Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi (二本柳寛) was a Japanese actor.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Rear Adm. Chuichi HaraIn the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
Movie pageThe Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Noge ShôsaAfter the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....
Movie pageJapan's Longest Day
as Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General StaffFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
Movie pageEarly Summer
as Kenkichi YabeA 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Movie pageCruel Story of Youth
as Keizo HorioA budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for...
Movie pageThe Eagle of the Pacific
as Commander FurukawaAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
Movie pageCruel Gun Story
as MatsumotoBusinessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on...
Movie pageRepast
as Kazuo TakenakaMichiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook...
Movie pageDancing Girl
as TakeharaThe troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved...
Movie pageA Warm Misty Night
as SaekiWhen Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his...
Movie pageLove in the Air
as Gō KasamatsuSatake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate,...
Movie pageThe Love of the Actress Sumako
as uncreditedThe stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the...
Movie pageTiger of the Sea
as uncreditedA group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Movie pageFighting Yasubei
as Genba TawaraboshiYasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon...
Movie pageGambler in the Sea
as uncreditedJoe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and...
Movie pageThe Guitarist from the Sea
as uncreditedPlans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza...
Movie pageKin no tamago: Golden Girl
as uncreditedOnce an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing...
Movie pageEscape from Hell
as KisukeThis suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a...
Movie pageBlack Tight Killers
as OkadaDaisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane...
Movie pageThe Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja
as uncreditedThe famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate.
Movie pageI Will Challenge
as uncreditedAkira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of...
Movie pageThe Eagle and the Hawk
as OnizameIn a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who...
Movie pageRyuji, the Gun Slinger
as uncreditedWhen Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a...
Movie pageThree Wild Cats
as uncreditedThree women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and...
Movie pageFarewell to Southern Tosa
as uncreditedStory of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
Movie pageO.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
as uncreditedAfter an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to...
Movie pageDetective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
as NishiwatariA sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Movie pageThe Young and Bad
as uncreditedNot too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his...
Movie pageA Turning to Hell
as MatsunagaMaki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on...
Movie pageDissolution Rites
as uncreditedSawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in...
Movie pageThe Rambling Guitarist
as Detective NumataArriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the...
Movie pageThe Rambler Goes North
as uncreditedIn the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back...
Movie pageKonto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses
as uncreditedA Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto...
Movie pageSong of the Underworld
as IzuA conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken...
Movie pageBodyguard from Hell
as uncreditedKitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the...
Movie pageSaigo no totsugeki
as uncreditedA narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The...
Movie pageParole
as IwaiThree men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
Movie pageThe Plateau Man
as uncreditedJapanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
Movie pageAshita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
as uncredited"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the...
Movie pageNerves for Victory
as uncreditedA young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars...
Movie pageLoss of innocence
as uncreditedA young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the...
Movie pageRed Pier
as MatsudaShortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a...
Movie pageClaws of Iron
as uncreditedDuring the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape...
Movie pageShojohou
as uncreditedA beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely,...
Movie pageThe Balloon
as Masataka TsuzukiHaruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to...
Movie pageRoar of the City
as uncreditedThis action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman...
Movie pageThe Man with a Sinister Laugh
as FunabaAfter getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend,...
Movie pageBirth of a Jazz Maiden
as Yutaka KatôKawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has...
Movie pageTowering Waves
as Tazawa - Wakako's fatherBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Movie pageThe Man Who Laughs Last
as uncreditedThe East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two...
Movie pageAijô ni tsuite
as uncreditedMichiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in...
Movie pageThe Call of the Foghorn
as uncreditedA sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of...
Movie pageWakai toppū
as uncreditedOn his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is...
Movie pageConfessions of a Gynecologist
as uncreditedA timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is...
Movie pageI'll End in Hell
as Torai TeiJoji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico....
Movie pageKawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
as Coach FujimotoA biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
Movie pageThe Fugitive
as uncreditedAn action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of...
Movie pageThe Whisper of Spring
as uncreditedAfter graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko,...
Movie pageMy Nightingale
as SumidaSumida is separated from his wife and daughter when conflict erupts in Harbin. Years later, he ...
Movie pageWhite Fish
as IwataniA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a...
Movie pageTale on Tokai Chivalry
as uncreditedThe film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation...
Movie pageOkinawa no Tami
as uncreditedWith the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each...
Movie pageFlesh Smuggling
as uncreditedA true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a...
Movie pageA Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
as uncreditedSixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
Movie pageMaboroshi Tantei: Chiteijin Shūrai
as uncreditedFirst "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.
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