Yūnosuke Itō
Yūnosuke Itō (伊藤 雄之助 Itō Yūnosuke, 3 August 1919 – 11 March 1980) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films from 1932 to 1979.
Ikiru
as NovelistKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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High and Low
as Baba - National Shoes ExecutiveIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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Sanjuro
as Mutsuta, the ChamberlainToshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced,...
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The Burmese Harp
as uncreditedIn Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
as Retsudô YagyûIn this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we...
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Stray Dog
as Bluebird Theatre managerA bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot,...
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The Ballad of Narayama
as Matayan's sonIn Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air BrigadeFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Samurai Assassin
as Kenmotsu HoshinoJapan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the...
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Red Lion
as uncreditedJapan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows,...
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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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The Man Who Stole the Sun
as Bus HijackerA high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is...
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
as Sandayû MomochiWarlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of...
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Elegant Beast
as Tokizo Maeda, ex soldierA greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while...
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Yellow Crow
as Ichiro YoshidaIn this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master...
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Fort Graveyard
as MochidaCharged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the...
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A Billionaire
as PoliticianAn ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...
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A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing...
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A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing...
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as uncreditedDomestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki...
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Beast Alley
as uncredited"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite...
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I Will Buy You
as Ippei TamakiA talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...
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Giants and Toys
as Junji HarukawaNishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new...
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The Human Bullet
as SkipperA soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
as Sadayu[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as Gorô ShirasakaConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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The Bogus Policeman
as uncreditedToramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is...
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Policeman's Diary
as IwataLending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...
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Kanto Wanderer
as Okaru HachiHandsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it....
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Sanshiro Sugata
as uncreditedRemake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
as President YamadaA youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
as Seishu's fatherThe disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic,...
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Mr. Pu
as Yonekichi NoroA math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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The Human Wall
as uncreditedDrama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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Genkuro Yoshitsune
as uncreditedAn exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from...
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Youth in Fury
as Goro OsetoA reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a...
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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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The juvenile
as Police detective TotsukaA good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
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素浪人百万石
as uncreditedAt a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the...
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Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
as Sunosaki MasakichiJidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
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The Refugee
as uncreditedA Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is...
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Hiroi Ten
as uncreditedA boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside...
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Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
as uncreditedA hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.
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The Cast-Off
as uncreditedThe inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high...
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Time Within Memory
as uncreditedMinoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
as Dr. MatsumuraA great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love...
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Evil Reward
as uncreditedAfter finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was...
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Echo in the Mountains
as Hanabusa ItchōA man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called...
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Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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The Days of Evil Women
as uncreditedThe common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune,...
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Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten
as uncreditedDai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
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Red Peony of Night
as uncreditedA romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their...
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Chikûho no kodomotachi
as uncreditedA drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines
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Our Failures
as uncreditedTells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
as JinnaiTwo devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but...
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Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
as uncreditedPolice detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have...
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Hurry on a Sail to Dream
as Kotaro UshikuraYuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the...
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Oh, Bomb!
as Daisaku OonaDuring the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying...
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The Hidden Treasure
as uncreditedShochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
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The Man Without a Nationality
as Don-chanThriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
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Hot Corner Murder
as FuekiProsecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
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The Unbalanced Wheel
as uncreditedA study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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The Scarlet Camellia
as UnnoA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because...
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as uncreditedA screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Lieutenant AndoGisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a...
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The Lovers
as KajiComedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son...
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Beauty and the Thief
as DohachiThe picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and...
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
as Kikuzō UetaniSet in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three...
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The Age of Beginnings
as Writer MatsuuraA newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover...
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The Funeral Racket
as DoctorThe film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
as uncreditedSomewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
as uncreditedHousewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in...
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Farewell to Spring
as Toshikazu KanemuraBittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
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The Sea of Eden
as PrincipalNanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he...
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Riverside Fish Market Empire
as uncreditedObscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
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The Woman Champion
as uncreditedFifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man
as The Fiend with Twenty FacesEighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
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Reunion
as uncreditedIf two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly...
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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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As the Clouds Scatter
as uncreditedA provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he...
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Fools at Work
as Red DragonflyA comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
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Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
as Kojirô NaitôJidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
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The Sand City in Manchuria
as HuangWhen the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to...
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Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
as KitahachiA movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
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Nightshade Flower
as uncreditedJapanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
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Love's Cheerleader
as Philosophy StudentDirectorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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The Samurai Markets
as uncreditedThe success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.
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A Case of Honor
as uncreditedThe obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a...
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Turbid youth
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
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Today is Payday
as Director KoishiOffice worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
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The Cock Crows Twice
as uncreditedThree young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
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Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
as BenitarôPeriod film about the legendary detective Umon
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Sunset Over Mount Fuji
as Shigeshiro BabaJidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
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An Edoite Judge
as Enma no KitaroPeriod film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
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His Scarlet Cloak
as uncreditedThe humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But...
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River Without a Bridge Part 2
as uncreditedSecond part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)
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Yasubei Nakayama
as uncreditedJidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge...
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Zoku jūdai no seiten
as Mr. SenooFilm directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
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Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
as Private first class SasakiFourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Four Young Sisters
as Yuzo KomuraThree girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from...
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Sakura Official
as uncreditedAs Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan...
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Three Loves
as Father YasugiIn a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the...
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風雲児
as uncreditedYano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts...
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Ningen moyo
as uncreditedA love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
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Pursuit At Dawn
as uncreditedThis little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period...
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Four Seasons of Women
as Husband with childrenWoman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
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Man of the World
as uncreditedAn upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his...
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First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
as Senkichi MiyamaNatsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a...
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When the Flowers Bloom
as uncreditedHiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in...
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White Fish
as KomiyaA family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a...
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The Adventures of Chuji
as Monk KoenChuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles...
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Three Faces
as uncreditedFive years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma...
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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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Yokomizo Seishi Series
as Tetsunoshin SengokuTV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi...
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