
1961
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
0/0
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
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The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1974
Jack and the Beanstalk
6.4/35
An adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a greedy, tyrannical giant.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
1980
The Woman
0/0
Erotic drama
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The Woman
1955
Yukiko
0/0
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Yukiko
1961
Aces Wild
0/0
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother o...
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Aces Wild
1971
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
5.8/6
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1962
I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
1962
Yume de aimasho
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Yume de aimasho
1962
Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
1962
Curry Rice
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Curry Rice
1961
Hidden Fangs
0/0
Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.
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Hidden Fangs
1967
The Singing Gunman
0/0
Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the bullio...
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The Singing Gunman
1958
Drunken Ghost
0/0
A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.
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Drunken Ghost
1964
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
0/0
Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
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Edo Crime Book: Black Claws
1965
Stairs of Evil
0/0
Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live a...
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