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Akira Sera
Born: 14th Oct 1912 Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 57
Film: 56 (98%)
Television: 1 (2%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Music, War & Politics, History
Filmography
Original title: 密約 外務省機密漏洩事件
1988
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV ... 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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Old Gardener (5 ep.)
Original title: 動乱
1980
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miy ... view
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Prime Minister Inukai
Original title: 黄金の犬
1979
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weap ... 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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Fan Shop Owner
Original title: 最後の特攻隊
1970
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji T ... view
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Original title: 謝国権「愛」より (秘)性と生活
1969
Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mik ... view
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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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1962
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where ... view
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Village High Priest
Original title: 「みな殺しの歌」より 拳銃よさらば
1960
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one. ... view
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Original title: 濹東綺譚
1960
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher ... view
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Original title: 電送人間
1960
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims. ... view
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Genzo
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Fukuda
Original title: 女が階段を上る時
1960
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar ... view
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Mizutani
Original title: 暗黒街の対決
1960
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting bet ... view
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Naki Jogo
Original title: 日本誕生
1959
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe ... view
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Anazuchi
Original title: 独立愚連隊
1959
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and ... view
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Original title: 野獣死すべし
1959
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot ... view
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Detective Okada
Original title: 或る剣豪の生涯
1959
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. ... view
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(uncredited)
Original title: 狐と狸
1959
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and drea ... view
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Mail Carrier
Original title: 暗黒街の顔役
1959
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping ... view
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Original title: 密告者は誰か
1958
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend. ... view
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doctor
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Original title: 大怪獣バラン
1958
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Vara ... view
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Village High Priest
Original title: 女探偵物語 女性ＳＯＳ
1958
A private detective and a colleague investigate a man for a wealthy young lady. ... view
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Original title: 美女と液体人間
1958
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where s ... view
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Horita
Original title: 結婚のすべて
1958
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister. ... view
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Mariko's Father
Original title: 続大番・風雲篇
1957
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful.
Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shis ... view
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Original title: 「動物園物語」より 象
1957
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the ... view
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Ito (Small Bird)
Original title: 大番
1957
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku S ... view
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Ookawara
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Masakichi
Original title: あの娘が泣いてる波止場
1956
After a gang killing forces him to flee abroad, ex-yakuza Ryūji returns to Yokohama a year later to find his lover’s sister’s killer. With help f ... view
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Pinta
Original title: 妻の心
1956
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jeal ... view
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Original title: 奥様は大学生
1956
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, she impulsively declares she wants to marry him—t ... view
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Section Chief (Noboru’s Boss)
Original title: ジャンケン娘
1955
Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the thr ... view
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Original title: 獣人雪男
1955
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman. ... view
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Matsui
Original title: 浮雲
1955
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He do ... view
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Original title: 男性ＮＯ.１
1955
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match i ... view
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Safety manager
Original title: 透明人間
1954
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice. ... view
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Man at street stand
Original title: 宮本武蔵
1954
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior. ... view
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Villager (uncredited)
Original title: 太平洋の鷲
1953
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w ... view
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(uncredited)
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Uranari
Original title: プーサン
1953
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl. ... view
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(uncredited)
Original title: 生きる
1952
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look ... view
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Worker in General Affairs
Original title: ジャコ萬と鉄
1949
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one o ... view
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Miyamoto Musashi - Dai-ichi-bu: Kusawake no hitobito - Dai-ni-bu: Eitatsu no mon
War, Drama, Action, Adventure
Original title: 宮本武蔵 第一部 草分の人々 第二部 栄達の門
1940
Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto. ... view
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