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悪名 (1961)
Character: N/A
Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.
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死者との結婚 (1960)
Character: N/A
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
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真実一路 (1954)
Character: N/A
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.
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やくざ番外地 (1969)
Character: N/A
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.
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笹笛お紋 (1969)
Character: N/A
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
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新東京行進曲 (1953)
Character: N/A
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
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愛染かつら (1962)
Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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三代の盃 (1962)
Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
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喧嘩奴 (1955)
Character: 大槻刑部
Ginpei, in an act of desperation to get money for his gravely ill mother, was laughed at and ended up fighting with the companions of the castle patrol Matsunomura Genba, including Onimatsu. He was later reconciled by the family elder Ishikawa Yoriimo, who also gave him some money. Returning home happily, Ginpei found that his mother had already passed away. Okin, the daughter of a soba shop owner, comforted the heartbroken Ginpei, who in gratitude became affiliated with the Ishikawa household. Ginpei, a ruffian but ordinarily a quiet and honest man, became favored by Yoriimo's wife Chiyo and their child Harunosuke, and he began to accompany Yoriimo to the castle. Inside the castle, the family elder Otsuki Gyobu was in cahoots with Yoshitada's favorite concubine, Osada no Kata, and together with the treacherous Genba, they were plotting to establish Osada no Kata's child, Seinosuke, as the heir.
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傳七捕物帖 女郎蜘蛛 (1955)
Character: 相馬伊蔵
In the town of Izu known for its hot springs, Den Shichi from Kuromon Town sets off for a healing trip with his companion, a bamboo craftsman with a nose like a lion's snout, at a time when the town is under a tight security network due to a nearby gunpowder depot explosion. Staying at Tsuruya, Den Shichi and his group are investigated by officials whose behavior seems somewhat odd. That night, a man looking like a craftsman is murdered, and gunpowder residue is found at the scene, prompting Den Shichi to suspect that something is amiss.
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お役者小僧 江戸千両幟 (1955)
Character: 大野逸斎
Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved geisha, Ko-en. On the run, they were rescued by the actor Nakamura Utaemon, but Ko-en was taken by the Hatamoto, Ono Issai. Gotaro, who fell off a cliff, was saved by the Dutch-trained doctor, Shibarai Ryokai, and his daughter Oume. While traveling to Edo, they met Utaemon in Mishima, who was suffering from a serious eye disease. Ryokai’s treatment saved Utaemon from blindness, and a strong friendship was formed among the three.
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荒木又右衛門 (1955)
Character: 安藤治右衛門
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō killed Kazuma's younger brother, Gentayū, and fled. Seeking assistance, Kazuma asked his brother-in-law, Araki Mataemon, for help, but Mataemon refused, saying that it was against the code for a brother to avenge another brother's death. On the other hand, the lord of the clan, Ikeda Tadao, ordered a search for Matagorō, who was found to be sheltered by the Hatamoto, including Andō Jiemon, in Edo. Tadao was furious but unable to act. Matagorō, in Edo, came to regret his birth as a samurai. He met and fell in love with Okō, a bathhouse maid. As the discord between the Hatamoto and the Ikeda clan deepened, Tadao died of illness. Seizing the opportunity to ease the conflict, the shogunate ordered the Ikeda clan to be succeeded by the young lord Katsugorō and to relocate to the Ikeda clan of Inshū Tottori. Meanwhile, Matagorō was exiled from Edo.
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大江戸出世双六 (1955)
Character: 川勝丹波守
Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she accidentally broke a plate gifted by Lord Ieyasu. Tired of the strict samurai service, Tasuke moved to the Genbei tenements and opened a fish shop. This tenement housed various characters, including the landlord's daughter Osen who had a crush on Tasuke, the midwife Okan, the blind masseur Oyone and her husband, the carpenter-loving couple Yoshigorō and Ohama, the rōnin Takeuchi Yogoemon, and the siblings Ochika and Shin'nosuke who cared for their sick mother.
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涙の花道 (1956)
Character: 一色内蔵介
Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke and become a hatamoto, a direct retainer of the shogun. Yukinojō's younger brother, Shingorō, traveling to Edo from their hometown, helped the town boy Kiyohē and his daughter Michi from troublemakers led by Kumosuke. This act led to a reunion with Yukinojō through the assistance of their associate, Daisaburō.
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渦 (1961)
Character: N/A
1961 Japanese movie
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絵島生島 (1955)
Character: 仙石
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.
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気違い部落 (1957)
Character: N/A
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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蟻の街のマリア (1958)
Character: N/A
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
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続々禁男の砂・赤いパンツ (1959)
Character: N/A
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes the focus of many yearning eyes and Seikichi, the boss' son, picks a quarrel with him and violent fight ensues in which Shinji kills a man in self-defense.
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女の一生 (1955)
Character: brother Daisuke
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.
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怪談累が淵 (1960)
Character: N/A
Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.
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眠狂四郎勝負 (1964)
Character: N/A
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.
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小次郎燕返し (1961)
Character: N/A
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.
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修羅がゆく2 戦争勃発 (1996)
Character: N/A
A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series.
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新二等兵物語 敵中横断の巻 (1960)
Character: N/A
First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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新網走番外地 大森林の決斗 (1970)
Character: N/A
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
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青銅の魔人 (1954)
Character: Chief Inspector Nakamura
A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a prized clock, leading to a uranium deposit. He deduces the fiend is his nemesis, the Fiend with Twenty Faces.
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青銅の魔人 (1954)
Character: N/A
In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks.
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殺陣師段平 (1962)
Character: Kurahashi Sentaro
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
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新網走番外地 さいはての流れ者 (1969)
Character: N/A
Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.
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まごころ (1953)
Character: Hachirô Sakamoto
A young student falls for an invalid girl whom he can only see from afar.
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新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘 (1965)
Character: N/A
At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, the ronin Kurayoshi Norizen rents the second floor of a hardware store and lives a carefree life, running a temple school. However, his true identity is Kurama Tengu, who appears to help a patriot in a difficult situation when he is attacked by the Shinsengumi, and then disappears like smoke.
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やくざ非情史 血の盃 (1969)
Character: N/A
Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.
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二階の他人 (1961)
Character: Division chief Mitamura
After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.
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沓掛時次郎 (1961)
Character: Tomeda no Sukegorô
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man. In a brilliant performance from super-star Ichikawa Raizo, with strong support from two of the greats from Toho, Shimura Takashi (7 Samurai) and Aratama Michiyo (Sword of Doom) the heartfelt story reaches new heights. Tokijiro, having learned the true nature of the boss to whom he was obligated for having spent a night and eaten at the gang's headquarters takes up arms against them in a running battle fought across the back roads of the entire nation. Another powerful rendition of this superb story, it is not to be missed!
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二人の武蔵 (1960)
Character: N/A
During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu clan's top instructors and then taking on Sasaki Kojiro!
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不良番長 どぶ鼠作戦 (1969)
Character: N/A
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
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不良番長 一獲千金 (1970)
Character: N/A
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
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太陽とバラ (1956)
Character: Sushi shop master
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
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暴れ犬 (1965)
Character: N/A
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
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宿無し犬 (1964)
Character: N/A
First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
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日本残侠伝 (1969)
Character: N/A
Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
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ザ・テンプターズ 涙のあとに微笑みを (1969)
Character: N/A
Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a tragic discovery about his family weighs on Shoken heavily.
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暗殺 (1964)
Character: Kyûô Udono
In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.
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眠狂四郎魔性劍 (1965)
Character: N/A
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan, and while the swords of some angry samurai may not cause Kyoshiro much trouble, the deadly wiles of two women may be more difficult to survive!
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無宿人別帳 (1963)
Character: Sobei
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.
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妻あり子あり友ありて (1961)
Character: Inspector Honda
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.
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シルクハットの大親分 ちょび髭の熊 (1970)
Character: N/A
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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君の名は 第二部 (1953)
Character: N/A
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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ひばり捕物帖 折鶴駕篭 (1960)
Character: Abe Iyo
The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi to take action to crush a plot to overthrow the Shogunate.
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秋日和 (1960)
Character: Former Subordinate Employee
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
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君の名は (1953)
Character: N/A
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
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彼岸花 (1958)
Character: Station Attendant
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
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波止場の鷹 (1967)
Character: N/A
A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza.
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花扉 (1961)
Character: N/A
Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president.
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恐怖の対決 (1958)
Character: N/A
Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is being released from prison, where he was imprisoned on charges of causing bodily harm. He meets his younger brother Fumio, who is going to become a boxer and dreams of owning his own car repair shop. Goro tries to help Fumio, but is refused. At this time, the boss of the underworld, whom Goro met in prison, is released, and this escalates into a confrontation involving Goro and Fumio.
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折鶴さんど笠 (1957)
Character: N/A
Akitaro Orizuru, who set out on a journey to avenge his father's death in the darkness, returned to Itako, his hometown, where the Ayame Festival was approaching, for the first time in five years. His late father's brother, Sutezo, who took off his waraji, runs a small prostitute with only one child, Sutematsu. In addition, only Shigezaburo, who left a mark in the middle wind, was ill-mannered by Inomatsu. Akitaro was accompanied by a daughter named Omitsu on the way to here, but she was Ura's younger sister who works at Fujikura's house, and the villagers worked on the fifty cars to meet her critically ill father.
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カルメン純情す (1952)
Character: N/A
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
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夜の歌謡シリーズ なみだ恋 (1973)
Character: N/A
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
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博奕打ち 流れ者 (1970)
Character: N/A
8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
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新書・忍びの者 (1966)
Character: N/A
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.
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釜ヶ崎極道 (1973)
Character: N/A
Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen.
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無頼・殺せ (1969)
Character: Giichi Kenmochi
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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悪坊主侠客伝 (1964)
Character: N/A
This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called “Death” who has his own dark past. The prototype for the later two yakuza priest series with Shintaro Katsu and Tomisaburo Wakayama. Apparently so. And the swordsman motif seems to have been concurrent with Daiei's first ZATOICHI production.
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女賭博師花の切り札 (1969)
Character: N/A
15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
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亡命記 (1955)
Character: N/A
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
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女ざかり (1994)
Character: N/A
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
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最後の審判 (1965)
Character: N/A
Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern.
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生きたい (1999)
Character: N/A
It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.
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夜の歌謡シリーズ 女のみち (1973)
Character: N/A
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.
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人間の條件 完結篇 (1961)
Character: Nagata Taii
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.
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悪名 縄張荒らし (1974)
Character: N/A
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and falls directly into disfavor with the yakuza.
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大菩薩峠 竜神の巻 (1960)
Character: N/A
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.
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お役者変化捕物帖 血どくろ屋敷 (1961)
Character: N/A
The second work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the original work of Tatsuro Jinde. Popular ronin actor Kasumi Ippei intervenes in a planned robbery of the mint, where gold coins are minted for the Shogunate.
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あなた買います (1956)
Character: N/A
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.
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広域暴力 流血の縄張 (1969)
Character: Mannosuke Jinno, Kansai Syndicate chair
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is it the police? Rival gang members? Or is it an entirely new group of hired killers who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of Tokyo's "bloody territories"?
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白い巨塔 (1966)
Character: N/A
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
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反逆のメロディー (1970)
Character: Daijiro Tanno
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
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風速七十五米 (1963)
Character: N/A
Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Ginza is square in its sights!
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新・座頭市物語 (1963)
Character: Yasuhiko
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.
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赤い手裏剣 (1965)
Character: N/A
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.
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早春 (1956)
Character: Tanabe
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
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座頭市地獄旅 (1965)
Character: Injury prone Banyu yakuza
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.
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海軍横須賀刑務所 (1973)
Character: N/A
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
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生きてはみたけれど・小津安二郎伝 (1983)
Character: Self
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..
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青春とはなんだ (1965)
Character: Katsumata, vice-principal
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
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螢火 (1958)
Character: N/A
Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi. She does not have an easy life. Her husband, Isuke (Ban Junzaburo), is a wastrel who fancies himself a kabuki singer and who is obsessed with cleanliness. Her mother-in-law, Sada (Miyoshi Eiko) dislikes her because of her humble origins (her family are farmers) and because she fears that she will inherit the inn instead of Sugi, her daughter. Sada's hopes for Sugi, however, are dashed when she runs off with a con artist and leaves her child behind for Tose to take care of. When Sada becomes seriously ill, it is Tose who nurses her. On her deathbed, Sada asks her daughter-in-law's forgiveness. Meanwhile Isuke spends most of his time with a mistress he has taken, forcing Tose to manage the inn by herself
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無能の人 (1991)
Character: Man who walks
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
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みな殺しの霊歌 (1968)
Character: Suzuki
Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.
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お早よう (1959)
Character: Mr. Ito
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
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秋刀魚の味 (1962)
Character: Bar Customer
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
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四谷怪談 (1959)
Character: N/A
In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.
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橋 (1959)
Character: N/A
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
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愛と希望の街 (1959)
Character: Kuhara
The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, and his caring teacher converge and consequently become more complicated.
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刺青 (1966)
Character: Kenji
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of another man, radically altering her relationships with all around her as her personality seems to transform under its influence.
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続・忍びの者 (1963)
Character: N/A
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of captured ninja and decides that, in the future, he needs a much crueler method of execution. The daimyo Hideyoshi comes to visit.
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桜の代紋 (1973)
Character: N/A
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
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座頭市鉄火旅 (1967)
Character: Seisuke Kuwayama
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.
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人斬り与太 狂犬三兄弟 (1972)
Character: N/A
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations
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忍びの者 霧隠才蔵 (1964)
Character: Yotoji Takebe
[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in Osaka castle. Ieyasu's ninja are the only ones who can penetrate the fortress, but unfortunately for Ieyasu, Kirigakure Saizo and the other Toyotomi ninja can just as easily get out. As armies of samurai maneuver for battle, the fate of the nation will be decided by a desperate struggle in the dark!
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119 (1994)
Character: N/A
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…
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怪談雪女郎 (1968)
Character: Sôju
Two sculptors spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spirit appears and takes the life of one of the men. She spares the other man's life on the condition that he never tell anyone what happened that night.
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新選組始末記 (1963)
Character: Nishiki Niimi
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
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草間の半次郎 霧の中の渡り鳥 (1960)
Character: N/A
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescue them.
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薄桜記 (1959)
Character: N/A
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin.
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不知火検校 (1960)
Character: N/A
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.
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賭場の牝猫 素肌の壷振り (1965)
Character: Tatsuo Akatsuka
Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for help. He's being pursued by a dangerous gang of yakuza.
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日本の悲劇 (1953)
Character: Fujita
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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東京暮色 (1957)
Character: Saburo Tomita
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
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酒と女と槍 (1960)
Character: N/A
Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of the two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his final days.
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子連れ狼 冥府魔道 (1973)
Character: Tsukude Sozaemon
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.
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