Fumio Watanabe

Fumio Watanabe

Born: October 31, 1929
Died: August 4, 2004
in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Fumio Watanabe October 31, 1929 – August 4, 2004 was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.

Movies for Fumio Watanabe...

金融腐蝕列島 再生
Title: 金融腐蝕列島 再生
Released: January 13, 2002
Type: Movie
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Shura ga Yuku 6
Title: Shura ga Yuku 6
Released: September 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination.
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Sanctuary - Part 3
Title: Sanctuary - Part 3
Character: Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
Released: February 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Standing in the way of Hojo and Asami is Secretary-General Isaoka, and a new enemy, the Russian Mafia. The magnificent war between front and back society has finally reached its climax! What is the incurable disease that hit Asami when the secret bond between the two was revealed? Two men work to transform their lives and reshape Japan.
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Sanctuary - Part 2
Title: Sanctuary - Part 2
Character: Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
Released: December 18, 1995
Type: Movie
Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto region, and Asami to create a faction "Rifukakai," aiming to destroy Isaoka's system of the ruling Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the connection between Hojo and Asami is revealed.
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Sanctuary
Title: Sanctuary
Character: Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
Released: January 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but rising Yakuza clan, while Asami is a politician aiming to become the youngest member of the Japanese parliament. But while they both live in different ways, Hojo and Asami share the same past; both of them were survivors of the Killing Fields of Cambodia. With the aggression and survival instincts they learned in the Cambodian jungles, Hojo and Asami strive in both the Yakuza and political world to reform Japan into their own sanctuary.
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Dogra Magra
Title: Dogra Magra
Character: Police Chief
Released: October 15, 1988
Type: Movie
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: TV
The tumultuous life of the fallen Isoroku Yamamoto is depicted, along with his family, friends, and subordinates, his bonds with the women who loved and watched over him, and the sorrows of the nameless people who have disappeared in the torrent of history.
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Kidnapping Blues
Title: Kidnapping Blues
Character: Stall Owner
Released: October 9, 1982
Type: Movie
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
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Shogun's Ninja
Title: Shogun's Ninja
Character: Tokugawa Ieyasu
Released: November 15, 1980
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Title: Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
Character: Takashi Nakagami
Released: September 9, 1978
Type: Movie
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
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Title: 大追跡
Released: April 4, 1978
Type: TV
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The Skies of Haruo
Title: The Skies of Haruo
Released: December 19, 1977
Type: Movie
1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Title: Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Character: Keizo Tashiro
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
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High Seas Hijack
Title: High Seas Hijack
Character: Reporter Tatsuya Iwado
Released: October 20, 1977
Type: Movie
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
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Deep Throat in Tokyo
Title: Deep Throat in Tokyo
Character: Kawata
Released: December 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and quickly marries Hideo, the heir to a corporate empire. Hideo's father, Takehiko, lusts after Kumi. Takehiko sends his son away, ostensibly on a business trip, but actually so that he can be murdered by Takehiko's henchmen. Takehiko seduces Kumi, but is frustrated when she refuses to perform oral sex on him. Angered, Takehiko forces Kumi to undergo surgery in which her clitoris is transferred to her throat, thereby requiring that she engage in oral sex in order to have an orgasm. Hideo, the supposedly murdered son, returns having paid off his assassins. Hideo shoots and kills his father, but Kumi grabs the gun and kills Hideo so that she can inherit the family's fortune
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Main Line to Terror
Title: Main Line to Terror
Released: November 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
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The Bullet Train
Title: The Bullet Train
Character: Miyashita
Released: July 5, 1975
Type: Movie
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
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The Great Chase
Title: The Great Chase
Character: Hayato Maejima
Released: April 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase" to be seen, Shihomi does pursue a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese yakuza types. While the story is pure 70's exploitation and gritty crime drama, the best reason to see it is for the Martial Arts Action of Etsuko Shihomi. The action is over-the-top and at times hilarious (i.e. Shihomi battling the lead criminal atop a moving gondola or Shihomi battling a whip-wielding Catholic Nun).
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Title: The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Without Complaint
Title: Without Complaint
Character: Yoshita Kitani
Released: February 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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City of Corruption
Title: City of Corruption
Released: October 19, 1974
Type: Movie
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My Way
Title: My Way
Character: Lawyer
Released: September 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
Title: The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
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The Tattooed Hitman
Title: The Tattooed Hitman
Character: Kenzo Kaizu
Released: April 27, 1974
Type: Movie
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
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The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
Title: The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
Released: March 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Cobra
Title: Cobra
Character: Chujo
Released: February 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film.
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The Transgressor
Title: The Transgressor
Character: Priest Kakinuma
Released: February 16, 1974
Type: Movie
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
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The Street Fighter
Title: The Street Fighter
Character: Renzo Mutaguchi
Released: February 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
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A Japanese Demon
Title: A Japanese Demon
Released: September 29, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Title: The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Title: Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Character: Masuo Shimazaki
Released: June 7, 1973
Type: Movie
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
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A Diary of a Woman Doctor
Title: A Diary of a Woman Doctor
Released: May 12, 1973
Type: Movie
1973 Toei movie.
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Internal Sleuth
Title: Internal Sleuth
Character: Murakoshi
Released: April 21, 1973
Type: Movie
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Title: Quarreling with Yakuza
Released: March 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Title: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Character: Inspector Goda
Released: December 30, 1972
Type: Movie
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
Title: Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
Character: Satake
Released: October 25, 1972
Type: Movie
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations
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Yakuza Skirmishes
Title: Yakuza Skirmishes
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
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A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Title: A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Released: September 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
Title: Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
Character: Warden Goda
Released: August 25, 1972
Type: Movie
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
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The Lucky Status Symbol
Title: The Lucky Status Symbol
Released: June 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.
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Modern Lady Gambler
Title: Modern Lady Gambler
Released: May 26, 1972
Type: Movie
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...
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The Erotomaniac Daimyo
Title: The Erotomaniac Daimyo
Released: April 26, 1972
Type: Movie
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan. However, the lord's sexual inexperience and Kiyohime's strict morals lead to significant crisis in their marriage. To improve his sexual prowess, the lord is introduced to Sandra, a French woman held captive by usurer-smuggler Hatakaya. This results in the lord's choosing Sandra as his mistress. Kiyohime's attendants see this move as an insult and have Sandra beaten and imprisoned. Nevertheless, Sandra escapes with the help of Morita, a retainer of the lord. Out of bitterness and as some sort of revenge, the lord imposes a sex ban on his subjects.
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Gang Warfare
Title: Gang Warfare
Released: April 14, 1972
Type: Movie
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
Title: A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
Released: January 22, 1972
Type: Movie
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime groups based in Osaka to war it out and order the Shima to the Onishi group of the branch to expand the territory. Now members of the same yakuza gang are forced to fight each other over territory and honor.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Title: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Character: Bizennokami Yagyû
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
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Kantō tekiya ikka: Enko no daimon
Title: Kantō tekiya ikka: Enko no daimon
Released: December 17, 1971
Type: Movie
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Troops of Darkness
Title: Troops of Darkness
Released: November 10, 1971
Type: Movie
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
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The Armed Organization
Title: The Armed Organization
Released: November 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Title: The Gambler's Counterattack
Character: Head of Kikuna Clan
Released: October 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.
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The Gambling Nun
Title: The Gambling Nun
Released: September 7, 1971
Type: Movie
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
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Story of Japanese Bad Men
Title: Story of Japanese Bad Men
Released: August 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Toei yakuza film.
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Wet Sand in August
Title: Wet Sand in August
Character: Kamematsu Kamei
Released: August 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Title: Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
Released: July 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Patience Has An End
Title: Patience Has An End
Released: June 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
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The Ceremony
Title: The Ceremony
Released: May 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
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King of Pornography
Title: King of Pornography
Released: May 2, 1971
Type: Movie
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Dagger
Title: Dagger
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
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Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
Title: Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he must first face his nemesis, Whipmaster, the blind Priest, a master killer thirsting for revenge.
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The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
Title: The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
Released: February 17, 1971
Type: Movie
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
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Evil Spirits of Japan
Title: Evil Spirits of Japan
Character: Baba
Released: December 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look.
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Thugs of Shinjuku
Title: Thugs of Shinjuku
Released: December 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Title: Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Released: October 31, 1970
Type: Movie
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
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Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
Title: Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
Released: October 17, 1970
Type: Movie
An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.
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Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss
Title: Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss
Released: June 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
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Brothers of Capones
Title: Brothers of Capones
Released: May 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows his first venture to Japan with gangster brothers Frank (Shingo Yamashiro) and Joe (Fumio Watanabe). And being chased by gangster and the FBI, including the granddaughter of Eliot Ness. The whole thing is a good amount of fun, the performances especially (Wakayama, Yamashiro, Watanabe in a rare heroic role), making this one of routine director Takashi Harada’s best pictures.
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Title: The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Character: Moritaya Seizo
Released: April 18, 1970
Type: Movie
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
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House of Gamblers
Title: House of Gamblers
Released: March 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family goons, by retaliating on his own. After injuring the head of Tanuma's family, and slaying others along the way, he then surrenders to the law and serves time. Before his last year to serve, the head of the Aramasa family falls ill and decides to retire, Ryoji miss chance to be successor, his old friend is reluctant but accepts. Now this gives the Tanuma family a chance for revenge! But with Tomisaburo Wakayama (Sekine) always having your back, how can you go wrong?
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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
Title: Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
Character: Daimon
Released: January 31, 1970
Type: Movie
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
Title: Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
Released: January 20, 1970
Type: Movie
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It was thought that Igarashi, who valued righteousness and principles and had the respect of others, would become the second-in-command. However, he was an annoying presence to Ryūzaki...
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Wolves of the City: Checkmate
Title: Wolves of the City: Checkmate
Released: January 9, 1970
Type: Movie
This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
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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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Kanto Street Peddlers
Title: Kanto Street Peddlers
Released: November 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bosses (Watanabe, Amatsu and Kawazu).
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The Private Police
Title: The Private Police
Released: September 6, 1969
Type: Movie
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.
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Boy
Title: Boy
Character: Father
Released: July 26, 1969
Type: Movie
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and another, younger boy. The adults pretend to be injured by autos in crowded traffic, blackmailing the fearful motorists with threats to call in the police.
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A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Title: A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Released: May 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
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The Cross of Vengeance
Title: The Cross of Vengeance
Released: May 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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Sky Scraper!
Title: Sky Scraper!
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
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The Bad Boss 3
Title: The Bad Boss 3
Released: May 6, 1969
Type: Movie
A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
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The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game
Title: The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Yakuza on Foot
Title: Yakuza on Foot
Character: Karo Kin
Released: March 30, 1969
Type: Movie
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.
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Kanto Onna Gokudo
Title: Kanto Onna Gokudo
Released: February 22, 1969
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Title: Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Character: Himself
Released: February 15, 1969
Type: Movie
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
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Rogue
Title: Rogue
Character: Shigekichi Karasawa
Released: October 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer Sawada and his spunky sister Tomoko. The boys also find part time night jobs as roving minstrels in the club district courtesy of benevolent gang boss Asakawa. Of course, they run afoul of boss Karasawa's cruel gang. Karasawa also has it in for Asakawa, and this indirectly throws a spanner into the works as far as Isamu's burgeoning success as a kickboxer. When Asakawa 's HQ is burned to the ground by Karasawa's men, Asakawa tries to kill Karasawa - which, of course, leads to his own gruesome death. Isamu goes on the rampage with his sword, wiping out Karasawa and men.
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Title: Vampires
Character: 森村記者
Released: October 3, 1968
Type: TV
Based on the Osamu Tezuka manga
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Shogun's Joy of Torture
Title: Shogun's Joy of Torture
Released: September 28, 1968
Type: Movie
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
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Kanto Woman Yakuza
Title: Kanto Woman Yakuza
Released: August 24, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Cheating Underworld
Title: The Cheating Underworld
Character: Iwasaki
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
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Outlaw: Heartless
Title: Outlaw: Heartless
Character: Koga
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
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Industrial Spy
Title: Industrial Spy
Character: Seiichiro Sawada
Released: May 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A spy learns the top secrets of a company.
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The Bad Boss
Title: The Bad Boss
Released: May 6, 1968
Type: Movie
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
Title: Three Resurrected Drunkards
Character: Dokumushi
Released: March 30, 1968
Type: Movie
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.
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The Domain: Severed Relations
Title: The Domain: Severed Relations
Released: February 22, 1968
Type: Movie
The Domain: Severed Relations
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Gambler's Farewell
Title: Gambler's Farewell
Character: Eiji Katasawa
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
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Death by Hanging
Title: Death by Hanging
Character: Education Officer
Released: February 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
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Women's Prison
Title: Women's Prison
Released: January 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and the girl will take revenge.
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A History of the Japanese Underworld
Title: A History of the Japanese Underworld
Released: January 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
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The Hoodlum Priest
Title: The Hoodlum Priest
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
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Yanagase Blues
Title: Yanagase Blues
Character: Hayato Gondo
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Title: The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: Movie
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
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Young Boss, Fugitive
Title: Young Boss, Fugitive
Released: August 12, 1967
Type: Movie
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Organized Violence II
Title: Organized Violence II
Character: Gorô Hyôdô
Released: June 29, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Gambler's Law
Title: The Gambler's Law
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
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Dissolution Rites
Title: Dissolution Rites
Character: Shimamura
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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Organized Violence
Title: Organized Violence
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
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Five Star Private
Title: Five Star Private
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
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A Woman's Gamble
Title: A Woman's Gamble
Released: November 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. The series gets cited on lists of action yakuza films or woman avenger films, but once the films are actually viewed, it is quickly obvious they are not generally about action except in the nominal sense of acts of gambling. And while Ogin is in fact sometimes motivated by revenge, she is not as a rule a martial artist or a killer, & this series tends to place its female hero as far away from the "action babe" method as she can get. Ogin is an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling. She is samurai-like in that she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer, much as a samurai might go on his "warrior's pilgrimage" to become Japan's number one swordsman.
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Violence at Noon
Title: Violence at Noon
Character: Inspector Haraguchi
Released: July 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
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Silence Has No Wings
Title: Silence Has No Wings
Released: February 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
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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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Pleasures of the Flesh
Title: Pleasures of the Flesh
Character: Hanawa gang member
Released: August 29, 1965
Type: Movie
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush—fully expecting to be tracked down and killed.
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Title: Uzushio
Character: 丘甫
Released: April 6, 1964
Type: TV
The 4th NHK Asadora. Starring Michiko Hayashi as a woman born in poverty who lives a brave life. She lost her husband in war and now must take care of their 5-year-old child alone. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Fumiko Hayashi.
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Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
Title: Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
Released: September 21, 1963
Type: Movie
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Four Sisters
Title: Four Sisters
Character: Tatsuo Sakurai
Released: July 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
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Yume de aritai
Title: Yume de aritai
Released: January 14, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Nippon no obaachan
Title: Nippon no obaachan
Released: January 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
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Hikkoshi yatsure
Title: Hikkoshi yatsure
Released: June 9, 1961
Type: Movie
Manao Horiuchi movie
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Epitaph to My Love
Title: Epitaph to My Love
Character: Taiichi Kimura
Released: May 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.
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Killers on Parade
Title: Killers on Parade
Character: Football
Released: February 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
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The Tragedy of Bushido
Title: The Tragedy of Bushido
Released: November 30, 1960
Type: Movie
A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single night with the young man and teach him the pleasures of the flesh, out of motherly mercy. However, the following day, an official decree is issued to ban suicide through fidelity...
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Late Autumn
Title: Late Autumn
Character: Tsuneo Sugiyama
Released: November 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
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The River Fuefuki
Title: The River Fuefuki
Released: October 19, 1960
Type: Movie
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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Night and Fog in Japan
Title: Night and Fog in Japan
Character: Haruaki Nozawa
Released: October 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.
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Volunteering for Villainy
Title: Volunteering for Villainy
Character: Yasuo Kawamura
Released: September 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
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The Sun's Burial
Title: The Sun's Burial
Character: Yosehei
Released: August 9, 1960
Type: Movie
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
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Good-for-Nothing
Title: Good-for-Nothing
Released: July 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.
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Cruel Story of Youth
Title: Cruel Story of Youth
Character: Akimoto
Released: June 3, 1960
Type: Movie
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
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Only She Knows
Title: Only She Knows
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
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Girls Behind the Bars
Title: Girls Behind the Bars
Released: March 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Story of girls in a Japanese reform school.
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Shisha to no kekkon
Title: Shisha to no kekkon
Released: February 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Title: The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Character: Sanbô
Released: November 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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Street of Love and Hope
Title: Street of Love and Hope
Character: Yuji
Released: November 17, 1959
Type: Movie
A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched after Masuo sells his pigeons to her. However, after his scam is revealed, can these feelings truly remain the same?
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Red Pants
Title: Red Pants
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes the focus of many yearning eyes and Seikichi, the boss' son, picks a quarrel with him and violent fight ensues in which Shinji kills a man in self-defense.
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Umi no Chizu
Title: Umi no Chizu
Character: Sugiura
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing.
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Donto ikōze
Title: Donto ikōze
Released: June 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
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Bridge
Title: Bridge
Released: March 4, 1959
Type: Movie
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
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Maria of the Ant Village
Title: Maria of the Ant Village
Released: December 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
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One Step to Happiness
Title: One Step to Happiness
Released: November 11, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Invisible Wall
Title: The Invisible Wall
Released: October 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Equinox Flower
Title: Equinox Flower
Character: Ichiro Nagamura
Released: September 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Wataru Hirayama outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to lead life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
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Don't get in your hands
Title: Don't get in your hands
Released: February 16, 1958
Type: Movie
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
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Black River
Title: Black River
Character: Nishida
Released: October 23, 1957
Type: Movie
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
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Elegy of the North
Title: Elegy of the North
Character: Tatsumi Furuse
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
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Flying in the Air
Title: Flying in the Air
Released: January 9, 1957
Type: Movie
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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俺は死なない
Title: 俺は死なない
Released: August 21, 1956
Type: Movie
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Fountainhead
Title: Fountainhead
Released: February 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.