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団地妻 歓喜の夜 (1973)
Character: The Man with Dog
Kazuaki Koizumi and Saeko, a couple who have set up a new house in the suburbs, have finally celebrated their first wedding anniversary. However, on that memorable day, Saeko was attacked by a thug. Moreover, the thug not only raped her, but also provoked her dog...
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狂乱の喘ぎ (1974)
Character: Nakayama
An ordinary department store girl who was betrayed by her boyfriend accidentally comes across a large sum of money, and men who are after her money gather around her..
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極楽坊主 (1971)
Character: Hayakawa
A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.
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斬り込み (1970)
Character: N/A
Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.
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城取り (1965)
Character: N/A
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.
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秘事 (1972)
Character: Kikui
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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ひとり旅 (1962)
Character: N/A
12th in the Joe of Aces series.
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実録 桐かおる にっぽん一のレスビアン (1974)
Character: Akagi
A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.
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魔の刻 (1985)
Character: N/A
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.
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泣かせるぜ (1965)
Character: N/A
Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the hoodlums of the sea". Their offer is greeted with scoffs and quickly turned down.
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北帰行より 渡り鳥北へ帰る (1962)
Character: N/A
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
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女子大生 偽処女 (1973)
Character: N/A
Three female college students become involved with a land developer. When a rich client and his sons tries to take advantage of him the women hatch a plan for revenge.
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猫が変じて虎になる (1962)
Character: N/A
A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his surprise, the elderly are all healthy thanks to a special local sake. Along the way, he meets an eye-patch-wearing killer, which only confounds his misadventures.
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いこかもどろか (1988)
Character: N/A
Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the gangsters and snatch to repay his debt . However, Sayoko Mukai, who said that she used the money of the company for gambling , took over the money. Shohei and Sayoko plan a robbery and steal cash from the gallery, but another man steals it.
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高原児 (1961)
Character: N/A
Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
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川崎探偵団 (1983)
Character: N/A
A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.
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地図のない町 (1960)
Character: N/A
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
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若い突風 (1960)
Character: N/A
On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. In Yokohama, there is an uproar because Kenji's father, Shozo Hase, a customs officer, has been accused of stealing confiscated drugs. The story unfolds with thrilling action as Kenji bravely confronts the gang of villains who framed his father and kidnapped him, all while seeking justice and vindicating his father's innocence.
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艶説女侠伝 お万乱れ肌 (1972)
Character: N/A
"After leaving the Yakuza, Oman embraces a quiet normal life - only to be dragged back into a world of violence, when seeking revenge for the brutal murder of those close to her."
- Adapted from the late October 1972 issue of Kinema Junpo
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追跡 (1961)
Character: N/A
Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
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青春の裁き (1965)
Character: N/A
University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi.
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大海原を行く渡り鳥 (1961)
Character: N/A
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
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花と竜 (1962)
Character: N/A
In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many across Japan. A vigorous young man with a look of fearless determination, sets foot on the northern part of Kyushu, an area where Yakuza thrived. His name is Kingoro Tamai (Yujiro Ishihara). With plans to travel the world, Kingoro worked diligently at a coal mine. His loyalty and hard work earned the respect of his peers, his courage won the heart of the beautiful Mon (Ruriko Asaoka), and his success evoked jealousy in his enemies.
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助っ人稼業 (1961)
Character: N/A
Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series.
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板尾創路の脱獄王 (2010)
Character: Prison Island Prisoner
Masayuki Suzuki (Itsuji Itao) is known as "Datsugoku Oh" (King of Escape) because of his incredible ability to escape from any prison. Even though his ability to escape from prison was unmatched he would normally get caught within a few hours from his escape. He is then sent to Prison Island ... can he escape ?
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姐御 (1969)
Character: N/A
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
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３年目の浮気 (1983)
Character: Okakura
A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door.
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土忍記 風の天狗 (1970)
Character: N/A
When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually deserts the organization. Hunted by an army of bizarre shadow warriors, the target turns on his pursuers when he finds something worth fighting for.
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ザ・マジックアワー (2008)
Character: Abesan
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
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陽炎座 (1981)
Character: N/A
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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湘南爆走族 (1987)
Character: N/A
Based on the popular comic, “Shonan Bakusozoku” illustrates the lives of high school bike fanatics.
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行き止まりの挽歌 ブレイクアウト (1988)
Character: Man on lift
An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he can't go any lower, he is suspended from the force for disregarding orders to halt his criminal investigation of a Congressman. However, even this setback won't stop the determined cop from getting to the bottom of the scandal.
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赤線最後の日 昭和３３年３月３１日 (1974)
Character: Bunkichi
The lives and loves of several prostitutes are shown on the night the Prostitution Prevention Law goes into effect and criminalizes their profession.
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THE 有頂天ホテル (2006)
Character: Mannojo Sakata
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a special dinner planned and yet there is trouble everywhere. An Animal is on the loose, a politician to protect, a prostitute to handle, a bellhop to focus and a few things more.
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二人の世界 (1966)
Character: N/A
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled Japan fifteen years ago, Hojo Shuichi. To throw Kawase off, the man talks a female passenger, Reiko, into acting as if she was his long-time friend. When the man - who is, in fact, Hojo - secretly leaves the ship, Reiko, who has fallen for him, joins up with Kawase to go looking for him. Meanwhile, Hojo, who has returned to Japan to find the true murderer before the 15-year statute of limiitations on murder expires, tracks down the man whom he believes ordered the murder he was accused of.
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人魚伝説 (1984)
Character: President of the Fishery Cooperative
A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.
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俺の故郷は大西部 (1960)
Character: N/A
George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had helped Tom around the time of World War I, and to perform some act of kindness in Japan using $300 pocket money. This was to test whether George was a suitable boy to inherit Tom's YES Ranch.
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帰らざる波止場 (1966)
Character: N/A
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see his girlfriend Kyoko, he walks in to find an unknown man attacking her. While struggling with the man, who is armed, Shiro accidentally shoots and kills her. The intruder knocks Shiro down and takes the drugs from Shiro's jacket. Shiro realizes that he was being used as a drag smuggler. He is sent to prison for three years for killing his girlfriiend. When he is released, he is determined to find out who set him up.
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いきすだま 生霊 (2001)
Character: Nahoko's neighbor
Two brothers are plunged into the realm of psychic horror, one tormented by a stalker, and the other involved with a girl whose home is the site of eerie occurrences.
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殺人遊戯 (1978)
Character: N/A
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
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俺は待ってるぜ (1957)
Character: Shibata's henchman B
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
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みんなのいえ (2001)
Character: Yoneda
Two newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to design it. Unfortunately, Yanagisawa isn’t licensed to build homes, so they call in the wife’s father, a retired carpenter, to help out. When Yanagisawa’s contemporary ideas clash with the old carpenter’s traditional Japanese methods, the project becomes a huge mess.
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探偵事務所２３ くたばれ悪党ども (1963)
Character: Sakura gangster 1
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
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原子力戦争 (1978)
Character: Fisherman
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.
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濡れた唇 (1972)
Character: 田中
A prostitute and her lover go on the run after killing her pimp.
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必殺色仕掛け (1973)
Character: Keijirô Okuno
A wandering matchmaker finds she must defend the brothel she is staying at when a local yakuza boss targets the women working there with a hired gang of three brothers with unusual sexual powers.
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松ヶ根乱射事件 (2007)
Character: Tamamura Suzuki
When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
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蘇える金狼 (1979)
Character: N/A
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.
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男の紋章 風雲双つ竜 (1963)
Character: N/A
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
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大奥秘話 晴姿姫ごと絵巻 (1974)
Character: N/A
Since the arrival of the Black Ships, the Tokugawa Shogunate's dream of peace has been shattered, and the succession problem of the ailing Shogun Iesada has become a headache. At the same time, Tamamo, a prostitute in Yoshiwara, is dismissed from her position at the behest of a high-ranking noble family who has come on a secret mission.
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北国の旅情 (1967)
Character: Assistant station master
Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. However, Yuko, having returned home, has just become engaged to a local young man, and the sudden appearance of Eikichi makes others worry that their good relationship will be spoiled. An epic about pure love, which tells the story of a man who leaves his beloved woman, praying for her happiness. Adapted from the novel "Kiri no Naka no Shojo" Yojiro Ishizaka.
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生贄の女たち (1978)
Character: N/A
Mr. Harry, who suffers from a "peanut sized" penis complex, comes to Japan to undergo a genital transplant operation, the first of its kind in the world. The operation is a success but Harry soon is involved into a shady plot related to his organ donor.
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狂った脱獄 (1959)
Character: Driver
A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.
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無頼・殺せ (1969)
Character: N/A
Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent to take sides. At a department store nearby, he sees an elevator lady being harassed by a couple of hoodlums. Goro decides to intervene. Unbeknownst to him, the hoodlums are Touyu-kai members – and the girl has strong ties with the opposing family.
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「エロ事師たち」より 人類学入門 (1966)
Character: Middle-aged Man
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
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ハイティーンやくざ (1962)
Character: Police Officer
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
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外人妻 (1973)
Character: Jirô Hanada
A white woman from America suddenly shows up at the house of a tea ceremony teacher who had promised to marry her when he was traveling overseas. Complications ensue.
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さらば箱舟 (1984)
Character: N/A
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
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博徒無情 (1969)
Character: N/A
Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing his family's minions, and his lover is tortured by the enemy, but rescued by the imprisoned young man's nemesis.
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危いことなら銭になる (1962)
Character: N/A
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....
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不良少女 野良猫の性春 (1973)
Character: Puro
A naive country girl runs away to the city and gets picked up by a kindly well dressed man. She soon finds that life can be cruel.
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新・団地妻 けものの昼下り (1974)
Character: Murayama
Kyoko has been married to Keisuke three years but recently, she has this feeling that she cannot entirely trust her husband. She hires Terao, a private eye, to prove her doubts are groundless. Poor Kyoko does not seem to know that, "He who digs a pit for others, falls into it himself". The private eye and his friend call on Kyoko when her husband is out and brutally rape her over and over again. By slow degrees, she gives herself up to the sexual pleasures she feels while being brutally treated. It is a sensation she had never experienced before, little knowing who had masterminded the tortures.
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無頼非情 (1968)
Character: N/A
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
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性談 牡丹燈籠 (1972)
Character: Mamoru Kinatsu
Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.
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拳銃は俺のパスポート (1967)
Character: N/A
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
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博徒百人 (1969)
Character: N/A
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis.
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あばよダチ公 (1974)
Character: N/A
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
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豚と軍艦 (1961)
Character: Otake
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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夜霧よ今夜も有難う (1967)
Character: Nishi
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.
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俺に賭けた奴ら (1962)
Character: Drunk man
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.
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実録エロ事師たち 巡業花電車 (1974)
Character: Kakimoto
Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades one of his former performers to join his troupe and she learns new tricks of the trade.
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最も危険な遊戯 (1978)
Character: N/A
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract.
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誘惑者 (1989)
Character: Building security guard
A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...
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勝利者 (1957)
Character: Boxer Akagi
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date.
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実録エロ事師たち (1974)
Character: Nishimura
The world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their manager must contend with pesky customers and a determined detective.
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ヨコハマＢＪブルース (1981)
Character: N/A
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.
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くノ一淫法 百花卍がらみ (1974)
Character: Kamekubi
In historical times, the Shogun family employs a group of Iga ninjas to take over the Akizuki clan's lands. The Akizuki hire the Fumi ninjas, a group of female warriors who enhance their fighting ability with sexual magic such as the "white snake spell". When the Akizuki emerge victorious, Tsukinojo, the leader of the Fumi ninjas, marries Lord Akizuki.
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侠花列伝 襲名賭博 (1969)
Character: Gunji
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.
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探偵物語 (1983)
Character: Apartment Tenant
A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.
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影狩り ほえろ大砲 (1972)
Character: Kage
The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no walk in the park, and in order to survive they must face a relentless army of ninjas and female warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to disrupt the delivery and claim the cannon for themselves.
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北陸代理戦争 (1977)
Character: N/A
A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs.
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黒いドレスの女 (1987)
Character: N/A
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza's escaping as a shoji. Tamura who lives on the second floor of the store for the time being the son who wants to work here. A few days later, Tamura finds a handgun from Yuko's baggage and holds a suspicion.
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幕末太陽傳 (1957)
Character: Genpei
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
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戦国ロック 疾風の女たち (1972)
Character: N/A
Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.
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㊙色情めす市場 (1974)
Character: Customer
A strong-willed young prostitute, her mentally challenged brother, and her aging prostitute mother attempt to survive in 1970s Osaka.
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密航０ライン (1960)
Character: Korean cargo handler
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
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嵐を呼ぶ男 (1957)
Character: N/A
Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
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河内のオッサンの唄 (1976)
Character: N/A
Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in love with such a man...
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花芯の誘い (1971)
Character: Tetsu
The directorial debut of Masaru Konuma, penned by Keiichi Ozawa using the pseudonym "Fuyuhiko Hagi". Masako is a journalist, and she is raped while researching a story. The rape causes her to develop amnesia, so her brother devises a novel way to get her memory back -- he has her boyfriend rape her again. It doesn't work, so the brother and boyfriend do more research, discovering that Masako was raped by an African-American soldier. As might be expected, they then hire a black GI to rape the poor girl yet a third time...
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黒い太陽 (1964)
Character: N/A
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
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蒲田行進曲 (1982)
Character: Tome
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.
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黒部の太陽 (1968)
Character: N/A
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.
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タンポポ (1985)
Character: Pisken's Henchman
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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嵐の果し状 (1968)
Character: Chiyomatsu
It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.
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潮騒 (1964)
Character: Servant
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.
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月曜日のユカ (1964)
Character: N/A
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
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赤い殺意 (1964)
Character: N/A
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
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コドモのコドモ (2008)
Character: Haruna's grandfather
Haruna is a lively tomboy in the 5th year at elementary school. One day, while playing with Hiroyuki, a boy whom she has known for a long time, they play a game of putting their private parts together. A sex education lesson given by a new teacher, Yagi, makes Haruna suspect that she might be pregnant.
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日本最大の顔役 (1970)
Character: N/A
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
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