
Takashi Shimura
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Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).[3] He played Professor Kyohei Yamane in Ishirō Honda's original Godzilla (1954) and its first sequel, Godzilla Raids Again (1955). For his contributions to the arts, the Japanese government decorated Shimura with the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1974 and the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette in 1980.
Shimura died on February 11, 1982, in Tokyo, Japan, from emphysema at the age of 76. His effects were presented to the Film Centre of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.295 |
Birthday | 1905-03-12 |
Place of Birth | Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan |
Also Known As | Shoji Shimazaki, 島崎捷爾, تاکاشی شیمورا, |

1958

The Hidden Fortress
8/633
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who g...
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The Hidden Fortress

1950

Rashomon
8.069/2274
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justi...
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Rashomon

1954

Godzilla
7.6/995
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover somethin...
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Godzilla

1955

Godzilla Raids Again
6/287
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...
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Godzilla Raids Again

1965

Frankenstein Conquers the World
6.6/64
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a...
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Frankenstein Conquers the World

1957

Throne of Blood
7.9/884
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...
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Throne of Blood

1965

Red Beard
8.119/373
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
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Red Beard

1952

Ikiru
8.3/1180
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru

1953

Escape Zone
0/0
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...
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Escape Zone

1950

Spring Snow
0/0
The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not e...
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Spring Snow

1950

Jiruba no Tetsu
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Jiruba no Tetsu

1981

Fifth Movement
0/0
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinis...
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Fifth Movement

1949

Stray Dog
7.5/313
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...
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Stray Dog

1965

Kwaidan
7.7/397
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan

1967

Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
0/0
Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on Ha...
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Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways

1955

I Live in Fear
7.3/112
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to saf...
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I Live in Fear

1956

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
7.3/116
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He'...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

1962

Sanjuro
7.9/627
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
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Sanjuro

1969

Kanto Woman Infamy
4/1
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Kanto Woman Infamy

1960

The Bad Sleep Well
7.7/257
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d...
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The Bad Sleep Well

1951

The Idiot
7/113
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kame...
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The Idiot

1980

Kagemusha
7.8/666
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid at...
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Kagemusha

1961

Yojimbo
8.1/1495
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the loca...
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Yojimbo

1948

Drunken Angel
7.594/276
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convi...
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Drunken Angel

1950

Scandal
6.9/88
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
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Scandal

1963

High and Low
8.3/952
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...
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High and Low

1954

A Geisha on Horseback
0/0
Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early...
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A Geisha on Horseback

1943

Sanshiro Sugata
6.5/127
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form...
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Sanshiro Sugata

1945

To Love and Swear
0/0
After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up wan...
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To Love and Swear

1959

Sazae-san's Marriage
0/0
Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and e...
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Sazae-san's Marriage

1952

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
6.7/90
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safe...
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

1962

Long Way to Okinawa
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Long Way to Okinawa

1957

The Mysterians
6.4/52
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to s...
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The Mysterians

1946

No Regrets for Our Youth
6.82/75
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of...
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No Regrets for Our Youth

1949

The Quiet Duel
7.319/83
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patien...
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The Quiet Duel

1936

Osaka Elegy
6.8/60
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
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Osaka Elegy

1951

Stolen Love
0/0
Romantic melodrama
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Stolen Love

1962

Chûshingura
7.3/42
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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Chûshingura

1962

続サラリーマン清水港
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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続サラリーマン清水港

1962

The Crimson Sky
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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The Crimson Sky

1960

Afraid to Die
6/10
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of hi...
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Afraid to Die

1964

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
7/254
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

1950

Sanshiro of Ginza
0/0
An early film by Kon Ichikawa
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Sanshiro of Ginza

1958

Eight Views of Samurai
6/1
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family...
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Eight Views of Samurai

1947

These Foolish Times
0/0
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These Foolish Times

1945

Tokkan ekichô
0/0
Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita
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Tokkan ekichô

1957

The Lord Takes a Bride
6/1
Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro mus...
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The Lord Takes a Bride

1967

Japan's Longest Day
7.1/28
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...
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Japan's Longest Day

1944

The Most Beautiful
5.6/51
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tre...
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The Most Beautiful

1961

Mothra
7.2/169
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population al...
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Mothra

1939

Shunjû ittôryû
0/0
After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by Sasa...
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Shunjû ittôryû

1965

The Soundless Cry
8/1
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works i...
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The Soundless Cry

1956

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
6.6/257
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monste...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

1963

Attack Squadron
6/2
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...
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Attack Squadron

1968

Zatoichi and the Fugitives
6.9/30
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
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Zatoichi and the Fugitives

1973

Zatoichi's Conspiracy
6.9/28
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nur...
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy

1956

Tokyo Crime Map
0/0
An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.
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Tokyo Crime Map

1965

Samurai Assassin
7.3/54
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assass...
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Samurai Assassin

1963

The Sun is Calling You
0/0
A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.
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The Sun is Calling You

1952

Vendetta of a Samurai
6.8/14
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Ak...
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Vendetta of a Samurai

1957

Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
8.5/16
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a u...
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean

1947

Snow Trail
7.1/20
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojir...
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Snow Trail

1936

Akanishi Kakita
6.3/7
A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
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Akanishi Kakita

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

1961

Different Sons
0/0
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden un...
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Different Sons

1960

Master Fencer Sees the World
0/0
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...
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Master Fencer Sees the World

1968

The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe

1969

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
7.5/6
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo

1955

Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
0/0
In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf

1938

Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
0/0
A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and Kyoji Sugi.
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Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary

1959

The Three Treasures
5.4/11
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Empe...
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The Three Treasures

1970

The Militarists
8/1
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The Militarists

1959

A Whistle in My Heart
6.3/6
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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A Whistle in My Heart

1949

A Bullet Hole Underground
0/0
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A Bullet Hole Underground

1938

Kurama Tengu
0/0
This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent companies went ban...
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Kurama Tengu

1938

Taiko's Rising in the World
0/0
Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power of Toyo...
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Taiko's Rising in the World

1940

Oda Nobunaga
0/0
A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and Shi...
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Oda Nobunaga

1971

Tora-san's Love Call
8/5
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Tora-san's Love Call

1962

Yoru no keisha
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Yoru no keisha

1947

Spring Awakens
6.8/5
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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Spring Awakens

1957

Evening Calm
0/0
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
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Evening Calm

1978

Love and Faith
6.3/5
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an un...
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Love and Faith

1963

Samurai Pirate
5.5/11
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the t...
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Samurai Pirate

1969

A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
0/0
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
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A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless

1937

Jiraiya
0/0
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
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Jiraiya

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

1957

A Dangerous Hero
0/0
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
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A Dangerous Hero

1960

The Masterless 47
0/0
Part one of The Masterless 47.
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The Masterless 47

1943

Navy
0/0
Japanese war film.
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Navy

1966

The Harbor of No Return
0/0
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see...
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The Harbor of No Return

1950

Escape from Prison
0/0
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Escape from Prison

1958

The Traveling Ruffian
5/1
Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Ishimatsu is strong in righteousness weak to mercy, who falls in love at first sight...
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The Traveling Ruffian

1963

Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
0/0
This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other words,...
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Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge

1938

The Skull Coin
0/0
“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven cursed coins (the...
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The Skull Coin

1968

Dorei kōjō
0/0
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.
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Dorei kōjō

1965

Sanshiro Sugata
7/7
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His...
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Sanshiro Sugata

1971

Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
5/3
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Be...
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Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments

1954

Asakusa at Night
0/0
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...
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Asakusa at Night

1961

The Gambler's Code
6.5/4
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a...
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The Gambler's Code

1957

Hadaka no Machi
0/0
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Hadaka no Machi

1962

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Fūryū onsen bantō nikki

1938

Akagaki Genzo
0/0
Forty-seven Ronin of the Ako clan are waiting for the right moment to avenge the insult and death of their master. The film tells the story of one of...
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Akagaki Genzo

1937

Echo of Love
0/0
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
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Echo of Love

1977

Godzilla
6.798/47
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), plu...
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Godzilla

1978

Talk of the Town Tora-san
9/2
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san

1962

Gorath
6.6/20
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is en...
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Gorath

1969

It's Tough Being a Man
8.1/18
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora...
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It's Tough Being a Man

1940

Phantom Castle
0/0
Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.
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Phantom Castle

1973

Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari
0/0
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Kigeki: koko kara hajimaru monogatari

1945

Wakare mo tanoshi
0/0
1945 Japanese movie
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Wakare mo tanoshi

1962

The Whale God
7.3/3
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
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The Whale God

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

1952

Fuun Senryobune
0/0
1952 Japanese movie
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Fuun Senryobune

1960

The Storm of the Pacific
5.6/8
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1...
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The Storm of the Pacific

1968

The Day the Sun Rose
7/1
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned cust...
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The Day the Sun Rose

1953

The Eagle of the Pacific
7.714/7
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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The Eagle of the Pacific

1965

Three Yakuza
7.8/4
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each pa...
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Three Yakuza

1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
0/0
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argum...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

1968

Human Torpedoes
0/0
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
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Human Torpedoes

1967

When the Cookie Crumbles
6/1
Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
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When the Cookie Crumbles

1954

Mother's First Love
0/0
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
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Mother's First Love

1980

The Revolt
6/1
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miy...
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The Revolt

1944

The Way of Drama
6.5/6
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles...
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The Way of Drama

1964

Life of Hishakaku 3
0/0
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
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Life of Hishakaku 3

1950

The Angry Street
6.5/6
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...
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The Angry Street

1961

Daredevil in the Castle
7.4/8
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyoto...
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Daredevil in the Castle

1953

The End of the Night
0/0
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will...
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The End of the Night

1959

Saga of the Vagabonds
6.3/3
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting a...
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Saga of the Vagabonds

1939

Singing Lovebirds
6/5
An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable daugh...
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Singing Lovebirds

1958

Points and Lines
6/3
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

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

1960

The Lovelorn Geisha
6.6/5
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in hi...
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The Lovelorn Geisha

1957

The Eleventh Hour
7.2/6
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contempor...
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The Eleventh Hour

1958

The Loyal 47 Ronin
6/9
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin

1949

The Elephant Who Waited
0/0
The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro and Hanako at the Metropolitan Zoo.
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The Elephant Who Waited

1951

The Life of a Horse Trader
7/3
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...
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The Life of a Horse Trader

1968

New Prison Walls of Abashiri
6/1
Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri

1950

Street of Violence
6.5/2
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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Street of Violence

1971

Patience Has An End
5.7/6
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
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Patience Has An End

1944

Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
7/3
A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the Pacific...
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Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron

1944

Nichijô no tatakai
0/0
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Nichijô no tatakai

1956

Three Women Around Yoshinaka
7/1
The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of He...
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Three Women Around Yoshinaka

1958

The Bride In Uguisu Castle
0/0
The life of three beautiful princesses in feudal Japan.
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The Bride In Uguisu Castle

1945

Three Women of the North
0/0
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...
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Three Women of the North

1951

Beyond Love and Hate
0/0
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his esca...
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Beyond Love and Hate

1952

Foghorn
0/0
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
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Foghorn

1952

Beauty and the Thief
0/0
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic...
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Beauty and the Thief

1953

The Last Embrace
0/0
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...
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The Last Embrace

1955

No Time for Tears
0/0
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic relations...
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No Time for Tears

1956

The Underworld
0/0
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuy...
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The Underworld

1960

Man Against Man
0/0
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to cooperate...
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Man Against Man

1960

Life of a Country Doctor
0/0
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first ti...
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Life of a Country Doctor

1964

Brand of Evil
6.5/2
A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his c...
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Brand of Evil

1963

The Revenge and the Death
0/0
A gritty, noirish gangster saga.
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The Revenge and the Death

1965

The Retreat from Kiska
8.3/3
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhe...
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The Retreat from Kiska

1965

Hoodlum Match
0/0
A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
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Hoodlum Match

1966

No Greater Love
0/0
In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...
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No Greater Love

1966

The Protector
7/1
Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to co...
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The Protector

1967

The Chivalrous Life
7/1
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against othe...
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The Chivalrous Life

1969

New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
6/1
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2

1976

Human Revolution II
0/0
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
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Human Revolution II

1940

Zoku Shimizu Minato
0/0
An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.
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Zoku Shimizu Minato

1952

Sword for Hire
7/8
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and care...
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Sword for Hire

1954

Last of the Wild Ones
0/0
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Last of the Wild Ones

1969

The Magoichi Saga
5.8/5
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
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The Magoichi Saga

1961

Snow in the South Seas
0/0
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
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Snow in the South Seas

1964

Blood and Diamonds
0/0
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
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Blood and Diamonds

1964

Vanquished Foes
7/1
A skilled assassin's services are called upon to put an end to the ugly turf battle between two yakuza families, Mitsuwa and Aikawa. Forced by the cod...
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Vanquished Foes

1975

The Bullet Train
6.8/49
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police ra...
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The Bullet Train

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

1967

King of the Gang
0/0
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's market...
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King of the Gang

1968

The Woman Champion
0/0
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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The Woman Champion

1968

Woman Gambler and the Nun
0/0
Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
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Woman Gambler and the Nun

1946

Those Who Make Tomorrow
0/0
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sym...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow

1959

Stop the Old Fox
5/1
Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of t...
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Stop the Old Fox

1974

The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
0/0
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers

1941

Festival Across the Sea
0/0
There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and teache...
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Festival Across the Sea

1968

Industrial Spy
6/2
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a ne...
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Industrial Spy

1965

Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
0/0
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro

1966

Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
0/0
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era

2002

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'
0/0
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'

1968

The Drifting Avenger
6.7/7
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making h...
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The Drifting Avenger

1955

Love Never Fails
0/0
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the othe...
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Love Never Fails

1951

The Blue Pearl
0/0
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coasta...
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The Blue Pearl

1958

Man of Thirteen Eyes
0/0
Japanese mystery film.
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Man of Thirteen Eyes

1961

Structure of Hate
0/0
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
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Structure of Hate

1957

Untamed Woman
7.3/9
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...
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Untamed Woman

1958

The Sword Knows
8.5/2
In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.
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The Sword Knows

1966

A Circus Girl
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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A Circus Girl

1952

The Skin of the South
0/0
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one en...
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The Skin of the South

1959

The Happy Family
0/0
Japanese family drama.
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The Happy Family

1963

The Image of Mother
0/0
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.
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The Image of Mother

1970

House of Gamblers
7/1
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family go...
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House of Gamblers

1961

Challenge to Live
0/0
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during th...
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Challenge to Live

1972

A Yakuza Has His Way
0/0
The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family c...
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A Yakuza Has His Way

1969

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
0/0
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers

1937

Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
6.2/4
The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in film, rakug...
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Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba

1950

Red Peony of Night
0/0
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around the...
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Red Peony of Night

1955

To Love and Forgive
0/0
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To Love and Forgive

1951

The Den of Beasts
0/0
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The Den of Beasts

1959

Gigantis, the Fire Monster
6.3/33
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster

1969

Samurai Banners
7.4/18
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He co...
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Samurai Banners

1938

Chushingura
6/2
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge thei...
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Chushingura

1956

Young Tree
0/0
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
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Young Tree

1951

The Bitch
0/0
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
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The Bitch

1960

Princess Sen in Edo
0/0
A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!
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Princess Sen in Edo

1975

Hadashi no seishun
0/0
Youth movie.
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Hadashi no seishun

1961

The Masterless 47 – Part II
0/0
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The Masterless 47 – Part II

1952

The Man Who Came to Port
10/1
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Man Who Came to Port

1957

Good Luck to These Two
6/1
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
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Good Luck to These Two

1959

The Story of Iron Arm Inao
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Story of Iron Arm Inao

1956

I Saw the Killer
0/0
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I Saw the Killer

1980

An Ocean to Cross
0/0
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The fil...
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An Ocean to Cross

1956

Virtue in Spades
0/0
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
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Virtue in Spades

1974

Prophecies of Nostradamus
6/15
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobo...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus

1954

Seven Samurai
8.5/3819
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

1949

Ishimatsu of the Forest
0/0
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
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Ishimatsu of the Forest

1950

Devil's Gold
0/0
1950 film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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Devil's Gold

1947

Actress
0/0
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The rela...
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Actress

1956

Scoundrel
0/0
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Scoundrel

1946

Eleven High School Girls
0/0
With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpecte...
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Eleven High School Girls

1947

Chikagai nijuyojikan
0/0
1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai
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Chikagai nijuyojikan

1949

Lady From Hell
0/0
Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are agai...
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Lady From Hell

1958

Theater of Life
0/0
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
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Theater of Life

1954

君死に給うことなかれ
0/0
Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his bes...
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君死に給うことなかれ

1955

No Response from Car 33
7/1
Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
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No Response from Car 33

1955

Ticket to Hell
0/0
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Ticket to Hell

1948

A Second Life
0/0
1948 Japanese drama film.
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A Second Life

1961

Restoration Fire
7/1
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall...
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Restoration Fire

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

1945

Otome no iru kichi
0/0
Japanese war movie.
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Otome no iru kichi

1944

Sagohei the Three-footer
0/0
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Sagohei the Three-footer

1962

Lion Festival of Echigo
0/0
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Lion Festival of Echigo

1974

The Tattooed Hitman
6/3
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...
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The Tattooed Hitman

1950

Crazy Uproar
0/0
Also known as Crazy Uproar.
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Crazy Uproar

1958

The Black Hooded Man 5
0/0
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The Black Hooded Man 5

1951

Elegy
0/0
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his discipl...
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Elegy

1946

Lord for a Night
8/1
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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Lord for a Night

1942

Mother and Child Grass
0/0
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Mother and Child Grass

1941

Last Days of Edo
0/0
It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
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Last Days of Edo

1946

An Enemy of the People
0/0
Tadashi Imai 1946 movie
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An Enemy of the People

1939

Devoted Servant Naosuke
0/0
Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima Yasoemon, lost his face in front of people. It wa...
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Devoted Servant Naosuke

1935

Chuji for Sale
0/0
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Chuji for Sale

1949

Goblin Courier
6/1
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
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Goblin Courier

1949

A Woman's Life
0/0
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A Woman's Life

1958

Fearless Opposition
0/0
This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.
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Fearless Opposition

1961

Oniisan to oneesan
0/0
A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
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Oniisan to oneesan

1958

Mother
0/0
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Mother

1942

Miyamoto musashi Ichijōji kettō
0/0
1942 Japanese movie
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Miyamoto musashi Ichijōji kettō

1971

The Earth is Born Again
0/0
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone developm...
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The Earth is Born Again

1961

晴小袖
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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晴小袖

1981

The Last Days of Planet Earth
0/0
In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great change for Japan, some of his students revolt, cal...
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The Last Days of Planet Earth

1963

Dokuritsu bijin-tai
0/0
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Dokuritsu bijin-tai

1955

むっつり右門捕物帖 鬼面屋敷
0/0
1955 Japanese movie
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むっつり右門捕物帖 鬼面屋敷

1940

Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū
0/0
The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the coveted Shinshu Mountain map targeted by the phantom g...
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