Kenzō Tabu

Kenzō Tabu

Movies for Kenzō Tabu...

A Taxing Woman's Return
Title: A Taxing Woman's Return
Character: Real Estate Agent
Released: January 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
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Aoi sanmyaku
Title: Aoi sanmyaku
Character: Vice-principal Yashiro
Released: August 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Remake of 1949 film
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Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Title: Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Released: April 24, 1974
Type: Movie
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and falls directly into disfavor with the yakuza.
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My Voiceless Friends
Title: My Voiceless Friends
Released: April 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
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陸軍落語兵
Title: 陸軍落語兵
Released: October 30, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Secret Ceremony
Title: The Secret Ceremony
Released: June 23, 1971
Type: Movie
Erotic drama.
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The Gift of the Fox
Title: The Gift of the Fox
Released: May 26, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Genius and Delinquent
Title: The Genius and Delinquent
Released: February 17, 1971
Type: Movie
A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.
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Live and Learn
Title: Live and Learn
Character: Principal Kuroki
Released: January 27, 1971
Type: Movie
Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after school is out and they are caught by the old school janitor. Tsuneo's mother, orders Tetsuko to pay for what she did to her son but Tetsuko blackmails her instead, saying that she is ready to inform a news company of what has happened to Tsuneo and receives one million yen hush money. Expelled from school, she comes to Tokyo, intending to take a round-the-world trip. But Sankichi (Yoshihiko Aoyama), a jack-of-all-trades, cheats her. So, she makes up her mind to catch him and get back her money.
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The All-Out Game
Title: The All-Out Game
Released: September 12, 1970
Type: Movie
When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo (Saburo Shindo), the captain of the Judo team and Shiro Usami (Kei Wakakura) of the boxing team are about to fight, he breaks it up that are apt to erupt so suddenly on campus. Rikiya is an honor student, recommended to the Toa University by his school and is almost certain of being accepted next spring. Shiro is long on brute strength but short on brains. Naturally, they waste little love on each other, so there is very little ground for any understanding between them.
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Title: Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1970
Type: Movie
Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.
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Sex Revolution
Title: Sex Revolution
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Story exposes free-sex among highschool students.
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与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても
Title: 与太郎戦記 女は幾万ありとても
Released: April 18, 1970
Type: Movie
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Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
Title: Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
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Crazy Big Explosion
Title: Crazy Big Explosion
Released: April 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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I Sell My Husband
Title: I Sell My Husband
Released: November 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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The Funeral Racket
Title: The Funeral Racket
Character: Village Chief
Released: November 4, 1968
Type: Movie
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
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The Two Bodyguards
Title: The Two Bodyguards
Released: August 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Film directed by Kenji Misumi
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Mexican Free-for-All
Title: Mexican Free-for-All
Released: April 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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The Diary of a Sex Counsellor
Title: The Diary of a Sex Counsellor
Released: February 10, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Million Dollar Pursuit
Title: The Million Dollar Pursuit
Released: January 4, 1968
Type: Movie
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds.
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Zatoichi Challenged
Title: Zatoichi Challenged
Character: Kanai of Manzo
Released: December 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save tha man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Title: The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Released: October 28, 1967
Type: Movie
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 to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
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Come Marry Me
Title: Come Marry Me
Released: November 20, 1966
Type: Movie
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro.
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Dynamite Doctor Returns
Title: Dynamite Doctor Returns
Character: Barbar
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie
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Dynamite Doctor
Title: Dynamite Doctor
Character: Tokiko's father
Released: June 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Film by director Kenji Misumi
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Gamblers' Luck
Title: Gamblers' Luck
Released: March 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
Title: Invasion of Astro-Monster
Character: Commander from Planet X
Released: December 19, 1965
Type: Movie
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As Glenn investigates, he develops a romance with Miss Namikawa and uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.
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An Innocent Witch
Title: An Innocent Witch
Released: October 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.
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Beast Alley
Title: Beast Alley
Released: September 5, 1965
Type: Movie
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
Title: Frankenstein Conquers the World
Character: Newspaper Employee
Released: August 8, 1965
Type: Movie
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 Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
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A Trap
Title: A Trap
Character: Detective
Released: May 28, 1965
Type: Movie
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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Nami kage
Title: Nami kage
Released: January 31, 1965
Type: Movie
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Title: The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Title: Mothra vs. Godzilla
Character: Prefectural Assembly Member (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
Title: King Kong vs. Godzilla
Character: Dreary Newscaster (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1963
Type: Movie
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.
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Ichi ka bachi ka
Title: Ichi ka bachi ka
Released: June 16, 1963
Type: Movie
The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.
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My Hobo
Title: My Hobo
Released: November 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
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Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten
Title: Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten
Released: November 17, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Chihō kisha
Title: Chihō kisha
Released: October 13, 1962
Type: Movie
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
Title: King Kong vs. Godzilla
Character: Dreary Newscaster
Released: August 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
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Happy Go-Lucky
Title: Happy Go-Lucky
Released: July 27, 1962
Type: Movie
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
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Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Title: Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Released: July 7, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū
Title: Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū
Released: January 28, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Awamori-kun kanpai!
Title: Awamori-kun kanpai!
Released: October 8, 1961
Type: Movie
Second of the three Awamori-kun movies.
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Romance Express
Title: Romance Express
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as a dour company president. Based on the novel "Seven and a half hours", by Shishi Bunroku.
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Get 'em All
Title: Get 'em All
Released: November 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
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This Greedy Old Skin
Title: This Greedy Old Skin
Released: September 18, 1960
Type: Movie
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Title: Saga of the Vagabonds
Released: August 9, 1959
Type: Movie
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 and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.
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The Beast Shall Die
Title: The Beast Shall Die
Released: June 9, 1959
Type: Movie
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
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The Shop Curtain
Title: The Shop Curtain
Released: June 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
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Dotanba
Title: Dotanba
Released: November 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Dotanba - Last Minute
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Title: Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.