Nobuo Kaneko
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.
Godzilla 1985
as Home Affairs Minister IsomuraOriginally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily...
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The Return of Godzilla
as Home Affairs Minister IsomuraAfter a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than...
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Ikiru
as Mitsuo, son of KanjiKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as Kirihara GôchôAfter the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Yoshio YamamoriRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
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Yakuza Graveyard
as AkamaA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Yoshio YamamoriIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Youth of the Beast
as Sôichi OzawaWhen a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Yoshio YamamoriAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Yoshio YamamoriShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Shogun's Samurai
as uncreditedFollowing the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by...
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Floating Clouds
as uncreditedA married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as DenbeiSaheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...
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The Shogun Assassins
as Hayashi RazanThis is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as Chief of PoliceThe Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....
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The Fall of Ako Castle
as KiraThis 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 uncreditedThe famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Yoshio YamamoriWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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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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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
as WardenConvicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...
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as UnosukeBlind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
as Shigeru Satô - The President of The SchoolThree new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school...
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Devil's Flute
as uncreditedFamous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An...
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Cops vs. Thugs
as Masaichi TomoyasuWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell
as TokuyasuThe survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
as Boss Ohya, the nightclub ownerReiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Yoshiyuki KawashimaBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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Sound of the Mountain
as uncreditedAn ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely...
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Big Time Gambling Boss
as Tsasburō SannamiTokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers...
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Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
as uncreditedReleased from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as uncreditedBunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...
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A Yakuza Goes Home
as uncreditedShimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds...
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Crimson pistol belt
as uncreditedWearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe...
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The Magic Serpent
as Dôjin HikiIn ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and...
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Samurai Geisha
as OsugaPopular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...
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Tokyo Knights
as MishimaA college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
as uncreditedFierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction...
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The Inferno
as Emma DaioHell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
as HadanoGirl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more...
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The Imperial Navy
as Chuichi NagumoA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of...
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The Fatal Raid
as uncreditedKazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public...
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New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
as uncreditedOnce again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after...
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Red Peony Gambler
as uncreditedRyuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother...
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
as Visitor of the Shoe PolishingThe Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang...
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Voice Without a Shadow
as KawaiAsako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
as Inspector KumagayaTajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
as uncreditedDelinquent girl boss meets and conflicts with an orphan girl who lives an isolated life after...
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Enlisted Yakuza
as uncreditedIt is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as HiranoAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
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The Third Shadow Warrior
as uncreditedIn the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
as Yoshio YamamoriThe 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
as uncredited"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the...
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The Black Cat
as uncreditedHelping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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Never Give Up
as Head of Mizoguchi CitySpecial forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
as uncreditedRika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds...
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Red Handkerchief
as uncreditedA hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the...
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Love Eternal
as AokiA deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an...
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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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Japan's Don
as Shoji TaguchiA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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The Experience
as uncreditedTwo boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
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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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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Hideyoshi HirayamaThe 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 Kingpin of Fair Ladies
as uncreditedA man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle...
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The Pledge
as uncreditedWhen Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict...
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Man Who Causes a Storm
as Toru Sakyo, the criticShoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is...
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Black Thief
as uncreditedOrganized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Kokichi AsakuraTwo Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful...
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The Biggest Gamble
as uncreditedWhen Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do...
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300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
as uncreditedIn this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of...
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Rub Out the Past
as uncreditedA lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
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Portrait of Chieko
as uncreditedTakamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an...
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Down with The Big Boss
as uncreditedIn pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the...
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The Rambler Rides Again
as uncreditedIn this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to...
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Living Skeleton
as SuetsuguA ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and...
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Check
as TennojiSet in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes...
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Turtle Geisha
as uncreditedNatsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In...
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Curse of the Blood
as SojunA samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions...
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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
as Senzo OgataA truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers...
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Eight Hours of Terror
as Kosaku MoriA bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
as uncreditedUsing a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try...
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Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
as uncreditedThe film focuses on the romantic life of Tetsu (Watari), the drifter, and the girls he loves but...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
as Kakutarô ShinoharaWe find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her...
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Itsuko to sono haha
as Tokuji FunabashiAn elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
as uncreditedIn this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to...
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The Flower and the Sword
as uncreditedA dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji...
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The Rambling Guitarist
as AkitsuArriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the...
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower
as KashimaEbihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women...
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New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
as uncredited
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
as uncreditedThe 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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Shimane Prison Riot
as Torao YoshinariJapan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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Hungry Soul, Part II
as Reiji AjiokaA continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to...
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
as uncreditedThe Domain: Where The Blade Enters
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Black Weapon
as uncreditedIndustrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.
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Quick Draw Joe
as MishimaOne day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace,...
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Till We Meet Again
as Akira MimuraSonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is...
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The Hard Core Criminal
as uncreditedIn the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in...
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Intimidation
as Kyosuke TakitaKoreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a...
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Night Drum
as uncreditedFollowing a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...
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Karate Cop 2
as uncreditedKarate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple...
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The Murder Corps
as uncreditedA violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri
as uncreditedFormer soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the...
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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
as uncreditedBunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan...
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
as uncreditedYakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There...
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Human Torpedoes
as uncreditedStory of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end...
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A Hole of My Own Making
as uncreditedNobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The...
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Postwar Secrets
as uncreditedEverybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel...
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Yakuza Vassal
as uncreditedA young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.
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Vacuum Zone
as uncreditedJust before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served...
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Dissolution Rites
as ItagakiSawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in...
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The Bad Guy Blues
as uncreditedA story about club hostesses in Osaka.
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Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
as uncreditedStrife between competing lumber mills.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
as Shurinosuke AsahinaThe Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
as KumagaiA sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
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Truck Rascals IV: Fully Licensed
as uncreditedThe fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers,...
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Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
as KatsumataA marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.
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The Garden of Women
as Kihei HiratoA student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...
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Downtown Blues
as uncreditedThe desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
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Hot Springs Geisha
as ShinagawaA look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most...
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That Wonderful Guy
as uncreditedYōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.
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Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
as KansukeEight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan...
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The Yakuza Awaits
as uncreditedForth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Hungry Soul
as Reiji AjiokaReiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi,...
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Duel at Fort Ezo
as uncredited1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots...
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Kokkai e ikô!
as uncreditedA close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
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Red Bud and White Flower
as uncreditedA high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
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Surgical Designs in Flames
as uncreditedA story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a...
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The Great Shogunate Battle
as uncreditedThe early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale...
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Friendship of Jazz
as uncreditedKenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time...
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Dynamite Don-Don
as Denjiro HasimotoYakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly...
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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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Chivalrous Life
as uncreditedIn the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the...
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Okinawa no Tami
as uncreditedWith the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each...
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A Man Explodes
as uncreditedKensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains....
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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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Hi no tori
as uncreditedEmi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the...
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
as Kozo HaraguchiA boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These...
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Rogue
as SuyamaCoal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind....
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
as uncreditedSet in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to...
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Wind and waves of the South
as KiheiLittle dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the...
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Joe of Aces: Give and Take
as uncreditedAgainst the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who...
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Summer Storm
as KidoA woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
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Return of the Vagabond
as uncreditedThe 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler,...
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The Age of Our Own
as uncreditedMinami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner...
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Red-Light Bases
as Sugio KawanabeStory about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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The Lost Diamond
as uncreditedTwo men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter...
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Thugs of Shinjuku
as uncreditedFresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not...
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The Glamorous Ghost
as Kenji YamakoshiBased on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black...
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正義だ！味方だ！全員集合！！
as uncreditedChotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near...
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The Plateau Man
as uncreditedJapanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
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The Revenge and the Death
as KawazuA gritty, noirish gangster saga.
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Troubleman Laughs and Kills
as ActorKensho Yamashita's directorial debut.
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The Law's Bloody Wounds
as uncreditedAn action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who...
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Flowering Maidens
as MatsuiThe young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the...
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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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The Wild Reporter
as FunakoshiSeven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a...
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The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
as uncreditedOn summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
as uncreditedIn the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back...
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Shōgun
as IshidoAn English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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Kusa Moeru
as Taira no KiyomoriThe story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.
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Shadow Warriors
as Sakai TadakiyoShadow Warriors is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four...
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Unified Shadows
as uncreditedDuring the Tenpo period, the three samurai under the command of the Nanba magistrate were...
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