Matasaburô Niwa

Matasaburô Niwa

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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Title: Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: General Black
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Title: Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Character: Yoshizawa Iori
Released: April 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
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Penitentiary Brothers
Title: Penitentiary Brothers
Released: July 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Title: The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Released: August 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Title: Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Character: Asataro
Released: March 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Released: January 9, 1964
Type: Movie
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.
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Zatoichi on the Road
Title: Zatoichi on the Road
Character: Yamada
Released: November 30, 1963
Type: Movie
Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.
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Bronze Magician
Title: Bronze Magician
Character: Мацуи
Released: October 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
Title: Shinsengumi Chronicles
Character: Kyûzô Okamoto
Released: January 3, 1963
Type: Movie
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
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Hell's Assassin
Title: Hell's Assassin
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
Title: Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
Released: August 12, 1962
Type: Movie
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Yamaotoko no Uta
Title: Yamaotoko no Uta
Character: Okumura
Released: July 8, 1962
Type: Movie
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Destiny's Son
Title: Destiny's Son
Character: Eijirô Chiba
Released: July 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The son of an executioner and the assassin he loved yet murdered learns of his origins, leaving his foster parents to avenge his mother's death.
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
Title: Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
Released: March 4, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
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Her Hidden Past
Title: Her Hidden Past
Released: February 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.
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鉄砲安の生涯
Title: 鉄砲安の生涯
Released: February 21, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
Title: The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
Released: November 29, 1961
Type: Movie
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.
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Buddha
Title: Buddha
Character: Sanna
Released: October 31, 1961
Type: Movie
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
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The Old Temple Well
Title: The Old Temple Well
Released: July 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.
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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Title: Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Released: May 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.
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Tabiwa Oiroke
Title: Tabiwa Oiroke
Released: April 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman take your chastity? On the Tokaido Highway of Flowers, a beautiful swordsman is in peril! Tokaido is a journey of women's peril! Pink Kumudo no Kenjidoshu! A swarm of beautiful women chases after him! The forest of white blades that ambushes! Tokaido is in full bloom!
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Straw hat of Itako
Title: Straw hat of Itako
Released: January 25, 1961
Type: Movie
A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.
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Samurai Save The Virgin
Title: Samurai Save The Virgin
Character: Unazuki Hyogo
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
A gripping historical drama full of suspense and a mysterious bewitching mood. A puzzle of a turbulent era in which various characters fall into a maelstrom of events - a pretty girl, a strange beggar woman, a charming thief, a clever detective, the famous magistrate Toyama Saemon no jo, they all struggle to unravel this mystery of the white bell, which provoked the sudden disappearance of two beautiful women caught in one place at the same time at midnight.
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Lord Tadanao
Title: Lord Tadanao
Released: November 22, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Blind Menace
Title: The Blind Menace
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
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Koga's Messenger
Title: Koga's Messenger
Character: Yubari Ryunosuke
Released: May 18, 1960
Type: Movie
The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and witchcraft, a mystery and revenge swirl around the mystery of the hood, in the demon tower, in the underground castle, and at the bottom of the lake!
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Yûrei koban
Title: Yûrei koban
Released: April 6, 1960
Type: Movie