Sachio Sakai
Real name: Yukio Abe. Born September 8, 1925, as the son of an electrician in Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo City Asakusa Technical College. Passed the 1st Toho New Face exam and joined Toho. It is in sync with Toshiro Mifune and Hajime Izu. Debuted in 1947 with Kurosawa's "One Wonderful Sunday". Later appeared as a regular in the many Toho movies. It was nicknamed "Boo-chan" by the studio associates.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.589 |
| Birthday | 1925-09-08 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | 堺左千夫, |
1958
The Hidden Fortress
7.94/599
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who g...
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The Hidden Fortress
1962
King Kong vs. Godzilla
6.811/289
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approa...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
1991
Rhapsody in August
7.135/136
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...
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Rhapsody in August
1966
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
5.363/182
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
7.198/111
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1962
Sanjuro
8/587
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
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Sanjuro
1948
Drunken Angel
7.6/264
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convi...
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Drunken Angel
1970
Space Amoeba
6.386/44
When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. S...
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Space Amoeba
1967
King Kong Escapes
6.153/101
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the ro...
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King Kong Escapes
1969
All Monsters Attack
5.098/179
Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolbo...
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All Monsters Attack
1966
Adventure in Kigan Castle
5.7/5
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in...
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
1959
Desperado Outpost
6.1/10
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and...
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Desperado Outpost
1968
Golden Eyes
6.5/4
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.
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Golden Eyes
1965
Ironfinger
5.9/7
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning t...
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Ironfinger
1975
Battle Cry
6/5
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial t...
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Battle Cry
1981
At This Late Date, the Charleston
6.3/3
A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.
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At This Late Date, the Charleston
1955
Half Human
4.9/11
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
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Half Human
1965
Key of Keys
6/4
Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.
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Key of Keys
1961
Big Shots Die at Dawn
6.2/4
An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively kno...
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
1960
Westward Desperado
6.2/5
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communi...
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Westward Desperado
1976
Hangyaku no Tabi
0/0
Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with Shinobu...
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Hangyaku no Tabi
1954
Godzilla
7.6/938
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far m...
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Godzilla
1947
One Wonderful Sunday
7.3/83
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small...
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One Wonderful Sunday
1952
Ikiru
8.309/1103
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru
1954
Seven Samurai
8.5/3586
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
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Seven Samurai
1957
Throne of Blood
7.938/818
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...
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Throne of Blood
1961
Yojimbo
8.105/1395
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
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
1971
The Battle of Okinawa
7.458/12
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...
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The Battle of Okinawa
1956
Sudden Rain
6.577/13
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Sudden Rain
1978
Blood Type: Blue
6.2/5
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue...
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Blood Type: Blue
1976
Outlaw Cop
5/2
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...
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Outlaw Cop
1960
The Secret of the Telegian
5.8/7
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
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The Secret of the Telegian
1962
The Weed of Crime
0/0
Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
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The Weed of Crime
1960
The Gambling Samurai
6.3/6
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's...
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The Gambling Samurai
1959
The Big Boss
6.3/3
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping...
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The Big Boss
1962
Operation Enemy Fort
0/0
Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.
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Operation Enemy Fort
1958
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
3.2/9
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1969
Bonds of Love
0/0
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires...
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Bonds of Love
1953
The Last Embrace
0/0
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...
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The Last Embrace
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.22/107
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1952
Vendetta of a Samurai
6.8/14
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Ak...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
1959
Samurai Saga
6.7/16
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....
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Samurai Saga
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
7.4/7
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyoto...
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Daredevil in the Castle
1961
Blueprint of Murder
6.2/4
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...
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Blueprint of Murder
1956
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
6.569/238
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monste...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1964
Whirlwind
6.8/8
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle...
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Whirlwind
1956
The Underworld
0/0
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuy...
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The Underworld
1962
Pride of the Campus
0/0
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing in a band, and preparing for an important boxing t...
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Pride of the Campus
1989
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
6.4/41
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middl...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
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
1970
The Vampire Doll
6.84/50
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but thei...
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The Vampire Doll
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
1952
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
0/0
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going t...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1963
Legacy of the 500,000
7.1/5
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is now...
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Legacy of the 500,000
1958
The Hotelman's Holiday
0/0
A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.
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The Hotelman's Holiday
1967
The Killing Bottle
7/2
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddh...
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The Killing Bottle
1954
Jirocho's New Year
0/0
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Jirocho's New Year
1953
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
0/0
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
1954
Last of the Wild Ones
0/0
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Last of the Wild Ones
1952
The Man Who Came to Port
10/1
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Man Who Came to Port
1959
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Story of Iron Arm Inao
1958
Song for a Bride
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Song for a Bride
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
1962
47 Ronin
7.256/41
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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47 Ronin
1959
Saga of the Vagabonds
6.3/3
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 a...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
1974
Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
6.5/9
The Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see third-generation cat-burglar Lupin as an obstacle, countles...
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
1958
All About Marriage
0/0
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
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All About Marriage
1988
Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
0/0
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
1969
Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja
0/0
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
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Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja
1957
The Paradise Island Story
0/0
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
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The Paradise Island Story
1957
Sazae-san Sequel
0/0
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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Sazae-san Sequel
1969
Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
0/0
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
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Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
1953
Eagle of the Pacific
7.8/5
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w...
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Eagle of the Pacific
1952
Forbidden Path
0/0
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Forbidden Path
1955
A Man Among Men
0/0
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match i...
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A Man Among Men
1960
The Dangerous Kiss
0/0
Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
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The Dangerous Kiss
1953
Girls in the Orchard
0/0
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Girls in the Orchard
1951
Elegy
0/0
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl...
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Elegy
1965
Five Gents' Trick Book
0/0
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Five Gents' Trick Book
1963
The Young Ace in Hawaii
0/0
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii.
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The Young Ace in Hawaii
1960
The Last Gunfight
6.6/8
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting bet...
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The Last Gunfight
1959
I Want to Be a Shellfish
0/0
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
1967
Japan's Longest Day
7.1/26
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...
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Japan's Longest Day
1952
Mr. Lucky
0/0
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Mr. Lucky
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
6.5/2
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
1952
The Skin of the South
0/0
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one en...
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The Skin of the South
1952
Forty-Eight Man
0/0
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Forty-Eight Man
1994
Turning Point
0/0
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
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Turning Point
1963
Operation Mad Dog
0/0
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
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Operation Mad Dog
1963
Outpost of Hell
0/0
The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Outpost of Hell
1961
The Witness Killed
0/0
Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda
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The Witness Killed
1961
Sir Galahad in Campus
0/0
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
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Sir Galahad in Campus
1969
Samurai Banners
7.5/16
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He co...
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Samurai Banners
1957
The Mysterians
6.402/46
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to s...
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The Mysterians
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part I
6.3/7
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young ma...
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The Blue Mountains: Part I
1990
Ultra Q: The 1/8 Project
0/0
Theatrical version of episode 17 of Ultra Q TV series.
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Ultra Q: The 1/8 Project
1963
A Woman's Life
7.1/12
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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A Woman's Life
1961
Romance Express
0/0
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...
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Romance Express
1962
Doburoku no Tatsu
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Doburoku no Tatsu
1970
Rebel Against Glory
0/0
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Rebel Against Glory
1957
Ôban
0/0
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 S...
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Ôban
1977
Godzilla
6.597/36
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), plus WWII newsreel...
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Godzilla
1982
Goyou Sen Enjou
0/0
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Goyou Sen Enjou
1957
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
8.8/10
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a u...
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
1962
Our Failures
0/0
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
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Our Failures
1961
Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū
1970
The Militarists
8/1
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The Militarists
1962
Chihō kisha
0/0
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Chihō kisha
1988
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
5.7/3
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passio...
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
1966
The Mad Atlantic
0/0
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they e...
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The Mad Atlantic
1955
All is Well
0/0
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All is Well
1951
The Blue Pearl
0/0
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coasta...
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The Blue Pearl
1954
Wedding Season
0/0
Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a num...
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Wedding Season
1969
Red Lion
6.354/24
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...
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Red Lion
1962
Gekkyū dorobō
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Gekkyū dorobō
1953
Mr. Pu
6.5/2
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Mr. Pu
1956
Will-o'-the-Wisp
0/0
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Will-o'-the-Wisp
1970
クレージーの殴り込み清水港
0/0
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