Etsushi Takahashi
Japan's Longest Day
as Lt. Colonel Masutaka IdaFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Red Lion
as Ichinose HanzoJapan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows,...
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Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
as SuginoHanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects...
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Shogun's Samurai
as Matsudaira IzuFollowing the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by...
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Kill!
as Hanji (Hanjiro Tabata)A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become...
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Eros + Massacre
as Jun TsujiTwo interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his...
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Blood Type: Blue
as uncreditedUFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned...
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The Battle of Okinawa
as uncreditedThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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Zatoichi at Large
as DenjuroBlind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman,...
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August without Emperor
as Yasuhisa ToshikuraTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...
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The Drifting Classroom
as Dr. Jackie YamatojimaAn entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a...
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Last Friends
as uncreditedFollowing the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII....
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Japan's Don
as Yasuo IchinomiyaA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
as Eisuke GodaiSecond part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as Eisuke GodaiFinal part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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The Affair
as LaborerAs a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as Eisuke GodaiThe upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...
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Atami Murder Case
as IiyamaChief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the...
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The Yoshida School
as Hayato IkedaCoinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece...
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Battle Cry
as Hosoya JudayuDuring the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal...
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
as uncreditedMid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Kyosuke IchinomiyaThe three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...
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The Shootout
as IguchiA run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of...
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Onihei's Detective Records
as uncreditedA criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
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8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
as Inspector TanakaAfter Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's...
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Midwinter Camellia
as uncreditedYasuo Furuhata directs this romantic yakuza flick based on a book by popular romance novelist...
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East Meets West
as Kaishu KimuraA disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a...
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Call from Darkness
as Yoshio AizawaKeiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as Yasuo IchinomiyaAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
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Journey Into Solitude
as Daizo KimuraBored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific...
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Solar Eclipse
as uncreditedWhen bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion,...
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The River with No Bridge
as Munenori IsedaA widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku...
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The Fixer
as uncreditedPolitical fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly...
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Outlaw Cop
as Yasuo SugitaniA bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs...
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One Day at Summer's End
as Tetsuya NozakiA Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two...
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Wandering -SASURAI-
as uncreditedA high school girl becomes convinced that her mother, who was said to have died fourteen years...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
as uncreditedA great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there...
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Big Boss
as uncreditedA big battle between world class phantom thieves unfolds over the worlds largest diamond!
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Strike the White Ball
as uncredited1980 Japanese film distributed by Shochiku.
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Deadly Swords in Search of Hidden Gold
as uncreditedThe secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa....
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Oshin
as HitoshiOshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama, which aired on broadcaster NHK from...
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Onihei Hankachō
as uncreditedHasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates...
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune
as Nasu no YoichiThe chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late...
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The Mirror of Janus
as Tatsuyuki KawamotoThe series is about a girl suffering from multiple personality disorder.
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Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
as uncreditedAfter the end of the reign of the second Shogun Hidetada, the country was still in turmoil....
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Asami Mitsuhiko Mysteries
as uncreditedCrime mysteries from 1987 to 1990 based on Yasuo Uchida's novels starring Yutaka Mizutani.
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