Shōzaburō Date

Shōzaburō Date

Born: December 7, 1935

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Title: Space Ironmen Kyodain
Character: Captain Marui
Released: April 2, 1976
Type: TV
Space Ironmen Kyodyne was a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. The show, like numerous others of its type and era, were produced as a joint effort between manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei Company producer Hirayama Tôru. It premiered in 1976 and ran for 48 episodes. The show is well known for its strange plot and costume design, rapid-fire and purposefully disorienting editing, and unique, sometimes surreal, atmosphere. The late Yūsuke Natsu and Takeshi Sasaki starred as Skyzel and Grounzel respectively.
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Voyage Into Space
Title: Voyage Into Space
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Earth is invaded by an interstellar terrorist group, Big Fire (the Gargoyle Gang in the American version), led by Emperor Guillotine who spends most of his time in a multicolored space ship hidden at the bottom of Earth's ocean, from which he issues his orders. Big Fire is capturing scientists to create an army of monsters to conquer Earth. A boy named Daisaku Kusama (Johnny Sokko in the American version) and a young Unicorn agent named Jūrō Minami (Jerry Mano in the American version) are shipwrecked on an island after being attacked by a sea monster and subsequently captured by Big Fire. They flee to where a Pharaoh-like giant robot is being built by captive scientist Lucius Guardian, who gives Daisaku and Jūrō its control device. Guardian helps them escape before he is shot to death; before he dies, he triggers an atomic bomb which destroys the base. The radiation activates the robot, which now obeys only Daisaku.
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The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
Title: The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
Released: November 15, 1969
Type: Movie
15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
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Kanto Woman Infamy
Title: Kanto Woman Infamy
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Giant Robo
Character: Chief Azuma
Released: October 11, 1967
Type: TV
Join Daisaku Kusama and Giant Robo as they battle the interstellar terrorist group Big Fire.
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Sutekina 16-sai
Title: Sutekina 16-sai
Released: July 8, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
Title: Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
Released: May 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Comedy movie
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Closing Time
Title: Closing Time
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
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Triangle Moods
Title: Triangle Moods
Released: May 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.
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Fuun shinsegumi
Title: Fuun shinsegumi
Character: Katsura Kogoro
Released: May 17, 1961
Type: Movie
1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.
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Zoku-sei to ningen
Title: Zoku-sei to ningen
Released: January 3, 1961
Type: Movie
1961 Japanese movie
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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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弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻
Title: 弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻
Released: October 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
Title: The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
Released: July 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places.
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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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Daitengu shutsugen
Title: Daitengu shutsugen
Released: January 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Japanese film.
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man
Title: Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man
Released: December 13, 1959
Type: Movie
This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear.
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人形佐七捕物帖 鮮血の乳房
Title: 人形佐七捕物帖 鮮血の乳房
Released: August 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.
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The Ghosts of Kagami Pond
Title: The Ghosts of Kagami Pond
Character: Yasujirô
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.
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Queen of the China Sea
Title: Queen of the China Sea
Released: May 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Rika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by First Lieutenant Yokoyama of the Japanese Naval Commander's Office. After the end of war, Yokoyama plans to escape from riot-ridden Amoy and finally succeeds with the help of Rika to whom he gives a destroyer. Rika is actually the leader of a gang of pirates, and plans to rule the East China Sea by crushing Banryu, her rival.
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The Cast-Off
Title: The Cast-Off
Released: May 13, 1959
Type: Movie
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
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決闘不動坂の大仇討
Title: 決闘不動坂の大仇討
Released: March 14, 1959
Type: Movie
1959 Japanese film.
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The Lady Vampire
Title: The Lady Vampire
Released: March 7, 1959
Type: Movie
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
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The Most Valuable Madam
Title: The Most Valuable Madam
Released: February 11, 1959
Type: Movie
lchiro, the president of Mihara & Co., is henpecked by his wife Momoko, a clever and beautiful woman, but prattling and intrusive. She makes her younger sister Nashiko marry lchiro's younger brother, Jiro, manager of his company and now plans to marry her youngest sister Kyoko to her husband's youngest brother, Saburo. This means her domination of the Miharas and their business, a fine triple play which would gain her the title of "The Most Valuable Madam." However, in opposition to Momoko, Kyoko boldly declares that she will never marry Saburo. However Saburo is a most attractive young man and attracts Kyoko. Will she or her elder sister be able to win the title of "The Most Valuable Madam"?
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Title: The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Character: Lieutenant Yamada
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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Giants and Toys
Title: Giants and Toys
Character: Ekichi
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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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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Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction
Title: Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction
Released: October 8, 1957
Type: Movie
The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)
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Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
Title: Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
Released: October 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens.
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The Betrothed
Title: The Betrothed
Released: May 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
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Bridge of Japan
Title: Bridge of Japan
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
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Nenneko Shain
Title: Nenneko Shain
Released: July 25, 1956
Type: Movie
A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.
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母山彦
Title: 母山彦
Released: April 24, 1952
Type: Movie