Haruo Tanaka
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Haruo Tanaka (田中 春男 Tanaka Haruo, 25 March 1912 – 21 February 1992) was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. Description above from the Wikipedia article Haruo Tanaka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Ikiru
as SakaiKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Good Morning
as Tatsuzo HaraguchiA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...
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Floating Weeds
as YatazoWhen a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of...
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Tokyo Twilight
as Komatsu's CustomerTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Kumagoro the horse thiefA humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...
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Untamed Woman
as FusayoshiA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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The Crucified Lovers
as Gifuya DôkiWhen the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with...
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Street of Shame
as Osaka SalesmanThe lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the...
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Early Spring
as NomuraA young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless...
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The Lower Depths
as TatsuResidents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
as StudentOver more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as...
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A Geisha
as uncreditedEiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive...
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Inferno of Torture
as SamejimaJapan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their...
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The Funeral
as Old ManWhen Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random...
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The Pornographers
as BantekiSubu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed...
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Repast
as uncreditedMichiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook...
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The Rickshaw Man
as uncreditedA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
as uncreditedGang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to...
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The Legend of the White Serpent
as Li Gong FuLavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in...
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The Woman in the Rumor
as KawamotoYukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises...
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
as uncreditedA young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that...
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The Surf
as uncreditedLonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love....
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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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Snow Country
as PorterIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
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The Big Boss
as uncreditedRyuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in...
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Marital Relations
as uncreditedThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
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Samurai Saga
as (uncredited)Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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Ginza Cosmetics
as Gonroku ShiraiA luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
as uncreditedThis anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
as Chuji TsukaharaWhere Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a...
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The Dawn of Freedom
as Lt. Sakuragi (military doctor)This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda...
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The Straits of Love and Hate
as Kinkichi's friend, HiroseA story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
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Revenge
as Shiraki JinzaemonAn innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai...
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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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Restoration Fire
as YasuzoMegastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic...
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Samurai Geisha
as uncreditedPopular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...
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Mr. Shosuke Ohara
as Seizô Kon'noSaheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
as uncreditedHidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
as uncreditedJirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
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The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
as uncreditedOne of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his...
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Children Seeking a Mother
as uncreditedWhile working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.
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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
as uncreditedA kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes...
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Unwieldy Brothers
as uncreditedTaisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of...
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Tales of President Mito
as Hikosaburo OkuboMr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
as SeijiroIn A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery...
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A Story from Echigo
as uncreditedA sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya
as NaosukeOiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and...
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Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
as KichizoEight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi
as uncreditedPlayhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of...
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Samurai from Somewhere
as uncreditedYoung Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
as HagimuraShozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his...
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Trapped, the Crimson Bat
as IwakichiOichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
as UemuraIn this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a...
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Escape at Dawn
as NoroMikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is...
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An Inn at Osaka
as uncreditedAn Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive...
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Last of the Wild Ones
as uncreditedA legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
as uncreditedThe tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a...
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as uncreditedThree humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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The Shogun and the Fishmonger
as uncreditedFishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of...
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The Man Without a Map
as uncreditedA private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is...
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Ghost Man
as uncreditedA ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models....
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
as uncreditedThe continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
as uncreditedTanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go...
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The Domain: The Naniwa Story
as uncreditedSecond film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as...
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The Edo Official and Apprentice
as uncreditedIt's an extravaganza of entertainment as famous magistrate in disguise, Toyama no Kinshiro...
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Lord of Red Banner
as uncreditedA young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
as uncreditedThird part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's...
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The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
as Kitao OmachiAkiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro...
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A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
as uncreditedThe epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the...
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珍説忠臣蔵
as uncreditedA comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
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Dancing Girl
as TamuraIn Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One...
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Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
as Mekkachi no KatsugorôJidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
as uncreditedThis is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a...
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Midnight Virgin
as uncreditedChie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from...
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Flames of Blood
as uncreditedThe story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of...
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Yakuza of Ina
as TeruyoshiTossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of...
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Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
as uncreditedThe hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
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A Ripple in a Morning
as ItoAtsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in...
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The Ambitious Youth
as TanakaAs descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to...
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Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo
as uncreditedA woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her...
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
as uncreditedYoung lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.
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Japan's Top Gangster
as uncreditedA boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him...
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Invitation to Happiness
as uncreditedKôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
as MinegishiImmigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion...
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Rainy Night Duel
as Joji the coolie procurerMasahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman....
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The Protector
as uncreditedMine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her...
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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
as Daizaburô TaniA Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued...
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The Pirates
as uncreditedFinding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships)...
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Merciless Blade Part 3
as uncreditedThe final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
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Gang and G-Men Part 2
as uncreditedA gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that...
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Merciless Blade Part 2
as uncreditedThe second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
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Dimple of Tokyo
as Take-sanBuntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life....
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Once More
as uncreditedA romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a...
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Gamblers and Racketeers
as uncreditedKomatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group...
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Drunken Sword
as uncreditedTetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt...
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The Burning Prison
as uncreditedIn Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With...
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Morning Breeze in Edo
as Otoboke SentaThe sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members...
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365 Nights
as Saburo AnekojiA young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in...
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Rogue
as uncreditedCoal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind....
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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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A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
as uncreditedThe debut film of Shin Toho Productions
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Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
as uncreditedTasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
as uncreditedFormer inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand...
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The Body
as uncreditedThe sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job...
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Scarier than the Devil
as uncreditedA stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no...
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Nonki saiban
as uncreditedA spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected...
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Miki, the Swordman
as uncreditedAfter mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to...
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Gentle Breeze
as uncreditedA young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.
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Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
as uncreditedJirocho the gambler hits the road.
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Ghost Story on Passage
as uncreditedA ghost interrupts the journey of two young noblemen who are disguised as merchants.
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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
as uncreditedYoung Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
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Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen
as uncreditedDirected by Daisuke Itō.
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Daikichi Konomura
as Jinbei YokoiiA samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and,...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
as uncreditedThese are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is...
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Ôban
as Noodle Shop OwnerA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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Samurai Vagabonds
as uncreditedOn New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for...
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Shojohou
as uncreditedA beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely,...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
as uncreditedThe third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
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Jirocho, the Hunted
as uncreditedA wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
as uncreditedHis skill and courage were the best in Japan! The life story of Jirocho, a man who protected...
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Duel at Yagyu Valley
as Fukigawa GenjiroDuring the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends,...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
as uncreditedHe was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not...
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Heavenly Dragon
as YumatsuFrom the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special...
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
as uncreditedIn this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
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Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
as uncreditedUmon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the...
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Heat and Mud
as uncreditedWith one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar...
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The Beauty of the Evening Sky
as uncreditedA platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he...
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Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
as uncreditedMovie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
as Company commander YamaneFourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Geisha in the Old City
as YasukichiDirected by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a...
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Mole Alley
as uncredited33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie,...
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The Detective Journey
as uncreditedA comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they...
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Duel in the Storm
as uncreditedIt is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to...
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A Flower Blooms
as uncreditedMachiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
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Down Town
as uncreditedA woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with...
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Yakuza bayashi
as uncreditedMakino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
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Three Women of the North
as uncreditedThe story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town....
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Gambler
as Jirokichi HanazawaThe main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is...
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Women Doing Time
as uncreditedPart 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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A Revengeful Raid
as uncreditedIn this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho,...
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Good Rascals
as Kinjiro TakeuchiA group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
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Blind Monk Swordsman
as uncreditedThis is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing...
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Enoken’s Boxing Generation
as uncreditedNear the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing...
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Bride of White Castle
as uncreditedA young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young...
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Echo in the Mountains
as Yadashi UkontaroA man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called...
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
as uncreditedThe story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's...
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Happily Tied to the Road
as MishimaWith flashing swordwork and a terrific story, wandering gambler Kusama Hanjiro inspires the...
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Tattoo of Love
as uncreditedThe great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save...
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Last Days of the Samurai
as uncreditedSeppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa...
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Farewell to Spring
as Sakuzô FuruyaBittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
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The Passion of a Woman Teacher
as uncreditedThe curse of a jealous woman destroys lovers on the run. Considered a lost film.
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Enoken's Home Run King
as uncreditedPostwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team,...
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Minamoto no Yoshitsune
as Ise YoshimoriThe chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late...
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The Shingo Case Files
as uncreditedShingo is back! As an associate to magistrate’s office, Shingo rises up against evil to protect...
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