Naoya Kusakawa

Naoya Kusakawa

Born: June 11, 1929
in Jilin, China

Movies for Naoya Kusakawa...

Valentine Nightmare
Title: Valentine Nightmare
Character: Taro Aizawa
Released: January 23, 2016
Type: Movie
High school students go on a graduation trip. They become gripped with fear by the spirit of a dead classmate. Their classmate committed suicide on Valentine's Day, one year ago. She left behind the words "Let's meet one year later." The students must overcome their fear and find out the truth behind the tragedy that took place one year earlier.
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Battle Cry
Title: Battle Cry
Released: March 14, 1975
Type: Movie
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to complications that could cost Sentaro his life as they infiltrate enemy lines.
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The Golden Bat Shows Up
Title: The Golden Bat Shows Up
Character: Detective
Released: May 13, 1972
Type: Movie
A comedy featuring The Golden Bat
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Godzilla vs. Gigan
Title: Godzilla vs. Gigan
Character: Policeman
Released: March 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.
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The Battle of Okinawa
Title: The Battle of Okinawa
Released: August 14, 1971
Type: Movie
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
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The Resurrection of the Beast
Title: The Resurrection of the Beast
Released: December 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Crime film released in 1969
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Our Wasteland
Title: Our Wasteland
Released: June 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day. Meanwhile, his best friend Jun wants to build a home on some local wasteland. Yet the introduction of Yuki, who they both fall in love with, begins to tear their friendship apart.
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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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Bonds of Love
Title: Bonds of Love
Character: Director
Released: February 15, 1969
Type: Movie
Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei's life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison - with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.
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Admiral Yamamoto
Title: Admiral Yamamoto
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
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Destroy All Monsters
Title: Destroy All Monsters
Character: SY-3 Astronaut
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.
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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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Two in the Shadow
Title: Two in the Shadow
Character: Inoue
Released: November 18, 1967
Type: Movie
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
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Japan's Longest Day
Title: Japan's Longest Day
Character: Shunichi Nagatomo - NHK Engineer
Released: August 12, 1967
Type: Movie
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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King Kong Escapes
Title: King Kong Escapes
Released: July 22, 1967
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.
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The Young Ace in the South Pacific
Title: The Young Ace in the South Pacific
Character: Hotta
Released: July 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in deep-sea navigation. The Young Ace comes to the rescue of various women in peril, teaches a would-be restauranteur how to make sukiyaki, thwarts the romantic aspirations of his rival Ao Daisho, and competes in the finals of the Japan Judo Championship at the Nippon Budokan. Shot across various locations across Hawaii, Tahiti, Saipan, and Tokyo.
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The Age of Assassins
Title: The Age of Assassins
Released: February 4, 1967
Type: Movie
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.
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Rise Against the Sword
Title: Rise Against the Sword
Character: Matahachi
Released: November 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
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Title: Ultra Q
Character: Observer Kanda
Released: January 2, 1966
Type: TV
As supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be overwhelmed. Three intrepid young investigators—two pilots and a reporter—take it upon themselves to study these unexplained phenomena in order to inform and protect the public. With allies and science aiding them on their journey, the trio must separate myth from history as they explore the greater mysteries of these occurrences: are they unrelated, or is this barrage somehow a portent of even worse things to come?
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Ironfinger
Title: Ironfinger
Character: Takeshi Aonuma
Released: December 5, 1965
Type: Movie
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
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Samurai Assassin
Title: Samurai Assassin
Character: Sharp Eyes Man
Released: January 3, 1965
Type: Movie
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 assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
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A Keg of Powder
Title: A Keg of Powder
Character: #14
Released: December 9, 1964
Type: Movie
In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent scientist. Edited into Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" along with the 4th film in the series, "Key of Keys".
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Operation Mad Dog
Title: Operation Mad Dog
Released: September 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
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Young Swordsman
Title: Young Swordsman
Released: August 31, 1963
Type: Movie
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.
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Gekkyū dorobō
Title: Gekkyū dorobō
Released: December 8, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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47 Ronin
Title: 47 Ronin
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
Title: Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
Released: July 7, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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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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Operation Sewer Rats
Title: Operation Sewer Rats
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.
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Woman of Design
Title: Woman of Design
Released: January 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
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The Witness Killed
Title: The Witness Killed
Character: Minami
Released: December 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda
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The Last War
Title: The Last War
Character: Helicopter Crew Member
Released: October 8, 1961
Type: Movie
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
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Yojimbo
Title: Yojimbo
Character: Seibei Follower
Released: April 25, 1961
Type: Movie
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 local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
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The Merciless Trap
Title: The Merciless Trap
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.
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Blueprint of Murder
Title: Blueprint of Murder
Character: Maekawa
Released: January 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.
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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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Westward Desperado
Title: Westward Desperado
Released: October 30, 1960
Type: Movie
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.
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The Approach of Autumn
Title: The Approach of Autumn
Character: Policeman
Released: October 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.