Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Born: October 8, 1933
in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Kiyoshi Yamamoto...

Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Title: Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Released: June 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years later, she seeks out the relatives of the pilots when the piano is old and about to be discarded.
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Harikomi
Title: Harikomi
Released: September 26, 1991
Type: Movie
When a team of detectives lose the trail of a murderer, they decide to keep an eye on the suspect’s ex-lover, who is trapped in an abusive marriage.
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Tistou the Green Thumb
Title: Tistou the Green Thumb
Released: October 4, 1990
Type: Movie
When eight-year-old Tistou is sent home from school after being unable to stop falling asleep at lessons, his father decides that he will continue his education by learning from observation of real life, and where better to start than in the garden! With the gardener Mr. Moustache, Tistou discovers he has a remarkable gift—the green thumbs: everything he touches grows into beautiful plants. His next lesson is with the stern Mr. Turnbull, manager of his father's armament factory who takes Tistou to visit the town to learn about "order." Over the course of the next few days Tistou learns many new things as he visits the town prison, the slums, and the hospital, and everywhere he tries to change the world into a better place with his new extraordinary power. Finally, he learns about war, and upon visiting his father's factory, he finds out that they supply the two countries at war with their weapons...
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13 Assassins
Title: 13 Assassins
Released: March 28, 1990
Type: Movie
In between the original 1963 13 ASSASSINS film and the 2010 remake by Miike Takashi, Fuji TV produced a version for TV. Starring Nakadai Tatsuya and Natsuyagi Isao, with strong support from Tanba Tetsuro and Tanaka Ken, this is the ultimate tale of samurai justice carried out in a historical masterpiece. The shogun’s half-brother, Matsudaira Naritsugu has been slated to join the Roju Council of Elders as a senior adviser even though he is criminally insane. His outrageous acts cause one of his top retainers to commit ritual suicide in protest over his lord’s crimes. Alerted to these crimes, Roju Councilor Doi asks Inspector General Shmada Shinzaemon to assassinate Naritsugu before he can be seated on the council. Gathering a band of 13 (including himself), Shimada sets out on a death-defying journey to cut down the lord before he can reach Edo. Can a band of 13 samurai defeat the vile Naritsugu’s 200 man entourage and enact justice against his cruelty?
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The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop
Title: The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop
Released: October 3, 1987
Type: Movie
A jewelry broker is killed and a large amount of money is stolen. A female detective from the Metropolitan Police Department transforms into a geisha to catch the criminal.
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The Empty Table
Title: The Empty Table
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths. Although the parents of all the other perpetrators have either resigned from their professional positions or taken their own lives, Nobuyuki Kidoji tries to remain adamant that he was not responsible for his son's actions.
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Legend of the Assassin
Title: Legend of the Assassin
Released: March 22, 1984
Type: Movie
The Saika clan, that had succeeded in battle against the large armies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, had in the Tokugawa era of Ieyasu, been driven into the mountains 7 generations later, forced into subsistence hunting. A man comes to them offering revenge: to assassinate current Tokugawa Shogun Yoshimune. (Made-for-TV movie)
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Adrift at Sea
Title: Adrift at Sea
Released: December 3, 1983
Type: Movie
The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and landed on the US-Westcoast in 1834. They had the wish to return to Japan, a long journey was awaiting them.
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Shadow Hunters
Title: Shadow Hunters
Released: October 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayers of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa Takashiwa, Tadamaru was assaulted by a kage on his way to Edo. Zyubei and Gennnosuke, the Kagekaris, try to carry injured Tadamaru to Edo.
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Shadow Hunters
Title: Shadow Hunters
Released: October 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayers of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa Takashiwa, Tadamaru was assaulted by a kage on his way to Edo. Zyubei and Gennnosuke, the Kagekaris, try to carry injured Tadamaru to Edo.
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Suspicion
Title: Suspicion
Character: Director of the Criminal Affairs Division
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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Station
Title: Station
Released: November 7, 1981
Type: Movie
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
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Oh, My Son!
Title: Oh, My Son!
Character: Detective Yamamura
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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Title: Special Crime Investigation Front
Released: April 6, 1977
Type: TV
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Great Jailbreak
Title: Great Jailbreak
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: Movie
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Released: September 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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Goyokin
Title: Goyokin
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Cash Calls Hell
Title: Cash Calls Hell
Released: January 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.
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Sword of the Beast
Title: Sword of the Beast
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.
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The Abalone Gals
Title: The Abalone Gals
Released: June 26, 1965
Type: Movie
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Title: The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Released: November 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.