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Zenpei Saga
Born: 18th May 1909 Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan - Died 13th Mar 1989
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 84
Film: 82 (98%)
Television: 2 (2%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Documentary, Family
Filmography
Original title: さくら隊散る
1988
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for th ... view
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Original title: マルサの女
1987
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a t ... view
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Tax Office Chief
Original title: 悪霊島
1981
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold. ... view
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Shirobei Senoo
Original title: 動乱
1980
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miy ... view
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Original title: 皇帝のいない八月
1978
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-wa ... view
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Original title: 超高層ホテル殺人事件
1976
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control ... view
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Original title: 金環蝕
1975
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot. ... view
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Original title: 暴力金脈
1975
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain. ... view
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Original title: 御用牙
1972
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. H ... view
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Jan 1972 (first aired)
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been tr ... view
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Bizenya (1 ep.)
Original title: 怪奇十三夜 第十二回 変幻・玉虫屋敷の怪!
1971
Twelfth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series. ... view
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Original title: 傷だらけの天使
1966
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hac ... view
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Original title: 星のフラメンコ
1966
"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their mother in almost 20 years. The war had separated t ... view
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Original title: 河内カルメン
1966
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a ... view
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Saito
Original title: 高原のお嬢さん
1965
Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. One day, Kazuo is attract ... view
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Eitaro Mishima
Original title: 刺青一代
1965
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother. ... view
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Totsuka Iwamatsu
Original title: 賭場の牝猫
1965
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the di ... view
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Daizo Onogaki
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Police Doctor
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Original title: うず潮
1964
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and ... view
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Jiro's father
Original title: 早射ちジョー 砂丘の決斗
1964
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organizatio ... view
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Original title: 花と怒涛
1964
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity o ... view
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Original title: 競輪上人行状記
1963
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand fun ... view
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Original title: 泥だらけの純情
1963
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new ... view
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Fukui's father
Original title: 現代っ子
1963
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat. ... view
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Original title: 抜き射ち三四郎
1962
Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters! ... view
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Original title: 人間狩り
1962
A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out. ... view
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Original title: 百万弗を叩き出せ
1961
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring. ... view
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Original title: セールスマン物語 男にゃ男の夢がある
1961
A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman pursuing a man's dream. ... view
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Original title: 舞妓の上京
1961
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and so ... view
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Original title: 散弾銃の男
1961
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of troubl ... view
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Kim Dong-Kwang
Original title: 警察日記 ブタ箱は満員
1961
A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases, ran ... view
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Original title: 東京騎士隊
1961
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime. ... view
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Tokutake
Original title: 天使が俺を追い駈ける
1961
A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only t ... view
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Original title: あした晴れるか
1960
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the ... view
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Original title: 密航０ライン
1960
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 sc ... view
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Kinto Yo
Original title: 地図のない町
1960
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 resu ... view
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Original title: 危険な女
1959
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper. ... view
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Original title: 硫黄島
1959
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Ji ... view
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Original title: 地獄の曲り角
1959
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part ... view
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Yoshimitsu
Original title: 脅迫の影
1959
Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts and ... view
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Original title: 第五福竜丸
1959
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacif ... view
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Original title: 夜は俺のものだ
1958
Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a skirm ... view
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Original title: 悪徳
1958
A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi S ... view
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Motokichi Sakakibara
Original title: 純愛物語
1957
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately tr ... view
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Original title: 女優
1956
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness. ... view
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Original title: 或る夜ふたたび
1956
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic ... view
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Original title: 石合戦
1955
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a ... view
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Original title: 太陽のない街
1954
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers' stead ... view
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Original title: 足摺岬
1954
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist di ... view
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Original title: 縮図
1953
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope i ... view
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Original title: 箱根風雲録
1952
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights. ... view
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Man
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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Shimaki
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: 青春の気流
1942
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latt ... view
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Manufacturer
Original title: 希望の青空
1942
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy ... view
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Hayashi
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Suekichi Asai
Original title: 支那の夜
1940
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese mercha ... view
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Original title: 樋口一葉
1939
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896). ... view
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Original title: 禍福 後篇
1937
Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adve ... view
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Original title: 禍福 前篇
1937
Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family ... view
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Original title: お嬢さん
1937
The story deas with the experiences of an exceptionally strong-willed, middle class Tokyo "ojōsan" who comes to teach in a middle school in the count ... view
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1937
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed ... view
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Original title: 都会の怪異７時０３分
1935
Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His com ... view
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