Kinya Kitaoji
Early life: He was born in Kyoto, son of jidaigeki film star Ichikawa Utaemon, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences Ⅱ in Tokyo. Acting career: Kin'ya made his debut with his father in the 1956 Toei film Oyakodaka in the role of Katsu Kaishū. He is a contemporary of, and was taken to be a rival of, Hiroki Matsukata, who was also the son of a famous actor (Jūshirō Konoe). In 1964, Kin'ya made his first appearance on stage in Cyrano de Bergerac. The 1960s and 1970s saw him in many contemporary roles. He appeared in Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as well as Karei naru Ichizoku. The title role in the 1975 film Takehisa Yumeji was his. On television, Kitaōji portrayed Miyamoto Musashi in the Nippon Television show of the same name. A major historical role was Sakamoto Ryōma in the year-long prime-time NHK Taiga drama Ryōma ga Yuku (1968). He landed the title role in the long-running cop show Zenigata Heiji, set in the Edo period. In the 1985 twelve-hour New Year special Fūun Yagyū Bugeichō, he played Yagyū Jūbei, and in the following year's special, he portrayed both Tokugawa Yoshimune and Yagyū Shinrokurō. The role of another shogun fell to him in the following new year as TV Tokyo tapped him to play Tokugawa Iemitsu. Kin'ya returned to NHK for the 1987 Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune as Date Terumune, father of title character Date Masamune. Another role he took had been created by his father. Saotome Mondonosuke was the title character in the series Gozonji! Hatamoto Taikutsu Otoko. It ran from 1988 to 1994 on TV Asahi. His father, Ichikawa Utaemon, had appeared in numerous films as Mondonosuke. Kin'ya reprised the part of Miyamoto Musashi in the 1990 New Year's special. Toshirō Mifune had portrayed Musashi in the earlier film, also based on the Eiji Yoshikawa story, that had won an Academy Award. He returned to the New Year's special in 1996, again as the famous swordsman, in Tokugawa Kengōden Sore kara no Musashi. His first portrayal of Ōishi Kuranosuke was in the 1996 Chūshingura. He took up the role again in 2004 for the NHK Saigo no Chūshingura and in 2007, in the New Year special Chūshingura Yōzei-in no Inbō. Other historical roles from the Sengoku period include Azai Nagamasa, Saitō Dōsan, and Yamamoto Kansuke. In addition to historical parts, he appeared in fictional series. His portrayal of Ogami Ittō in the Lone Wolf and Cub ( Kozure 2) Which was a series for Asahi TV in Japan is representative of these appearances. In 2008, Kitaōji revisited the role of Katsu Kaishū in the Taiga drama Atsuhime. He had portrayed Katsu in his 1956 debut. He won the award for best actor at the 10th Hochi Film Award for Fire Festival and Haru no kane. Kitaōji played one of the lead roles in Hideo Nakata's psychological thriller film The Incite Mill. In recent times, Kitaōji voices the Hokkaido-inu character of "Father" in SoftBank Mobile's White Family advertising campaign.
One Piece Film: GOLD
as Raise Max (voice)The glittering Gran Tesoro, a city of entertainment beyond the laws of the government, is a...
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THE LEGEND & BUTTERFLY
as Saitō DōsanOda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between...
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Asura
as MonkAbandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Shoji YamanakaRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
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The Incite Mill
as Yoshi AndoDrawn by the exorbitantly high hourly wage of 112,000 Japanese yen, ten men and women gather at...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Tamotsu MatsumuraWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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Spring Bell
as Rokuheita NarumiRokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum...
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The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess –
as Raymond FuuSet in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro...
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The Orphan Brother
as uncreditedAfter their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but...
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Castle of Sand
as uncreditedA bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran...
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Mount Hakkoda
as Captain KandaTwo infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the...
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Future War 198X
as Wataru Mikumo (voice)An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
as uncreditedThe life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for...
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
as Sabu, the third brotherSabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home,...
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Monster Strike The Movie: To The Place of Beginnings
as Kentaro Ishibashi (voice)Monster Strike: The Movie serves as a prequel to the net anime series based on the game of the...
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The Second Is a Christian
as uncreditedThe story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very...
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The Second Is a Christian
as EijiThe story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very...
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as uncreditedIn turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as...
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Genkuro Yoshitsune
as uncreditedAn exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from...
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The Peking Man
as Kin'ya KitaôjiIn 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army...
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Sakurada Gate Incident
as uncreditedMito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination...
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Fine Man
as uncreditedA young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he...
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The Highest Honour
as Major TachibanaAfter a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new...
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Dohten
as uncreditedJubei is a Japanese merchant who learns tricks from Western merchants to get ahead in the game.
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Tokaido Fullhouse
as Okeya-no-oniWhen Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother...
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Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
as uncreditedIn 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective...
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Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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Fire Festival
as TatsuoTatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land,...
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Dog Whistle
as uncreditedIn this crime thriller produced by Toshiro Mifune (who has a supporting role), hard-boiled Shiro...
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Father of the Kamikaze
as uncreditedVice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to...
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The Last Revenge
as Tesshu YamaokaThis is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged...
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Assassin's Target: Iemitsu
as uncreditedA vicious plot that would change the course of Japanese history is set in motion when assassins...
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Whistleblower
as Ikuo YakuyamaA seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.
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Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
as uncreditedMaster swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent...
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Winter's Flower
as Michio SakataKanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a...
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I Don't Want to Kidnap Anyone Anymore
as Hanazono ShugoroOhno plays the role of Tarui Shotaro, an ordinary guy who dreamed of becoming a hero when he was...
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Shimane Prison Riot
as Yuji KawamuraJapan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
as uncreditedRecently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a...
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Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
as uncreditedIn the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as Soji OkitaNear the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards...
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Yume-Chiyo
as uncreditedYumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do...
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Sakura Housara
as uncreditedShonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon...
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Legal High SP
as Teshigawara IsaoKazuhiko Kogure, who is a 2nd grade student in middle school, falls off from one of the school's...
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Lake of Illusions
as Nobunaga OdaA woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and...
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The Acrobats of Death
as uncreditedSaotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial...
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The Navy
as ShinjiA tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as Shunsuke GodaiFinal part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Dynamite Don-Don
as Ginji TachibanaYakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly...
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Zero
as Jiro HorikoshiTwo young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test...
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One Day at Summer's End
as Shigeo UgariA Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two...
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Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
as uncreditedMaster swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
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Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
as uncreditedToei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.
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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
as uncreditedA Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past....
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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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Virtue in Spades
as uncreditedAdaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
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The Alaska Story
as Frank YasudaA Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He...
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Law in Ghost Island
as YusakuUpon his arrival to Dragon Island, ronin Yagi Hanzo, is propositioned by various shady...
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Keepers of Order
as uncreditedChuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal...
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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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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
as uncreditedAbout small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means...
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Sushi King Goes to New York
as GengoroA genius sushi chef travels to New York to battle it out with the local competition there.
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Will to Conquer
as uncreditedThe struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
as uncreditedThe 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...
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Whistling Drifter
as Tsukinowa GentaroFriendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.
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Monument to Holy Service
as uncreditedA rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
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Gambling Den Heist
as Takeshi KiyomotoAfter eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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Glowing Autumn
as uncreditedA very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by...
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The Story of a Man Among Men
as uncreditedDuring the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss...
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Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke
as 香月玄太郎Yosuke Misaki used to be a promising prosecutor, but he suddenly quit his job. He begins a new...
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The Blossom and the Sword
as Captain SakagamiTai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who...
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Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator
as TakeoTakeo (Kiniya Kitaoji), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and...
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Kukai
as KukaiThe life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of...
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Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
as Yumeji TakehisaBased on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
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Rise, Fair Sun
as uncreditedThough a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the...
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Love on the Rainbow
as Tatsuya KitakamiA seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
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Shadow Over Fuji
as uncreditedThe year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which...
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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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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon
as uncreditedBiopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he...
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Genjuro's Deadly Sword: The Return of Shinigami
as uncreditedGenjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his...
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The Mansion of Intrigue
as Kirishima KyoyaA swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.
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Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
as uncreditedPart of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known...
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Bloody Battle at Dawn
as uncreditedA story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the...
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Shadow Conspirator
as uncreditedOne night, Genjiro Tsurumi, a former ronin comes across a man being attacked by a group of...
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Eternal First Love
as Yuichi MakibaraTakeshi (Takashi Tsukamoto), an Italian restaurant chef, and Ruri (Saki Aibu) could have been...
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Abandoned
as uncreditedThe film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship...
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Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
as uncreditedThe crescent shaped scar on his forehead is a license given him by the Shogun to kill anyone he...
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Kingdom of Youth
as Yamanaka ShikanoskeAn entertaining youth drama, which tells about the struggle of a young swordsman Yamanaka...
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さすらい署長風間昭平スペシャル 塩屋岬いわき殺人事件
as uncreditedShohei Kazama (Kinya Kitaoji), who travels all over the country and works as a special police...
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Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as Yoshito Tendo（天堂 義人）Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor...
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Absolute Zero
as Hideo NagashimaIzumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up...
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Hanzawa Naoki
as Ken NakanowatariHanzawa Naoki works as a loan manager at the Osaka Nishi branch of Tokyo Central Bank. One day,...
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SMAP×SMAP
as Skit GuestSMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the...
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Keiji 7-nin
as Shuntaro DomotoAmagi Yu is a slightly eccentric detective who has been assigned to the Twelfth Section of the...
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I'm Home
as Yozo IejiIeji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent...
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Masamune Shogun
as 伊達輝宗Broadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the...
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Blackboard
as Akinori Shioda"Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~," revolves around teachers in different time...
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Blackboard
as Shioda Akinori"Blackboard ~ Jidai to Tatakatta Kyoushitachi~," revolves around teachers in different time...
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Princess Go
as uncreditedPrincess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led...
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Atsuhime
as uncreditedThe 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture,...
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Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist
as Kyotaro OndaOnda Kokoro is an oncologist called Dr Onkoro for short by the people around her and teased that...
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Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
as uncreditedThe mystery of how Kazama Kimichika became so ruthless and unmatched will be revealed. Kyojo...
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Fragile
as Kaoru NakagumaThe story of Kishi Keiichitaro, a dashingly handsome pathologist who is intensely eccentric and...
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Breathless Summer
as Shusaku NatsumeA 19-year-old girl burdened by a cruel destiny, a 41-year-old man living in atonement, and a...
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Ryoma ga Yuku
as Sakamoto RyomaThe chronicles of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan....
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Man of Destiny
as Keisaku SahashiA newspaper reporter (Masahiro Motoki) uncovers a secret "Okinawa pact" between the Japanese and...
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Alice in Wonderful Kitchen
as Gojo MichitakaYaemori Alice is a chef with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) whose favorite phrase is “Cooking is...
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Hojo Tokimune
as Sha KokumeiThe 40th NHK Taiga Drama is Hojo Tokimune. It tells the dramatic and turbulent life of young...
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Virtual Detective Tabito Higurashi
as Wataru EnokiHigurashi Tabito has lost four out of his five senses--his sense of sound, smell, taste, and...
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Mominoki wa Nokotta
as Sakai TadakiyoDepicting Date clan’s internal strife that occurred during a peaceful Edo period governed by the...
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Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches
as Genroku Kano (Tokugawa Yoshimune)The story of the battles between the 3 related families Kishu, Mito, and Owari, as each vies for...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Miyamoto MusashiOn September 15, Keicho, a young man, Takezo, whose life was ruined by the war in Sekigahara...
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Triangle
as Kuroki ShinzoThe series starts with the murder of a 10-year-old girl in 1984. 15 years later, after the case...
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Sanada Yukimura
as uncreditedLord Sanada along with his deadly ninja assassins Kirigakure Saizo and Sarutobi Sasuke attempt...
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In His Chart
as Itagaki Genzo [Director]Ichito Kurihara is a physician at a small hospital in Nagano Prefecture. The hospital doesn't...
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Magistrate Ooka Echizen
as uncreditedOoka Echizen is the commissioner of the two-acre Minami-machi Magistrate’s Office, located in...
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The Family
as Daisuke Manpyo"The Family", the program commemorating the 55th anniversary of the launch of the TBS TV...
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The Story of Dominating Countries
as uncreditedBased on the award-winning novel by Shiba Ryotaro, the drama is set in Japan several centuries...
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Secret magistrate Asahina
as Asahina Kawachinokami MasakiyoOmetsuke Asahina Kawachinokami Masakiyo - holds the position of inspector overseeing the daimyo...
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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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The Diary of Chuji's Travels
as ChujiA historical drama about the days of youth of the famous yakuza boss, the protector of ordinary...
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Lone Wolf and Cub
as Ogami IttôRonin Ogami Itto travels around 17th century Japan, accompanied by his young son Daigoro, in...
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Further Tales of Musashi
as Miyamoto MusashiThe story of Musashi Miyamoto is one of the most famous and often filmed sagas in Japanese film...
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Sanbiki no Ossan
as 清田清一Kiyokazu (Kinya Kitaoji) retires from the company where he worked for many years. He will begin...
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Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~
as uncreditedAfter being paralysed while on a case Detective Ichiro Onizuka returns to Shinjuku East to solve...
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Kuwayama Jubei travels to eight provinces
as Kuwayama JubeiIn this drama based on an award-winning story by author Sato Masayoshi, Kitaoji Kinya stars as...
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Phantom Assassin
as Koyama GenjuroGenjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his...
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