Asao Sano
Asao Sano was a Japanese actor. He is famous for playing the role of Tokugawa Mitsukuni on the television jidaigeki series Mito Kōmon.
May Love Be Restored
as Sanzaemon KatagiriA tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
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Fires on the Plain
as SoldierIn the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his...
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Cruel Story of Youth
as InspectorA budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for...
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The Burmese Harp
as uncreditedIn Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises...
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Kagero-za
as Head of a HospitalA 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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Fighting Elegy
as uncreditedKiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as uncreditedKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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Cops vs. Thugs
as uncreditedWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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Black River
as SakazakiA university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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Tales of Ginza
as Jeep no MasaIn the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged...
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Birth of a Fighter
as Sohei MarutaniA young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
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Carmen from Kawachi
as KanzoLike a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a...
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Gone in the Rain
as SayamaAyako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie....
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A Chain of Islands
as SasakiWhen a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
as Father TajimaTajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring...
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The Thick-Walled Room
as uncreditedA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as uncreditedTora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...
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Gun Demon Without Form
as uncreditedA detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under...
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The Blazing Valiant
as Wahei SakamotoJo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare...
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Blood Is Dry
as uncreditedAn employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a...
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The Guys Who Put Money on Me
as TakeiAn unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young...
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The Dragon of Macao
as uncreditedRyu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand...
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A Warm Misty Night
as Miyatake, detectiveWhen Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his...
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The School Cap
as uncreditedA Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its...
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I Hate But Love
as uncreditedA celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves...
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The Long Death
as uncreditedOn January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned...
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The Last Samurai
as uncreditedThe film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many...
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The Incorrigible
as uncreditedBased on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars...
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The Man with a Shotgun
as KuronumaRyoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a...
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Teenage Wolf
as uncreditedIn the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on...
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Apart from Life
as YujiA film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
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Teenage Yakuza
as Noodle Shop OwnerA high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a...
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The Samurai of Edo
as uncreditedThis historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during...
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The Song of the Cart
as uncreditedA lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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Black Strait
as RyusakuNewly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new...
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The Night is mine
as uncreditedFour criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape....
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Jungle Block
as NakatsukaA young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted...
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A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
as uncreditedUndercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and...
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The juvenile
as uncreditedA good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
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Break Down that Wall
as uncreditedA man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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The Diary of a Police Officer: The piggy bank is full
as uncreditedA small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group...
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Drunkard's Paradise
as uncreditedA father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving...
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The Incident
as uncreditedThe body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a...
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
as uncreditedThis film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese...
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Gambler in the Sea
as uncreditedJoe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and...
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Fearless Comrades
as uncreditedThe first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but...
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Gambler's Dilemma
as Kawada ShigekichiThe love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of...
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The Empty Table
as uncreditedOne year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a...
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Miniature
as uncreditedGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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Passion and Rifle Bullets
as uncreditedPrivate Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society...
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Sun and stars
as uncreditedIt's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down...
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I Have the Sun in My Back
as uncreditedShigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has...
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Season of the Sun
as uncreditedThe film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 11 - The Ghost Story of Decapitation
as uncreditedEleventh film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Blood End
as uncreditedSentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a...
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Streetlights
as uncreditedA sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally...
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The Girl I Abandoned
as uncreditedTsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's...
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Gambling is My Destiny
as uncreditedShadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as uncreditedTelevision production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan,...
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Quick Draw Sanshiro
as uncreditedKoji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea...
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A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
as uncreditedSixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
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The Heart of Hiroshima
as IwaiOne morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store,...
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Covered Wagon
as uncreditedA Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from...
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The Ghost of Iwojima
as uncreditedThe monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper...
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I'll Never Cry!
as uncreditedThe rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in...
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Girl in the Glass
as Otomo, ManagerThe film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating...
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Permanent Blue
as uncreditedIn a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes...
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Shadow Hunters
as uncreditedIn the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate...
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Deeper Than Blue
as Shuzo MurakamiAbout a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging...
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Flesh Smuggling
as uncreditedA true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a...
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High-School Outcasts
as Vice-principal SugiyamaTsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and...
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The Aesthetic Salon Murders 2
as Detective KatoIwatsuki Reiko, a writer for a weekly magazine goes on a trip to Amakusa, Kyushu with Yukitake...
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Keiji monogatari jazu wa kurutchai nē
as uncredited1961 Japanese movie
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Ai yori aoku
as 村上周造（周一の父）The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki...
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Katsu Kaishu
as TetsugoroKatsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū "
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The Diary of Chuji's Travels
as uncreditedA historical drama about the days of youth of the famous yakuza boss, the protector of ordinary...
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