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Makoto Satō
Born: 18th Mar 1934 Kanzaki District, Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan - Died 6th Dec 2012
Dept: Acting
Makoto Satō (18 March 1934 – 6 December 2012) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1953 to 2008.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 145
Film: 142 (98%)
Television: 3 (2%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, TV Movie, Animation, Family
Filmography
Original title: ほたるの星
2004
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through t ... view
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Original title: 助太刀屋助六
2002
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Suker ... view
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Enemy
Original title: マヌケ先生
2000
Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a ... view
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Kurihara
Original title: はつ恋
2000
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a mal ... view
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Original title: 死国
1999
Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori, died ... view
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Sendo
Original title: ショムニ
1998
The day after being dumped by the boyfriend to whom she was going to give her virginity, Sawako Tsukahara (Kumiko Endo), an office lady in the account ... view
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Original title: 時雨の記
1998
Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that ... view
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Numata
Original title: もののけ姫
1997
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he ... view
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Tatari God (voice)
Original title: うなぎ
1997
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no on ... view
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Jukichi Takada
Apr 1995 (first aired)
Hard-boiled suspense drama series about a detective feared as the "Shinjuku Shark" who bravely stands up to evil. ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 曖・昧・Me
1990
Kaoruko, the daughter of a doctor and attending a prestigious high school in Fukuoka, was vaguely anxious about the future. She's even more scared whe ... view
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Akutsu Kaname
Original title: 彼女が水着に着替えたら
1989
A story of love and adventure between a woman who likes water sports and a man who likes boats. Mariko thinks she's just in for a fun vacation when sh ... view
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Original title: 潤の街
1989
A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship. ... view
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Original title: 座頭市
1989
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middl ... view
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Original title: 野ゆき山ゆき海べゆき
1986
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea ... view
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Seiroku the Pimp
Original title: 姉妹坂
1985
Four sisters with no consanguinity are living together since childhood. When facing misfortune and grievances in lives, they give support and encourag ... view
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Morio Kitazawa
Original title: 台風クラブ
1985
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period b ... view
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Hideo
Original title: さびしんぼう
1985
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, ... view
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Principal Okamoto
Original title: 零戦燃ゆ
1984
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movi ... view
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Original title: 家族の選択
1983
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past. ... view
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Shinji Koiwa
Original title: 麗猫伝説
1983
A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which lea ... view
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Original title: 天城越え
1983
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterio ... view
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Police in chief
Original title: 可愛い悪魔
1982
Ryoko visits brother-in-law Koji to recover from her time at a mental hospital. But she becomes increasingly convinced that Koji's eight year old niec ... view
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Detective
Original title: 大日本帝国
1982
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War. ... view
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Original title: 転校生
1982
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies ar ... view
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Akio Saitoh
Original title: 忍者狩り
1982
It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only doe ... view
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Original title: セーラー服と機関銃
1981
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership. ... view
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Sekine
Original title: 連合艦隊
1981
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship duri ... view
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Original title: 炎のごとく
1981
The story follows the chance meeting between Senkichi, a wandering gambler on the run, and Orin, a blind musician who offers him kindness and shelt ... view
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Original title: 忍者武芸帖 百地三太夫
1980
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the ... view
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Junka no Yatoji
Original title: 二百三高地
1980
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of ( ... view
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Original title: 沖縄10年戦争
1978
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainla ... view
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Original title: 宇宙からのメッセージ
1978
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaib ... view
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Urocco
Original title: 新宿酔いどれ番地 人斬り鉄
1977
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release. ... view
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Yasuo Fujiwara
Original title: 青春の殺人者
1976
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, ten ... view
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Original title: トラック野郎 御意見無用
1975
The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their carg ... view
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Dragon
Original title: 青い性
1975
Two innocent high school girls, Aki Shindo, nicknamed Ako, and Mineko Mayama, nicknamed Neko, run away from home and, along with Kaori Yashiro, whom t ... view
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Original title: 少林寺拳法
1975
Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor and ... view
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Kentaro Otaki
Original title: 直撃地獄拳 大逆転
1974
When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. But a do ... view
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Takeshi Hayabusa
Original title: Москва, любовь моя
1974
A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success, for ... view
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Tetsuya
Original title: 直撃! 地獄拳
1974
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura wor ... view
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Takeshi Hayabusa
Oct 1973 (first aired)
The Water Margin is a Japanese television series based on Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The novel detai ... view
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Yang Zhi (26 ep.)
Original title: 宮本武蔵
1973
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then b ... view
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Original title: 狼やくざ 殺しは俺がやる
1972
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence. ... view
Character:
Jun Eguchi
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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Kinzo (1 ep.)
Original title: 流血の抗争
1971
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has ... view
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Hiroshi Yoshinaga
Original title: 新宿の与太者
1970
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag- ... view
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Original title: 怪談昇り竜
1970
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appe ... view
Character:
Tani Shouichi
Original title: 富士山頂
1970
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipel ... view
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Morita
Original title: 任侠興亡史 組長と代貸
1970
A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member. ... view
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Original title: あゝ陸軍隼戦闘隊
1969
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps ... view
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Lt. Takeo Kato
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Original title: 日本海大海戦
1969
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a ... view
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Gunnery Chief of Security
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Original title: 殺すまで追え 新宿25時
1969
Police detective Amachi fights against those who banished him from his job-both cops and criminals. ... view
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Original title: 愛のきずな
1969
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires ... view
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Kenji Hirai
Original title: 座頭市喧嘩太鼓
1968
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituti ... view
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Yasaburo Kashiwazaki
Original title: 闇を裂く一発
1968
A 72-hour story about a group of rookie police officers and detectives who are candidates for the Mexican Olympic team and are in training camp for sh ... view
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Original title: 連合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六
1968
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. ... view
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Genda
1968
The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada. ... view
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Original title: みな殺しの霊歌
1968
Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide. ... view
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Kawashima
Original title: 100発100中 黄金の眼
1968
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo. ... view
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Detective Tezuka
Original title: 日本のいちばん長い日
1967
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies ... view
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Major Hidemasa Koga - 1st Imperial Guards Division
Original title: 続・何処へ
1967
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka. ... view
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Original title: 国際秘密警察 絶体絶命
1967
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddh ... view
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Ken Hayata
1966
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to ... view
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Phil's Partner
Original title: 沈丁花
1966
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffer ... view
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Goro (Kudo's younger brother)
Original title: 怒涛一万浬
1966
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they e ... view
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Aoki
Original title: 奇巌城の冒険
1966
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in ... view
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Gorjaka
Original title: 暴れ豪右衛門
1966
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees ... view
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Yatōta Gōemon
Original title: 血と砂
1965
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His comm ... view
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Inuyama
Original title: 戦場にながれる歌
1965
Near the end of the war, a number of young Japanese join an army band hoping to avoid the front lines, but instead are sent to the Chinese Front. ... view
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Original title: 太平洋奇跡の作戦 キスカ
1965
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhe ... view
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Commander Amano
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Original title: こゝから始まる
1965
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected remarriage ... view
Character:
Sanjiro Kitamura (Toshiko’s Husband)
Original title: 暗黒街全滅作戦
1965
The 1965 Japanese yakuza film is the last episode of the Ankokugai series. ... view
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Original title: 国際秘密警察 火薬の樽
1964
In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent scientis ... view
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Inspector Yagyu
Original title: 血とダイヤモンド
1964
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise. ... view
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Original title: 蚁地狱作战
1964
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima ... view
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Original title: 士魂魔道 大龍巻
1964
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle ... view
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Shuri Kusanagi
Original title: 大盗賊
1963
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the t ... view
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The Black Pirate
Original title: のら犬作戦
1963
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda ... view
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Original title: 国際秘密警察 指令第８号
1963
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas. ... view
Character:
Natsuo Ezaki
Original title: 独立機関銃隊未だ射撃中
1963
The fifth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Senkichi Taniguchi ... view
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Original title: 写真記者物語 瞬間に命を賭けろ
1963
A young man from a family photo studio becomes a newspaper photojournalist, learning the risks and demands of the job through repeated setbacks. His g ... view
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Original title: 戦国野郎
1963
A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been smuggl ... view
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Kinoshita
Original title: 太平洋の翼
1963
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain ... view
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Teppei Yano
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Original title: 忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻
1962
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon ... view
Character:
Kazuemon Fuwa
Original title: やま猫作戦
1962
Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort. ... view
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Original title: どぶ鼠作戦
1962
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity. ... view
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Byakko
Original title: 吼えろ脱獄囚
1962
Ryusuke and Joe Oki escape from prison. Ryusuke was incarcerated for killing his younger brother Yasuhiko, who was a bouncer at the cabaret "Three Cat ... view
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Ryusuke Oki
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Original title: 真紅の男
1961
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza run ... view
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Original title: 守屋浩の三度笠シリーズ 有難や三度笠
1961
When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against corruption. Teaming ... view
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Nagagorō of Shimizu
Original title: 守屋浩の三度笠シリーズ 泣きとうござんす
1961
A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small town. As tensions escalate, epic duels and betrayal ... view
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Teraemon (a Western two-sworded ronin)
Original title: 東から来た男
1961
Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwellers from a piece of land the gangsters wish to de ... view
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Uesugi
Original title: 情無用の罠
1961
Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious. ... view
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Original title: 暗黒街の弾痕
1961
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has ... view
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Ken Sudô
Original title: 独立愚連隊西へ
1960
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communi ... view
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Original title: お姐ちゃんに任しとキ！
1960
Punch, Pinch, and Sench participate in a Tokyo-to-Osaka auto race but their car is stolen, and so get jobs in a cabaret where they pose in bathing sui ... view
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Original title: 大学の山賊たち
1960
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a ... view
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Original title: ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐
1960
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1 ... view
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Lt. Matsuura
Original title: 現代サラリーマン 恋愛武士道
1960
Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social expect ... view
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Kawashima Shigeo
Original title: 侍とお姐ちゃん
1960
Punch, Pinch, and Sench become involved in a murder mystery centering on a Chinese billionaire (Mihashi), actually a Japanese yakuza, who claims to be ... view
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Original title: 暗黒街の対決
1960
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting bet ... view
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Yata
Original title: 独立愚連隊
1959
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and ... view
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Sergeant Okubo, alias Araki
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Matsukichi Ishikawa
Original title: 野獣死すべし
1959
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot ... view
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Original title: 手錠をかけろ
1959
Crime melodrama about two detectives (Ikebe and Arashima) and one detective's trumpet-playing son (Sato) who become involved in a complex murder inve ... view
Character:
Saburo Shindo
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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Soldier (uncredited)
Original title: 若旦那は三代目
1958
A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing with gangsters and his old-fashioned g ... view
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Tadashi
Original title: 密告者は誰か
1958
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend. ... view
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Detective A
Original title: 青春白書 大人には分らない
1958
The first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son, a drummer in a student band. It depicts the conflict ... view
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Original title: 奴が殺人者だ
1958
Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring. ... view
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Original title: 若い獣
1958
Story of a textile designer-turned featherweight boxer (Kubo) who, a la Champion ( 1949), loses everything as he battles his way to the top. ... view
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Original title: 美女と液体人間
1958
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where s ... view
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Uchida
Original title: 昭和刑事物語 俺にまかせろ
1958
A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense. ... view
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Original title: 結婚のすべて
1958
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister. ... view
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Original title: 脱獄囚
1957
Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (Ikebe) whom he blames for the suicide of his pregn ... view
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Ryōsuke Yamashita (Escaped convict)
Original title: 東北の神武たち
1957
Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children. ... view
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Original title: 三十六人の乗客
1957
A suspense drama about a thief who sneaks onto a late-night ski bus heading from Tokyo to Joshinetsu and the detective who rides with him to arrest hi ... view
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Original title: 嵐の中の男
1957
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert. ... view
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Original title: 日蝕の夏
1956
Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while fi ... view
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