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Morio Kazama
Born: 26th Apr 1949 Sangenjaya, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 138
Film: 96 (70%)
Television: 42 (30%)
Remaining genres not in graph: TV Movie, Fantasy, War & Politics, Action & Adventure, Music, Soap
Filmography
Original title: 中山教頭の人生テスト
2025
Haruhiko Nakayama is vice principal at a Japanese school, where he takes care of everything and dreams of finally becoming principal. But after a teac ... view
Character:
Yusuke Kishimoto
Apr 2025 (first aired)
It is a love story about a Thai national actor who is so busy with work that he is losing sight of what is important. He runs away and meets the heroi ... view
Character:
Toshio Ishida (12 ep.)
Original title: 君の忘れ方
2025
The story of a young composer who lost his lover and encounters grief care, which casually provides support to people in a state of ... view
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Apr 2023 (first aired)
In this sequel to Police and Prosecutor, Nakaido, the passionate gymnastic-teacher-turned-police-detective, is still eager to arrest criminals by all ... view
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Unknown/various (9 ep.)
Oct 2022 (first aired)
Nayuta is a young genius video game developer who works independently. His anonymity had gained him the moniker “the Banksy of video games,” until ... view
Character:
Shigeo Tominaga (9 ep.)
Jun 2022 (first aired)
Satoru Matsudo moves to Tokyo in hopes of becoming an actor. He has trouble breaking into the industry, but his luck begins to change when he finds an ... view
Character:
Heizo Matsudo (10 ep.)
Original title: 浅草キッド
2021
Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines. ... view
Character:
Tayama Jun
Original title: アンダードッグ 前編
2020
Tells the story of three bottom-dog boxers who gets used as punching bags. Pro boxer Suenaga Akira fell off the path to greatness but still tries to ... view
Character:
Kozaburo
Mar 2020 (first aired)
NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hard ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (120 ep.)
Jan 2020 (first aired)
An ex-gymnastic teacher working as a police detective and a super-elite Tokyo University graduate prosecutor are to become a bizarre buddy. They alway ... view
Character:
Seiichiro Oonuki (9 ep.)
Apr 2019 (first aired)
Tetsu Himokura is a parasitologist. He enjoys researching the lives of parasites at his home laboratory and he barely leaves his home. He also has ass ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: のみとり侍
2018
Hironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where his lord, Tadakiyo is invited to rec ... view
Character:
Jinbee
Jan 2018 (first aired)
Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima Prefect ... view
Character:
Saigo Kichibei (7 ep.)
Original title: こいのわ 婚活クルージング
2017
The movie was inspired by Hiroshima prefectural government's marital activity "Koinowa Project" which is practiced as part of countermeasures against ... view
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Oct 2017 (first aired)
Rosuke Narumi works at a trading company and he is pretty good at his job. He dates Satoko Matsubara. The trading company has a business relationship ... view
Character:
Fumio Kashiwagi (10 ep.)
Original title: 本能寺ホテル
2017
In Kyoto, Mayuko (Haruka Ayase) stands at a crossroad in her life. She's thinking about marriage with her boyfriend Kyoichi (Hiroyuki Hirayama). By an ... view
Character:
Honnoji Hotel Manager
Original title: FOUJITA
2015
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese ... view
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Jul 2015 (first aired)
Emiri Yoshii begins work at a general trading company. Due to her family's failure in business, she had to give up her dream of earning a MBA in Ameri ... view
Character:
Susumu Gondo (9 ep.)
Oct 2014 (first aired)
Heisuke teaches at his alma mater, an all-boy’s Buddhist high school and leads a very ordinary life, except for the fact that he is still tortured b ... view
Character:
Heita Hara (10 ep.)
Sep 2014 (first aired)
Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, a Scotswoman Taketsuru met while studying abroad. ... view
Character:
Kumatora Morino (150 ep.)
Original title: 青天の霹靂
2014
Haruo has a dream to become the best magician, but, so far, he is only a marginal magician. Haruo also doesn't have parents. He then goes back 40 year ... view
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Original title: ジャッジ！
2014
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a jud ... view
Character:
President of Gentsu
Original title: 桜ほうさら
2014
Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon ... view
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Oct 2013 (first aired)
Detective Keita Kurokouchi (Tomoya Nagase) continues to extort money from politicians whom Keita Kurokouchi has information on. By using his informati ... view
Character:
Dojima Noriyuki (10 ep.)
Sep 2013 (first aired)
Matsushita plays Kiriyama Yuki, an assistant professor in forensic science at a university's faculty of medicine, who's great at finding the true caus ... view
Character:
白木田稔 (1 ep.)
Original title: 風立ちぬ
2013
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II figh ... view
Character:
Satomi (voice)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
This drama follows the staff of an Italian restaurant and their everyday struggles.
“Roccabianca” is a famous and popular Italian restaurant, but ... view
Character:
Hideo Tatsumi (11 ep.)
Original title: 綱引いちゃった！
2012
The mayor of Oita wants to improve the image of his city, so he instructs Chiaki - a young woman working for the city's PR department - to form a fema ... view
Character:
Kenichiro Hanamiya
Apr 2012 (first aired)
Enomoto Kei is a security "otaku" working for a security firm, devoted to improving the securities system on a daily basis. He is not an easy person t ... view
Character:
Ikehata Seiichi (1 ep.)
Original title: ブルータスの心臓
2011
An elite researcher (Tatsuya Fujiwara) dreams of committing the perfect crime. ... view
Character:
Toshiki Nishina
Mar 2010 (first aired)
The 82nd NHK Asadora is Gegege no Nyobo. The story is based on a 2008 autobiography by Mura Nunoe, the wife of Gegege no Kitaro mangaka Mizuki Shigeru ... view
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Unknown/various (156 ep.)
Original title: インスタント沼
2009
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her r ... view
Character:
Denkyu
Jan 2009 (first aired)
One day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in front of a train. Nakashiro Kana and Tasaki Shota both ... view
Character:
Shigeo Tazaki (11 ep.)
Original title: あの戦争は何だったのか 日米開戦と東条英機
2008
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war crimina ... view
Character:
Koichi Kito
Original title: その日のまえに
2008
Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she ... view
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Oct 2008 (first aired)
Wealthy daughter of a hotel chain mogul meets poor widowed father of three. Despite their vastly different values and beliefs, will their chanced enco ... view
Character:
Yasuo Gunji (11 ep.)
Original title: 椿三十郎
2007
"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He use ... view
Character:
Takebayashi
Oct 2005 (first aired)
Nangou is a compulsive gambler who has accumulated debt over three million yen. In a last ditch attempt to clear his record, he decides to wager his l ... view
Character:
Urabe (voice) (4 ep.)
Jan 2004 (first aired)
Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is ... view
Character:
Ken Egawa (1 ep.)
Jun 2003 (first aired)
One hundred years ago, the two died untimely deaths, although they had a strong bond. In the Edo period, the reincarnated man met a geisha named Osome ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (5 ep.)
Oct 2002 (first aired)
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the fi ... view
Character:
Sadao Hirai (2 ep.)
Jul 2002 (first aired)
Seri, an unknown yet talented female chef from the country, arrives in Tokyo to work at French restaurant, Etoire, but discovers that they have gone o ... view
Character:
Kenzo Tachibana (10 ep.)
Original title: 千年の恋 ひかる源氏物語
2001
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese n ... view
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Original title: ステレオ フューチャー
2001
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who ... view
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Original title: しあわせになろうね
1998
A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it i ... view
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Original title: SF サムライ・フィクション
1998
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword. ... view
Character:
Hanbei Mizoguchi
Original title: 天城越え
1998
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes p ... view
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Oct 1997 (first aired)
The 57th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama. Story's settings include Kobe and Sasayama. It is a story about the conflicts between generations and the relation ... view
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榊信太郎 (150 ep.)
Original title: 我等の放課後
1996
Tatsuo was leading a peaceful suburban life with his wife and daughter. But an ex-girlfriend attends his bridge club. Then Haruo, an old friend, appea ... view
Character:
Haruo Miyagawa
Original title: 英雄挽歌 孔子傳
1996
Born in the Chinese state of Lu in 551 B.C., Confucius is raised by his mother after his father dies when he is only three. He marries at 19 and enter ... view
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Confucius (voice)
Original title: 霧の子午線
1996
A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special ... view
Character:
Master Kumai
Original title: 熱帯楽園倶楽部
1994
Straight-laced, honest Japanese travel agent Misuzu gets a job as a tour guide so that she can the world. On her first assignment in Bangkok, Thailand ... view
Character:
Thuy
Original title: 忍ばずの女
1994
Based on a story written by actress and author Hideko Takamine. Kimizuru Kawamoto is a popular geisha in Shitaya, Tokyo in 1926. Kimizuru is pregnant ... view
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Jul 1994 (first aired)
Minori Amano becomes a widow on her honeymoon. Still, she becomes part of the Amano family's funeral home business. From now on, the woman not only ha ... view
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Unknown/various (11 ep.)
Original title: 女ざかり
1994
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials. ... view
Character:
Shibukawa
Apr 1994 (first aired)
Furuhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes in 2006. It was writte ... view
Character:
Jin Wakabayashi (1 ep.)
Jan 1994 (first aired)
Born as the second son of warlord Oda Nobuhide in Owari province, Nobunaga rises to power after his father's death and gains the support of Saito Dozo ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (13 ep.)
Dec 1993 (first aired)
A stop-motion animated TV series based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, featuring puppet art by Kihachirō Kawamoto. This is a historical picture scrol ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (57 ep.)
Original title: 戦国最後の勝利者！徳川家康
1992
The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this befo ... view
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Original title: 寛永風雲録
1991
From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of sword ... view
Character:
Suruga Dainagon Tadanaga
Original title: 天と地と
1990
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across t ... view
Character:
Imperial Messenger
Original title: 遺産相続
1990
The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family member ... view
Character:
Koichi Anzai
Original title: 新吾十番勝負
1990
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his fa ... view
Character:
Yagyu Shinzaburo
Original title: 五稜郭
1988
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the ... view
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Oct 1988 (first aired)
A famous pianist suddenly finds out he has a 19-year-old daughter ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (9 ep.)
Original title: 華の乱
1988
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much ... view
Character:
Sakae Osugi
Original title: 異人たちとの夏
1988
A recently divorced writer is reunited with the ghosts of his parents who died when he was a boy. However, every time he sees them he loses more life ... view
Character:
Hidemi Harada
Original title: 夢と承知で 鼠小僧大江戸青春絵図
1988
A thrilling and entertaining piece in which Jirokichi, portrayed by Morio Kazama, tackles a major event involving an attempt to assassinate the shogun ... view
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Dec 1987 (first aired)
Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s anti-W ... view
Character:
Kido Takayoshi (2 ep.)
Original title: 源氏物語
1987
Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtainabl ... view
Character:
Hikaru Genji (voice)
Original title: 青春かけおち篇
1987
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man. ... view
Character:
Yasuo
Dec 1986 (first aired)
Byakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battle of Tob ... view
Character:
Matsudaira Katamori (2 ep.)
Original title: 白虎隊
1986
The Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battl ... view
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Original title: 熱海殺人事件
1986
Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metropolitan Police Department. Transferred to Denbei' ... view
Character:
Tomekichi Kumada
Original title: 玄海つれづれ節
1986
A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate t ... view
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Original title: 忠臣蔵
1985
This is the story of the 47 ronin of the Ako clan who rose up to avenge the brutal death of their beloved master Asano Takumi-no-kami after his failed ... view
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Original title: それから
1985
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and li ... view
Character:
Suganuma
Jan 1985 (first aired)
The life and times of trailblazing actress Kawakami Sadayakko (Sada Yacco) from Meiji into Taishō, her marriage to orator-actor Kawakami Otojirō, ti ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (50 ep.)
Original title: 海に降る雪
1984
A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博). ... view
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Original title: 上海バンスキング
1984
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one ... view
Character:
Shirou Hadano
Original title: 序の舞
1984
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be ... view
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Original title: 陽暉楼
1983
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it w ... view
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Original title: 蒲田行進曲
1982
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a ... view
Character:
Ginshiro
Original title: ザ・レイプ
1982
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice sy ... view
Character:
Shogo Ueda
Character:
Original title: 青春の門 自立篇
1982
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu. ... view
Character:
Tatsuya Ogata
Original title: 日本フィルハーモニー物語 炎の第五楽章
1981
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinis ... view
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Original title: 野獣死すべし
1980
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the aut ... view
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Nogi
Original title: 夕暮まで
1980
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel. ... view
Character:
Okada
Original title: 四季・奈津子
1980
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences. ... view
Character:
Tatsuo Kanamori
Original title: 看護婦のオヤジがんばる
1980
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to wo ... view
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Original title: 太陽を盗んだ男
1979
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks ... view
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Asai
Original title: 戦後最大の誘拐
1979
A TV film based on the kidnapping and murder of 4 year old Yoshinobu Murakoshi. ... view
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Original title: もっとしなやかにもっとしたたかに
1979
Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run ... view
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Original title: 十代 －恵子の場合－
1979
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, mar ... 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: 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: 壇の浦夜枕合戦記
1977
Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the Minamot ... view
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Original title: お柳情炎 縛り肌
1975
When the boss of a yakuza clan in 1920s Osaka is assassinated, Oryu, his mistress, vows revenge. Her search for the killer takes her out of the city. ... view
Character:
Matsuo
Original title: 実録・元祖マナ板ショー
1975
Mako and Mayumi's lesbian show was a big hit, and the venue was packed to capacity again today. After the show, Mako and her gigolo Kumada were reliev ... view
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Original title: 秘本 袖と袖
1974
Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), is mistakenly ushered into the back entrance o ... view
Character:
Yonosuke Tsuruta
Original title: 赤線最後の日 昭和３３年３月３１日
1974
The lives and loves of several prostitutes are shown on the night the Prostitution Prevention Law goes into effect and criminalizes their profession. ... view
Character:
Masuo
Original title: ためいき
1973
One day, Yumiko, an office worker, is called in by the managing director. Having been holding in her urge to urinate, she is ordered by the managing d ... view
Character:
Kondô
Character:
Koji Machida
Original title: 女教師 私生活
1973
Naomi, a high school teacher, feels lonely living alone, so she secretly begins living with her student Keiji. It could be said that she is providing ... view
Character:
Keiji Shibata
Original title: 真夜中の妖精
1973
Kazuo is an angry young man, especially resentful of the power and snootiness of the rich. But at the same time he's obsessed with Saeko, the daughter ... view
Character:
Kazuo Sakaguchi
Character:
Original title: 昼下りの情事 古都曼陀羅
1973
An upwardly-mobile banker's boss introduces him to the adopted daughter of a wealthy client. He falls in love with the girl and wants to marry her, no ... view
Character:
Mineo Kuroki
Original title: 艶説女侠伝 お万乱れ肌
1972
"After leaving the Yakuza, Oman embraces a quiet normal life - only to be dragged back into a world of violence, when seeking revenge for the brutal m ... view
Character:
Ryôkichi
Original title: 路傍の石
1964
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The yea ... view
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Kyozo
Original title: わんぱく王子の大蛇退治
1963
In this influential cult-classic animated film based on Japanese folklore, Susano is the youngest son of Izanagi and Izanami, the heavenly couple who ... 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
Character:
Young Zushiômaru (voice)
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: 月光仮面 悪魔の最後
1959
The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s. ... view
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