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Kokuten Kōdō
Born: 29th Jan 1887 Takasago, Hyogo, Japan - Died 22nd Jan 1960
Dept: Acting
Kokuten Kōdō (高堂 国典 Kōdō Kokuten, 29 January 1887 – 22 January 1960) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1923 to 1959.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 81
Film: 81 (100%)
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Filmography
1977
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), plu ... view
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The Old Fisherman (uncredited)
Original title: 暗黒街の顔役
1959
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping ... view
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Original title: 隠し砦の三悪人
1958
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who g ... view
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Old Man (uncredited)
Original title: どたんば
1957
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a conte ... view
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Original title: 若さま侍捕物帖 鮮血の人魚
1957
The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series. ... view
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Original title: あらくれ
1957
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for ... view
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Kinshichi
1957
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote ... view
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Mountain Tribe Leader
Original title: 喧嘩道中
1957
Hanjiro of Kusama searches for his little sister Oyuki, who went missing after being desecrated by Hikosaku Tokurai three years ago. The first film i ... view
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Original title: Godzilla, le Monstre de L'Océan Pacifique
1957
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a u ... view
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The Old Fisherman (uncredited)
Original title: 暴れん坊街道
1957
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his fathe ... view
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Original title: 蜘蛛巣城
1957
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi ... view
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Military Commander
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Suketa Wada
1956
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monste ... view
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The Old Fisherman (uncredited)
Original title: 赤線地帯
1956
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law. ... view
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Kadowaki Keisaku
Original title: 虹いくたび
1956
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they h ... view
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Original title: 新平家物語 義仲をめぐる三人の女
1956
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of ... view
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Original title: 黒田騒動
1956
This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As his ... view
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Kuroda Nagamasa
Original title: 宮本武蔵完結編 決闘巌流島
1956
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He' ... view
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Old Priest Nikkan (uncredited)
Original title: 生きものの記録
1955
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared i ... view
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Workers' Older Family Member
Original title: 見合い旅行
1955
A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of ... view
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Original title: 獣人雪男
1955
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman. ... view
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Tribal Chief
Original title: 幻の馬
1955
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby. ... view
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Original title: 続宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決闘
1955
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h ... view
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Old Priest Nikkan (uncredited)
Original title: ゴジラ
1954
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover somethin ... view
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The Old Fisherman (uncredited)
Original title: 浅草の夜
1954
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this ... view
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Gosuke
Original title: 七人の侍
1954
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six ... view
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Gisaku, the Old Man
Original title: 赤線基地
1953
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution. ... view
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Jusaku Kawanabe
Original title: 夫婦
1953
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife. ... view
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Original title: 喧嘩安兵衛
1952
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of ... view
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Kira Uenosuke
Original title: 戦国無頼
1952
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care ... view
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Original title: 荒木又右衛門 決闘鍵屋の辻
1952
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance. ... view
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Original title: 佐々木小次郎
1951
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak ... view
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Original title: 麦秋
1951
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about ... view
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Old Uncle
Original title: 青い眞珠
1951
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious co ... view
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Noe's uncle
Original title: 白痴
1951
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgra ... view
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Junpei
Original title: 我が家は樂し
1951
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, ... view
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Original title: カルメン故郷に帰る
1951
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist. ... view
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Original title: 又四郎行状記 鬼姫しぐれ
1951
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi ... view
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Shige'emon Otobe
Original title: 夜の緋牡丹
1950
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around the ... view
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Original title: 醜聞
1950
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer. ... view
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Old Man #1
Original title: 暴力の街
1950
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses. ... view
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Kuga
Original title: 野良犬
1949
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc ... view
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Old Landlord
Original title: 續 青い山脈
1949
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later. ... view
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Original title: 銀嶺の果て
1947
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojir ... view
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Haruko's Grandfather
Original title: わが青春に悔なし
1946
After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own pa ... view
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Mr. Noge
Original title: 東京五人男
1945
Newly released from the army, five men return to Tokyo to find no place to live in the bombed-out city, food and necessities rationed out by people wh ... view
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Original title: 續 姿三四郎
1945
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an American prizefighter and later faci ... view
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Buddhist Priest Saiduchi
Original title: 姿三四郎
1943
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshi ... view
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Buddhist Priest
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Original title: 緑の大地
1942
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japa ... view
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Original title: 武蔵坊辨慶
1942
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei
with Hideko Takamine portraying Minam ... view
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Original title: 川中島合戰
1941
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the mai ... view
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Hiryûji Murakami
Original title: 阿波の踊子
1941
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin. Hi ... view
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Original title: Orizu nan henge: zen
1941
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo. ... view
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Original title: 熱砂の誓ひ
1940
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at bui ... view
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Original title: 釣鐘草
1940
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poo ... view
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Grandfather
Original title: 白蘭の歌
1939
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the ... view
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Original title: むかしの歌
1939
Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends to ... view
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Original title: 浪人吹雪
1939
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane. ... view
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Original title: 夜の鳩
1937
Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her. ... view
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Old Man
Original title: 雪之丞変化
1935
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge. ... view
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Dobu
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Original title: 忠臣蔵
1932
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their f ... view
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Uesugi Family Elder
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Original title: 恐苦呂
1927
A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Of note is Utaemon Ichikawa's extraordinary m ... view
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