Taku Kido

Taku Kido

Born: March 3, 1937
in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Taku Kido...

Lanterns on Blue Waters
Title: Lanterns on Blue Waters
Released: November 15, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
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Suspicion
Title: Suspicion
Character: Reporter
Released: September 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
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Call from Darkness
Title: Call from Darkness
Released: September 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
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Writhing Tongue
Title: Writhing Tongue
Released: November 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to to bear the sufferings of their child. The once peaceful family has changed completely.
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The Three Undelivered Letters
Title: The Three Undelivered Letters
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: Movie
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
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Oh, My Son!
Title: Oh, My Son!
Released: September 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
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The Demon
Title: The Demon
Released: October 7, 1978
Type: Movie
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
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August without Emperor
Title: August without Emperor
Released: September 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
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The Beauty in the Bathroom
Title: The Beauty in the Bathroom
Released: January 7, 1978
Type: Movie
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal plan
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Title: Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: TV
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Tora-san's Pure Love
Title: Tora-san's Pure Love
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Title: Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Released: July 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
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Outlaw Cop
Title: Outlaw Cop
Released: February 4, 1976
Type: Movie
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
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Visitor After Dark
Title: Visitor After Dark
Released: October 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Title: Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Released: August 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
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The Last Samurai
Title: The Last Samurai
Released: September 20, 1974
Type: Movie
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
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Stray Dog
Title: Stray Dog
Released: September 29, 1973
Type: Movie
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
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Miyamoto Musashi
Title: Miyamoto Musashi
Released: July 13, 1973
Type: Movie
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
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Human Target
Title: Human Target
Character: Detective Takada (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Title: Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Title: Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Title: Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
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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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Title: Tora-san's Grand Scheme
Released: February 26, 1970
Type: Movie
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
Title: Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
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Samurai Spy
Title: Samurai Spy
Released: July 10, 1965
Type: Movie
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.