Tsunehiko Watase
Tsunehiko Watase (July 28, 1944 – March 14, 2017) was a Japanese actor. He is best known for portraying Rintaro Kano in Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari ("Homicide Team 9"). He won Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Japan Academy Prize for The Incident and at the 3rd Hochi Film Award for The Incident, Kōtei no inai hachigatsu and The Fall of Ako Castle.
Carmen 1945
as uncreditedProstitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third...
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Crest of Betrayal
as Yasubei HoribeWeaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and...
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G.I. Samurai
as Hayato YanoA squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to...
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Virus
as Yasuo TatsunoScientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Kuramoto TakeshiShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Antarctica
as OchiTwo Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Toshio AritaIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
as Shuji TakagiKiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about...
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Heaven and Earth
as UsamiWarlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
as uncreditedA small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan...
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Japan's Don
as Takeshi NomizoA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
as uncreditedSakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
as Kobayashi HeihachiroThis is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
as Makoto SakumaA high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes...
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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
as AshizawaA Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as Kunimitsu SugawaThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
as Hiroshi KategaruChiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent...
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Andromedia
as Toshihiko Hitomi / Mai's Father / Ai's CreatorAfter his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the...
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Gate of Youth
as KanayamaThe story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal...
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The Silk Road
as Li YuanhaoIn 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of...
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Karate Killer
as uncreditedKiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
as Yôichi KikumuraGirl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more...
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The Tattooed Hitman
as Kenichi FurutaThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
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Jeans Blues: No Future
as Jiro KatagiriHijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile,...
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Lovers Lost
as Kozo WatanabeA poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as Noboru KitamiBunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...
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Let's Get Happy
as uncreditedA comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The...
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Amagi Pass
as Matsunojo Tajima, the copJapan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
as uncreditedThe 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...
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Sympathy for the Underdog
as Susumu SekiA yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to...
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
as Watarai KikuoAfter a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they...
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The Decisive Power of Aikido
as uncreditedIt is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop...
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The Karate Man and the Spy
as Tekken SakuragiIn the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
as Mari's friendReiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as TonyIn Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san...
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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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Heaven Sent
as Shinsaku MiuraSayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously...
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Three Pretty Devils
as uncreditedA trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get...
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
as uncreditedA series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke...
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
as AkiraA young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost...
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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 Last Kamikaze
as uncreditedWith World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step...
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Death Shadows
as uncreditedThree men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
as uncreditedThree new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school...
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Call from Darkness
as Kazuo HaradaKeiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo...
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Writhing Tongue
as Akira MiyoshiMasako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Ryoji IshiharaBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
as uncreditedSeijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after,...
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Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
as Kuroki TatsuyaKeiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.
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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu
as Hideo Yoake
Curtain Call
as Takuji ShinozakiMiho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko...
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
as GentaKogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his...
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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
as Lower HanzoThe tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were...
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Emperor of Upheaval
as uncreditedThe anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his...
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
as uncreditedTakashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way,...
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
as uncreditedWith a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the...
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1750 Days of Turbulence
as uncreditedAfter the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
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Beyond the Shining Sea
as Atsushi TaniiHeartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she...
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The Viper Brothers: Jail - Living for 4 1/2 Years
as uncreditedPart 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Tokyo Blackout
as Asakura TatsuyaBased on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped...
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
as Shin HayamiTest driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
as MaoUpon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
as RyûjiGang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
as TakejiAiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang...
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Gate of Youth 2
as Tadao IshiiMid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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The Incident
as Takeshi HanaiThe body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a...
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
as uncreditedThe rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That...
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Steel & Lead
as 探偵A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
as uncreditedAmidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...
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Violent Fraternity
as uncreditedSet in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's...
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August without Emperor
as Akimasa FujisakiTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...
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Sanpei the Fisher Boy
as Ippei MihiraSanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love...
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Time and Tide
as Yasu-sanAn antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.
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The Three Undelivered Letters
as MinegishiA young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to...
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The Horrible Obsessions
as Masayuki ShinshiroDetective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after...
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Antique DealerA high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
as uncreditedVisualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist...
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
as uncreditedGokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle...
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The Street of Desire
as Sadaichi YamakoshiA valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
as uncreditedPart 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Code of Wolves
as uncreditedIn gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his...
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Yakuza Wolf: Extend My Condolences
as Goro YukiAttacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
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The Wicked
as uncreditedA selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the...
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Woman Mobsters
as uncreditedBank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the...
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Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
as uncreditedToei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.
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Third Generation Boss
as uncreditedBased on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
as uncreditedIn Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke,...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
as uncreditedAfter helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting...
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One Bowl of Kakesoba
as Proprietor of HokkaiteiSet in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba...
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Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
as uncreditedSome of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and...
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Troops of Darkness
as uncreditedA disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years...
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Abandoned
as uncreditedThe film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship...
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The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
as uncreditedThis is the thirteenth film in the series.
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Pimp Heaven
as uncreditedClass-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens...
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Student Yakuza
as uncreditedA youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage,...
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The Experience
as uncreditedTwo boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
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The Armed Organization
as uncreditedViolent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji...
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Killer's Hit List
as uncreditedA 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another...
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A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
as uncreditedWhen a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza...
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Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
as uncreditedThe hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.
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Jesus is My Boss
as Yuji KiharaA warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
as uncreditedIn the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively...
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Haru Urara
as Dai MuneishiBased on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single...
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Inspector Totsugawa Series 54 - The Woman of Sunrise Izumo
as uncredited
Homicide Team 9
as Rintaro KanoThe members of this elite investigative team are unique individuals with their own personal...
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Chiritotechin
as Tsurezuretei SojakuThe 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about...
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Back of Father
as Asakura KenzouA 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and...
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Katsu Kaishu
as Tanaka ShinbeiKatsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū "
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The Fire Still Burns
as Fujiwara no HidehiraThis drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the...
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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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Antarctica
as Atsushi KuramochiSet in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied...
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And Then There Were None
as Hyogo Iwamura10 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off...
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Sanada Taiheiki
as Sanada NobuyukiThe drama tells the story of the Sanada family. Originally serving the Takeda Clan they ruled...
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Omiyasan
as Torii KansaburoThe head of the Information Division of the Kyoto Prefectural Police, Grass Wall Office...
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