Junkichi Orimoto
Kwaidan
as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
as General Mashita (segment "November 25, 1970")A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of...
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The Return of Godzilla
as Director-General of the Defense AgencyAfter a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as (uncredited)After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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Three Outlaw Samurai
as KurahashiShiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their...
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Godzilla 1985
as Director-General of the Defense AgencyOriginally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily...
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The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
as uncreditedReiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Hideo HayakawaWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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Message from Space
as KidoThe peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes...
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as Shozo KataokaSawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to...
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Forever a Woman
as Shigeru AnzaiFumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
as TokubeiThis is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...
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The Imperial Navy
as uncreditedA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of...
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Samurai Wolf
as uncreditedThis is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives...
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Yakuza Graveyard
as Takechi HatanoA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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Assassination
as Kamo SerizawaAssassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay,...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
as YanakaIn the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...
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Station
as uncreditedA detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as Seiji IzekiThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
as uncreditedAmidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...
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New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X
as Dr. KatôA nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening...
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The Wild Trucker
as uncreditedThe comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue....
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May Love Be Restored
as GenyuA tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
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The Imperial Japanese Empire
as Teijiro ToyodaStory of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during...
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
as IppusaiLoyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission...
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as uncreditedThirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes...
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I Will Buy You
as Shirô KuritaA talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
as uncreditedThe eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves...
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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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No More Easy Life
as uncreditedMariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more...
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
as uncreditedOn the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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Japan's Don
as uncreditedA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Another Battle
as uncreditedFormer childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a...
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The Enchantment
as Parking attendantA Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent...
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Samurai Wolf II
as uncreditedKiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their...
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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
as uncreditedChiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent...
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The Story of Pure Love
as Detective AJunai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling...
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My Way
as YamadaBased on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve...
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Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
as uncreditedAfter discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police...
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The Graduates
as uncreditedThe experiences and relationships of five senior students at a rural high school, during the...
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Run, Genta, Run!
as uncreditedA touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of...
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Revenge
as uncreditedAn innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai...
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Free and Easy 6
as uncreditedHama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on...
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World War III Breaks Out
as uncreditedThe lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war,...
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Goodbye Japan
as uncreditedA political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in...
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Kaoyaku
as YoshikawaA detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
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Willful Murder
as uncreditedThe president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as uncreditedTelevision production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan,...
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Game of Chance
as uncreditedBungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling....
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Darkness at Noon
as Detective SugitaPolice beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based...
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Gang vs. G-Men
as Yuichi NoguchiTwo rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.
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Appassionata
as uncreditedThis story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of...
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Beautiful Days
as (uncredited)Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
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Aurora Borealis
as landownerThe story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.
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Sure Death! 3
as uncreditedThird movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of...
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Kizumomo.
as uncreditedAki, who loves freedom, mets Masaya, an aspiring watchmaker. The two have opposite personalities...
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Desperate Sunflowers
as Takaaki KondoNatsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant...
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A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land
as Kiichi YamadaOnna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the...
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Tale of Army Brutality
as uncreditedDirector Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill...
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０計画を阻止せよ－総理大臣誘拐！！－
as Inspector YabeSamonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that...
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Be a Man!! Samurai School
as uncreditedMomotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made....
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A Woman Called En
as uncreditedSet at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...
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At the End of the Clouds
as uncreditedA movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
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Roadside Stone
as JunkichiThe Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a...
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Piano in a Storeroom
as uncreditedTwo sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka...
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Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File
as Shigeo Yazaki"Elite" members of an insurance company are gathered together to form a unit to investigate an...
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Karaoke
as uncreditedKodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a...
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Nemuri Kyōshirō
as uncreditedKyoshiro rescues Shizu who was being abused by her husband, even since she had been violated by...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
as uncreditedSheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2
as uncreditedBrings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that...
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Song of Vengeance
as 杉良Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after...
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My Voiceless Friends
as uncreditedA man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country...
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The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
as priestA biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji...
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The Awesome Circus Bastard
as Sogoro NakahataDaigaku, member of the circus, is involved in a certain case and is suspected by Detective...
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Shy Security
as uncreditedA motocross rider avenges his father's death
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Mist and Shadows
as uncreditedThe film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale...
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Mystery of the Coral Seas
as Takuzo NakamoriA trading company employee's girlfriend loses her memory while on a trip. In place of the friend...
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The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
as uncreditedThe fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble....
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Betrayal tomorrow
as uncreditedA violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner.
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Detective
as uncreditedThe first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a...
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Moonlight Rabbit
as uncreditedEighteen-year-old Isamu works at a coffee shop. Rebelling against his father, he eloped with...
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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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Hanzo, the Razor
as uncreditedDuring Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the...
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Love Tomato
as uncreditedMiddle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for...
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Ana
as Chief SasakiA double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real...
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Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari
as uncreditedYuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's...
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Aijin Bank Satsujin Jiken
as Detective MatsunoAn office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved...
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Fushin no Toki
as uncreditedSuspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake.
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Kenkaku Shōbai: Kadowakashi
as uncreditedKohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good...
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Ginpei From Koina: Migratory Bird of Winter
as uncreditedShimoda, Izu, the venerable Amimoto Onabe family is repeatedly harassed by the upstart Hotate...
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MOROCCO: The Story of the Yokohama Follies
as uncreditedA group of cool guys strolling through the streets of Yokohama. They are Tatsu of Morocco and...
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Tales of the Bizarre
as uncreditedInspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...
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Hideyoshi
as Sakuma NobumoriA dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity,...
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Garden of the Wind
as MisawaThe lead, Dr. Sadami Shiratori worked in the operating room at a famous Tokyo hospital was...
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Kasuga the Court Lady
as Shigemichi InabaThis is the story about the a very powerful Lady Kasuga who established Ooku the inner palace.
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Weekend Marriage
as uncreditedYoko always seems to say and do the right thing and has forever been the center of attention....
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A Samurai's Sorrow
as uncreditedA Japanese period drama broadcast in prime-time in 1984, based on Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike...
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Testimony of N
as Nohara KanefumiUniversity student Sugishita Nozomi, Naruse Shinji, Ando Nozomi and Nishizaki Masato end up...
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Don't touch the thief!
as Tokikuni HeiseiA drama adaptation of Jiro Akagawa's "Thief Series". Junichi Konno, also known as Phantom Thief...
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Izumo no Okuni
as BaianIzumo no Okuni was born about 1571. This time period in Japanese history was fraught with...
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