Kōjirō Hongō

Kōjirō Hongō

Born: February 15, 1938
Died: February 14, 2013
in Okayama, Japan
Kōjirō Hongō was a Japanese actor best known for his work with Daiei Studios in the 1960s. Hongō won an Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year in 1959.

Movies for Kōjirō Hongō...

Road to the Don Theatrical Version
Title: Road to the Don Theatrical Version
Released: June 18, 2003
Type: Movie
A young yakuza experiences various conflicts, tactics, betrayals, rules, etc. in the gangster world, stands out in the organization, and climbs to the top of the organization. The theatrical version of the popular video series adapted from the original work by Murakami Kazuhiko.
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Music of Remembrance -Gb-
Title: Music of Remembrance -Gb-
Character: Kakizaki
Released: June 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connection between a series of murders and the boy's entangled memories.
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Nationwide Conquering Tekiya Spirit Chapter 2 Sardine Shrine and Love Fubuki
Title: Nationwide Conquering Tekiya Spirit Chapter 2 Sardine Shrine and Love Fubuki
Released: November 13, 2001
Type: Movie
Ricky's Back!
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Family 2
Title: Family 2
Released: September 21, 2001
Type: Movie
In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Hideshi finds something odd about the killing and begins to investigate, uncovering the true motives behind this murder. Miike's sequel is chock full of harrowing Boat chases, big explosions, beautiful women sex and drugs! Takashi Miike's Family, Part 2 continues the tale of the yakuza gangster named Hideshi, who must uncover the identity of the man who killed a powerful crime boss.
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National Conquest Tekiya Tamashii
Title: National Conquest Tekiya Tamashii
Released: July 16, 2001
Type: Movie
It's Ricky!
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Family
Title: Family
Released: March 10, 2001
Type: Movie
When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi discovers that Takeshi was secretly sent by their Yakuza boss to eliminate Iwaida. Meanwhile, the mobster Kenmoshi abducts Takashi's wife Mariko and rapes her, trying to force Takashi to deliver his brother to him.
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Japanese Gangster History Ambition Corps 4
Title: Japanese Gangster History Ambition Corps 4
Released: August 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Embalming
Title: Embalming
Released: July 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.
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The Hidden Festival
Title: The Hidden Festival
Released: May 30, 1998
Type: Movie
Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal. His predecessor almost managed to convince the island's 17 inhabitants to sell their stake and make way for a resort hotel -- that is, before he died under dubious circumstances. Takamine finds the islanders polite and kind but unwilling to discuss business; instead, they tell him to become an islander. So the city-slicker stuffed shirt loses his tie and starts to help the women plant and the men fish. He soon makes his acquaintance with Takako (Mitsuko Baisho), the widowed daughter of the island's chief. She lives alone with her crazed son who is kept Jane Eyre-style chained to a stake. One moon-lit night, their mutual attraction boils over, resulting in a naked, passionate roll on the beach.
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Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Title: Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
Character: Yamadaira
Released: April 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
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Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
Title: Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
Character: Yamadaira
Released: July 23, 1995
Type: Movie
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
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Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
Title: Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
Character: Captain of the Nojima
Released: March 11, 1995
Type: Movie
A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi. Meanwhile, ornithologist Nagamine investigates reports of a new species of large bird named Gyaos. As the Gyaos begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to Asagi emerges.
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Garōden
Title: Garōden
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Based on the Baku Yumemakura martial arts serials
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Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 3
Title: Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 3
Released: April 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara), who was thinking about the next money plan for the 200 million yen he got from the painting trick, looks at high-rate poker gambling. The target is Shinya, Saijo's sergeant. He's been crazy and has preyed on women who were dazzled by gold. Moreover, his reserve is 1.3 billion yen. If you continue the game as it is, Tetsuo will lose. Suddenly, in the latter half of the game, which was greeted by Shinya's predominance, a huge number of cardboard boxes were carried in front of Tetsuo. Who on earth for what? And what's inside !?
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II
Title: Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II
Released: January 8, 1994
Type: Movie
The second 'Gotoshi' film.
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The King of Minami: Loan Shark Law
Title: The King of Minami: Loan Shark Law
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
#3 in the King of Minami series. Ginjiro Manda sets his sights on a corrupt cop named Tatsuya, who finds himself in debt to Manda after unsuccessfully trying to scam the ruthless loan shark. The pair also find themselves chasing a notorious con artist, who is himself in debt to an even more ruthless real estate tycoon.
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Last Run: 100 Million Yen Worth of Love and Betrayal
Title: Last Run: 100 Million Yen Worth of Love and Betrayal
Released: December 30, 1991
Type: Movie
A former Formula 2 racing champion is asked to assist in setting up an auction of vintage cars. He becomes aware of a billionaire's plot to rig the auction and takes action against him.
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Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
Title: Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
Released: September 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
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Karate for Life
Title: Karate for Life
Released: May 14, 1977
Type: Movie
The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend finds herself in desperate need of medical supplies, Oyama steps back in the ring to raise the money—but will he be able to follow the script this time?
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Title: Special Crime Investigation Front
Character: Detective Tachibana
Released: April 6, 1977
Type: TV
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Tsugaru Folksong
Title: Tsugaru Folksong
Released: December 20, 1973
Type: Movie
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning to her home, the man an escapee from the yakuza. The man doesn't seem to mind when the woman sells her favours to tourists at the local bar, just as she seems to take his attentions to Yuki, a blind girl, with equanimity.
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
Title: The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
Released: February 17, 1971
Type: Movie
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
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Mission: Iron Castle
Title: Mission: Iron Castle
Released: February 7, 1970
Type: Movie
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.
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Haunted Castle
Title: Haunted Castle
Character: Komori Hanzaemon
Released: December 20, 1969
Type: Movie
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 revenge for the death of its master as well as for the corruption in the feudal system.
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The Falcon Fighters
Title: The Falcon Fighters
Character: 2nd Lt. Ando
Released: November 1, 1969
Type: Movie
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at the Tokorozawa Flying School. Flying Kawasaki Ko-4 biplanes, Lt. Katō will train both friend and future foe alike. But as war in China breaks out, Katō now in command of the 5th Rentai will take his untested men flying antiquated planes into aerial combat against the Chinese Air Force who is now headed by Lt. Cho who Katō both earlier befriended and personally trained himself. While Katō's squadron ultimately achieves air superiority over the skies of Manchuria, it comes at a high price in men to which each loss carries a heavy burden that he alone must carry. As the war widens into the Second World War, Captain Katō must battle an ever advancing array of deadlier new enemies flying ever more modern fighter planes.
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The Magoichi Saga
Title: The Magoichi Saga
Character: Priest Shin-so
Released: September 13, 1969
Type: Movie
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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Gateway to Glory
Title: Gateway to Glory
Released: July 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
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Lefty Fencer
Title: Lefty Fencer
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
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Broken Swords
Title: Broken Swords
Character: Yasubei Nakayama
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
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 vile Lord Kira. Remake of Hakuôki AKA Samurai Vendetta (1959).
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Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
Title: Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
Character: Hyakasuro
Released: March 12, 1969
Type: Movie
In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground, the door is opened for the Yokai Monsters to step in.
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The Two Bodyguards
Title: The Two Bodyguards
Character: Seki no yatappe
Released: August 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Film directed by Kenji Misumi
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The Bride from Hades
Title: The Bride from Hades
Character: Hagiwara Shinzaburou
Released: June 15, 1968
Type: Movie
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
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Gamera vs. Viras
Title: Gamera vs. Viras
Character: Scout Master Mr. Shimida
Released: March 20, 1968
Type: Movie
As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabitants, including Viras, a squid-like monster that grows to colossal size to battle Gamera.
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The Woman Gambler
Title: The Woman Gambler
Released: July 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Second 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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Gamera vs. Gyaos
Title: Gamera vs. Gyaos
Character: Foreman Shiro Tsutsumi
Released: March 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.
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Return of Giant Majin
Title: Return of Giant Majin
Character: Lord Juro
Released: August 13, 1966
Type: Movie
The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorable Lord Juro. Just when all seems lost, Daimajin rises from Lake Yakumo to settle a score of his own.
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Gamera vs. Barugon
Title: Gamera vs. Barugon
Character: Keisuke Hirata
Released: April 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
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Zero-Fighters
Title: Zero-Fighters
Released: September 4, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Gambling Samurai
Title: The Gambling Samurai
Released: November 14, 1964
Type: Movie
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Operation Underworld
Title: Operation Underworld
Released: October 19, 1963
Type: Movie
A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate.
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Sentimental Mobsters
Title: Sentimental Mobsters
Character: Ginnosuke Nakamura
Released: July 27, 1963
Type: Movie
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
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Teinen Taishoku
Title: Teinen Taishoku
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Order of Yakuza
Title: Order of Yakuza
Released: December 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Order of Yakuza
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Fūshinraishin
Title: Fūshinraishin
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Great Wall
Title: The Great Wall
Character: Li Hei
Released: November 1, 1962
Type: Movie
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.
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Ashita au hito
Title: Ashita au hito
Released: September 16, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Otoko to onna no sei no naka
Title: Otoko to onna no sei no naka
Released: September 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
Title: Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
Released: August 12, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Whale God
Title: The Whale God
Character: Shaki
Released: July 15, 1962
Type: Movie
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
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仲良し音頭・日本一だよ
Title: 仲良し音頭・日本一だよ
Released: May 12, 1962
Type: Movie
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Princess and I
Title: Princess and I
Released: April 29, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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情熱の詩人啄木
Title: 情熱の詩人啄木
Released: March 4, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Wakai yatsura no kaidan
Title: Wakai yatsura no kaidan
Released: December 27, 1961
Type: Movie
1961 Japanese movie
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Buddha
Title: Buddha
Character: Siddhartha
Released: October 31, 1961
Type: Movie
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
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Okoto and Sasuke
Title: Okoto and Sasuke
Character: Sasuke
Released: October 14, 1961
Type: Movie
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Title: Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Released: May 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.
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五人の突撃隊
Title: 五人の突撃隊
Released: April 26, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Ginza Three Boys
Title: The Ginza Three Boys
Character: Shûzô Takarai
Released: January 3, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.
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Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
Title: Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
Character: Uzuki Hyoma
Released: December 27, 1960
Type: Movie
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.
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Satan's Sword
Title: Satan's Sword
Character: Hyoma Utsugi
Released: October 18, 1960
Type: Movie
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 period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue , a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
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風来物語 あばれ飛車
Title: 風来物語 あばれ飛車
Released: September 28, 1960
Type: Movie
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Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Title: Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Released: September 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.
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Jirocho - The Chivalrous
Title: Jirocho - The Chivalrous
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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 from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
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Victory and Defeat
Title: Victory and Defeat
Character: Tetsutaro Hata
Released: April 27, 1960
Type: Movie
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title fight, but his comrade Hata (Kojiro Hongo) is not happy with this choice, and so he moves to the gym run by the criminal businessman Goda (Toru Abe) and burning desire to beat Yamanaka.
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The Demon of Mount Oe
Title: The Demon of Mount Oe
Character: Sakata-no-Kintoki
Released: April 27, 1960
Type: Movie
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 the beautiful lady in tragic love! A grand visual epic told with mesmerizing extravagance!
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Ah Special Attack Corps
Title: Ah Special Attack Corps
Released: February 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.
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Princess Sen in Edo
Title: Princess Sen in Edo
Character: Kihachirô Tahara
Released: January 14, 1960
Type: Movie
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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The Two Musashis
Title: The Two Musashis
Released: January 3, 1960
Type: Movie
During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu clan's top instructors and then taking on Sasaki Kojiro!
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The Princess Says No
Title: The Princess Says No
Released: December 8, 1959
Type: Movie
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風来物語任侠篇
Title: 風来物語任侠篇
Released: October 28, 1959
Type: Movie
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
Title: Etajima, the Naval Academy
Released: September 6, 1959
Type: Movie
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. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.
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The Lord and the Gambler
Title: The Lord and the Gambler
Character: Chonosuke
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protest from Minister Horio, it is decided that young Chonosuke is to succeed as ruler of the clan. Horio determines to murder Chonosuke on his way to Edo so that his own grandchild may rule the Takatori Clan. "Odd" Han, a travelling gambler happens to stop at the inn where Chonosuke's party is staying in secret. The assassins come to attack Chonosuke on the riverbank where he is viewing the fireworks alone but are driven off by Han. Now Chonosuke travels with Han disguised as a gambler during which he begins to learn the hardships of the peasants and is struck with the contrast between the life of a feudal and those whose labour provides his luxurious living.
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Jirocho Fuji
Title: Jirocho Fuji
Released: June 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.