Sôten Kuni

Sôten Kuni

Born: November 24, 1903
Died: December 21, 1982
in Sumida City, Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Sôten Kuni...

Exam Hell
Title: Exam Hell
Released: January 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A student, running late on the day of the Tokyo Imperial University entrance exams, calls in a fake bomb threat in order to arrive on time.
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Absolutely Secret: Girl Torture
Title: Absolutely Secret: Girl Torture
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in the Edo Era, the film opens with a group of women being convicted of various crimes. The rest of the film is given to graphic depiction of the tortures the women endure as part of their sentences.
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Tokaido hijokeikai
Title: Tokaido hijokeikai
Released: December 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Crime film directed by Tatsuo Yamada for Shintoho.
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Lust of the White Serpent
Title: Lust of the White Serpent
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: Movie
A work with the motif of a legend that remains in the mountain villages of Shinshu and Hida. A white snake helped by a young man transfers to a girl's body, longing for him and burning in an endless passion.
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Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
Title: Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
Released: May 28, 1960
Type: Movie
After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction tried to usurp the rightful heir and take over the honored clan. Before his untimely death, the lord of the Kuroda bestowed “Nihongo”, a magnificent spear, on his finest warrior, which ultimately brings him into contact with two of Japan’s most famous historical figures, Yagyu Jubei and Miyamoto Musashi. Can the three masters of martial art join forces to defeat their enemies and save the nation?
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Yellow Line
Title: Yellow Line
Released: April 29, 1960
Type: Movie
The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
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Basement of Death
Title: Basement of Death
Released: February 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Shintoho crime film directed by Kyotaro Namiki.
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Black Line
Title: Black Line
Character: Manager
Released: January 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
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Daitengu shutsugen
Title: Daitengu shutsugen
Released: January 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Japanese film.
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The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin
Title: The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin
Released: September 11, 1959
Type: Movie
In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...
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Broken Blossoms
Title: Broken Blossoms
Released: February 25, 1959
Type: Movie
War drama about army nurses.
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Title: The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Character: Heitaro Kimura
Released: January 3, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.
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Secret White Line Zone
Title: Secret White Line Zone
Released: September 21, 1958
Type: Movie
First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.
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Ghost in the Regiment
Title: Ghost in the Regiment
Released: August 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brother.
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Underwater Murder
Title: Underwater Murder
Character: Gorô's Father, Genzô
Released: July 27, 1958
Type: Movie
The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.
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Flesh Pier
Title: Flesh Pier
Released: April 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
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Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
Title: Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
Released: March 14, 1958
Type: Movie
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Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity
Title: Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity
Released: December 28, 1957
Type: Movie
The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. (Part 1 of 2)
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Traitors of the Blue Castle
Title: Traitors of the Blue Castle
Character: Hanshiro Omiya
Released: December 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
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Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
Title: Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
Released: November 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Japanese mystery film.
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Title: Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Released: July 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Title: The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Released: July 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
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Gyakushû Orochimaru
Title: Gyakushû Orochimaru
Released: January 29, 1955
Type: Movie
An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.
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Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Title: Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
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Miki, the Swordman
Title: Miki, the Swordman
Released: November 2, 1951
Type: Movie
After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle.
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新遊侠伝
Title: 新遊侠伝
Released: May 5, 1951
Type: Movie
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Yasubei Nakayama
Title: Yasubei Nakayama
Released: March 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Title: Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Released: August 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
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Both You and I
Title: Both You and I
Character: President Inoue
Released: June 13, 1946
Type: Movie
A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.
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Dancers of Awa
Title: Dancers of Awa
Released: May 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin. His brother (Kazuo Hasegawa) vowed vengeance on the day of his brother's death. So every year the villains are worried during the Awa Dance Festival (which is part of the Obon festival), but nothing has ever happened, until seven years later...