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Sansho the Bailiff
as KimpeiIn medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was...
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Gate of Hell
as TomoyukiJapan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a...
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Ugetsu
as VassalIn 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of...
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Typhoon Club
as OkabeOffering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of...
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The Crucified Lovers
as Katada Government OfficialWhen the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with...
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
as KaizutoshiAfter being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom...
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An Actor's Revenge
as Kawaguchi-yaIn Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
as Official EnvoyIn this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we...
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The Bullet Train
as Businessman's ManA Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train...
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
as MirosukeReturning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent,...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
as Swift-style SwordsmanIn the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by...
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A Geisha
as ImanishiEiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive...
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New Tale of Zatoichi
as AnzoWishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends...
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Odd Obsession
as Police DetectiveA middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he...
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A Certain Killer
as uncreditedA former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the...
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
as uncreditedIchi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he...
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The Funeral Racket
as uncreditedThe film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
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Ballad of Orin
as uncreditedA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
as HanjiZatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no...
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
as uncreditedBlind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When...
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
as First RoninA greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people...
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The Betrayal
as uncreditedA naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai...
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Daimajin
as Ippei CyjûmaA giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the...
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Graveyard of Honor
as uncreditedA self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his...
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Wolf Guy
as TsukadaAkira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his...
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Taira Clan Saga
as uncreditedSpecial Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the...
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Conflagration
as Police detective ALearning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the...
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The Bodyguard
as uncreditedKarate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
as Heikichi HisamaSatoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan...
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
as Keisuke YamanamiAs winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its...
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
as uncreditedWarlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of...
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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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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
as uncreditedZatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and...
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Luminous Woman
as uncreditedA hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where...
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Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
as uncreditedIn feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the...
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Flowers of Chivalry
as uncreditedKayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
as AnzaiSixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a...
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Secret of Naruto
as uncreditedFrom the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima...
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Buddha
as AshvajitAn Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six...
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Zatoichi's Revenge
as uncreditedItinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher,...
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
as uncreditedWhen a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a...
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Island of Horrors
as uncreditedTwo women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where...
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Satan's Sword
as Hirama JusukeThe Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
as uncreditedA fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have...
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Yokosuka Navy Prison
as uncreditedWhen a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he...
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Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
as Jinnai[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out...
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The Woman in the Rumor
as NakauchiYukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
as uncredited[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni...
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
as uncreditedDuring the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out...
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Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
as uncreditedA young girl gets adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and is later freed by a young...
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
as Takeno GrandfatherA story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is...
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The Angry Sword
as uncreditedStory about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.
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Samaritan Zatoichi
as YakuzaZatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his...
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
as KagimatsuZatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles...
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Sword Devil
as Toda ShingoHanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick...
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Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
as Hatori Hanzo[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax....
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A Lustful Man
as uncreditedFascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of...
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The Blind Menace
as uncreditedThis is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
as ChoshichiBased on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker...
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Night Butterflies
as uncreditedA traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Bonchi
as uncreditedKikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal....
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Advance Patrol
as uncreditedIn 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive...
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Shogun's Holiday
as uncreditedDuring the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo...
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Destiny's Son
as uncreditedIn Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
as uncreditedThe Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri...
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Gambling Code and Feuds
as uncreditedIt is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action...
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Lone Wolf Isazo
as uncreditedIsazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his...
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Samurai Vendetta
as uncreditedTwo amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and...
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An Heir's Place
as uncreditedThis film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of...
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
as uncreditedIn one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of...
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Oniisan to oneesan
as uncreditedA 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
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Gokudô Petenshi
as uncreditedA group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence,...
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An Osaka Story
as Shokichi, samurai's servantA poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi...
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Lefty Fencer
as uncreditedAs a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was...
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The Bride from Hades
as uncreditedOn the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
as uncredited[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
as Flying Squirrel BanzoA decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and...
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The Invisible Man Appears
as Keizô SasataniJewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and...
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Assassins for sale
as uncreditedNagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the...
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Children Hand in Hand
as uncreditedA small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
as uncreditedNezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in...
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The Fencing Master
as uncreditedThe Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is...
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Travels of Lord Mito
as Jûbei NegoroLord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a...
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Young Boss
as MonjiroAfter a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over...
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Sleepy Eyes Of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
as uncreditedGetting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself...
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
as uncredited[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja...
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Assignment Cloud
as uncreditedA sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the...
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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
as Rokubei of HakodaMonjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their...
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Secret Assignment
as uncreditedIn the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time...
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Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
as uncreditedThe story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
as uncreditedNemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both...
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Bloody Shuriken
as uncreditedRonin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in...
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Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
as uncreditedDaiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito...
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Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
as uncreditedAfter serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza...
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Young Boss: Prison Release
as uncreditedThe further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
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This Way, That Way
as uncreditedAn intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who...
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Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
as uncredited[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the...
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Naked Ambition
as uncreditedWicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by...
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The Thieves' Who's Who
as uncreditedIn the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.
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Ghost Train
as uncreditedSixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war,...
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The Virgin Witness
as PolicemanA father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere...
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The Trail of Blood
as uncreditedCan a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of...
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Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
as Genba KanaiIshimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
as Mon'nosuke KaizukaFifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman...
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Mission: Iron Castle
as uncreditedThe Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as Ryôan ShimomuraThe disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic,...
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Her Hidden Past
as MantaAdaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the...
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Koga's Messenger
as uncreditedThe mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of...
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Devil's Temple
as uncreditedAn abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a...
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Night River
as uncreditedIn Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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Quick-Draw Dog
as uncreditedQuick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the...
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
as uncreditedIt’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
as uncreditedThe titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with...
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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
as Kobotoke KodairaThe shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they...
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Blood End
as uncreditedSentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a...
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A Killer's Key
as uncreditedRaizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to...
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The Saga of Tanegashima
as Tokunoshin WakitaWell before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese...
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The Blossom and the Sword
as uncreditedTai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who...
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New Tengu from Mount Kurama
as uncreditedThe film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between...
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Song of the Devil
as uncreditedBakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take...
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Maiko and the Assassin
as uncredited19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman...
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Rampaging Dog
as uncreditedAbare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
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女と海賊
as 転法利平In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea,...
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The tragedy of a young warrior
as uncreditedShortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori...
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
as uncreditedA Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower
as uncreditedThe swordsman again crosses paths with the murderous Devil Mask Gang -- who as the name...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
as uncreditedStory of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi...
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
as uncreditedThe woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
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Sworn Brothers
as uncreditedIchikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders....
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
as uncreditedInspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace...
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Lowly Ronin
as uncreditedReprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune...
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Vagabonds from Badgerville
as uncreditedA musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
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The Bored Samurai
as Ikeda KazueSaotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in...
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Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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Gambler and the Princess
as uncreditedFilm directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Seven Miles to Nakayama
as uncreditedWhen a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the...
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The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
as uncreditedThe hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a...
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The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
as uncreditedThe second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu....
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Thirty-three footprints
as uncreditedFourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
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Life of Matsu the Untamed
as uncreditedA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...
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The Man Who Laughs Last
as uncreditedThe East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two...
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Girl with Bamboo Leaves
as uncreditedYasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
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Scars of Honor
as uncreditedJapan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute...
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Masseur’s Curse
as Fukami ShinzaemonOne murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a...
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Daikichi Konomura
as MizunoA samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and,...
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The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
as uncreditedWhen a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her...
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The Devil's toast
as uncreditedRetired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a...
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Marathon Samurai
as uncreditedThe TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori...
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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Kogarashi Monjiro
as SenzoMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
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