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Tokue Hanazawa
Born: 18th Oct 1911 Tokyo, Japan - Died 7th Mar 2001
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 198
Film: 191 (96%)
Television: 7 (4%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Thriller, Fantasy, Western, Animation, Music
Filmography
Original title: 東京夜曲
1997
When Koichi Hamanaka returns after his mysterious disappearance years earlier, journalist Asakura who befriended Hamanaka's wife during his absence, t ... view
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Asakura's father
Original title: Naniwa Kinyudo 1
1996
A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by Y ... view
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Original title: 月光の夏
1993
Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years ... view
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Original title: 七衛門の首
1993
During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory. ... view
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Original title: 私を抱いてそしてキスして
1992
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist th ... view
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Oct 1992 (first aired)
The 48th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Hirari. Story's settings includes Tokyo. Hirari is a young and energetic girl. She loves the sports, sumo, very ... view
Character:
深川金太郎 (151 ep.)
Original title: 豪姫
1992
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit su ... view
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Original title: 雲霧仁左衛門
1991
When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his ... view
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Original title: 釣りバカ日誌3
1990
Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems. ... view
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Original title: 塀の中の懲りない面々
1987
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time. ... view
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Original title: 野風の笛 鬼の剣・松平忠輝 天下を斬る!
1987
Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa, was exiled for not taking part in the attack on Osaka Castle. 10 years before his exile expired ... view
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Original title: へそ曲がり新左
1987
Shinza is known for his stubborn personality and continues to hold a low-ranking position as a magistrate, despite his colleague Kato becoming the dep ... view
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Original title: ビー・バップ・ハイスクール 高校与太郎行進曲
1987
A sly prep school thug uses his girlfriend to lure Hiroshi and Toru to a fight, but the scheme escalates to an all-out war between everyone involved. ... view
Character:
Old man
Jan 1987 (first aired)
Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash ap ... view
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Unknown/various (23 ep.)
Original title: 女教師｢伊豆の踊り子｣殺人事件
1986
Teacher Shizuko and her literature club students are caught up in a murder case while on vacation in Izu. The victims are Kazumasa, who was in a relat ... view
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Original title: 薄化粧
1985
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous cr ... view
Character:
Tetsuji Watanabe
Original title: 人形佐七捕物帖 死をよぶ猫は金の爪
1984
Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable young ... view
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Original title: ふるさと
1983
Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son a ... view
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Original title: Kogi Onmitsu
1983
Oniwaban is an organization that is composed of two ninja groups… Iga and Koga. This is a story of a secret spy who settled in Okazaki Joka town dur ... view
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Original title: 刑事物語
1982
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako. ... view
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Kudo
Original title: 新・御金蔵破り
1982
A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the shogun's ... view
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Original title: 素浪人罷り通る
1981
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV ... view
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Original title: 御金蔵破り1
1981
Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five years plans to break into the Edo Castle gold sto ... view
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Oct 1980 (first aired)
At the end of Edo period, Shoji Rui hands over her birthright to her relatives with the death of her father and begins running an inn "Kawasemi" in Ō ... view
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Unknown/various (47 ep.)
Original title: 衝動殺人 息子よ
1979
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families. ... view
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Original title: 東京大空襲 ガラスのうさぎ
1979
Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II ... view
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Historian
Original title: あすも夕やけ
1977
Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts s ... view
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Original title: 八つ墓村
1977
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of nov ... view
Character:
Isogawa
Original title: 八甲田山
1977
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia. ... view
Character:
Denzo Takuguchi
Original title: 天保水滸伝 大原幽学
1976
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers ... view
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Original title: 脱走遊戯
1976
Kamiki (Sonny Chiba) is a career criminal who is given the chance to break out of prison for the 33rd time. Afterwards Kaimiki teams up with a bunch o ... view
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Original title: やさぐれ刑事
1976
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same ... view
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Original title: 絶唱
1975
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his fat ... view
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Original title: 潮騒
1975
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. ... view
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Original title: 砂の器
1974
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard. ... view
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Miki's Colleague in Flashback
Original title: 神田川
1974
Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a ... view
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Apr 1973 (first aired)
A human drama that unfolds around a Japanese restaurant-inn ... view
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Unknown/various (26 ep.)
Apr 1973 (first aired)
The 13th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Takahashi in a story about a brother and sister coming of age in Hakodate and Kanazawa. ... view
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島田平吉 (308 ep.)
Original title: 夜が明けたら
1973
In a bustling shopping district, a humble tailor accompanies his daughter for an afternoon out — until a trio of thugs begin harassing her in broad ... view
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Original title: どぶ川学級
1972
The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely. ... view
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Original title: 無宿人御子神の丈吉 牙は引き裂いた
1972
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after pro ... view
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Original title: コント55号とミーコの絶体絶命
1971
Comedy of two brothers working at a local governmental office. ... view
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Jun 1971 (first aired)
Kenichi, the son of a master carpenter, was in his third year of high school. His mother, Motoko, was a resolute woman who took care of her husband's ... view
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Unknown/various (26 ep.)
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Original title: 新座頭市 破れ！唐人剣
1971
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering ... view
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Original title: 家族
1970
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the m ... view
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Chinke
Original title: 喜劇 男は愛嬌
1970
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Ba ... view
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Original title: 夕陽が呼んだ男
1970
Contrast between two outlooks on life: one of a poor factory worker and the other the heir to millions. ... view
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Original title: 男はつらいよ フーテンの寅
1970
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches. ... view
Character:
Sêitarô Sakaguchi
Original title: 赤毛
1969
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa ... view
Character:
Komatora
Original title: 喜劇 女は度胸
1969
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother. ... view
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Original title: コント55号と水前寺清子のワン・ツー・パンチ 三百六十五歩のマーチ
1969
Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles. ... view
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Original title: 日本の青春
1968
During WWII, Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son has fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming. ... view
Character:
Shosuke Toyama
Original title: 夜明けの二人
1968
Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two star-crossed ... view
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Original title: ドレイ工場
1968
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union. ... view
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Original title: 喜劇 大風呂敷
1967
One day, after the ceasefire in the Vietnam War, Maroku Ohno rushed into an American military position. He had been wandering inland, unaware that the ... view
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Original title: 恋人をさがそう
1967
Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts working to earn money for his mother's surgery afte ... view
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Original title: 続浪曲子守唄
1967
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leav ... view
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Original title: 湖の琴
1966
A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, ... view
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Gempachi
Character:
Josuke Hayami
Original title: 絶唱
1966
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as ... view
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Original title: おはなはん
1966
This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives a lively life while being swept up in the waves o ... view
Character:
Josuke Hayami
Apr 1966 (first aired)
The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family by herself. ... view
Character:
謙太郎の祖父・襄介 (310 ep.)
Original title: 運が良けりゃ
1966
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge thems ... view
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Original title: 昭和残侠伝 唐獅子牡丹
1966
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the ... view
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Original title: 泣かせるぜ
1965
Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hi ... view
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Original title: にっぽん泥棒物語
1965
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some commun ... view
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Original title: 冷飯とおさんとちゃん
1965
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money. ... view
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Original title: 怪談
1965
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit ... view
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(segment "Hoichi the Earless") (uncredited)
Original title: 馬鹿が戦車でやって来る
1964
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken. ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 行方不明
1964
Two people disappeared, engineers of the companies Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol toge ... view
Character:
Detective Hayashi
Original title: 散歩する霊柩車
1964
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, th ... view
Character:
Driver
Original title: 大喧嘩
1964
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home t ... view
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Original title: 鮫
1964
A film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka and starring Nakamura Kinnosuke. This literary epic tell ... view
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Original title: 拝啓総理大臣様
1964
Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner, gain ... view
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Original title: いいかげん馬鹿
1964
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his home ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 自供
1964
The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. D ... view
Character:
Detective Hayashi
Original title: 馬鹿まるだし
1964
Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, ... view
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Original title: 宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗
1964
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. A ... view
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Original title: ギャング忠臣蔵
1963
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era ... view
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Original title: 死闘の伝説
1963
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove. ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 十代の足どり
1963
A 16-year-old high school student Midori Matsumoto was found dead on the banks of the Tama River. The only clue is shoe marks on rubber soles. From th ... view
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Detective Hayashi
Original title: 十七人の忍者
1963
As the Shogun lays dying, seventeen Iga clan ninja are sent to infiltrate the impenetrable fortress where his youngest son is preparing to storm Edo C ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 全国縦断捜査
1963
A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage, sm ... view
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Detective Hayashi
Original title: 柔道一代
1963
Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of judo ... view
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Original title: 最後の顔役
1963
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka, ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 ウラ付け捜査
1963
A man confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago. The detectives must now conduct a "backing investigation" to determine whether his conf ... view
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Detective Hayashi
Original title: 王将
1962
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional sho ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 19号埋立地
1962
In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An au ... view
Character:
Detective Hayashi
Original title: 警視庁物語 謎の赤電話
1962
A young girl named Michiko is kidnapped and later found dead in a bag. But the kidnapper strikes again. The 18th work from the series "Keishicho Monog ... view
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Detective Hayashi
Original title: 花と野盗の群れ
1962
Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period. ... view
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Original title: 丹下左膳 乾雲坤竜の巻
1962
This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece swo ... view
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Nakamura Daizen
Original title: 天草四郎時貞
1962
In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro A ... view
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Character:
Hoan
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Anazawa
Original title: ファンキーハットの快男児 ２千万円の腕
1961
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears righ ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 １２人の刑事
1961
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, ... view
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Detective Hayashi
Original title: 故郷は緑なりき
1961
A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino. ... view
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Original title: 好人好日
1961
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to ma ... view
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Original title: ヒマラヤ無宿 心臓破りの野郎ども
1961
One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss abo ... view
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Original title: ファンキーハットの快男児
1961
Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends ge ... view
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Kiyosuke
Original title: 水戸黄門 助さん格さん大暴れ
1961
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and c ... view
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Original title: 安寿と厨子王丸
1961
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mothe ... view
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Sanai Andô (voice)
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Original title: アマゾン無宿 世紀の大魔王
1961
Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate). Shot ... view
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Original title: 天下の快男児 旋風太郎
1961
The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who h ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 十五才の女
1961
Detectives of the First Investigation Division are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled corpse was found in the bay of the ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 不在証明
1961
The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an alib ... view
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Original title: 大いなる驀進
1960
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki... ... view
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Chameleon Matsu
Original title: 弾丸大将
1960
Ammo scavengers make a living gathering the unexploded bombs and shell casings from the U.S. military training grounds. One of them, Zen, is their cha ... view
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Original title: 砂漠を渡る太陽
1960
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople. ... view
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Choi
Original title: 続少年漂流記
1960
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners. ... view
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Original title: 少年漂流記
1960
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners. ... view
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Original title: 天下の快男児 突進太郎
1960
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love. ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 聞き込み
1960
An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The detect ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 血液型の秘密
1960
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined ... view
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Detective Hayashi
Original title: 殺られてたまるか
1960
The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. However, soon the girl Kenji Amy, who was in favor of ... view
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Torajiro Shirato
Original title: 多羅尾伴内 七つの顔の男だぜ
1960
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case. ... view
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Original title: 大いなる旅路
1960
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war . ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 深夜便一三〇列車
1960
In a corner of a warehouse at Shiodome Station, a alumni trunk, is found with the terrible smell of decay. The dead body of a woman is inside. Since t ... view
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Original title: べらんめえ芸者
1959
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argum ... view
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Tamezo
Original title: 警視庁物語 遺留品なし
1959
A man who uses marriage as bait goes from woman to woman, and then a horrific murder is committed for money. Seven police man chase the vicious crimin ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 一〇八号車
1959
Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the policeman investigates he is shot and the truck makes ... view
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Original title: 地獄の底までつき合うぜ
1959
During the seventh-year memorial service for Katsugoro and Genji, Ikari Genji himself emerged from the coffin brought in by the hearse seeking reveng ... view
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Original title: 孔雀城の花嫁
1959
Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000 kok ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 顔のない女
1959
A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on th ... view
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Original title: 森と湖のまつり
1958
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Ta ... view
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Kawaguchikan's owner
Original title: 点と線
1958
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the trut ... view
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Original title: 裸の太陽
1958
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they ha ... view
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Original title: 赤い陣羽織
1958
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among who ... view
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Original title: 希望の乙女
1958
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and song ... view
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Original title: ひばりの花形探偵合戦
1958
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating th ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 魔の伝言板
1958
Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol car, veers off and hits a tree. Three men run out an ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 七人の追跡者
1958
The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin manufacturing company. At the age of 26, she was a w ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 夜の野獣
1957
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime ... view
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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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Takichi Banno
Original title: 血まみれの決闘
1957
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love ... view
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Original title: 警視庁物語 上野発五時三五分
1957
The fifth installment of the Metropolitan Police Department story series. This time, detectives from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First ... view
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Detective Hayashi
Original title: 青い海原
1957
To fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a young sailor Kenji takes on the task of delivering an heirloom to his friend’s daughter, Harumi, who has been ... view
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Original title: 鯨と斗う男
1957
A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will ha ... view
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Genji Yakura
Original title: 警視庁物語 追跡七十三時間
1956
A robbery and murder occurred at a gas station facing the national highway at 1:00am. Detectives Nagata, head of the First Investigation Division, beg ... view
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Original title: あなた買います
1956
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers. ... view
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Eiji Kurita
Original title: 夕日と拳銃
1956
A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man Ri ... view
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Danzo
Original title: 警視庁物語 逃亡五分前
1956
A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigati ... view
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Detectiive Yoshioka
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Original title: 多羅尾伴内シリーズ 戦慄の七仮面
1956
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business. ... view
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Original title: 浮草日記
1955
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, however, ... view
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Original title: 復讐の七仮面
1955
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome Tow ... view
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Original title: 終電車の死美人
1955
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo. ... 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: ともしび
1954
Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and i ... view
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Original title: ひろしま
1953
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially c ... view
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Original title: 蟹工船
1953
Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy. ... view
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Kinoshita
Original title: 思春の泉
1953
The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away. For ... view
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Kinsaku
Original title: 真空地帯
1952
Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn ab ... view
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Original title: 黎明八月十五日
1952
July 1945. War‑exhausted Japan groans under the heel of a brutal military regime. Young journalist Saeki struggles to cling to a fading sense of jus ... view
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Tome-san
Original title: どっこい生きてる
1951
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical troupe ... view
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truck man
Original title: 日本戦歿学生の手記 きけ、わだつみの声
1950
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The fi ... view
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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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Kurosaka
Original title: 青い山脈
1949
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young ma ... 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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Original title: 戦争と平和
1947
A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns. ... view
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Original title: 浦島太郎の後裔
1946
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes p ... view
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Original title: 三十三間堂・通し矢物語
1945
Young, timid bowmaster Kazuma seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumoured, drove the previous c ... view
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