Isao Yamagata
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.753 |
| Birthday | 1915-07-25 |
| Place of Birth | London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | 山形勲, 山形勋, |
1954
Seven Samurai
8.459/3562
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
1967
Samurai Rebellion
8.195/213
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to acce...
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Samurai Rebellion
1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
7.1/132
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
1953
Gate of Hell
7.122/82
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but...
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Gate of Hell
1966
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
7/39
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
1982
The Trout
6/14
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two we...
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The Trout
1955
Floating Clouds
7.71/93
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...
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Floating Clouds
1971
Kaoyaku
5.8/5
A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
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Kaoyaku
1961
Mask of the Moon
0/0
Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for power and put an end to meaningless feudal wars. Whe...
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Mask of the Moon
1965
A Story Written with Water
6.688/16
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the l...
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A Story Written with Water
1956
Warning from Space
5.032/31
Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien ta...
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Warning from Space
1954
The Princess Sen
5/1
During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a riv...
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The Princess Sen
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
10/1
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life...
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The Radish and the Carrot
1955
Murder on The Last Train
0/0
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
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Murder on The Last Train
1958
The Abandoned Swords
6/1
Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealing the identity of the chosen successor to the Toku...
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The Abandoned Swords
1957
The Unbalanced Wheel
0/0
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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The Unbalanced Wheel
1970
The Ambitious
7.05/10
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan...
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The Ambitious
1964
The Third Ninja
7/1
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
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The Third Ninja
1962
The Phantom Goblin
0/0
An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his be...
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The Phantom Goblin
1960
The Sand City in Manchuria
6.5/2
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
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The Sand City in Manchuria
1956
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
0/0
Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
1961
A Fishwife's Tale
0/0
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...
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A Fishwife's Tale
1958
Noble Tasuke
0/0
The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei temple. On his way the procession is disrupted when...
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Noble Tasuke
1962
G-Men in the Pacific
6/2
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
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G-Men in the Pacific
1959
The Acrobats of Death
5.8/5
Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.
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The Acrobats of Death
1962
The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman
6/2
In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is charged again with the task of protecting the Yagy...
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The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman
1958
Points and Lines
4/1
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the trut...
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Points and Lines
1953
Mr. Pu
6.5/2
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Mr. Pu
1963
Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
6/2
In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life.
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Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
1954
Three Loves
6/1
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy...
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Three Loves
1955
Christ in Bronze
0/0
Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
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Christ in Bronze
1961
Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
0/0
Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.
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Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
1960
Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
6/1
Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as suspects in s...
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Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
1961
Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
6/1
The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo. Wit...
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Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
1960
The Man of Seven Faces
6/1
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
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The Man of Seven Faces
1956
The Swamp
0/0
A man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him.
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The Swamp
1958
A Chivalrous Spirit
7/1
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre...
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A Chivalrous Spirit
1961
Edo Purebreed
0/0
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the v...
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Edo Purebreed
1965
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
6.188/8
[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, K...
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Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
1956
Ninja's Weapon
0/0
During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's onl...
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Ninja's Weapon
1961
Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
0/0
Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.
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Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
1960
The Second Bullet is Marked
6/1
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
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The Second Bullet is Marked
1957
Rice
6.4/9
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community cre...
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Rice
1955
Marital Relations
5.2/6
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for be...
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Marital Relations
1958
Roughneck From Asama
6.6/5
When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei's Okabe Yakuza family with a merciless gang of ra...
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Roughneck From Asama
1962
Sakura Official
6/1
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his...
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Sakura Official
1964
Jakoman and Tetsu
6/1
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
1958
The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
0/0
The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to ov...
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The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
1957
An Osaka Story
5.4/5
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and...
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An Osaka Story
1961
Whistling Drifter
0/0
Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.
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Whistling Drifter
1958
Secret of The Golden Spell
5.8/4
One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the treachery of a...
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Secret of The Golden Spell
1967
Secret Assignment
10/1
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in th...
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Secret Assignment
1956
The Seven Vows
7/1
Toruhan, a king’s retainer, embarks on a journey to find a royal treasure that can only be revealed though secret codes hidden in seven crosses carrie...
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The Seven Vows
1957
The Seven Vows, Part 3
7/1
The adventures of Goro and his fellow samurai concludes. After their turbulent journey, the seven crosses are finally united to reveal the secret of t...
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The Seven Vows, Part 3
1957
The Seven Vows, Part 2
7/1
The adventures of Goro and his fellow samurai continue in its second installment. While being held captive by the enemy pirate Ongo, Goro discovers th...
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The Seven Vows, Part 2
1960
Runway to Hell
6.5/4
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.
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Runway to Hell
1962
In Search of Mother
6/4
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in E...
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In Search of Mother
1964
Our Happiness Alone
0/0
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder bro...
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Our Happiness Alone
1964
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
7/11
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. A...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
1960
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
5.7/3
The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the benef...
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
Heavenly Dragon
6/1
From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari i...
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Heavenly Dragon
1961
The Ako Retainers
5.2/4
Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When Lord Asa...
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The Ako Retainers
1960
The Shogun’s Guard: Valor in Turbulence
5.2/5
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by Shi...
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The Shogun’s Guard: Valor in Turbulence
1959
Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
5/3
In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden tr...
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Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
1961
Tange Sazen and the Princess
5.2/4
Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family.
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Tange Sazen and the Princess
1962
Tengu Priest
0/0
Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.
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Tengu Priest
1965
Bloody Shuriken
7.3/3
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like al...
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Bloody Shuriken
1957
The Mansion of Intrigue
0/0
A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.
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The Mansion of Intrigue
1961
Bride of White Castle
6/1
A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master.
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Bride of White Castle
1962
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi
8.5/2
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi
1955
Seven Masks of Revenge
0/0
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome Tow...
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Seven Masks of Revenge
1963
The Yagyu Military Art: The Buried Conspiracy
6/2
Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago.
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The Yagyu Military Art: The Buried Conspiracy
1961
An Edo Magistrate
5.8/4
When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion...
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An Edo Magistrate
1967
A Killer's Key
6/2
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.
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A Killer's Key
1960
Unwieldy Brothers
0/0
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight...
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Unwieldy Brothers
1957
Souls in the Moonlight
6.2/4
First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941)....
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Souls in the Moonlight
1962
Good Rascals
6/2
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
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Good Rascals
1963
The Mysterious Cape
0/0
Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of th...
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The Mysterious Cape
1959
Blooded Spear
7.5/2
Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku, meets a s...
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Blooded Spear
1958
Souls in the Moonlight II
6.6/5
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirs...
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Souls in the Moonlight II
1959
Souls in the Moonlight III
6.6/5
Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be served for the lost innocent lives? The conclusion of...
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Souls in the Moonlight III
1958
The Naked Sun
0/0
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they ha...
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The Naked Sun
1970
Rainbow Over Paris
0/0
A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music ther...
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Rainbow Over Paris
1983
Kazoku no sentaku
0/0
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.
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Kazoku no sentaku
1963
The Big Boss
0/0
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka,...
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The Big Boss
1959
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
0/0
These are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite w...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1963
Five Ronins
0/0
The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.
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Five Ronins
1963
A Fishmonger's Tour
0/0
The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping 1 ryo, and unable to face his customers openly any...
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A Fishmonger's Tour
1963
Road In the Mist
5/1
Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish life behind to avenge her birth father's death.
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Road In the Mist
1960
The Master Spearman
5.2/4
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to h...
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The Master Spearman
1959
Evil Man of Edo
0/0
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less samur...
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Evil Man of Edo
1960
Morning Breeze in Edo
5.2/4
The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.
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Morning Breeze in Edo
1964
The Flower and the Sword
0/0
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gan...
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The Flower and the Sword
1959
Bride of Peacock Castle
6/1
Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000 kok...
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Bride of Peacock Castle
1960
Scarier than the Devil
7/1
A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself.
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Scarier than the Devil
1961
Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
0/0
Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacation. Unexpectedly, the island's boss, Amimoto, was b...
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Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
1962
A Revengeful Raid
5/4
In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young yakuz...
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A Revengeful Raid
1960
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
0/0
Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who can...
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Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
1963
Tokaido Fullhouse
7/1
When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent g...
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Tokaido Fullhouse
1986
Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari
0/0
Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover,...
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Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari
1959
Hawk of the North
5.3/3
During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...
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Hawk of the North
1960
Road of Chivalry
5.4/7
While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his henchmen...
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Road of Chivalry
1957
Travel Romances
0/0
Romantic comedy.
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Travel Romances
1962
Knightly Advice
7/1
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Knightly Advice
1956
Virtue in Spades
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
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Virtue in Spades
1960
Mighty Shosuke
0/0
A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord.
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Mighty Shosuke
1959
The Medicine Case
0/0
Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.
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The Medicine Case
1962
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
0/0
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1961
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
5/2
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.
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The Shogun and the Fishmonger
1962
Mark of Blood
6/1
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
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Mark of Blood
1953
Youth of Heiji Senigata
0/0
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Youth of Heiji Senigata
1958
The Lost Public Funds
10/1
Four thousand gold coins were stolen from the vault of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which were collected as a tax to the shogun. The guard of Nijo castle Asa...
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The Lost Public Funds
1956
Tsukigata Hanpeita
7/1
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
1965
Code of Ruffians
5/1
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the sc...
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Code of Ruffians
1957
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
7.5/2
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre...
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Shimizu Port of Chivalry
1960
Paper Crane Palanquin
10/1
The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi to take action to crush a plot to overthrow the Shogunate.
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Paper Crane Palanquin
1955
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
6.8/54
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...
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Princess Yang Kwei Fei
1960
Case of a Young Lord 8
0/0
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's Cou...
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Case of a Young Lord 8
1959
Bloody Battle at Dawn
5/5
A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the province of Iga. He studied the art of the sword under...
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Bloody Battle at Dawn
1960
Lord Mito: All Star Version
8.333/3
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later, anot...
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Lord Mito: All Star Version
1959
Isshin Tasuke: A Man Among Men
0/0
In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks just like Shogun Iemitsu undergoes a series of unf...
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Isshin Tasuke: A Man Among Men
1961
Lord of Steel Heart
5/2
A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord...
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Lord of Steel Heart
1959
The Forbidden Castle
5.4/5
From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass), "Destiny...
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The Forbidden Castle
1956
Police Precinct Part 2
0/0
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Police Precinct Part 2
1960
Official with a Tattoo
6/1
Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.
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Official with a Tattoo
1959
A Spectacular Showdown
5.8/4
One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the 1840’s...
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A Spectacular Showdown
1957
Lords of Oppression
0/0
Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
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Lords of Oppression
1957
Lords of Oppression 2
0/0
Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
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Lords of Oppression 2
1959
The Unleashed Lord
0/0
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The Unleashed Lord
1960
Lord of Red Banner
0/0
A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.
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Lord of Red Banner
1962
Shimmering Sword
0/0
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Shimmering Sword
1959
Turbulent Highways
0/0
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Turbulent Highways
1961
An Eagle Eyed Lord
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An Eagle Eyed Lord
1963
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
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Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
1980
Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
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Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
1957
Pirates Magistrate
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Pirates Magistrate
1974
The First Star of Happiness
0/0
A youth movie starring Miyoko Asada that depicts a cute and lovely 16 years old girl who lives a bright and refreshing life with her purity. She helps...
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The First Star of Happiness
1955
The Samurai of Edo
6/1
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restora...
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The Samurai of Edo
1959
The Black Hooded Man Rides Again
0/0
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The Black Hooded Man Rides Again
1968
Fangs of a Female
0/0
Japanese crime film
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Fangs of a Female
1959
Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
6/1
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
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Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
1963
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
0/0
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many du...
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
1957
Shadow Over Fuji
0/0
The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the foothil...
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Shadow Over Fuji
1958
Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
5.7/3
Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that Kokichi...
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Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
1960
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
0/0
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is disturbed...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1958
Seven from Edo
5/6
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades decid...
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Seven from Edo
1960
Ooka Seidan: Devil Image
0/0
Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.
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Ooka Seidan: Devil Image
1959
Diary of a Wandering Lord
0/0
Two thrill seeking young lords sneak out of their castles and travel under the disguise of townsmen.
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Diary of a Wandering Lord
1951
The Man Without a Nationality
0/0
Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
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The Man Without a Nationality
1951
Stolen Love
0/0
Romantic melodrama
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Stolen Love
1951
Bengawan Solo
0/0
War film by Kon Ichikawa
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Bengawan Solo
1957
Glorious Standard Bearer
0/0
Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman...
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Glorious Standard Bearer
1959
Hell's Companion
0/0
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Hell's Companion
1959
One-Eyed Wolf
5.6/6
Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it l...
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One-Eyed Wolf
1953
Eagle of the Pacific
7.8/5
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...
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Eagle of the Pacific
1968
Where did Sharaku go?
0/0
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out...
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Where did Sharaku go?
1956
朱鞘罷り通る
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朱鞘罷り通る
1962
Abekobe dōchū
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Abekobe dōchū
1968
Eternal Love
0/0
The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.
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Eternal Love
1957
悪魔の顔
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悪魔の顔
1955
The Dawn of Judo
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The Dawn of Judo
1962
Genkuro Yoshitsune
0/0
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...
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Genkuro Yoshitsune
1957
Ghost Ship Part 1
0/0
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru w...
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Ghost Ship Part 1
1960
Ninja Assassins
0/0
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
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Ninja Assassins
1962
Wakasama samurai torimonochō o keshō kumo
0/0
Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda
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Wakasama samurai torimonochō o keshō kumo
1956
Denko karate uchi
0/0
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Denko karate uchi
1959
53 Stages of the Road
0/0
An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.
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53 Stages of the Road
1962
Kisaragi Sword
5.5/2
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil pl...
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Kisaragi Sword
1963
Kyôkatsu
0/0
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Kyôkatsu
1954
Fall of the Shogun's Militia
7/1
The story about the rise and fall of the famed mercenaries, Shinsengumi, who are hired by a crumbling feudal government.
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Fall of the Shogun's Militia
1959
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
6.2/2
After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a sea of trouble when he gets involved in the successi...
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Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
1956
旗本退屈男 謎の幽霊船
0/0
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旗本退屈男 謎の幽霊船
1962
Mid-August Commotion
0/0
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...
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Mid-August Commotion
1962
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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あの空の果てに星はまたたく
1954
Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako
0/0
1954 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako
1954
Hanran
0/0
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Hanran
1982
A Ghost Love Story of Japan
0/0
A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi) fe...
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
1955
Ejima and Ikushima
0/0
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku...
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Ejima and Ikushima
1968
I Shall Not Forget
0/0
Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew so...
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I Shall Not Forget
1958
Epic Crash
0/0
Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.
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Epic Crash
1962
Tekka Wakashū
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Tekka Wakashū
1953
悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
0/0
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the...
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悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
1962
Jigoku no kagebōshi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Jigoku no kagebōshi
1963
Street of Wandering Men
6/1
When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing s...
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Street of Wandering Men
1956
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
6.2/8
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
1962
Waka zakura kenka matoi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Waka zakura kenka matoi
1960
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
0/0
His skill and courage were the best in Japan! The life story of Jirocho, a man who protected people on the Tokaido Road. The fearless Kinnosuke Nakamu...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
1957
Goblin's Highway
0/0
Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries to save the good people of the Kiso Valley, he ge...
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Goblin's Highway
1958
Aoi Secret Book
0/0
A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which w...
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Aoi Secret Book
1958
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
0/0
Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from...
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Kanbei's Bargain Sale
1965
Twilight of Tokyo
0/0
A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.
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Twilight of Tokyo
1958
Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
5/3
Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date Clan...
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Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
1955
Six Assassins
0/0
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Six Assassins
1956
Samurai of the Great Earth
0/0
A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".
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Samurai of the Great Earth
1955
Ooka Seidan: Defense of The Weak Pt. 2
0/0
Masanori Igayama, who directed "Mito Komon Manyuki: The Counterattack of Toukuzaki," will direct the screenplay by Shinji Tsugei, who also directed "A...
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Ooka Seidan: Defense of The Weak Pt. 2
1961
Himalayan Wanderer
0/0
One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss abo...
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Himalayan Wanderer
1955
Japan Samurai: Niiro Tsuruchiyo
0/0
An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegitimate son of the great elder of the Baku...
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Japan Samurai: Niiro Tsuruchiyo
1975
雪夫人繪圖
0/0
1975 Toei movie.
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雪夫人繪圖
1959
House of Spider Webs
0/0
Based on the original story by Seishi Yokomizo, House of Spider Webs is a gorgeous historical drama thriller starring Kinnosuke Nakamura and directed...
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House of Spider Webs
1966
A World For Two
0/0
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...
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A World For Two
1982
Kaidan botandōrō
0/0
Japanese horror movie from 1982.
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