Kosaku Okano

Kosaku Okano

Born: February 9, 1933
in Ryōgoku, Tokyo

Movies for Kosaku Okano...

Title: Juukou B-Fighter
Character: Yu's grandfather
Released: February 5, 1995
Type: TV
Juukou B-Fighter, was a 1995 Japanese tokusatsu television series. B-Fighter is short for "Beetle Fighter". It was part of Toei's ongoing Metal Hero Series. It dealt with three members of the prestigious Earth Academia fighting against the evil forces of the otherworldly Jamahl Empire. The action footage and props were later used for Big Bad Beetleborgs.
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Title: Tokusou Robo Janperson
Character: Professor Karube
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: TV
Tokusou Robo Janperson was the 1993 installment in Toei Company Limited's Metal Hero Series. The series revolved around Janperson, a robotic detective who patrolled the streets of Tokyo and fought against three different underworld organizations who used super technology to subjugate the masses. Unlike most Metal Heroes, a monster-of-the-week was rarely shown and most of the villains are criminals akin to television police dramas. The name given to this series by Toei for international distribution is Jumperson.
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Title: Super Rescue Solbrain
Character: Professor Takashi Yabe
Released: January 20, 1991
Type: TV
After the Winspector police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's female counterpart; and SolDozer, a yellow bulldozer robot.
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Title: Special Rescue Police Winspector
Character: Researcher
Released: February 4, 1990
Type: TV
Special Rescue Police Winspector is a "Special Rescue Police Winner" who loves peace, believes in friendship, and confronts crimes to save lives! (From the opening narration) In 1999, advanced science and technology enriched people's lives, but the damage caused when they were misused for crimes or went out of control and went out of control was also great. The Special Rescue Police Winspector (abbreviated as WSP ) was established to deal with such a situation . Their purpose is not only to investigate crimes and arrest suspects, but also to save the lives of those involved in crimes and disasters.
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A Woman Called En
Title: A Woman Called En
Released: May 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is released at the age of 44, the power struggles of her clan continue to disturb her life and the man whom she loves.
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A Kamikaze Cop
Title: A Kamikaze Cop
Released: May 23, 1970
Type: Movie
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Title: Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: Movie
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
Title: Japan Organized Crime Boss
Released: July 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Title: Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Released: October 25, 1968
Type: Movie
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.
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Prison Boss
Title: Prison Boss
Released: April 18, 1968
Type: Movie
Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
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Blackmail Is My Life
Title: Blackmail Is My Life
Released: February 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.
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Gambler's World 2
Title: Gambler's World 2
Character: Ichimatsu
Released: November 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
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Parole
Title: Parole
Character: Bodyguard
Released: October 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
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Dissolution Rites
Title: Dissolution Rites
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
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Title: Three Sisters
Character: Tanaka Mitsuaki
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: TV
The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.
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The Golden Bat
Title: The Golden Bat
Character: Nakamura
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately inducted into the secret program whose mission is to finish the Super-Destruction Beam cannon and destroy Icarus. The cannon is missing a special mineral for the lens. The team heads for a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific. There they find ancient ruins of Atlantis but they are suddenly attacked by a strange drill shaped metal squid spaceship. It's commanded by the evil being Nazu who has engineered the collision with Icarus! He doesn't want to share the universe with humans and he really doesn't want the cannon finished. The action is on and the team discovers the Golden Bat who has been asleep for over 10,000 years awaiting this very moment to save the earth!
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Game of Chance
Title: Game of Chance
Character: Stadium guest B
Released: October 22, 1966
Type: Movie
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
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The Pretty Jade
Title: The Pretty Jade
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Terror Beneath the Sea
Title: Terror Beneath the Sea
Character: Nakamura
Released: July 1, 1966
Type: Movie
While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a strange-looking swimming creature. They investigate the matter further and discover that there is a race of fish-men living under the sea. The fish-men capture the pair and keep them prisoner in their underwater city.
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The Kamikaze Guy
Title: The Kamikaze Guy
Released: June 4, 1966
Type: Movie
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
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The Threat
Title: The Threat
Released: February 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.
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Gang's Upward Strategy
Title: Gang's Upward Strategy
Released: December 18, 1965
Type: Movie
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
Title: Brutal Tales of Chivalry
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.
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The Hoodlum Brothers
Title: The Hoodlum Brothers
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
A crime film released in 1965
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Title: Tale of Japanese Burglars
Released: May 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
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A Fugitive from the Past
Title: A Fugitive from the Past
Character: Detective Tonami
Released: January 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
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Female
Title: Female
Released: November 21, 1964
Type: Movie
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Red Diamond
Title: Red Diamond
Released: October 14, 1964
Type: Movie
After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the azuki beans market. A young man tries to regain his wealth in the bean market.
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Here Because of You
Title: Here Because of You
Released: May 23, 1964
Type: Movie
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki’s career is threatened as a result of a false accusation from the school’s PTA, the students band together to stand up for their beloved teacher and help him to save his good reputation and job.
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Kizu-darake no futeki-sha
Title: Kizu-darake no futeki-sha
Released: March 9, 1963
Type: Movie
1963 Japanese movie
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Fearful Witch
Title: Fearful Witch
Released: December 16, 1962
Type: Movie
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The King
Title: The King
Released: November 23, 1962
Type: Movie
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
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Tokyo Untouchable
Title: Tokyo Untouchable
Released: October 21, 1962
Type: Movie
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Nerai uchi buraikan
Title: Nerai uchi buraikan
Released: October 6, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Komadori shimai oke-sa wataridori
Title: Komadori shimai oke-sa wataridori
Released: September 16, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
Title: I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
Released: September 9, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Mid-August Commotion
Title: Mid-August Commotion
Released: August 22, 1962
Type: Movie
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.
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The Thinking Leaf
Title: The Thinking Leaf
Released: May 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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G-Men in the Pacific
Title: G-Men in the Pacific
Released: April 22, 1962
Type: Movie
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
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Love School
Title: Love School
Released: February 28, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
Title: The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
Released: December 6, 1961
Type: Movie
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
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Devil's Nursery Rhyme
Title: Devil's Nursery Rhyme
Character: Reporter A
Released: November 15, 1961
Type: Movie
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
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Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
Title: Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
Character: Kiyomura Construction employee
Released: October 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.
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Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
Title: Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
Released: September 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears right before signing a contract into the major leagues. Meanwhile, the body of an orthopedist is discovered in the river.
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Fateful Birthplace
Title: Fateful Birthplace
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
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Invasion of the Neptune Men
Title: Invasion of the Neptune Men
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.
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If You're Man Enough
Title: If You're Man Enough
Released: November 29, 1960
Type: Movie
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Devotion to Railway
Title: Devotion to Railway
Character: Driver
Released: November 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
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Deep River Melody
Title: Deep River Melody
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
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G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
Title: G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
Released: July 20, 1960
Type: Movie
G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels all the way from Kyushu to Tokyo. Disguising himself as a yakuza member, he intends to root out the underworld's base of operations, weaving together love, guns, and violence to unravel the mystery behind the enigmatic incident and the true nature of evil. This thrilling action drama combines suspense with excitement, depicting a tale filled with love, fists, and firearms.
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Man of the World 2
Title: Man of the World 2
Released: July 13, 1960
Type: Movie
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
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Police Precinct Part 13
Title: Police Precinct Part 13
Released: June 7, 1960
Type: Movie
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents of the murdered child. They use a towel, baby diapers and bruises on the baby's body as clues in the investigation. Who killed the baby?
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Kashima-nada no onna
Title: Kashima-nada no onna
Character: Shigeo
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
Drama about the lives of seasonal migrant workers in Kashima
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Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha
Title: Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha
Released: June 9, 1959
Type: Movie
1959 Japanese movie
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The Story of Pure Love
Title: The Story of Pure Love
Released: October 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
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Police Precinct Part 2
Title: Police Precinct Part 2
Released: March 8, 1956
Type: Movie