Kokuten Kōdō
Kokuten Kōdō (高堂 国典 Kōdō Kokuten, 29 January 1887 – 22 January 1960) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1923 to 1959.
Seven Samurai
as Gisaku, the Old ManA samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Godzilla
as The Old Fisherman (uncredited)Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the...
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Stray Dog
as Old LandlordA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
as Old Man on Hill on Oto Island (uncredited)During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught...
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The Hidden Fortress
as Old Man (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
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Throne of Blood
as Military CommanderReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Old Priest Nikkan (uncredited)After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Old Priest Nikkan (uncredited)A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...
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Sanshiro Sugata
as Buddhist PriestThe story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn...
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I Live in Fear
as Workers' Older Family MemberKiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an...
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Scandal
as Old Man #1A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a...
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The Idiot
as JunpeiKameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved...
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Early Summer
as Old UncleA 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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No Regrets for Our Youth
as Mr. NogeYukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
as Buddhist Priest SaiduchiIn this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his...
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Untamed Woman
as KinshichiA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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Snow Trail
as Haruko's GrandfatherThree bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains....
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Carmen Comes Home
as uncreditedA rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
as uncreditedThe famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism...
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The Eleventh Hour
as uncreditedBased on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s...
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Husband and Wife
as uncreditedA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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Street of Violence
as KugaAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...
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Half Human
as Tribal ChiefThree competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Uesugi Family ElderThis 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed...
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The Horse Boy
as uncreditedA humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later,...
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Home Sweet Home
as uncreditedThe Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as Mountain Tribe LeaderAn American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in...
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Red Peony of Night
as uncreditedA romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their...
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Sword for Hire
as uncreditedSoldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind...
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The Blue Pearl
as Noe's uncleThe Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers;...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
as Hiryûji MurakamiThis epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story...
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Dancers of Awa
as uncreditedJurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the...
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The Phantom Horse
as uncreditedFollowing the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in...
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The Kuroda Affair
as uncreditedThis adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in...
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The Fighting on The Trial
as uncreditedHanjiro of Kusama searches for his little sister Oyuki, who went missing after being desecrated...
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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)
as uncreditedThe story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
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Three Women Around Yoshinaka
as uncreditedThe story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
as uncreditedMomoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also...
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Sasaki Kojiro
as uncreditedDirector Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro....
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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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Fighting Yasubei
as uncreditedYasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon...
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Blizzard Ronin
as uncreditedThe film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
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Musashibo Benkei
as uncreditedA 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior...
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Red-Light Bases
as Jusaku KawanabeStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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Dance of the Capital
as uncreditedHiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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浅草の夜
as GosukeA young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a...
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An Actor's Revenge
as DobuAn onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963...
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Oath on the Burning Sands
as uncreditedA Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a...
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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)
as uncreditedThe story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
Movie pageConduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
as Shige'emon OtobeJidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
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Green Earth
as uncreditedSet in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and...
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