Kō Nishimura
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kō Nishimura (西村 晃 Nishimura Kō, 25 January 1923–29 April 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and Yojimbo, Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, and Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (where he was credited as Akira Nishimura). Description above from the Wikipedia article Kō Nishimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Yojimbo
as KumaA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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High and Low
as Third CreditorA shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when...
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The Sword of Doom
as Shichibei, Omatsu's 'uncle'Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate...
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Red Beard
as Chief retainerAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
as Mamo (voice)Interpol Inspector Zenigata embarks to Egypt in hot pursuit of world's most wanted master thief,...
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The Burmese Harp
as BabaIn Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises...
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The Bad Sleep Well
as Contract Officer ShiraiIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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Lady Snowblood
as Priest DokaiYuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of...
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Jack and the Beanstalk
as Old bean-sellerAn adventurous young boy named Jack climbs a giant beanstalk to a magical kingdom governed by a...
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Intentions of Murder
as Koichi TakahashiThe neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with...
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Pigs and Battleships
as YajimaIn the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the...
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The Ballad of Narayama
as One of the villagers who Teaches Narayama's Manners (uncredited)In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of...
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The Bride from Hades
as BanzouOn the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named...
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
as KizaruWarlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Kiyami no ShinkoSaheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...
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Goyokin
as uncreditedA guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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The Strangling
as Yasuzo KaribaThe men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company...
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13 Assassins
as Kujuro HirayamaA sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even...
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Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
as Magohei 'Snake' OhnishiHanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects...
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Samurai Wolf II
as MagobeKiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as Tokuji OwadaThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
as uncreditedYoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and...
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Intimidation
as Matakichi NakaikeKoreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a...
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The Pornographers
as Detective SanadaSubu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed...
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Shigetomi KattaThe three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...
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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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The Ghost of the Hunchback
as Baron Tominaga / The HunchbackA hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous...
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Killers on Parade
as SaiA vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews...
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Samaritan Zatoichi
as Sosuke SaruyaZatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his...
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
as Magobei "Snake" OnishiAgainst the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo...
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
as uncreditedA local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by...
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
as Uneshiro SugaWhen a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a...
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Black Rose Mansion
as Ex-husbandA feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When...
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Gorath
as Murata - Secretary of SpaceIn 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth....
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
as Magobei 'Snake' OnishiFearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
as uncreditedSecond part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
as Mr. YasuharaIn the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...
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Tale of Ninja Duty
as Chisaka HyobuMumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he...
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The Flesh Is Weak
as AcupressuristA woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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Tale of Army Brutality
as Kameoka, ZenjiDirector Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill...
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The Wild Sea
as MunekataYoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro,...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
as ItakuraIn the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedKon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is...
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Manhunt
as Nagaoka RyokaiA tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is...
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
as KenpeishiA mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an...
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The Threat
as KawanishiTwo escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
as uncreditedIn turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
as uncreditedWhen a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires...
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Japan's Don
as Kahe ShimabaraA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
as Makoto NishimuraThe reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Doggie March
as Killer (voice)It tells the story of Rock, a puppy whose mother is killed by a tiger and a fox. To fulfill his...
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The Incident
as uncreditedThe body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a...
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Living Skeleton
as NishizatoA ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
as Mokudō KidaSatoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan...
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Nishi Ginza Station
as uncreditedThis short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
as Tahei NarumiyaFifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman...
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
as uncreditedConvicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
as uncreditedGisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as YamaokaAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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Play It Cool
as KadaThis Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter...
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
as MigiZatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the...
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Nomugi Pass
as uncreditedThe story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early...
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The Lost Alibi
as OkudairaSuspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised...
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Endless Desire
as PharmacistSet in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a...
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Love in the Mud
as uncreditedThis is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in...
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Nutcracker Fantasy
as Uncle / Street Singer / Puppeteer / Watchmaker (voice)Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker",...
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The Retreat from Kiska
as Staff OfficerIn 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers....
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
as uncreditedWhen Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a...
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The Life of a Horse-Trader
as uncreditedHokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro...
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Tsugaru Folksong
as Tamezo TsukamotoA young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother...
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Solar Eclipse
as uncreditedWhen bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion,...
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Eleven Samurai
as Errant samurai DaijuroThe lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic...
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
as ChubeiBased on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker...
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The Song of the Cart
as uncreditedA lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
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Seven Gamblers
as uncreditedHanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group...
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Warrior of the Wind
as Mizuno IzumiA suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and...
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Harbor Rats
as uncreditedA scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir...
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The Black Hood
as uncreditedA horse-riding samurai fights villains.
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Flower Cards Chivalry
as uncreditedAn absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
as uncreditedA headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his...
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Down with The Big Boss
as Glass-Eating MimeIn pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the...
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Gang vs. Gang
as uncreditedThe plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the...
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Snake Woman's Curse
as YasukeAn old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man...
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The Pirates of Buban
as uncreditedBy going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He...
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Escape from Hell
as HeirokuThis suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a...
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My Second Brother
as Goro MitamuraThe film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of...
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Skyscraper Murder Case
as uncreditedDeath stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to...
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Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life
as uncreditedSoft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro
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Black Lizard
as Detective MatobaA detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to...
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Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
as uncreditedA laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
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Fountainhead
as KasuyaA botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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Everything Goes Wrong
as NishimuraEverything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man....
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The Men Who Made Ultraman
as Eiji TsuburayaA biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic...
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The Great Duel
as uncreditedIn this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his...
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The Seasons of Love
as ReporterA family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman...
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Zero Focus
as Sotaro UharaOne week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business...
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Break Down that Wall
as uncreditedA man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Rise Against the Sword
as EtanbaFarmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight...
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The Invisible Wall
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Quick-draw Okatsu
as MakabeThis film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a...
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Crimson Wings
as Tetsuji MizutaniAt about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown...
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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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The Scarlet Camellia
as SakichiA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because...
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Stolen Desire
as Kanji TakadaA rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of...
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Woman of Design
as uncreditedStory of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a...
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Free and Easy 4
as uncreditedHama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's...
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Snow in the South Seas
as uncreditedJapanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their...
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Blind Devotion
as DenrokuLate romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
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The Maid Story
as uncreditedNine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like...
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A Billionaire
as uncreditedAn ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...
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Frankie the Milkman
as Tax CollectorRoppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out...
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Love and Faith
as Sojin KamiyaSen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal...
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A Killer's Key
as Yasujiro EndoRaizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to...
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The Glamorous Ghost
as Hiroshi AsamiBased on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black...
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The Angry Sea
as uncreditedA semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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The Singing Gunman
as uncreditedFourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend...
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Salaryman Senka
as uncreditedBased on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
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The Desperate
as uncreditedA noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its...
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A Hunter's Diary
as Kentaro HatanakaAdaptation of "The Lady Killer" by Masako Togawa.
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The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
as uncreditedJapanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.
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Lady with Seven Faces
as PrinterA lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she...
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One Who Died in Vain
as uncreditedAfter returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
as uncreditedOriginal work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
as HikobeiIn a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who...
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Express Train
as uncreditedAtsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor...
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An Impudent Man
as uncreditedNaomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange...
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The Old Bear Hunter
as Heizo SekiguchiAfter an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt...
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Wait for Tomorrow
as UnoKohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given...
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
as uncreditedStory of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
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Kukai
as uncreditedThe life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: The Bad Sleep Well
as Self (voice)Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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Wolves of the Night
as uncreditedA unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love...
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Hidden Fangs
as uncreditedSet in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.
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The Wild Reporter
as Ryu KoneiSeven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a...
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Who's The Real Killer
as NakagawaHarsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
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Four Sisters
as Michiharu MitsumineA story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms...
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Life of Hishakaku 3
as uncreditedThird part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
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The Temptress and the Monk
as PeasantNominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
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One Two Punch
as uncreditedTwo men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles.
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Fangs of Night
as uncreditedA young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some...
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Saigo no totsugeki
as uncreditedA narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The...
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A Man in Red
as uncreditedTakashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a...
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Rub Out the Past
as Tanzo KoideA lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as TominagaFormer boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow...
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Summer Days Across the River
as uncreditedSet in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with...
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The Spying Sorceress
as uncreditedSecond part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous...
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Free and Easy Special
as uncreditedApproached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking...
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Sixteen years old
as uncreditedSenko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the...
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Without Complaint
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
as uncreditedA re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.
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The Detective
as Senkichi OtsuboDetective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the...
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Aces Wild
as uncreditedKeisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an...
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Tokyo Bay
as Noboru SumikawaAn investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets...
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Second Generation Young Boss
as Yanosuke HashimotoTakeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza...
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The Claws of the Divine Beast
as uncreditedBased on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in...
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The Fugitive
as uncreditedAn action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of...
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New Year Trip
as uncreditedA comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her...
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
as uncreditedA timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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Life of a Flower
as Tada IchiroThe story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.
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Niji wo Oru
as 沢木忠一郎The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka...
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Kemono Michi
as uncreditedThe drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world...
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The Bodyguard
as uncreditedSonny Chiba stars as a member of a private bodyguard company.
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