Hisaya Ito

Hisaya Ito

Born: August 7, 1924
Died: January 1, 2005
in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Movies for Hisaya Ito...

Attack at Daylight
Title: Attack at Daylight
Character: Tatsumi
Released: February 8, 1970
Type: Movie
A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.
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Okatsu the Fugitive
Title: Okatsu the Fugitive
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry and actually she doesn't seem too upset about the situation. At the same time, a bunch of farmers are being slaughtered by a corrupt group running a tobacco smuggling ring. They're being investigated by a man who is documenting their crimes and when they find out about it, they torture him for information but get none. It's not long before he and Okatsu's mother wind up dead and she sets out for revenge.
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Yakuza Law
Title: Yakuza Law
Released: June 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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Too Young to Die
Title: Too Young to Die
Character: Detective
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A young couple, composed by a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues in director's Kiyoshi Nishimura's debut film, almost totally filmed in one space.
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Admiral Yamamoto
Title: Admiral Yamamoto
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
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Destroy All Monsters
Title: Destroy All Monsters
Character: Major Tada
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.
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Two in the Shadow
Title: Two in the Shadow
Released: November 18, 1967
Type: Movie
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Title: Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Character: Red Bamboo Scientist #1 (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
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The War of the Gargantuas
Title: The War of the Gargantuas
Character: Police Chief
Released: July 31, 1966
Type: Movie
Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.
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The Thin Line
Title: The Thin Line
Released: February 12, 1966
Type: Movie
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
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A Smell of Money
Title: A Smell of Money
Released: December 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
Title: Frankenstein Conquers the World
Character: Osaka Police Sergeant
Released: August 8, 1965
Type: Movie
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
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The Retreat from Kiska
Title: The Retreat from Kiska
Character: Captain Kiso
Released: July 4, 1965
Type: Movie
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Title: Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Character: Malmess, Chief Assassin
Released: December 20, 1964
Type: Movie
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
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Blood and Diamonds
Title: Blood and Diamonds
Released: July 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
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Atragon
Title: Atragon
Character: Shindo
Released: December 22, 1963
Type: Movie
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense.
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A Woman's Life
Title: A Woman's Life
Released: November 16, 1963
Type: Movie
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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Interpol Code 8
Title: Interpol Code 8
Released: August 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
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Varan the Unbelievable
Title: Varan the Unbelievable
Character: Ichiro
Released: December 7, 1962
Type: Movie
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
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Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten
Title: Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten
Released: November 17, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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47 Ronin
Title: 47 Ronin
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Chihō kisha
Title: Chihō kisha
Released: October 13, 1962
Type: Movie
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Title: A Wanderer's Notebook
Released: September 29, 1962
Type: Movie
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
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Me and Me
Title: Me and Me
Released: August 11, 1962
Type: Movie
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla.
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Love Under the Crucifix
Title: Love Under the Crucifix
Released: June 3, 1962
Type: Movie
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
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Josei jishin
Title: Josei jishin
Released: May 22, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
Title: Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
Released: April 29, 1962
Type: Movie
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Woman of Design
Title: Woman of Design
Character: Tsukamoto
Released: January 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
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A Man in Red
Title: A Man in Red
Released: September 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza running a dope ring. Battling gangsters all the way, Takashi searches for his former girlfriend, now a drug addict.
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Girls of the Night
Title: Girls of the Night
Character: Kuniko's pimp
Released: September 4, 1961
Type: Movie
In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is a story of one of these brave women Kuniko who is released from the reformatory and tries to build a new life.
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Death on the Mountain
Title: Death on the Mountain
Character: Masatoshi Eda
Released: June 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was murdered.
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The Human Vapor
Title: The Human Vapor
Character: Police Scientist
Released: December 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?
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Battle in Outer Space
Title: Battle in Outer Space
Character: Kogure
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.
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Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Title: Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
Released: August 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the newlywed life that started at the Isono family was a disaster. At the Isono family, where bonito and Wakame pranks and neighbors visit, it is difficult even to be alone.
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Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
Title: Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
Released: July 4, 1959
Type: Movie
In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an armistice. When they get there, peace has been declared, but the sub's crew don't know as their radio has failed. They send their passengers ashore and go out to face a final battle...
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Varan
Title: Varan
Character: Ichiro, Yuriko's brother
Released: October 14, 1958
Type: Movie
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
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Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
Title: Tabi sugata nezumi kozō
Released: July 22, 1958
Type: Movie
1958 Japanese movie
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The H-Man
Title: The H-Man
Character: Misaki
Released: June 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
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The Mysterians
Title: The Mysterians
Character: Army Capt. Seki
Released: December 28, 1957
Type: Movie
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
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A Dangerous Hero
Title: A Dangerous Hero
Released: July 30, 1957
Type: Movie
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Title: A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Released: July 9, 1957
Type: Movie
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Title: A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Character: Dr. Shinozaki
Released: July 9, 1957
Type: Movie
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
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Rebellion from Below
Title: Rebellion from Below
Released: November 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Tomu Uchida's Gyakushu Gokumon Toride is a masterpiece which treats class struggle in the end of Samurai era(it's a fiction). The story is based on the legend of William Tell, changed at the end of age of Samurai.
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G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization
Title: G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization
Released: July 25, 1956
Type: Movie
The fourth installment of G-men of Japan
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White Fan
Title: White Fan
Released: March 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Horror film directed by Toshikazu Kôno.
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Police Precinct
Title: Police Precinct
Released: February 18, 1956
Type: Movie
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Five Paths to Revenge
Title: Five Paths to Revenge
Character: Wu Chen-cheng
Released: January 22, 1956
Type: Movie
The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on his late father's enemies.
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Murder on The Last Train
Title: Murder on The Last Train
Released: June 21, 1955
Type: Movie
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
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あゝ洞爺丸 
Title: あゝ洞爺丸 
Released: November 8, 1954
Type: Movie