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Tōru Abe
Born: 28th Mar 1917 Fukuoka, Japan - Died 18th Jul 1993
Dept: Acting
Toru Abe (安部 徹, Abe Tōru, 28 March 1917 – 18 July 1993) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1944 to 1985.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 267
Film: 263 (99%)
Television: 4 (1%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Music, Fantasy, Animation, TV Movie, War & Politics, Science Fiction
Filmography
Original title: 悪霊の証明
1986
A wife remarries after her doctor husband dies in a stormy lake, but is distressed when he appears in her dreams every night. ... view
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Original title: ひとりぼっちのオリンピック
1983
This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater bo ... view
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Nov 1982 (first aired)
Starting out in Edo, as Kyoshiro travels west toward Kyoto, he encounters some of the most dangerous obstacles in his career. Signs that the Tokugawa ... view
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Unknown/various (20 ep.)
Original title: 道頓堀川
1982
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year ... view
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Original title: 燃える勇者
1981
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout ... view
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Sakae Oya
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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Sep 1980 (first aired)
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan. ... view
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Hiromatsu (5 ep.)
Original title: トラック野郎 故郷特急便
1979
Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving i ... view
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Original title: 夜叉ヶ池
1979
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a near ... view
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Leader of the Village Assembly
Original title: アンネ・フランク物語-アンネの日記と童話より-
1979
Amsterdam, June 12, 1942. Anne celebrates her 13th birthday and begins her diary, which she calls Kitty. Hiding for two years from the German threat, ... view
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Otto Frank (voice)
Original title: 蘇える金狼
1979
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to domi ... view
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Original title: 水戸黄門
1978
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it ... view
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Mondo Murai
Original title: 日本の首領 完結篇
1978
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan. ... view
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Kentaro Yokokawa
Original title: Karate daisenso
1978
Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts. ... view
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Original title: はなれ瞽女おりん
1977
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her. ... view
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Besho
Original title: 暴力教室
1976
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by ... view
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Original title: 資金源強奪
1975
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor. ... view
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Hada
Original title: 日本暴力列島 京阪神殺しの軍団
1975
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan ... view
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Original title: 県警対組織暴力
1975
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the ac ... view
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Original title: まむしと青大将
1975
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in ... view
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Original title: 女番長 玉突き遊び
1974
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss. ... view
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Yakuza Boss
Original title: 狼よ落日を斬れ
1974
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. ... view
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Original title: 修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌
1974
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who of ... view
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Kendo Terauchi
Original title: 女番長 タイマン勝負
1974
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister. ... view
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Oshima Humio
Original title: 日本侠花伝
1973
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The ... view
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Tsuyoshi Kishimoto
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Original title: やさぐれ姐御伝 総括リンチ
1973
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tor ... view
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Asakichi
Original title: 非情学園ワル
1973
Yoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teachers (Kunie Tanaka and Mari Atsumi) get assigned to ... view
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Original title: エロ将軍と二十一人の愛妾
1972
The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about ... view
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Original title: 無宿人御子神の丈吉 川風に過去は流れた
1972
Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzabu ... view
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Sep 1972 (first aired)
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 女番長ゲリラ
1972
Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there. ... view
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Original title: 不良番長 のら犬機動隊
1972
This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pin ... view
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Original title: 女番長ブルース 牝蜂の逆襲
1971
In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and b ... view
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Yakuza Boss
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Original title: 人間標的
1971
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was bei ... view
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Chief Senda
Original title: 尼寺博徒
1971
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gamb ... view
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Original title: 極楽坊主
1971
A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation. A raunchy comedy about a lecherous monk who, despite serving the solemn Buddha, kee ... view
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Original title: 逆縁三つ盃
1971
The film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and who is bound by an oath to his brother in a conflict b ... view
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Hideo Tokuzawa
Original title: 渡世人 命の捨て場
1971
End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provi ... view
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Original title: 暴力団 乗り込み
1971
A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organiza ... view
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Original title: やくざ刑事 恐怖の毒ガス
1971
Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas. ... view
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Furuya
Original title: 未亡人ごろしの帝王
1971
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by ... view
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Original title: 極悪坊主 飲む打つ買う
1971
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Be ... view
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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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Boss Toubei
Original title: 不良番長 口から出まかせ
1970
Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group". ... view
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Original title: シルクハットの大親分 ちょび髭の熊
1970
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami. ... view
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Original title: 人斬り観音唄
1970
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruct ... view
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Original title: 日本女侠伝 鉄火芸者
1970
Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's busi ... 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
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Dobashi
Original title: 舶来仁義 カポネの舎弟
1970
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows his ... view
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Original title: 日本最大の顔役
1970
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city. ... view
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Original title: 新兄弟仁義
1970
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. S ... view
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Original title: 緋牡丹博徒 お竜参上
1970
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater. ... view
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Samezu no Masagoro
Original title: 蝦夷館の決闘
1970
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's ... view
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Ronin
1970
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! ... view
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Rear Adm. Takijiro Onishi (uncredited)
Original title: 牡丹と竜
1970
Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his wife. Due to Tatsuo's sudden illness, Ryuichi had ... view
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Original title: 朱鞘仁義 鉄火みだれ桜
1969
Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The autho ... view
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Tokuzo Sekiyama
Original title: 妖艶毒婦伝 お勝兇状旅
1969
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to ma ... view
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Original title: 大幹部 殴り込み
1969
Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata gr ... view
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Original title: 新網走番外地 流人岬の血斗
1969
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock ... view
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Original title: 温泉ポン引女中
1969
Two sisters involved in rival underworld sex trade factions compete against each other in this tale of elaborate sex antics, Yakuza crime, and bloody ... view
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Original title: めくらのお市 地獄肌
1969
Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges be ... view
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Bunzo
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Original title: 博徒百人
1969
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes reveng ... view
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Original title: 戦後最大の賭場
1969
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which put ... view
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Iwasa
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Original title: 代紋 男で死にたい
1969
The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the ... view
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Yoshiichiro Omori
Original title: 現代やくざ 与太者の掟
1969
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes. ... view
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Original title: 極悪坊主 人斬り数え唄
1968
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his ... view
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Original title: 女賭博師絶縁状
1968
Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ... view
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Oike
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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Chief of Staff Soka
Original title: 密告
1968
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to ... view
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Yasaburo Oba
Original title: いれずみ無残
1968
Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated fl ... view
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Tonomura
Original title: 続決着
1968
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro. ... view
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Original title: 男の勝負 白虎の鉄
1968
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A ra ... view
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Original title: 眠狂四郎女地獄
1968
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is t ... view
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Geki
Original title: 兄弟仁義 関東兄貴分
1967
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan. ... view
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Tsuyoshi Shimaoka
Original title: 血斗
1967
Following the well-received previous film “Confrontation”, Asahi returns as the wandering drifter Manshū Tsuné, who joins forces with the righte ... view
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Original title: なみだ川
1967
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka fall ... view
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Ukichi Tsurumura
1967
Late Taishō period. The Shibatora family, led by Naojirō, held power over the Tomigawara area in Jōshū. After launching an attack on the Takayasu ... view
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Original title: 波止場の鷹
1967
A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza. ... view
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Original title: 秩父水滸伝 影を斬る剣
1967
During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has alr ... view
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Detective Kuroshima
Original title: 花札渡世
1967
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is stay ... view
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Original title: 三人の博徒
1967
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family. ... view
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Kichinosuke Koizumi
Original title: 大魔神逆襲
1966
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A b ... view
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Hidanokami Arakawa
Original title: 北海の暴れ竜
1966
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local ga ... view
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Original title: 浪曲子守唄
1966
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, driftin ... view
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Kizaki
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Bunsho Tei
Original title: 兄弟仁義
1966
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road. ... view
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Kito
Original title: 侠勇の花道 ドス
1966
After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the sec ... view
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Kanzaki
Original title: 網走番外地 北海篇
1965
A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of ... view
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Original title: 網走番外地 望郷篇
1965
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a pas ... view
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Yasui
Original title: 明治侠客伝 三代目襲名
1965
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son an ... view
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Tatsuzo Karasawa
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Original title: 無法松の一生
1965
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. ... view
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Original title: 続・網走番外地
1965
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it. ... view
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Yoda
Original title: 網走番外地
1965
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty c ... view
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Heizo Yoda
Original title: 兵隊やくざ
1965
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an e ... view
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Original title: 裏階段
1965
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his ... view
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Original title: 眠狂四郎炎情剣
1965
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself enta ... view
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Atobe
Original title: 顔役
1965
Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is o ... view
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Original title: 博徒対テキ屋
1964
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will ... view
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Original title: 黒の盗賊
1964
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land. ... view
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Original title: いれずみ突撃隊
1964
Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop. ... view
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Original title: 忍者狩り
1964
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Ta ... view
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Original title: 日本侠客伝
1964
The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill. ... view
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Original title: 御金蔵破り
1964
Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault. ... view
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Original title: 無宿者
1964
A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the village is run by criminals who sell the poorest peasan ... view
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Original title: 新・男の紋章 度胸一番
1964
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the s ... view
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Original title: 大殺陣
1964
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th c ... view
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Original title: 悪の紋章
1964
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where h ... view
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Yuasa Teizo
Original title: ならず者
1964
Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal. ... view
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Te
Original title: 犯罪のメロディー
1964
Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses fo ... view
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Original title: 第三の忍者
1964
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga. ... view
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Original title: 学園広場
1963
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing ... view
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Original title: 関東無宿
1963
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic ... view
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Boss Yoshida
Original title: 関の弥太っぺ
1963
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, w ... view
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Sukegoro Iioka
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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Toribu
Original title: 真赤な恋の物語
1963
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles ... view
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Original title: 座頭市兇状旅
1963
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after he ... view
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Boss Yagiri Tokyuro
Original title: わたしを深く埋めて
1963
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman. ... view
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Ryuzo Goda
Original title: 俺の背中に陽が当る
1963
Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But ... view
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Yamada
Original title: 暗黒街の顔役 十一人のギャング
1963
Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money. ... view
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Kurobe
Original title: 若くて悪くて凄いこいつら
1962
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suici ... view
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Original title: 源九郎義経
1962
An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconcilia ... view
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Original title: 太平洋戦争と姫ゆり部隊
1962
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5. ... view
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Deputy Chief Kawanishi
Original title: からみ合い
1962
A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation. ... view
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Detective A
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Kenji Funaki
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: 妻あり子あり友ありて
1961
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes ... view
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Hoshino
Original title: 波止場気質
1961
The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ... view
Character:
Ryu
Character:
Original title: 拳銃横丁
1961
Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the ... view
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Original title: 橋蔵の若様やくざ
1961
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin. ... view
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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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Original title: 風と雲と砦
1961
During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When th ... view
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Original title: 俺の血が騒ぐ
1961
The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his fath ... view
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Original title: 銀座っ子物語
1961
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met ... view
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Original title: 闘牛に賭ける男
1960
An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yujiro who risks his life to invite bullfig ... 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
Character:
Original title: 笛吹川
1960
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over ... view
Character:
Original title: がんばれ！盤嶽
1960
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young ... view
Character:
Original title: 不知火検校
1960
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi. ... view
Character:
Original title: 三人の顔役
1960
A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him. ... view
Character:
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
Character:
Hanji Takebayashi
Original title: 勝利と敗北
1960
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in t ... view
Character:
Kenzo Goda
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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Character:
Original title: １３号待避線より その護送車を狙え
1960
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer. ... view
Character:
Akahori
Original title: 竜巻小僧
1960
Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after drivi ... view
Character:
Original title: わが愛
1960
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman. ... view
Character:
Yoshimura
Original title: 銀座旋風児 黒幕は誰だ
1959
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which As ... view
Character:
Original title: 青春蛮歌
1959
A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high school in Kobe. However, shortly after arriving, h ... view
Character:
Original title: 若い豹のむれ
1959
A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinag ... view
Character:
Original title: 東京の孤独
1959
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love. ... view
Character:
Original title: 拳銃0号
1959
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immedia ... view
Character:
Original title: 俺は挑戦する
1959
Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during tra ... view
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Character:
Character:
Osawa
Original title: 人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇
1959
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuri ... view
Character:
Watarai Gunsô
Original title: 踏みはずした春
1958
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. ... view
Character:
Original title: 不敵なる反抗
1958
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza. ... view
Character:
Original title: 暗黒街の美女
1958
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he retu ... view
Character:
Mihara
Original title: 夜の牙
1958
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and ... view
Character:
Original title: 嵐を呼ぶ男
1957
Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of ... view
Character:
Original title: 美徳のよろめき
1957
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household,
begins to have an affair outside the marriage. ... view
Character:
Iida
Original title: 鷲と鷹
1957
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of ... view
Character:
Matsu
Original title: 海の野郎ども
1957
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed ... view
Character:
Original title: 十七才の抵抗
1957
Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the ... view
Character:
Original title: 勝利者
1957
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He l ... view
Character:
Shinzo Takaoka
Original title: フランキーの宇宙人
1957
Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super speed. ... view
Character:
Original title: 浮草の宿
1957
Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison. ... view
Character:
Murayama
Original title: お転婆三人姉妹 踊る太陽
1957
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daugh ... view
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Original title: Wakanohana monogatari dohyou no oni
1956
A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his excellent fighting spirit and endurance. ... view
Character:
Original title: 月蝕
1956
A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of young ... view
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1956
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone. ... view
Character:
Original title: 火の鳥
1956
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she perform ... view
Character:
Original title: 死の十字路
1956
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt ... view
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Inspector Hanada
Original title: 地獄の波止場
1956
A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witness ... view
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Original title: 乳房よ永遠なれ
1955
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her success ... view
Character:
Yamagami
Original title: 続警察日記
1955
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station. ... view
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Character:
Original title: 銀座二十四帖
1955
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man w ... view
Character:
Gô Momoyama
Original title: 花嫁立候補
1955
Rookie reporter Yukiko helps save the failing Miyako Times with her friends, while romance and comic chaos unfold around her and fortune-teller Ishiba ... view
Character:
Fortune Teller Raiunken
Original title: やんちゃ娘行状記
1955
Olympic gymnast Yukiko resists marriage plans, stumbling into a newspaper job under reporter Tsubasa. Amid comic mix-ups with a fake fortune teller, j ... view
Character:
Fortune Teller Raiunken
Original title: 隼の魔王
1955
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was k ... view
Character:
Second baseman Aoike
Character:
Company president
1954
In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of fire by a ... view
Character:
Original title: 泥だらけの青春
1954
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayash ... view
Character:
Original title: 黒い潮
1954
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Ak ... view
Character:
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
Character:
Police Department Manager
Original title: 恋文
1953
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people. ... view
Character:
Original title: 東京物語
1953
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder so ... view
Character:
Railway Staff
Original title: 山を守る兄弟
1953
In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the ste ... view
Character:
Kakubei Oiwa
Original title: 花の生涯 彦根篇 江戸篇
1953
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His friend ... view
Character:
通訳
Original title: 野戦看護婦
1953
In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arrival of a fragile new nurse, Keiko, reawakens Yukiko' ... view
Character:
Sergeant Aoki
Original title: 現代人
1952
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assi ... view
Character:
Original title: おぼろ駕籠
1951
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka stylishly ... view
Character:
Older brother Taro Ichi
Character:
Original title: 薔薇合戦
1950
Following the death of Mr Masago, his wife Satomi loses the family's cosmetics company to Mr Mogy due to huge amount of withdrawal debt caused by her ... view
Character:
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
Character:
Tajima
Original title: 森の石松
1949
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit. ... view
Character:
Original title: 肖像
1948
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait. ... view
Character:
Ichiro
Original title: 象を喰った連中
1947
The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's c ... view
Character:
Original title: 歓呼の町
1944
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye. ... view
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