Daisuke Katō
Daisuke Katō (加東 大介 Katō Daisuke, February 18, 1911 – July 31, 1975) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 films, including Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as the loyal comrade Shichiroji), Rashomon, Yojimbo (as the "wild pig" Inokichi), Ikiru, and Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy and Chushingura.
Seven Samurai
as ShichirojiA samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Rashomon
as PolicemanBrimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the...
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Yojimbo
as InokichiA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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Ikiru
as YakuzaKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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The Life of Oharu
as Tasaburo HishiyaIn Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the...
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An Autumn Afternoon
as Yoshitaro SakamotoShuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...
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The End of Summer
as Kitagawa YanosukeThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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Floating Clouds
as Seikichi MukaiA married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Matsukichi SekineKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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The 47 Ronin
as Fuwa KazuemonIn 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the...
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Untamed Woman
as Onoda, the second husbandA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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Street of Shame
as Mr. NomuraThe lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Kenjiro Yabe - NHK Domestic Bureau DirectorFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Admiral Yamamoto
as Chief of Press SectionAs Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto...
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Early Spring
as SakamotoA young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless...
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Humanity and Paper Balloons
as IsukeIn a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him...
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Flowing
as Yoneko's ExOtsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter...
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Late Chrysanthemums
as ItayaWith delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Shusuke TetsumotoSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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Little Peach
as SugaAnzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her...
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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
as GentaTragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants –...
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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Turbid Youth
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
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Two in the Shadow
as HayashidaA man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him...
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Priest of Darkness
as KentaA boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as Nobuo SadaokaConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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A Wife's Heart
as uncreditedKiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly...
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The Wiser Age
as RyokichiDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Fountainhead
as uncreditedA botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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The Tale of Genji
as uncreditedGenji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em...
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Moment of Terror
as KawashimaWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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Summer Clouds
as uncreditedA war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes...
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Secret Assignment
as KusanagiIn the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time...
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47 Ronin
as Kichiemon TerasakaAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Mother's First Love
as uncreditedA melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother...
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Mother
as Sokichi KimuraA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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The Approach of Autumn
as TomiokaA single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live...
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Seven Masks of Revenge
as uncreditedThe eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Yajirobei Tochimen'yaTwo residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a...
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Kigeki ekimae bentô
as uncreditedThird film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run...
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G-Men of Japan
as uncreditedThe investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
as uncreditedThe famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as ShinkichiPart 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and...
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Mr. Pu
as uncreditedA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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The Radish and the Carrot
as uncreditedOne day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled...
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Superexpress
as Yukichi NakaeA man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying...
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Stairs of Evil
as KonishiIwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato...
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Sudden Rain
as KawakamiA husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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The Third President
as uncreditedThe fifth entry in the Company President Series
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Ushinosuke AkabaUshinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. ...
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Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
as Kamo JinnaiThe story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki...
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Zoku izuko e
as uncreditedSequel to "真実の愛情を求めて 何処へ" (1954). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.
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The Naked Executive
as Tadokori - ExecutiveThe executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work",...
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G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
as uncreditedThe second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the...
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The School of Spies
as uncreditedNakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be...
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Assignment Cloud
as KusanagiA sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the...
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The Lone Journey
as uncreditedForced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. ...
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Star of Hong Kong
as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-lawWang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has...
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Here Is a Spring
as uncreditedThe story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...
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The Man Who Laughs Last
as uncreditedThe East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two...
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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
as YasuThe purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro...
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Foul Play
as Goro SeoPrivate eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa)...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as ShinkichiIemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot...
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Gamblers: The Raid
as Kichigorō5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
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Bright Young Maidens
as Zenkichi Shibata, Sumiko's FatherIn order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the...
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The Masterless 47
as Jyusaburo OnoderaPart one of The Masterless 47.
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The Storm
as uncreditedA widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
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Snow in the South Seas
as uncreditedJapanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their...
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Hito mo arukeba
as Namitaro NamikiA drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
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The Bitch
as Gorō MatobaThe fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
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Zoku shachōtaiheiki
as uncredited7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
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Oban kanketsu hen
as Ushinotsuke AkabaneUshinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of...
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Born in Sin
as uncreditedA dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
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The Gambling Samurai
as Enzo NikoChuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate,...
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An Edoite Judge
as Tasuke UoyaPeriod film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as uncreditedA screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following...
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Sanshiro Sugata
as Hansuke MuraiRemake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro...
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Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
as uncreditedPart one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
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The Daphne
as uncreditedFour sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two...
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The Thin Line
as uncreditedTashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in...
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The Romance of Yushima
as uncreditedHayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much...
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The Bogus Policeman
as uncreditedToramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is...
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Ejima and Ikushima
as 井口This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in...
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Snow Country
as Inn proprietorIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
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Twilight Saloon
as KibeSet in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather...
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A Spectacular Murder
as uncreditedWhen a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano...
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The Night before Pearl Harbor
as KusanagiThe last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of...
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Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn
as uncreditedStory of a bandit king part 2.
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Five Gents' Trick Book
as uncreditedThe 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
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Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil
as uncreditedEarly jidaigeki by Tai Kato.
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
as KusanagiIn late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel...
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
as uncreditedJirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as TajimiA period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as Ushinotsuke AkabaneUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...
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Ôban
as Ushinosuke AkabaA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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No Time for Tears
as uncreditedCoach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher...
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This Greedy Old Skin
as uncreditedA kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy...
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Awamori-kun kanpai!
as uncreditedSecond of the three Awamori-kun movies.
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The Greatest Challenge of All
as uncreditedAfter an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as TakeuchiOn a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...
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Outlaw island
as uncreditedThe southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the...
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Itohan Monogatari
as MatsukichiBased on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and...
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A Night in Hong Kong
as Kenkichi MatsuyamaRomantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a...
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The Surf
as Chiyoko's FatherLonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love....
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Rise Against the Sword
as Budeuemon HattoriFarmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight...
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The Abe Clan
as uncredited“19 vassals of Lord Hosokawa ask permission to commit harakiri with him, as a demonstration of...
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Morning for Two
as uncreditedWhile Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother...
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Chikûho no kodomotachi
as uncreditedA drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines
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The Naked General
as uncreditedA film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
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The Sharks
as uncreditedA film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka...
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I'm a Bodyguard
as uncreditedKita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's...
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Tabiji
as 塩谷駅長・南部斎五郎The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national...
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Ryoma ga Yuku
as Katsu KaishuThe chronicles of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan....
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