Fumio Watanabe
Fumio Watanabe October 31, 1929 – August 4, 2004 was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.
Shogun's Joy of Torture
as uncreditedA young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal...
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
as Warden GodaAfter being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom...
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The Transgressor
as Priest Kakinuma18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what...
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The Bullet Train
as MiyashitaA Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train...
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Equinox Flower
as Ichiro NagamuraWataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...
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Late Autumn
as Tsuneo SugiyamaA woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...
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Black River
as NishidaA university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
as Bizennokami YagyûIn this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we...
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Death by Hanging
as Education OfficerA Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the...
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The Street Fighter
as Renzo MutaguchiTakuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
as Inspector GodaAfter being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as SanbôKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
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Shogun's Ninja
as Tokugawa IeyasuIn the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the...
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Night and Fog in Japan
as Haruaki NozawaUninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other...
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Violence at Noon
as Inspector HaraguchiTwo young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a...
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
as HimselfIn Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at...
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Flying in the Air
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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Dogra Magra
as Police ChiefA young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum...
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Killers on Parade
as FootballA vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews...
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
as Masuo ShimazakiUsing a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try...
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Cruel Story of Youth
as AkimotoA budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for...
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Deep Throat in Tokyo
as KawataKumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets...
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The Ceremony
as uncreditedOshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses...
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The Erotomaniac Daimyo
as uncreditedKiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu...
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
as DokumushiThree students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as uncreditedPresident of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the...
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Street of Love and Hope
as YujiA young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing...
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The River Fuefuki
as uncreditedIn a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very...
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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 Tattooed Hitman
as Kenzo KaizuThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
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A Woman's Gamble
as uncreditedOnna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko...
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The Sun's Burial
as YoseheiIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
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Outlaw: Heartless
as KogaGoro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a...
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The Great Chase
as Hayato MaejimaShihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
as uncreditedMichio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a...
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Good-for-Nothing
as uncreditedYoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz,...
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House of Gamblers
as uncreditedKen Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden...
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Wolves of the City: Checkmate
as uncreditedThis is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968...
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Wet Sand in August
as Kamematsu KameiSeveral high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure;...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
as uncreditedUpon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as Keizo TashiroAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
as Head of Kikuna ClanAiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang...
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Takashi NakagamiThe three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...
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Gambler's Farewell
as Eiji KatasawaThe story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading...
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Bridge
as uncreditedA 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
as SatakeThe great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s...
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The Armed Organization
as uncreditedViolent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji...
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Sanctuary - Part 2
as Deputy Chief Norimoto IsaokaTwo people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the...
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
as uncreditedAfter the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its...
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High Seas Hijack
as Reporter Tatsuya IwadoTerrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
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The Cheating Underworld
as IwasakiGangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
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Nippon no obaachan
as uncreditedTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
as uncreditedAfter World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of...
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Silence Has No Wings
as uncreditedFollowing the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido,...
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
as uncreditedWith a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the...
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Maria of the Ant Village
as uncreditedAlongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a...
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Quarreling with Yakuza
as uncreditedSet loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most...
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Pleasures of the Flesh
as Hanawa gang memberA corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase...
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Sky Scraper!
as uncreditedA film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
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Boy
as FatherA family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After...
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Only She Knows
as uncreditedA young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is...
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Umi no Chizu
as SugiuraAkiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby...
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Rogue
as Shigekichi KarasawaCoal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind....
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
as Moritaya SeizoAn outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of...
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
as uncreditedThe Domain: Where The Blade Enters
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Four Sisters
as Tatsuo SakuraiA story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms...
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Without Complaint
as Yoshita KitaniBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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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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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
as uncreditedAn honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of...
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Thugs of Shinjuku
as uncreditedFresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not...
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Modern Lady Gambler
as uncreditedFujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who...
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Yakuza on Foot
as Karo KinAn Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug...
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Sanctuary - Part 3
as Deputy Chief Norimoto IsaokaStanding in the way of Hojo and Asami is Secretary-General Isaoka, and a new enemy, the Russian...
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Elegy of the North
as Tatsumi FuruseA sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his...
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The Invisible Wall
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Troops of Darkness
as uncreditedA disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years...
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The Hoodlum Priest
as uncreditedThe first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in...
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Organized Violence
as uncreditedA war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
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My Way
as LawyerBased on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve...
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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
as DaimonIt takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created...
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
as uncreditedThe woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
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A History of the Japanese Underworld
as uncreditedThe hero tries to unite various gangs.
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Brothers of Capones
as uncreditedSuperbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
as uncreditedIn the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively...
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Main Line to Terror
as uncreditedAkiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the...
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Yanagase Blues
as Hayato GondoJiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
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Kidnapping Blues
as Stall OwnerA man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to...
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Sanctuary
as Deputy Chief Norimoto IsaokaAkira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small...
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Volunteering for Villainy
as Yasuo KawamuraTwo outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
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Evil Spirits of Japan
as BabaMurase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student...
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Internal Sleuth
as MurakoshiWhen 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective...
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The Domain: Severed Relations
as uncreditedThe Domain: Severed Relations
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Shisha to no kekkon
as uncreditedA case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a...
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Shura ga Yuku 6
as uncreditedSet in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
as uncreditedThe titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with...
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A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
as uncreditedBack after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his...
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The Bad Boss 3
as uncreditedA story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
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The Lucky Status Symbol
as uncreditedHiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is...
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Patience Has An End
as uncreditedYoung coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the...
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Industrial Spy
as Seiichiro SawadaA spy learns the top secrets of a company.
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Red Pants
as uncreditedA woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by...
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Donto ikōze
as uncreditedComedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
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Kanto Street Peddlers
as uncreditedKokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run...
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Don't get in your hands
as uncreditedA woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag...
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The Private Police
as uncreditedAfter the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an...
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Dissolution Rites
as ShimamuraSawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in...
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The Bad Boss
as uncreditedThe first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It...
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Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss
as uncreditedTerajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when...
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Epitaph to My Love
as Taiichi KimuraIshihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
as uncreditedThird film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
as uncreditedAs the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a...
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Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
as uncreditedAn undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination...
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Women's Prison
as uncreditedA prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and...
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Girls Behind the Bars
as uncreditedStory of girls in a Japanese reform school.
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Uzushio
as 丘甫The 4th NHK Asadora. Starring Michiko Hayashi as a woman born in poverty who lives a brave life....
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Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
as uncreditedThe tumultuous life of the fallen Isoroku Yamamoto is depicted, along with his family, friends,...
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