Hideo Takamatsu

Hideo Takamatsu

Born: October 24, 1929
Died: February 26, 2007
in Nagaoka-gun, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Hideo Takamatsu (高松英郎) was born on October 24, 1929 in Nagaoka-gun, Kochi, Japan as Tetsuro Takeichi (武市 哲郎). He was an actor, known for El último emperador (1987), Shogun (1980) and A Wife Confesses (1961). He died on February 26, 2007 in Kanagawa, Japan.

Movies for Hideo Takamatsu...

Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Haruo Tsuda
Released: January 18, 2003
Type: Movie
When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.
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Shura Group
Title: Shura Group
Released: February 16, 2002
Type: Movie
Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)
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雀狼伝2 必殺!!亜空間殺法
Title: 雀狼伝2 必殺!!亜空間殺法
Released: October 21, 2000
Type: Movie
The second full-fledged mahjong drama presented with the full cooperation of the Japan Professional Mahjong Federation! The strongest rival appears. The most formidable rival appears. What will Ando Mitsuru do? Will the subspace killing method be defeated?
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Thug Business Worker Sub
Title: Thug Business Worker Sub
Released: June 9, 2000
Type: Movie
The truth of a sniper becomes clear in the turmoil of a drug robbery that shakes the underworld.
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Road to the Don 12
Title: Road to the Don 12
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Road to the Don 11
Title: Road to the Don 11
Released: February 26, 2000
Type: Movie
The eleventh 'Road to the Don' film.
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Road to the Don 9
Title: Road to the Don 9
Released: April 30, 1999
Type: Movie
The ninth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Road to the Don 8
Title: Road to the Don 8
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: Movie
The eighth "Road to the Don' film.
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Road to the Don 7
Title: Road to the Don 7
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
The seventh 'Road to the Don' film.
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Road to the Don 6
Title: Road to the Don 6
Released: January 21, 1999
Type: Movie
The sixth 'Road to the Don' film.
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A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
Title: A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: Movie
A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder where the monster will head next.
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Road to the Don 4
Title: Road to the Don 4
Released: April 16, 1998
Type: Movie
The fourth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Road to the Don 3
Title: Road to the Don 3
Released: March 3, 1998
Type: Movie
The third 'Road to the Don' film.
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Road to the Don 2
Title: Road to the Don 2
Released: February 18, 1998
Type: Movie
The second 'Road to the Don' film
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Road to the Don
Title: Road to the Don
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The first 'Road to the Don' film.
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Boku wa benkyo ga dekinai
Title: Boku wa benkyo ga dekinai
Released: June 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Hidemi is bored of school, and decides to find another way to succeed in life.
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Shura ga Yuku 2
Title: Shura ga Yuku 2
Released: February 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series.
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Title: Hideyoshi
Character: Hayashi Sado no Kami
Released: January 7, 1996
Type: TV
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him.
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The Pachinko Game Drifter II
Title: The Pachinko Game Drifter II
Released: October 20, 1995
Type: Movie
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Tosei Burai
Title: Tosei Burai
Released: March 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Ryoji Minami, an elite trading company man, falls in love with Minako Kano, the daughter of the fifth president of the Kanto Kano family, overcomes obstacles, and has a wedding. A sudden misfortune befell Ryoji. On the day of the wedding, his father and daughter were killed by a bomb planted in a package. In anger and sadness with nowhere to go, Ryoji vows to take revenge on the bomber, and as the sixth head of the Kano family, confronts the Kyoei Alliance.
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Turning Point
Title: Turning Point
Character: Editorial Writer
Released: June 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
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Yokohama Bakkuretai
Title: Yokohama Bakkuretai
Released: March 5, 1994
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.
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Title: Natsuko no Sake
Character: 佐伯浩男
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: TV
Natsuko, who was a copywriter, starts to cultivate rice called Tatsunishiki, which is a phantom kind and it is very difficult to grow. She does it to make her dead brother's dream come true. His dream was to make the...
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Bokyo
Title: Bokyo
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Title: Four Days of Snow and Blood
Character: Yasufumi Yamashita
Released: June 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
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Company Executives
Title: Company Executives
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Goryokaku
Title: Goryokaku
Released: December 30, 1988
Type: Movie
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.
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The Last Emperor
Title: The Last Emperor
Character: General Ishikari
Released: October 4, 1987
Type: Movie
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
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Jiro's Story
Title: Jiro's Story
Character: 宗太郎
Released: July 4, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Detective
Title: The Detective
Released: September 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him dead in order to rescue the hostage, but the public denounces his actions as stemming from the personal grudge of a detective whose wife was just murdered, and he is demoted.
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Samurai Secret Agent
Title: Samurai Secret Agent
Released: December 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory being used by two samurai clans that try to usurp power and gain the position of shogun for one of their own.
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Rennyo and His Mother
Title: Rennyo and His Mother
Released: October 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a background of great poverty and hardship, at the age of 16 he set out to spread the word across the land.
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Title: Niji wo Oru
Character: 島崎宗太郎
Released: October 6, 1980
Type: TV
The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyougo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shoujo manga and Japanese folktales.
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Title: Shōgun
Character: Lord Buntarō
Released: September 15, 1980
Type: TV
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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Horror of the Giant Vortex
Title: Horror of the Giant Vortex
Released: August 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Japanese horror move from 1978.
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Title: Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Character: Tôbei Yamada
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
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Title: Special Crime Investigation Front
Released: April 6, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Kumo no Jutan
Character: 利根優
Released: April 5, 1976
Type: TV
The 17th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Asaji as a woman who wants to become a pilot.
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Title: Against The Grain
Character: Keigo Izumi
Released: February 28, 1976
Type: TV
Employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds confront many difficult questions
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Title: Ai yori aoku
Character: 田宮行義 校長(真紀の父)
Released: April 3, 1972
Type: TV
The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is the heroine, married to Shuichi who must go to war. She stays home and takes on the role of other war widows, managing business and a Chinese restaurant.
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Judo for Life
Title: Judo for Life
Character: Shusaku Kuruma
Released: July 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Naoya Ichijo uses special judo techniques to succeed.
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Title: Heaven and Earth
Character: Kanazu Shinbei
Released: January 5, 1969
Type: TV
The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.
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Secret Information
Title: Secret Information
Character: Tetsuji Miki
Released: May 14, 1968
Type: Movie
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.
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Secret Agent 101
Title: Secret Agent 101
Released: December 24, 1966
Type: Movie
Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
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Yakuza Hooligans
Title: Yakuza Hooligans
Character: Kurokawa
Released: May 15, 1966
Type: Movie
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.
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Code of Ruffians
Title: Code of Ruffians
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
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 scheming Ojika Group.
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The Black Trademark
Title: The Black Trademark
Character: Akio Kakiuchi
Released: September 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
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Typhoon Reporter
Title: Typhoon Reporter
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Ginza is square in its sights!
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Black Dividend
Title: Black Dividend
Character: Lawyer Kiyohara
Released: April 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi...
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Black Money
Title: Black Money
Released: March 15, 1963
Type: Movie
The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.
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Black Report
Title: Black Report
Character: Kusama
Released: January 13, 1963
Type: Movie
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
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Elegant Beast
Title: Elegant Beast
Character: Ichiro Katori, Talent agents manager
Released: December 26, 1962
Type: Movie
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Released: December 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her.
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Fūshinraishin
Title: Fūshinraishin
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Midday Trap
Title: The Midday Trap
Released: August 19, 1962
Type: Movie
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Black Test Car
Title: Black Test Car
Character: Toru Onoda
Released: June 30, 1962
Type: Movie
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
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雪の降る街に
Title: 雪の降る街に
Released: April 4, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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誘拐
Title: 誘拐
Released: February 4, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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A Wife Confesses
Title: A Wife Confesses
Character: Public Prosecutor Kasai
Released: October 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
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Love and Life
Title: Love and Life
Character: Detective Tamai
Released: January 27, 1961
Type: Movie
Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
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Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
Title: Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
Released: January 9, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.
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The False Student
Title: The False Student
Character: Prosecutor
Released: October 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
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Patterns of Love
Title: Patterns of Love
Released: June 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
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The Rockabilly Lady
Title: The Rockabilly Lady
Character: Shirasaki
Released: March 8, 1960
Type: Movie
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Across the Darkness
Title: Across the Darkness
Character: Ikuta
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
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Yotsuya Ghost Story
Title: Yotsuya Ghost Story
Character: Naosuke Gombei
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.
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Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
Title: Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
Released: March 17, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Snowy Heron
Title: The Snowy Heron
Released: November 29, 1958
Type: Movie
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.
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Accomplice
Title: Accomplice
Released: October 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Giants and Toys
Title: Giants and Toys
Character: Ryuji Goda
Released: June 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
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Advance Patrol
Title: Advance Patrol
Released: December 28, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
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Kodokan Under a Morning Moon
Title: Kodokan Under a Morning Moon
Released: April 16, 1957
Type: Movie
The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?
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Night Butterflies
Title: Night Butterflies
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
Title: Tsukigata Hanpeita
Character: Daijiro Akamatsu
Released: October 16, 1956
Type: Movie
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu clan, who, along with Katsuro Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma, sought to fulfill the dream of a new peaceful era in Japan. Can he realize his ideals or will he die in the chaos of internecine fights...
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Tokyo Crime Map
Title: Tokyo Crime Map
Released: March 4, 1956
Type: Movie
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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The Romance of Yushima
Title: The Romance of Yushima
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.
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五十円横町
Title: 五十円横町
Released: June 22, 1955
Type: Movie
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Title: A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Released: April 23, 1955
Type: Movie
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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A Geisha on Horseback
Title: A Geisha on Horseback
Character: Kojuro Ichikawa
Released: November 15, 1954
Type: Movie
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 Taisho era.
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The Messenger from the Moon
Title: The Messenger from the Moon
Character: Doctor Ikeuchi
Released: September 22, 1954
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.
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浅草の夜
Title: 浅草の夜
Character: Komakichi
Released: July 14, 1954
Type: Movie
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 entertaining tale of love and action.
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Kurohyō
Title: Kurohyō
Released: July 17, 1953
Type: Movie