Kyū Sakamoto

Kyū Sakamoto

Born: December 10, 1941
Died: August 12, 1985
in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Kyū Sakamoto...

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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My Sweetheart
Title: My Sweetheart
Character: Kyu-chan
Released: November 3, 1967
Type: Movie
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
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Let's Have A Dream
Title: Let's Have A Dream
Character: Kyûtaro
Released: January 2, 1967
Type: Movie
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland.
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Mr. Greenhorn
Title: Mr. Greenhorn
Character: Botchan
Released: August 13, 1966
Type: Movie
1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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King of the Highway
Title: King of the Highway
Released: December 18, 1965
Type: Movie
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Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
Title: Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
Character: Ted (voice)
Released: March 20, 1965
Type: Movie
The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an elderly, space-traveling scientist. With Dr. Gulliver's assistant Crow, and Ted's companions, a talking dog and a toy soldier, they travel the Milky Way to the Planet of Blue Hope, which has been taken over by the Queen of Purple Planet and her evil group of robots. Armed with water-pistols and water balloons, which melt the villains, Ricky and Gulliver restore Blue Hope to its doll-like owners.
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Song of Happiness
Title: Song of Happiness
Released: December 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.
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Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Title: Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Released: August 31, 1963
Type: Movie
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Title: Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
Released: December 30, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Hitoribotchi no futari daga
Title: Hitoribotchi no futari daga
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Wakai kisetsu
Title: Wakai kisetsu
Released: October 20, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Kyū-chan ondo
Title: Kyū-chan ondo
Released: July 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Keep Your Chin Up
Title: Keep Your Chin Up
Character: Kyô Kawanishi
Released: March 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.
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Kigeki ekimae bentô
Title: Kigeki ekimae bentô
Released: December 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...
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Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
Title: Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
Released: December 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi
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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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An Urban Affair
Title: An Urban Affair
Character: Kyusaku
Released: August 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
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Awamori-kun uridasu
Title: Awamori-kun uridasu
Released: July 30, 1961
Type: Movie
First of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi.
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Everything Goes Wrong
Title: Everything Goes Wrong
Released: October 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
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The Rockabilly Lady
Title: The Rockabilly Lady
Released: March 8, 1960
Type: Movie
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Beyond the Hills
Title: Beyond the Hills
Character: Kenzô Sugimoto
Released: February 2, 1960
Type: Movie
Story of young love in the hills.