Takeshi Katō
Takeshi Katō (加藤 武 Katō Takeshi, 24 May 1929 – 31 July 2015) was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films.
Seven Samurai
as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Yojimbo
as Ronin KobuhachiA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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Ran
as Koyota HatakeyamaWith Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular...
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High and Low
as Detective NakaoIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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The Hidden Fortress
as Samurai (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
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Throne of Blood
as Guard killed by WashizuReturning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who...
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Godzilla 1985
as Internal Trade and Industry Minister KasaokaOriginally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily...
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The Bad Sleep Well
as ItakuraIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Noburo UchimotoIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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The Inugami Family
as Police Chief TachibanaWhen a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune SakomizuFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
as Self - ActorAn account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most...
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Japan Sinks
as uncreditedIn the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As...
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None But the Brave
as Sgt. TamuraAmerican and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make...
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Sword of the Beast
as KatoriLegendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Noburo UchimotoShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Island of Hell
as Inspector TodorokiA scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
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Pigs and Battleships
as OhachiIn the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Noburo UchimotoAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Iwama KakubeiIn Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Narrator (uncredited)Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...
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Fighting Elegy
as uncreditedKiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Kohei KashiBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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The Geisha House
as KitayamaSet in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as uncreditedAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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Zatoichi's Revenge
as Koheita KadokuraItinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher,...
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
as Todoroki ShochôInugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with...
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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 Sands of Kurobe
as KunikidaKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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Queen Bee
as Detective TodorokiTo solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji...
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XX: Beautiful Weapon
as Yasuhiro KokubuA blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her...
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Night Scandal in Japan
as uncreditedMayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
as Chief of Staff Officer KatoJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the...
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Lullaby to Kill
as Inspector TachibanaKôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police...
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The Gambling Monk
as uncreditedOne summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing...
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
as uncreditedThis film stays very faithful to the original down to the smallest details, save for the...
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Zero
as UgakiTwo young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test...
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Free and Easy 8
as uncreditedWhen Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in...
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The Gate of Youth
as uncreditedMainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...
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Koto: The Ancient City
as uncreditedChieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store....
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as UenoyamaConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Dora-heita
as Toneri UchijimaA new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in...
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Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
as Zombie Cat (Voice)Tamala is a cat living on Planet Cat Earth in the Feline Galaxy. In attempt to leave the Feline...
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The Thick-Walled Room
as uncreditedA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
as Managing Director AkiyamaMr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to...
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For Kayako
as Kyusu ImA film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between...
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Only on Mondays
as Yuka's sugar-daddyYuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign...
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Summer Soldiers
as DriverDuring the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the...
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Free and Easy 6
as uncreditedHama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on...
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The Great White Tower
as uncreditedThe story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
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Crybaby Chacha
as uncreditedChiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is...
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Moment of Terror
as uncreditedWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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Odin: Starlight Mutiny
as Takeshi SuzukaOdin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark...
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Wife
as uncreditedTen years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success,...
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The Fir Trees Remain
as uncreditedThe 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for...
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House of Terrors
as Keisuke MunakataA hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous...
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
as uncreditedJapanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the...
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Free and Easy 4
as AkiyamaHama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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The House of Hanging
as Inspector TodorokiThis time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence...
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Company Executives
as uncreditedA fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Foundry Town
as Mr. NodaSet in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families...
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Free and Easy 15
as uncreditedHama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company...
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Two Lives, Two Yakuza
as Makoto MisugiAn early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an...
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Free and Easy Special
as uncreditedApproached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking...
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Three Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
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The Pirates of Buban
as uncreditedBy going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He...
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The Phoenix
as KamamushiThis extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is...
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Mother
as ToshiroA divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life...
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Endless Desire
as Brutal yakuzaSet in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a...
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Aogeba Tôtoshi
as Koichi's fatherMortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive...
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Free and Easy 10
as uncreditedSu-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar...
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Free and Easy 5
as uncreditedHama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and...
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You'll Die Six Hours Later
as uncredited"You will die six hours later." Keishi, a youth who proclaims himself a seer, suddenly says this...
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Tracing Jake
as uncreditedInuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in...
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Children of Nagasaki
as uncreditedAugust 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as KingoIn Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san...
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The Girl I Abandoned
as uncreditedTsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's...
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The Tale of Genji
as uncreditedTV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
as uncreditedA great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there...
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The Politicians
as uncreditedWho will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and...
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Happiness of Us Alone
as uncreditedThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a...
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Free and Easy 17
as uncreditedYumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting...
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Noh Mask Murders
as Assistant Inspector SenbaThe patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
as uncreditedThe Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect...
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Yume-Chiyo
as uncreditedYumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do...
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Free and Easy 16
as AkiyamaHama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to...
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The First Catch
as uncreditedBased on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
as uncreditedA traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and...
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Fossilized Wilderness
as uncreditedDetective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation...
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Free and Easy 18
as uncreditedHama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up...
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Kill or get killed!
as uncreditedWhen Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
as uncreditedA timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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The Crimson Plains
as KoikeThe action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki...
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Lonely Heart
as uncreditedA police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying...
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The Lucky General
as uncreditedThe action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who...
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Across a Gold Prairie
as Takashi KanzakiMeet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty...
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The Spying Sorceress
as uncreditedSecond part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous...
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Room for Let
as uncreditedWhen Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Public prosecutor TamuraGisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a...
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Love and Faith
as uncreditedSen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal...
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Flame of Father and Son
as uncreditedYokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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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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Run Ichiro Run
as uncreditedVarious individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the...
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Location
as HaraThe melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
as SegawaDuring the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is...
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Dansen
as uncreditedBased on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
as uncreditedA boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These...
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The Navy
as uncreditedA tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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The Class of the Sewage Canal
as uncreditedThe struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak...
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New Treasure Island
as Long John Silver (voice)This was the first episode of Mushi Pro Land, a unique series of 60-minute animated programs. It...
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Volunteering for Villainy
as DekaTwo outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
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Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!
as uncreditedDuring the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the...
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Gambler in the Sea
as uncreditedJoe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and...
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Voice from the Dark
as Toyokichi KuzeA woman fears for the safety of her fiance after his three brothers mysteriously disappear.
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Kimi no na wa
as 永橋A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
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Natchan no shashinkan
as 父・西城賢輔The 25th NHK Asadora. Nishiki Natsuko is a woman who strives to become a photographer.
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Life of a Flower
as Kaneko MagojiroThe story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.
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Akō Rōshi
as Horibe Yasubee"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit...
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Choudenshi Bioman
as TakashiFive descendants of the people showered with Bio Particles by Bio Robots five centuries in the...
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Hana no Asuka gumi!
as ShinomiyaWhile the adults were devouring the country in peace the young girls are now plunging into the...
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Iki no Iiyatsu
as uncreditedSet in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a...
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Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
as uncreditedA human drama based on the "Date Riots".
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