Yoshito Yamaji
The Tale of Zatoichi
as YaheiThe adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a...
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The 47 Ronin
as Yosôemon KajikawaIn 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the...
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
as YaheiReturning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent,...
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Carmen Comes Home
as Village youthA rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware...
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
as TatsugoroPart 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and...
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The Sun's Burial
as uncreditedIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
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Satan's Sword
as OnogawaThe Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41...
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Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
as HigurumaIn feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the...
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Kagebōshi
as 横地虎十郎On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken...
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Sailor
as Teacher (uncredited)Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy....
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
as TatsugoroIemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot...
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Bronze Magician
as рабYoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same...
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Quick Change Tanuki Palace
as TarobeiThis is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a...
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The Third Will
as uncreditedA story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives,...
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Story of Second Class Private, Sequel
as uncreditedFirst sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Five Men of Edo
as Tsunaemon WatanabeDuring the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of...
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
as Yahei MoriyamaA period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of...
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Karuma Tengu: The Fire Festival
as uncreditedThe masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is...
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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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Assassination
as Detective YoshikichiAssassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay,...
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A Country Boss
as uncreditedA country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
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The Portrait
as uncreditedThe mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an...
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Hana no shôgai
as 岡本半介In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times,...
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
as uncreditedThe tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it...
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Somersault on the Way
as uncreditedA young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
as uncreditedThe university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his...
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The Missing Heir
as 仲間鬼松Ginpei, in an act of desperation to get money for his gravely ill mother, was laughed at and...
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大江戸出世双六
as 伊藤軍兵衛Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved...
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Private Second Class
as uncreditedFirst film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as prince EdokkoThis 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed...
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お役者変化
as 岩間八兵衛During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar,...
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治郎吉格子
as 朝比奈Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A...
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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
as Squad leader NanbaFourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki
as uncreditedFifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Story of Lightning
as uncreditedGensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was...
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流轉
as 勘十In the eleventh year of the Tempō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement...
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Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
as uncreditedNishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear...
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大当り男一代
as 米山半助Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn...
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The Image of Mother
as uncreditedA resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
as 早縄の五兵衛One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya,...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Senryo Human Skin
as 早縄の五兵衛In the era of the twelfth Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, a notorious bandit known as "Shippu" (or...
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Ejima and Ikushima
as 谷口新平This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: The Case of the Golden Goddess
as uncreditedA samurai detective film.
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Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki
as uncreditedSecond "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private",...
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Internees of Kampili
as uncreditedIn the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects...
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八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
as 成田の甚蔵Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a...
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An Actor's Revenge
as KadokuraAn onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963...
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涙の花道
as 七五郎Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba,...
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Doctor's Day Off
as uncreditedHaving completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day...
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The Shop Curtain
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
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快盗三人吉三
as 海老名軍蔵On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a...
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Rabble Tactics
as uncreditedThe warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers...
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Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi
as uncreditedFrom birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast...
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The Girl I Loved
as YoshizôA young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to...
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Stories about Jirocho: Ishimatsu and Oiwake Sangoro
as DaigoroIshimatsu is strong in fights, but weak in relationships with women and enjoys great popularity...
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武蔵と小次郎
as 時田安之丞As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword...
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鞍馬天狗 天狗廻状
as 土方歳三In the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, in Kyoto, Osan and her companion Yahē were seeking...
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Dancing with a Mask
as uncreditedJapanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
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Dynamite Doctor Returns
as uncreditedSecond movie in the yoidore hakase serie
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3
as uncreditedThird film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
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Two Lanterns
as uncreditedA mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke
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The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
as uncreditedTwo cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to...
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荒木又右衛門
as 比企田頼三Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but...
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花笠太鼓
as 蝮の大八In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a...
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Komiyama JizaemonDuring the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the...
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素浪人日和
as 斧定九郎At the Fugenji temple in Koishikawa, Edo, a memorial service for the 49th day after the passing...
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Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble
as 早縄の五兵衛During the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one night a carver named Fujijiro was murdered. Immediately...
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続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻
as uncreditedSecond sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Sword of Vision
as uncreditedYagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.
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Devil’s Statue
as uncreditedA gallant swordsman takes on the forces of evil with the help of his trusty friends.
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Yajikita min'yō dōchū Ōshū kaidō no maki
as uncredited1959 Japanese movie
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