Shōzō Nanbu
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.146 |
| Birthday | 1898-06-26 |
| Place of Birth | Hiji, Ōita Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | Shozo Nanbu, 南部章三, Сёдзо Намбу, |
1963
New Tale of Zatoichi
6.9/63
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followe...
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New Tale of Zatoichi
1957
Akado Suzunosuke: Monster in the Moonlight
0/0
In the first two films we learn the character's origins, including his childhood and how he learned his fighting skills. Later, he must face his frien...
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Akado Suzunosuke: Monster in the Moonlight
1957
Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil
0/0
The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil
1962
Yamaotoko no Uta
0/0
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Yamaotoko no Uta
1956
Night River
6.2/11
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
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Night River
1952
Saiyûki
7/1
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Saiyûki
1962
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Teppo Yasu no Shogai
1965
新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘
5/2
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新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘
1962
Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
0/0
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
1951
Miss Oyu
7.2/55
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry...
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Miss Oyu
1962
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
7/81
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
1960
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
5.7/3
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting...
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Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
1960
Bara daimyo
0/0
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Bara daimyo
1962
Sabakareru Echizen no kami
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Sabakareru Echizen no kami
1951
Judge of the Ashuras
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Judge of the Ashuras
1950
Song of Love
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Song of Love
1946
Meiji no kyōdai
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Meiji no kyōdai
1958
Akado Suzunosuke: Dokuro dentaiji
0/0
1958 Japanese movie
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Akado Suzunosuke: Dokuro dentaiji
1956
Warning from Space
5.1/33
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
1960
The Priest and the Beauty
3/3
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spi...
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The Priest and the Beauty
1960
Scars of Honor
6/1
Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing...
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Scars of Honor
1955
The Magical Warrior
0/0
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...
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The Magical Warrior
1961
The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
0/0
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.
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The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
1954
Nagurikomi Songokū
0/0
Second sequel to Saiyuki (1952)
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Nagurikomi Songokū
1957
The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
5.1/7
A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound is always heard right before...
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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
1927
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
6/1
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Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
1960
The Wandering Princess
6.7/7
Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the in...
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The Wandering Princess
1951
Clothes of Deception
6.5/4
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
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Clothes of Deception
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
1958
Shogun's Holiday
0/0
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...
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Shogun's Holiday
1960
風来物語 あばれ飛車
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風来物語 あばれ飛車
1959
風来物語任侠篇
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風来物語任侠篇
1948
Thirty-three footprints
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Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
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Thirty-three footprints
1933
Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen
0/0
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Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen
1944
Kenpu Renpeikan
0/0
Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern domain of Choshu enter the dojo of Saito Yakuro,...
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Kenpu Renpeikan
1929
Tokyo March
6/18
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes of...
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Tokyo March
1952
Kojiki Taishô
0/0
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and le...
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Kojiki Taishô
1927
The King of Rowing
0/0
A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This was shot at the banks of the Sumida River, where th...
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The King of Rowing
1952
This Way, That Way
7/1
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay...
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This Way, That Way
1942
Masujiro Omura
0/0
A story about Ômura Masujirô
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Masujiro Omura
1931
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
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Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1945
Ikeru isu
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Ikeru isu
1948
Kōfuku no genkai
0/0
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Kōfuku no genkai
1954
Sansho the Bailiff
8.102/367
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
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Sansho the Bailiff
1968
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
6.6/24
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in ba...
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
1945
最後の攘夷党
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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最後の攘夷党
1947
The Devil's toast
0/0
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in t...
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The Devil's toast
1953
Gate of Hell
7.1/83
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
1938
The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen
7/3
A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko...
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The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen
1946
The Okagura Brothers
0/0
1946 Japanese movie
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The Okagura Brothers
1949
The Invisible Man Appears
6/11
Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace...
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The Invisible Man Appears
1959
Odd Obsession
6.2/27
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introducti...
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Odd Obsession
1928
Town of Love
0/0
Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".
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Town of Love
1961
Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
0/0
A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature,...
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Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
1930
Behold This Mother
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Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.
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Behold This Mother
1957
Akadô Suzunosuke
0/0
First of nine films based on the novel. The first live-action adaptation focuses on the origins of how Akadô Suzunosuke learned his skills as a swords...
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Akadô Suzunosuke
1959
Etajima, the Naval Academy
0/0
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase....
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
1969
Broken Swords
7.7/6
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the v...
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Broken Swords
1967
The Sisters and I
0/0
Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of their cu...
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The Sisters and I
1956
Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
7/2
It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichik...
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Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
1963
The Third Shadow Warrior
7.1/11
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
1959
Samurai Vendetta
7.2/12
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous reveng...
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Samurai Vendetta
1960
Satan's Sword
6.4/7
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last per...
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Satan's Sword
1962
Destiny's Son
6.6/16
In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive family is...
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Destiny's Son
1958
White Snake Woman
5/1
While transporting a bride-to-be in a closed carriage (kago) while during a thunderstorm, a group of servants and onlookers suddenly come upon an appa...
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White Snake Woman
1958
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
0/0
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by...
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
1962
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
6.4/23
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to...
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
1962
The Temple of Wild Geese
6.3/11
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lasciv...
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The Temple of Wild Geese
1968
Lone Wolf Isazo
6.8/10
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilli...
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Lone Wolf Isazo
1963
Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
5.2/10
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double cross...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
1956
Gonpachi
0/0
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
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Gonpachi
1966
Irezumi
6.9/49
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts th...
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Irezumi
1959
The Lord Pretends
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The Lord Pretends
1961
Buddha
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An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C...
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Buddha
1966
The Virgin Witness
0/0
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline...
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The Virgin Witness
1963
Bronze Magician
6.9/5
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...
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Bronze Magician
1966
The Betrayal
6.4/14
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a v...
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The Betrayal
1969
Haunted Castle
6.1/8
This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes reve...
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Haunted Castle
1957
Advance Patrol
5.5/2
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop...
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Advance Patrol
1960
The Demon of Mount Oe
5.6/7
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and...
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The Demon of Mount Oe
1943
The Tiger of Malaya
0/0
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
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The Tiger of Malaya
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
1953
Ugetsu
8/562
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage'...
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Ugetsu
1972
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
6.3/46
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. H...
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
6.8/5
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
1968
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
6.9/28
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
1954
The Great White Tiger Platoon
6/2
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Sho...
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The Great White Tiger Platoon
1955
Taira Clan Saga
7.1/26
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But becau...
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Taira Clan Saga
1948
Nocturnal Gate
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Nocturnal Gate
1962
Yôki na tono-sama
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Yôki na tono-sama
1967
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
6.9/8
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined t...
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
1928
Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi
0/0
Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi is a 1928 Japanese film directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.[1] This comedy film showcases the acting talent of Denji...
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Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi
1952
Dedication of the Great Buddha
0/0
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
1968
The Bride from Hades
7.4/7
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuat...
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The Bride from Hades
1950
Resurrection
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Resurrection
1957
Demonfire Palanquin
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Demonfire Palanquin
1955
The Young Lord
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The Young Lord
1956
Zangiku monogatari
7/1
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Zangiku monogatari
1939
A Color Print of Edo
7.2/4
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Kazuo Mori. It is a cheerful period drama,...
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A Color Print of Edo
1946
Taki no shiraito
0/0
A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
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Taki no shiraito
1946
The Woman Who Opens the Door
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The Woman Who Opens the Door
1957
Fighting Letter for 29 People
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Fighting Letter for 29 People
1932
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
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Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
1966
Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
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Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
1961
Nuregami botan
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Nuregami botan
1961
Oniisan to oneesan
0/0
A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
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