Kokuten Kōdō
Kokuten Kōdō (高堂 国典 Kōdō Kokuten, 29 January 1887 – 22 January 1960) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1923 to 1959.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.53 |
| Birthday | 1887-01-29 |
| Place of Birth | Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Kokuten Kodo, Kuninori Kôdô, 高堂國典, 高堂国典, Кокутен Кодо, Кокутэн Кодо, |
1954
Seven Samurai
8.459/3560
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
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Seven Samurai
1958
The Hidden Fortress
7.946/592
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who g...
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The Hidden Fortress
1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
7.2/108
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for h...
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.176/105
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1951
The Idiot
6.986/105
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kame...
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The Idiot
1943
Sanshiro Sugata
6.538/120
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form...
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Sanshiro Sugata
1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
6.8/70
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of...
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No Regrets for Our Youth
1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
6.2/50
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the for...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
1952
Vendetta of a Samurai
6.8/14
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Ak...
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Vendetta of a Samurai
1951
Carmen Comes Home
6.25/22
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
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Carmen Comes Home
1955
Half Human
4.9/11
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
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Half Human
1954
Godzilla
7.609/926
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far m...
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Godzilla
1955
I Live in Fear
7.257/107
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to saf...
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I Live in Fear
1957
Throne of Blood
7.932/808
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...
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Throne of Blood
1949
Stray Dog
7.502/291
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog
1950
Scandal
6.901/81
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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Scandal
1947
Snow Trail
7.1/19
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...
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Snow Trail
1937
Nangoku taiheiki
0/0
Japanese film.
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Nangoku taiheiki
1959
The Big Boss
6.3/3
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping...
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The Big Boss
1950
Street of Violence
6.5/2
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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Street of Violence
1958
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
3.2/9
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1956
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
7/1
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of He...
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Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1952
Sword for Hire
7/8
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care...
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Sword for Hire
1927
Skull
6.5/4
A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Of note is Utaemon Ichikawa's extraordinary m...
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Skull
1941
The Battle of Kawanakajima
0/0
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the mai...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
1951
Home Sweet Home
6.8/4
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...
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Home Sweet Home
1956
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
6.594/235
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monste...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1953
Husband and Wife
6.6/8
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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Husband and Wife
1939
Old Songs
0/0
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Old Songs
1940
Oath on the Burning Sands
0/0
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at bui...
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Oath on the Burning Sands
1954
Jirocho in Disgrace
0/0
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Jirocho in Disgrace
1951
The Blue Pearl
0/0
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coasta...
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The Blue Pearl
1957
Untamed Woman
7/8
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...
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Untamed Woman
1957
The Eleventh Hour
7.2/6
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 contempor...
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The Eleventh Hour
1941
Dancers of Awa
0/0
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin. Hi...
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Dancers of Awa
1935
An Actor's Revenge
5.2/4
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.
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An Actor's Revenge
1932
The Loyal 47 Ronin
0/0
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their f...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
1953
Red-Light Bases
0/0
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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Red-Light Bases
1955
Ticket to Hell
0/0
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Ticket to Hell
1951
Early Summer
7.834/175
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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Early Summer
1953
The Blue Revolution
0/0
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The Blue Revolution
1942
Musashibo Benkei
0/0
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei
with Hideko Takamine portraying Minam...
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Musashibo Benkei
1942
Dance of the Capital
0/0
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film
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Dance of the Capital
1939
Song of the White Orchid
0/0
Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the...
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Song of the White Orchid
1945
Five Tokyo Men
0/0
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Five Tokyo Men
1955
The Phantom Horse
0/0
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
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The Phantom Horse
1941
The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)
5/1
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1)
1941
The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)
6/1
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
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The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2)
1950
Red Peony of Night
0/0
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around the...
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Red Peony of Night
1951
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
0/0
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
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Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
1940
Zoku Hebihimesama
0/0
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Zoku Hebihimesama
1952
Forty-Eight Man
0/0
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Forty-Eight Man
1932
Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
0/0
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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
1957
The Fighting on The Trial
0/0
Hanjiro of Kusama searches for his little sister Oyuki, who went missing after being desecrated by Hikosaku Tokurai three years ago. The first film i...
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The Fighting on The Trial
1956
The Kuroda Affair
0/0
This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As his...
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The Kuroda Affair
1936
Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen
0/0
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Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen
1939
Blizzard Ronin
0/0
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
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Blizzard Ronin
1952
Third Class Executives
0/0
1950s Japanese comedy.
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Third Class Executives
1942
Green Earth
0/0
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japa...
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Green Earth
1924
Diary of a Drunkard
0/0
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Diary of a Drunkard
1950
Sasaki Kojiro
5/3
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasak...
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Sasaki Kojiro
1957
The Horse Boy
0/0
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his fathe...
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The Horse Boy
1952
Fighting Yasubei
0/0
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of...
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Fighting Yasubei
1956
A Rainbow at Every Turn
0/0
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they ha...
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A Rainbow at Every Turn
1954
浅草の夜
0/0
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...
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浅草の夜
1932
Yûreitô
0/0
Japanese horror movie from 1932.
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Yûreitô
1940
Bellflower
0/0
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a poo...
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Bellflower
1937
Yoru no hato
0/0
Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.
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