Takashi Shimura
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Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).[3] He played Professor Kyohei Yamane in Ishirō Honda's original Godzilla (1954) and its first sequel, Godzilla Raids Again (1955). For his contributions to the arts, the Japanese government decorated Shimura with the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1974 and the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette in 1980.
Shimura died on February 11, 1982, in Tokyo, Japan, from emphysema at the age of 76. His effects were presented to the Film Centre of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.321 |
| Birthday | 1905-03-12 |
| Place of Birth | Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Shoji Shimazaki, 島崎捷爾, |
1958
The Hidden Fortress
7.955/618
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
1950
Rashomon
8.078/2227
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justi...
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Rashomon
1955
Godzilla Raids Again
5.979/281
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...
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Godzilla Raids Again
1954
Godzilla
7.6/973
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover somethin...
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Godzilla
1965
Frankenstein Conquers the World
6.6/63
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a...
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
1952
Ikiru
8.308/1141
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
1957
Throne of Blood
7.926/858
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
1965
Red Beard
8.102/357
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
1953
Escape Zone
0/0
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...
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Escape Zone
1950
Spring Snow
0/0
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not e...
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Spring Snow
1950
Jiruba no Tetsu
0/0
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Jiruba no Tetsu
1981
Fifth Movement
0/0
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinis...
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Fifth Movement
1949
Stray Dog
7.505/302
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog
1965
Kwaidan
7.7/384
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan
1967
Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
0/0
Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on Ha...
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Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
1955
I Live in Fear
7.3/108
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to saf...
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I Live in Fear
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.257/115
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
1969
Kanto Woman Infamy
4/1
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Kanto Woman Infamy
1962
Sanjuro
7.9/606
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
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
7.676/250
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
1980
Kagemusha
7.806/649
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid at...
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Kagemusha
1951
The Idiot
6.95/110
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kame...
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The Idiot
1961
Yojimbo
8.1/1461
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
1948
Drunken Angel
7.598/270
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
1950
Scandal
6.905/84
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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Scandal
1963
High and Low
8.3/912
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
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High and Low
1954
A Geisha on Horseback
0/0
Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early...
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A Geisha on Horseback
1943
Sanshiro Sugata
6.5/124
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form...
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Sanshiro Sugata
1945
To Love and Swear
0/0
After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up wan...
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To Love and Swear
1959
Sazae-san's Marriage
0/0
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and e...
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Sazae-san's Marriage
1952
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
6.7/86
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safe...
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
1962
Long Way to Okinawa
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Long Way to Okinawa
1957
The Mysterians
6.4/50
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
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
6.818/74
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
1949
The Quiet Duel
7.3/78
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patien...
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The Quiet Duel
1936
Osaka Elegy
6.737/57
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
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Osaka Elegy
1951
Stolen Love
0/0
Romantic melodrama
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Stolen Love
1962
47 Ronin
7.3/41
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
1962
続サラリーマン清水港
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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続サラリーマン清水港
1962
The Crimson Sky
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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The Crimson Sky
1960
Afraid to Die
6/10
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of hi...
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Afraid to Die
1964
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
7/251
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1950
Sanshiro of Ginza
0/0
An early film by Kon Ichikawa
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Sanshiro of Ginza
1958
Eight Views of Samurai
6/1
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family...
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Eight Views of Samurai
1947
These Foolish Times
0/0
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These Foolish Times
1945
Tokkan ekichô
0/0
Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita
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Tokkan ekichô
1957
The Lord Takes a Bride
6/1
Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro mus...
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The Lord Takes a Bride
1967
Japan's Longest Day
7.1/28
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
1944
The Most Beautiful
5.6/51
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tre...
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The Most Beautiful
1961
Mothra
7.12/166
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population al...
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Mothra
1939
Shunjû ittôryû
0/0
After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by Sasa...
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Shunjû ittôryû
1965
The Soundless Cry
8/1
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works i...
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The Soundless Cry
1956
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
6.587/248
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!
1963
Attack Squadron
6/2
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...
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Attack Squadron
1968
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
6.9/29
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
1973
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
6.9/28
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nur...
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy
1956
Tokyo Crime Map
0/0
An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.
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Tokyo Crime Map
1965
Samurai Assassin
7.3/53
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assass...
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Samurai Assassin
1963
The Sun is Calling You
0/0
A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.
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The Sun is Calling You
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
1957
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
8.8/13
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
1947
Snow Trail
7.1/19
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojir...
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Snow Trail
1936
Akanishi Kakita
6.3/7
A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
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Akanishi Kakita
1962
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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あの空の果てに星はまたたく
1961
Different Sons
0/0
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden un...
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Different Sons
1960
Master Fencer Sees the World
0/0
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...
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Master Fencer Sees the World
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1969
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
7.5/6
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...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
1955
Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
0/0
In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
1938
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
0/0
A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and Kyoji Sugi.
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Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
1959
The Three Treasures
5.4/11
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...
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The Three Treasures
1970
The Militarists
8/1
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The Militarists
1959
A Whistle in My Heart
6.3/6
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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A Whistle in My Heart
1949
A Bullet Hole Underground
0/0
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A Bullet Hole Underground
1938
Kurama Tengu
0/0
This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent companies went ban...
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Kurama Tengu
1938
Taiko's Rising in the World
0/0
Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power of Toyo...
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Taiko's Rising in the World
1940
Oda Nobunaga
0/0
A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and Shi...
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Oda Nobunaga
1971
Tora-san's Love Call
8/5
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Tora-san's Love Call
1962
Yoru no keisha
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Yoru no keisha
1947
Spring Awakens
6.8/5
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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Spring Awakens
1957
Evening Calm
0/0
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
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Evening Calm
1978
Love and Faith
6.3/5
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
1963
Samurai Pirate
5.5/11
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the t...
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Samurai Pirate
1969
A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
0/0
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
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A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
1937
Jiraiya
0/0
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
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Jiraiya
1958
Shogun's Holiday
0/0
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...
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Shogun's Holiday
1957
A Dangerous Hero
0/0
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
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A Dangerous Hero
1960
The Masterless 47
0/0
Part one of The Masterless 47.
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The Masterless 47
1943
Navy
0/0
Japanese war film.
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Navy
1966
The Harbor of No Return
0/0
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see...
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The Harbor of No Return
1950
Escape from Prison
0/0
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Escape from Prison
1958
The Traveling Ruffian
5/1
Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Ishimatsu is strong in righteousness weak to mercy, who falls in love at first sight...
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The Traveling Ruffian
1963
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
0/0
This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other words,...
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Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
1938
The Skull Coin
0/0
“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven cursed coins (the...
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The Skull Coin
1968
Dorei kōjō
0/0
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
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Dorei kōjō
1965
Sanshiro Sugata
7/6
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His...
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Sanshiro Sugata
1971
Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
5/3
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Be...
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Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
1954
浅草の夜
0/0
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...
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浅草の夜
1961
The Gambler's Code
6.5/4
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a...
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The Gambler's Code
1962
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
1957
Hadaka no Machi
0/0
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Hadaka no Machi
1938
Akagaki Genzo
0/0
Forty-seven Ronin of the Ako clan are waiting for the right moment to avenge the insult and death of their master. The film tells the story of one of...
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Akagaki Genzo
1937
Echo of Love
0/0
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
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Echo of Love
1978
Talk of the Town Tora-san
9/2
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
1977
Godzilla
6.7/43
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), plu...
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Godzilla
1962
Gorath
6.6/20
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
1969
It's Tough Being a Man
8.1/18
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora...
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It's Tough Being a Man
1940
Phantom Castle
0/0
Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.
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Phantom Castle
1973
Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
0/0
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Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
1945
Wakare mo tanoshi
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Wakare mo tanoshi
1962
The Whale God
7.3/3
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
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The Whale God
1958
Seven from Edo
5/6
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades decid...
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Seven from Edo
1952
Fuun Senryobune
0/0
1952 Japanese movie
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Fuun Senryobune
1960
The Storm of the Pacific
5.6/8
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 1...
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The Storm of the Pacific
1968
The Day the Sun Rose
7/1
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned cust...
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The Day the Sun Rose
1953
The 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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The Eagle of the Pacific
1965
Three Yakuza
7.8/4
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each pa...
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Three Yakuza
1959
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
0/0
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argum...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
1968
Human Torpedoes
0/0
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
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Human Torpedoes
1967
When the Cookie Crumbles
6/1
Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
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When the Cookie Crumbles
1954
Mother's First Love
0/0
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
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Mother's First Love
1980
The Revolt
6/1
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miy...
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The Revolt
1944
The Way of Drama
6.5/6
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles...
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The Way of Drama
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
1950
The Angry Street
6.5/6
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...
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The Angry Street
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
7.438/8
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
1953
The End of the Night
0/0
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will...
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The End of the Night
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
1939
Singing Lovebirds
6/5
An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable daugh...
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Singing Lovebirds
1958
Points and Lines
6/3
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the trut...
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Points and Lines
1958
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
0/0
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by...
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
1960
The Lovelorn Geisha
6.6/5
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in hi...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
1957
The Eleventh Hour
7.2/6
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contempor...
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The Eleventh Hour
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
6/9
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
1949
The Elephant Who Waited
0/0
The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro and Hanako at the Metropolitan Zoo.
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The Elephant Who Waited
1951
The Life of a Horse Trader
7/3
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...
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The Life of a Horse Trader
1968
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
6/1
Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1950
Street of Violence
6.5/2
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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Street of Violence
1971
Patience Has An End
5.7/6
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
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Patience Has An End
1944
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
7/3
A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the Pacific...
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Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
1944
Nichijô no tatakai
0/0
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Nichijô no tatakai
1956
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
7/1
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of He...
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Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1952
Beauty and the Thief
0/0
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic...
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Beauty and the Thief
1955
No Time for Tears
0/0
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic relations...
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No Time for Tears
1951
Beyond Love and Hate
0/0
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his esca...
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Beyond Love and Hate
1952
Foghorn
0/0
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
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Foghorn
1958
The Bride In Uguisu Castle
0/0
The life of three beautiful princesses in feudal Japan.
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The Bride In Uguisu Castle
1945
Three Women of the North
0/0
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
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Three Women of the North
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
1960
Man Against Man
0/0
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to cooperate...
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Man Against Man
1960
Life of a Country Doctor
0/0
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first ti...
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Life of a Country Doctor
1963
The Revenge and the Death
0/0
A gritty, noirish gangster saga.
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The Revenge and the Death
1964
Brand of Evil
6.5/2
A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his c...
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Brand of Evil
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
1967
The Chivalrous Life
7/1
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against othe...
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The Chivalrous Life
1969
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
6/1
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
1976
Human Revolution II
0/0
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
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Human Revolution II
1966
The Protector
7/1
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 co...
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The Protector
1940
Zoku Shimizu Minato
0/0
An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.
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Zoku Shimizu Minato
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
1965
Hoodlum Match
0/0
A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
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Hoodlum Match
1966
No Greater Love
0/0
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...
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No Greater Love
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
Sword for Hire
7/8
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care...
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Sword for Hire
1969
The Magoichi Saga
5.8/5
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
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The Magoichi Saga
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
1964
Blood and Diamonds
0/0
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
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Blood and Diamonds
1975
The Bullet Train
6.7/47
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police ra...
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The Bullet Train
1964
Vanquished Foes
7/1
A skilled assassin's services are called upon to put an end to the ugly turf battle between two yakuza families, Mitsuwa and Aikawa. Forced by the cod...
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Vanquished Foes
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
1967
King of the Gang
0/0
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's market...
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King of the Gang
1968
The Woman Champion
0/0
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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The Woman Champion
1968
Woman Gambler and the Nun
0/0
Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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Woman Gambler and the Nun
1946
Those Who Make Tomorrow
0/0
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 sym...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
1959
Stop the Old Fox
5/1
Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of t...
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Stop the Old Fox
1974
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
0/0
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.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1941
Festival Across the Sea
0/0
There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and teache...
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Festival Across the Sea
1968
Industrial Spy
6/2
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a ne...
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Industrial Spy
1965
Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
0/0
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
1966
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
0/0
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'
0/0
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'
1968
The Drifting Avenger
6.7/7
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making h...
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The Drifting Avenger
1955
Love Never Fails
0/0
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the othe...
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Love Never Fails
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
1958
Man of Thirteen Eyes
0/0
Japanese mystery film.
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Man of Thirteen Eyes
1961
Structure of Hate
0/0
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
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Structure of Hate
1957
Untamed Woman
7.3/9
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...
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Untamed Woman
1958
The Sword Knows
8.5/2
In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.
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The Sword Knows
1966
A Circus Girl
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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A Circus Girl
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
1959
The Happy Family
0/0
Japanese family drama.
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The Happy Family
1963
The Image of Mother
0/0
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
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The Image of Mother
1970
House of Gamblers
7/1
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family go...
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House of Gamblers
1961
Challenge to Live
0/0
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during th...
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Challenge to Live
1972
A Yakuza Has His Way
0/0
The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family c...
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A Yakuza Has His Way
1969
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
0/0
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
1937
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
6.2/4
The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in film, rakug...
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Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
1950
Red Peony of Night
0/0
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around the...
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Red Peony of Night
1955
To Love and Forgive
0/0
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To Love and Forgive
1951
The Den of Beasts
0/0
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The Den of Beasts
1959
Gigantis, the Fire Monster
6.3/31
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
1969
Samurai Banners
7.417/18
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
1938
Chushingura
6/2
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge thei...
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Chushingura
1956
Young Tree
0/0
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
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Young Tree
1951
The Bitch
0/0
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
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The Bitch
1960
Princess Sen in Edo
0/0
A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!
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Princess Sen in Edo
1975
Hadashi no seishun
0/0
Youth movie.
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Hadashi no seishun
1961
The Masterless 47 – Part II
0/0
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The Masterless 47 – Part II
1952
The Man Who Came to Port
10/1
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Man Who Came to Port
1957
Good Luck to These Two
6/1
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
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Good Luck to These Two
1959
The Story of Iron Arm Inao
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Story of Iron Arm Inao
1956
I Saw the Killer
0/0
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I Saw the Killer
1980
An Ocean to Cross
0/0
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The fil...
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An Ocean to Cross
1956
Virtue in Spades
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
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Virtue in Spades
1974
Prophecies of Nostradamus
5.7/13
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobo...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
1954
Seven Samurai
8.464/3715
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
1949
Ishimatsu of the Forest
0/0
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
1950
Devil's Gold
0/0
1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Devil's Gold
1947
Actress
0/0
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The rela...
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Actress
1956
Scoundrel
0/0
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Scoundrel
1947
Chikagai nijuyojikan
0/0
1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai
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Chikagai nijuyojikan
1946
Eleven High School Girls
0/0
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpecte...
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Eleven High School Girls
1949
Lady From Hell
0/0
Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are agai...
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Lady From Hell
1958
Theater of Life
0/0
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Theater of Life
1954
君死に給うことなかれ
0/0
Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his bes...
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君死に給うことなかれ
1955
No Response from Car 33
7/1
Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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No Response from Car 33
1955
Ticket to Hell
0/0
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Ticket to Hell
1948
A Second Life
0/0
1948 Japanese drama film.
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A Second Life
1961
Restoration Fire
7/1
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall...
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Restoration Fire
1965
Code of Ruffians
5/1
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the sc...
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Code of Ruffians
1945
Otome no iru kichi
0/0
Japanese war movie.
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Otome no iru kichi
1944
Sagohei the Three-footer
0/0
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Sagohei the Three-footer
1962
Lion Festival of Echigo
0/0
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Lion Festival of Echigo
1974
The Tattooed Hitman
6/3
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...
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The Tattooed Hitman
1950
Crazy Uproar
0/0
Also known as Crazy Uproar.
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Crazy Uproar
1958
The Black Hooded Man 5
0/0
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The Black Hooded Man 5
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
1946
Lord for a Night
8/1
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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Lord for a Night
1942
Mother and Child Grass
0/0
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Mother and Child Grass
1941
Last Days of Edo
0/0
It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
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Last Days of Edo
1946
An Enemy of the People
0/0
Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
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An Enemy of the People
1939
Devoted Servant Naosuke
0/0
Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima Yasoemon, lost his face in front of people. It wa...
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Devoted Servant Naosuke
1935
Chuji for Sale
0/0
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Chuji for Sale
1949
Goblin Courier
6/1
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
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Goblin Courier
1949
A Woman's Life
0/0
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A Woman's Life
1958
Fearless Opposition
0/0
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
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Fearless Opposition
1961
Oniisan to oneesan
0/0
A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
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Oniisan to oneesan
1958
Mother
0/0
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Mother
1942
Miyamoto musashi Ichijōji kettō
0/0
1942 Japanese movie
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Miyamoto musashi Ichijōji kettō
1971
The Earth is Born Again
0/0
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone developm...
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The Earth is Born Again
1961
晴小袖
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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