Shigeru Amachi
Shigeru Amachi (天知 茂, Amachi Shigeru, 4 March 1931 – 27 July 1985) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 120 films from 1953 to 1984.
Amachi joined the Shintoho studio as one of its "New Face" actors of 1951 and established himself in action and jidaigeki films. He gained fame for the nihilistic mood of his character in Akatsuki no hijōsen and starred in Nobuo Nakagawa's version of Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959). On television, he played the hardboiled detective in Hijō no raisensu and Kogoro Akechi in a long-running series of TV specials. On stage he was best known for playing Hishakaku in Jinsei gekijō.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.708 |
| Birthday | 1931-03-04 |
| Place of Birth | Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 天知茂, Jun Utsugi, |
1966
Zatoichi's Vengeance
6.773/33
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
1983
The Beast and the Magic Sword
5.5/19
His bloodline damned by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky heads to Japan to seek a cure for his werewolf curse.
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The Beast and the Magic Sword
1962
The Tale of Zatoichi
7.26/129
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's...
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The Tale of Zatoichi
1971
Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
4.7/5
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...
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Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
1963
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
6.636/11
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all t...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1960
Jigoku
6.447/94
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
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Jigoku
1962
Destiny's Son
6.6/16
The son of an executioner and the assassin he loved yet murdered learns of his origins, leaving his foster parents to avenge his mother's death.
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Destiny's Son
1958
Rusty Knife
5.929/14
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughin...
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Rusty Knife
1959
The Ghost of Yotsuya
6.6/47
This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
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The Ghost of Yotsuya
1963
Shinsengumi Chronicles
6.5/11
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samura...
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
1968
Blackmail Is My Life
6.4/9
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. D...
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Blackmail Is My Life
1955
Mysterious Pygmy
0/0
Horror film about a killer dwarf.
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Mysterious Pygmy
1966
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
5.8/6
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political reforme...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
1963
The Third Shadow Warrior
7/10
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...
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The Third Shadow Warrior
1956
Revenge of the Pearl Queen
0/0
Kizaki, an upstart at a trading company has one more assignment for the day before meeting his lovely girlfriend, Natsuki for a date. Little does he...
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Revenge of the Pearl Queen
1958
稲妻奉行
0/0
Japanese film.
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稲妻奉行
1972
Eight Men to Kill
7/2
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine thr...
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Eight Men to Kill
1959
The Lady Vampire
4.9/8
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she wa...
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The Lady Vampire
1960
Black Line
5.5/4
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman...
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Black Line
1965
Sword of the Beast
7.5/63
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his minist...
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Sword of the Beast
1958
Queen Bee
0/0
Earlier version or Prequel to Queen Bee and the School for Dragons.
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Queen Bee
1960
The Rambler Rides Again
0/0
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...
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The Rambler Rides Again
1957
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
8/1
The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom o...
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The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
1958
Secret White Line Zone
1/1
First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.
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Secret White Line Zone
1958
Queen Bee's Anger
5/3
Part of the Queen Bee series.
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Queen Bee's Anger
1962
Kuro to aka no hanabira
0/0
Crime film distributed by Taiho.
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Kuro to aka no hanabira
1958
Ghost in the Regiment
0/0
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firin...
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Ghost in the Regiment
1961
Fire Line
3.7/3
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from...
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Fire Line
1960
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
0/0
Japanese action film.
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Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
1957
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
0/0
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the s...
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
1979
Dead Angle
7/1
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
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Dead Angle
1967
Classmates
6.5/4
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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Classmates
1960
Yellow Line
7/3
The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese...
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Yellow Line
1957
Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
7.7/3
A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune...
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Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
1954
kyôfu no kâbin jû
0/0
Suspense film based on the "Carbine Gang Incident" that happened in June 1954 in Japan.
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kyôfu no kâbin jû
1960
Beyond the Hills
0/0
On September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled with victims, and rumors are circulating around. The mi...
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Beyond the Hills
1960
Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
0/0
During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not bei...
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Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
1958
Sutâ dokusatsu jiken
0/0
Japanese crime film.
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Sutâ dokusatsu jiken
1958
Holiday in Japan
0/0
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
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Holiday in Japan
1960
トップ屋を殺せ
0/0
Japanese crime film.
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トップ屋を殺せ
1959
Mukeisatsu
0/0
Japanese crime film.
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Mukeisatsu
1959
Quiet Dawn in the Front
0/0
Japanese war film.
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Quiet Dawn in the Front
1961
南郷次郎探偵帳 影なき殺人者
0/0
Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.
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南郷次郎探偵帳 影なき殺人者
1960
弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻
1958
黄金奉行
0/0
Japanese film.
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黄金奉行
1961
The Horizon Glitters
0/0
5 criminals organize a jailbreak in search of a cache of stolen diamonds.
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The Horizon Glitters
1966
Yakuza Hooligans
7/1
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty sc...
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Yakuza Hooligans
1959
Elegy of a Geisha
0/0
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
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Elegy of a Geisha
1957
Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
0/0
Japanese mystery film.
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Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
1959
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
0/0
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
1960
皇室と戦争とわが民族
0/0
Japanese war film.
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皇室と戦争とわが民族
1955
Twilight Saloon
8/3
Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm fo...
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Twilight Saloon
1958
Poison Fang Oran
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Poison Fang Oran
1959
Onna kanchō akatsuki no chōsen
0/0
Japanese spy film.
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Onna kanchō akatsuki no chōsen
1972
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
7/1
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is t...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
1960
Women of Whirlpool Island
6.1/9
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Women of Whirlpool Island
1967
The Gambler's Law
0/0
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The Gambler's Law
1953
Mole Alley
0/0
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating f...
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Mole Alley
1972
Modern Lady Gambler
7/1
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. W...
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Modern Lady Gambler
1967
The Silent Gun
0/0
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigati...
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The Silent Gun
1977
The Faceless Man
0/0
First in a series of Japanese TV movies which were based on horror-tinged mystery novels by Edogawa Ranpo.
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The Faceless Man
1984
The Story of a Man Among Men
6/1
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
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The Story of a Man Among Men
1967
Showdown of Men 2
0/0
Part two.
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Showdown of Men 2
1965
The Third Contest
7/1
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in E...
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The Third Contest
1965
The Boss
0/0
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...
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The Boss
1959
Queen of the China Sea
0/0
Rika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by Firs...
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Queen of the China Sea
1965
The Dedicated Gunman
0/0
Third film in the "Inu" series.
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The Dedicated Gunman
1965
Trigger Happy Romeo
0/0
Fifth film in the "Inu" series.
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Trigger Happy Romeo
1980
Port Arthur
7.8/9
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (...
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Port Arthur
1956
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
0/0
A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by...
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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
1958
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
0/0
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Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
1983
Samurai Secret Agent
0/0
A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory being used by two samurai clans that try to usurp pow...
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Samurai Secret Agent
1962
The Lightning Sword
8/2
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that...
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The Lightning Sword
1966
Showdown of Men
0/0
Part one.
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Showdown of Men
1962
Yôki na tono-sama
0/0
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Yôki na tono-sama
1962
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
0/0
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Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
1962
Ken ni kakeru
0/0
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Ken ni kakeru
1972
The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
0/0
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
1955
花眞珠
0/0
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花眞珠
1956
検事とその妹
0/0
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検事とその妹
1961
Ren'ai Zubari Kôza
0/0
A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kôshoku".
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Ren'ai Zubari Kôza
1960
怒号する巨弾
0/0
At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused as spy suspects and his father died in prison after...
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怒号する巨弾
1955
Morishige no demakase shinshi
0/0
Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
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Morishige no demakase shinshi
1956
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
0/0
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
1956
Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: 6 Famous Beauties
0/0
Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The f...
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: 6 Famous Beauties
1969
The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
0/0
15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
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The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
1966
The Pretty Jade
0/0
Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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The Pretty Jade
1965
A Lonely Gamble
0/0
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his propri...
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A Lonely Gamble
1964
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
0/0
An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambu...
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Two Lives, Two Yakuza
1979
Hôseki no bijo: Edogawa Ranpo Hakuhatsuki yori
0/0
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Hôseki no bijo: Edogawa Ranpo Hakuhatsuki yori
1967
Shroud of Snow
0/0
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.
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Shroud of Snow
1983
Empress
2/1
A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his mistress. But beware, power is fleeting.
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Empress
1970
Easy Money
0/0
An action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens.
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Easy Money
1980
江戸川乱歩の黄金仮面ＩＩ／桜の国の美女
0/0
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江戸川乱歩の黄金仮面ＩＩ／桜の国の美女
1963
Assassins for sale
7.5/2
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here, thre...
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Assassins for sale
1980
Edogawa Ranpo Series Fascinated Beauty
0/0
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Edogawa Ranpo Series Fascinated Beauty
1964
駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
0/0
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駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
1964
Homeless Dog
0/0
First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
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Homeless Dog
1967
Quick-Draw Dog
0/0
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series.
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Quick-Draw Dog
1966
Zoku teppō inu
0/0
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.
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Zoku teppō inu
1957
Cordon at Dawn
0/0
1957 crime film
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Cordon at Dawn
1961
Counterattack of a Queen Bee
0/0
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Counterattack of a Queen Bee
1978
死刑台の美女
0/0
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死刑台の美女
1978
Fairy Beauty
0/0
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Fairy Beauty
1985
Mysterious Scar Beauty
0/0
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Mysterious Scar Beauty
1978
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
0/0
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The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1979
Demonic Beauty
0/0
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Demonic Beauty
1962
俺が裁くんだ
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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俺が裁くんだ
1978
The Beauty in the Bathroom
0/0
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970...
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
1962
The tragedy of a young warrior
0/0
Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima, Kyushu...
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The tragedy of a young warrior
1971
君は海を見たか
0/0
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君は海を見たか
1984
禁断の実の美女
0/0
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禁断の実の美女
1982
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
0/0
Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.” Samon suspects that...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
1983
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
0/0
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken for a snitch...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
1983
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3
0/0
After three consecutive days of heavy rain, the water level at Sumida River rises and the newly built Eitai Bridge collapses just two years after its...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3
1984
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
0/0
Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he is attacked by a group of masked bandits and suffe...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
1982
The Edo Fortune-Teller
0/0
Karasudo, who charges 16 mon for his fortune-telling skill, asks for nothing when it comes to swordplay. His merciless blade is stained with the blood...
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The Edo Fortune-Teller
1983
Kanei Command Performance
0/0
During the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine whether or not Iemitsu was to remain in power or cede it to...
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Kanei Command Performance
1965
Ankoku gai jingi
0/0
A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's organizatio...
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Ankoku gai jingi
1978
江戸川乱歩「緑衣の鬼」より 白い人魚の美女
0/0
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江戸川乱歩「緑衣の鬼」より 白い人魚の美女
1979
Gem Beauty
0/0
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Gem Beauty
1979
大時計の美女 江戸川乱歩の「幽霊塔」
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大時計の美女 江戸川乱歩の「幽霊塔」
1982
The Beauty of the Makeup Stage
0/0
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The Beauty of the Makeup Stage
1982
Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake
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Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake
1983
天使と悪魔の美女 江戸川乱歩の「白昼夢」
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天使と悪魔の美女 江戸川乱歩の「白昼夢」
1983
White skinned beauty
0/0
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White skinned beauty
1984
Beauty in the Flame
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Beauty in the Flame
1985
The Beauty of Black Pearl
0/0
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The Beauty of Black Pearl
1982
The Beauty of Heaven and Hell
6/1
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The Beauty of Heaven and Hell
1962
The Demon of Sendai's Castle
0/0
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advi...
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The Demon of Sendai's Castle
1981
Edogawa Ranpo's Beauty Series: Beautiful Woman with White Breasts Edogawa Ranpo's "Hell's Clown"
0/0
Kogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another!
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Edogawa Ranpo's Beauty Series: Beautiful Woman with White Breasts Edogawa Ranpo's "Hell's Clown"
1966
Black Curtain
0/0
Nikkatsu drama film
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Black Curtain
1957
剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
0/0
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