Nobuo Kaneko

Born: 1923-03-27

Nobuo Kaneko (金子信雄 Kaneko Nobuo, 27 March 1923 – 20 January 1995) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. He was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses.


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Ikiru

as Mitsuo, son of Kanji
Released: 1952-10-09

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...

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The Return of Godzilla

as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Released: 1984-12-15

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than...

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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

as Kirihara Gôchô
Released: 1961-01-28

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....

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Godzilla 1985

as Home Affairs Minister Isomura
Released: 1985-08-23

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

as Yoshio Yamamori
Released: 1974-06-29

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

as Yoshio Yamamori
Released: 1973-01-13

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

as Yoshio Yamamori
Released: 1973-04-28

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...

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Shogun's Samurai

as uncredited
Released: 1978-01-21

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

as Yoshio Yamamori
Released: 1974-01-15

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...

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The Imperial Navy

as Chuichi Nagumo
Released: 1981-08-08

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of...

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The Fall of Ako Castle

as Kira
Released: 1978-10-28

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...

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Vendetta of a Samurai

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-03

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism...

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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

as Denbei
Released: 1957-07-14

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...

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Japanese Godfather: Ambition

as Hirano
Released: 1977-10-29

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

as Yoshio Yamamori
Released: 1973-09-25

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...

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Japan's Don

as Shoji Taguchi
Released: 1977-01-22

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...

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Floating Clouds

as uncredited
Released: 1955-01-15

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young...

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Yakuza Graveyard

as Akama
Released: 1976-10-30

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...

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Turtle Geisha

as uncredited
Released: 1972-07-03

Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In...

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Father of the Kamikaze

as uncredited
Released: 1974-09-14

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to...

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Devil's Flute

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-20

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An...

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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

as Unosuke
Released: 1964-11-17

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When...

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The Shogun Assassins

as Hayashi Razan
Released: 1979-09-01

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

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Human Torpedoes

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-03

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end...

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Sound of the Mountain

as uncredited
Released: 1954-01-15

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely...

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Return of the Vagabond

as uncredited
Released: 1960-04-23

The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler,...

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New Prison Walls of Abashiri

as uncredited
Released: 1968-12-28

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the...

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Rogue

as Suyama
Released: 1968-10-12

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind....

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Cops vs. Thugs

as Masaichi Tomoyasu
Released: 1975-04-26

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...

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The Great Duel

as uncredited
Released: 1964-09-05

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his...

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Never Give Up

as Head of Mizoguchi City
Released: 1978-10-07

Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted...

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Night Drum

as uncredited
Released: 1958-04-15

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...

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Eight Hours of Terror

as Kosaku Mori
Released: 1957-03-08

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

as Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
Released: 1973-03-31

Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school...

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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

as uncredited
Released: 1960-09-03

Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to...

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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban

as Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
Released: 1973-01-13

The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang...

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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation

as uncredited
Released: 1968-08-27

Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There...

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Youth of the Beast

as Sôichi Ozawa
Released: 1963-04-21

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with...

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Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Yoshiyuki Kawashima
Released: 1989-06-17

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...

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Down with The Big Boss

as uncredited
Released: 1979-03-24

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the...

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The Inferno

as Emma Daio
Released: 1979-06-03

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a...

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Gambler's World

as Ushimatsu Fujii
Released: 1967-07-30

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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

as Inspector Kumagaya
Released: 1963-01-27

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring...

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The Harbor of No Return

as uncredited
Released: 1966-08-13

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that...

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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

as Chief of Police
Released: 1972-03-04

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....

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Dissolution Rites

as Itagaki
Released: 1967-03-31

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in...

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The Murder Corps

as uncredited
Released: 1975-05-24

A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

as Yoshio Yamamori
Released: 1980-04-05

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...

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Enlisted Yakuza

as uncredited
Released: 1968-09-18

It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of...

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New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion

as uncredited
Released: 1976-11-17

Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after...

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The Pledge

as uncredited
Released: 1972-07-30

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict...

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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

as Hideyoshi Hirayama
Released: 1978-09-09

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...

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Karate Cop 2

as uncredited
Released: 1983-07-02

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple...

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The Garden of Women

as Kihei Hirato
Released: 1954-03-16

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...

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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps

as Shurinosuke Asahina
Released: 1967-07-15

The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri...

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Big Time Gambling Boss

as Tsasburō Sannami
Released: 1968-01-14

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers...

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

as uncredited
Released: 1974-12-28

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...

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Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom

as uncredited
Released: 1972-09-29

Delinquent girl boss meets and conflicts with an orphan girl who lives an isolated life after...

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Dynamite Don-Don

as Denjiro Hasimoto
Released: 1978-10-07

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly...

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Red Peony Gambler

as uncredited
Released: 1968-09-14

Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother...

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Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

as Tokuyasu
Released: 1968-08-14

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that...

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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams

as uncredited
Released: 1970-09-22

Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds...

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Postwar Secrets

as uncredited
Released: 1970-06-04

Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel...

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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

as Kumagai
Released: 1963-07-07

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity

as Kokichi Asakura
Released: 1979-05-26

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful...

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Living Skeleton

as Suetsugu
Released: 1968-11-09

A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and...

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At the End of the Clouds

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-09

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

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Dianas of the Campus

as uncredited
Released: 1966-06-22

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Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage

as Kakutarô Shinohara
Released: 1973-12-01

We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her...

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Faraway Tomorrow

as uncredited
Released: 1979-11-03

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The Rambling Guitarist

as Akitsu
Released: 1959-10-11

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the...

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Gesshoku

as uncredited
Released: 1956-12-19

A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro...

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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

as Sayama
Released: 1955-10-05

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Summer Storm

as Kido
Released: 1956-10-01

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

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The Third Shadow Warrior

as uncredited
Released: 1963-04-21

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a...

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300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins

as uncredited
Released: 1975-11-22

In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of...

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The Great Shogunate Battle

as uncredited
Released: 1991-12-14

The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale...

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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School

as Hadano
Released: 1973-05-24

Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more...

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Love Eternal

as Aoki
Released: 1966-07-09

A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an...

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Vacuum Zone

as uncredited
Released: 1952-12-10

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served...

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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

as uncredited
Released: 1970-09-09

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle...

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正義だ!味方だ!全員集合!!

as uncredited
Released: 1975-12-27

Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near...

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A Yakuza Goes Home

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-20

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds...

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Quick Draw Joe

as Mishima
Released: 1961-04-01

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace,...

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Dangerous Trade in Kobe

as uncredited
Released: 1973-06-07

Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try...

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The Bad Guy Blues

as uncredited
Released: 1969-08-27

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

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Chivalrous Life

as uncredited
Released: 1965-03-07

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the...

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Yakuza Vassal

as uncredited
Released: 1966-03-10

A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.

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The Flower and the Sword

as uncredited
Released: 1964-11-11

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji...

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Hot Springs Geisha

as Shinagawa
Released: 1968-06-28

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most...

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Voice Without a Shadow

as Kawai
Released: 1958-10-22

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued...

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Red-Light Bases

as Sugio Kawanabe
Released: 1953-12-08

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

as Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
Released: 1971-04-28

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She...

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Song of a Traveller

as uncredited
Released: 1962-05-20

A crime film released in 1962

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Seven Gamblers

as uncredited
Released: 1966-07-09

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group...

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Warm Current

as uncredited
Released: 1966-04-29

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Man Who Causes a Storm

as Toru Sakyo, the critic
Released: 1957-12-28

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is...

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Hungry Soul, Part II

as Reiji Ajioka
Released: 1956-11-28

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to...

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Itsuko to sono haha

as Tokuji Funabashi
Released: 1954-02-17

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

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Intimidation

as Kyosuke Takita
Released: 1960-03-23

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a...

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The Rambler under the Southern Cross

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-03

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back...

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Joe of Aces: Give and Take

as uncredited
Released: 1961-06-11

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who...

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Red Handkerchief

as uncredited
Released: 1964-01-03

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the...

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The Plateau Man

as uncredited
Released: 1961-08-13

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

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The Wild Reporter

as Funakoshi
Released: 1959-09-27

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a...

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Check

as Tennoji
Released: 1991-11-25

Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes...

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Surgical Designs in Flames

as uncredited
Released: 1986-05-24

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a...

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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle

as Senzo Ogata
Released: 1973-09-15

A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers...

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Farewell to Southern Tosa

as uncredited
Released: 1959-08-02

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

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The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor

as uncredited
Released: 1971-09-07

The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor (関東兄弟仁義 仁侠) is a 1971 film directed by Buichi Saitō. It is the...

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Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

as uncredited
Released: 1962-02-25

1962 Japanese movie

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Thugs of Shinjuku

as uncredited
Released: 1970-12-18

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not...

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The Barefoot Girl

as uncredited
Released: 1957-09-08

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a...

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The Rambler Rides Again

as uncredited
Released: 1960-10-12

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to...

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Tokyo Knights

as Mishima
Released: 1961-02-01

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

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Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game

as uncredited
Released: 1974-10-18

Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another...

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Till We Meet Again

as Akira Mimura
Released: 1955-05-29

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is...

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Killer of Seven

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-26

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Main Street in the Underworld

as uncredited
Released: 1964-04-25

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Shimane Prison Riot

as Torao Yoshinari
Released: 1975-06-07

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...

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A Hole of My Own Making

as uncredited
Released: 1955-09-28

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The...

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Kokkai e ikô!

as uncredited
Released: 1993-05-01

A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.

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Portrait of Chieko

as uncredited
Released: 1967-06-22

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an...

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The Fatal Raid

as uncredited
Released: 1969-08-23

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public...

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Duel at Fort Ezo

as uncredited
Released: 1970-02-09

1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots...

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The Rainbow-Colored Flower

as Kashima
Released: 1950-10-14

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women...

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Color

as uncredited
Released: 1965-06-13

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Forever, My Love

as Tachio Kinumaki
Released: 1958-02-05

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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

as uncredited
Released: 1958-04-29

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the...

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Violence

as uncredited
Released: 1952-08-25

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Organized Violence II

as Head of Department
Released: 1967-06-29

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The Biggest Gamble

as uncredited
Released: 1969-09-14

When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do...

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Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa

as uncredited
Released: 1962-10-21

1962 Japanese movie

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The Yakuza Awaits

as uncredited
Released: 1969-01-09

Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama

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Namari o buchikome

as uncredited
Released: 1962-12-16

1962 Japanese movie

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Red Bud and White Flower

as uncredited
Released: 1962-06-10

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

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A Drop of Grease

as uncredited
Released: 1966-09-03

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The Hard Core Criminal

as uncredited
Released: 1973-05-12

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in...

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Prison Release Loyalty Offering

as uncredited
Released: 1966-12-24

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The Viper Brothers and the Young General

as uncredited
Released: 1975-03-01

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori +...

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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4

as uncredited
Released: 1967-07-08

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction...

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Samurai Geisha

as Osuga
Released: 1969-07-31

Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...

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Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

as uncredited
Released: 1976-12-25

The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers,...

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The Last Loyalty Offering

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-02

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This Day's Life

as uncredited
Released: 1957-06-26

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Black Thief

as uncredited
Released: 1964-12-24

Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.

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Wind and waves of the South

as Kihei
Released: 1961-11-19

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the...

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Crimson pistol belt

as uncredited
Released: 1961-11-12

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe...

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Policeman's Diary, Part 2

as uncredited
Released: 1955-11-16

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

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A Man Explodes

as uncredited
Released: 1959-04-28

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains....

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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab

as Kozo Haraguchi
Released: 1961-12-01

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These...

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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler

as uncredited
Released: 1971-07-31

Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan...

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The Experience

as uncredited
Released: 1970-10-06

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.

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Phoenix

as uncredited
Released: 1956-06-14

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the...

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Curse of the Blood

as Sojun
Released: 1968-05-30

A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions...

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Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu

as uncredited
Released: 1961-09-23

Strife between competing lumber mills.

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Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office

as Kansuke
Released: 1964-08-26

Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan...

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Jūdan no arashi

as uncredited
Released: 1962-09-02

1962 Japanese movie

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The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass

as uncredited
Released: 1961-08-27

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel...

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Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

as Honda Shinpachi
Released: 1964-04-18

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

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Hungry Soul

as Reiji Ajioka
Released: 1956-10-31

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi,...

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The Glamorous Ghost

as Kenji Yamakoshi
Released: 1964-10-03

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black...

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The Lost Diamond

as uncredited
Released: 1960-06-18

Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter...

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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut

as uncredited
Released: 1964-03-12

In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to...

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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon

as uncredited
Released: 1958-08-12

This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture...

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The Praying Man

as Shinichiro Kuraki
Released: 1959-02-11

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The Black Cat

as uncredited
Released: 1965-02-13

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

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Bōkyō no umi

as uncredited
Released: 1962-10-21

1962 Japanese movie

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Friendship of Jazz

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-03

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time...

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The Rapacious Jailbreaker

as Warden
Released: 1974-12-07

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...

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The Rapacious Jailbreaker

as uncredited
Released: 1974-12-07

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...

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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

as uncredited
Released: 1967-09-15

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

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The Law's Bloody Wounds

as uncredited
Released: 1960-01-09

An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who...

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Rub Out the Past

as uncredited
Released: 1966-08-26

A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.

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Black Weapon

as uncredited
Released: 1964-06-20

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.

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Wolves of the Night

as uncredited
Released: 1958-10-08

A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love...

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The Magic Serpent

as Dôjin Hiki
Released: 1966-03-05

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and...

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Story of Japanese Bad Men

as uncredited
Released: 1971-08-26

Toei yakuza film.

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The Revenge and the Death

as Kawazu
Released: 1963-08-07

A gritty, noirish gangster saga.

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Student Double Suicide

as uncredited
Released: 1954-07-27

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The Poem of the Blue Star

as uncredited
Released: 1960-01-31

Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to...

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The Echo of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1959-05-31

A pure love melodrama movie.

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Ryûri no kishi

as uncredited
Released: 1956-06-21

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Okinawa no Tami

as uncredited
Released: 1956-11-21

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each...

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King of the Night Life

as uncredited
Released: 1970-07-07

1970 Toei movie.

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Woman Boss

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-15

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Shōwa Gokudōshi

as uncredited
Released: 1972-06-15

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Whistling in the Darkness

as uncredited
Released: 1961-05-28

A 1961 crime film.

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Ai to shi no katami

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-21

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Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living

as Katsumata
Released: 1961-05-13

A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.

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Gyakukōsen

as uncredited
Released: 1956-08-14

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Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1966-11-09

The film focuses on the romantic life of Tetsu (Watari), the drifter, and the girls he loves but...

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That Wonderful Guy

as uncredited
Released: 1958-07-06

Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.

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Flowering Maidens

as Matsui
Released: 1965-01-24

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the...

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Moeru minamijūjisei

as uncredited
Released: 1962-07-29

1962 Japanese movie

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Troubleman Laughs and Kills

as Actor
Released: 1979-08-04

Kensho Yamashita's directorial debut.

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The Age of Our Own

as uncredited
Released: 1959-11-25

Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner...

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Downtown Blues

as uncredited
Released: 1968-08-01

The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.

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Merciless Bullet

as Sawamura
Released: 1959-06-30

Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the...

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Semi-Document: Eros No Joô

as Narrator
Released: 1973-02-03

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Kusa Moeru

as Taira no Kiyomori
First aired: 1979-01-07

The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.

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Shōgun

as Ishido
First aired: 1980-09-15

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

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Shadow Warriors

as Sakai Tadakiyo
First aired: 1980-04-01

Shadow Warriors is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four...

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Unified Shadows

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-04-05

During the Tenpo period, the three samurai under the command of the Nanba magistrate were...

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Father and Son Hawk

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-01-11

The life of Katsu Kaishū and his father.

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