Daijirô Harada

Daijirô Harada

Born: April 5, 1944
in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Daijirô Harada...

Performing Kaoru's Funeral
Title: Performing Kaoru's Funeral
Released: March 5, 2024
Type: Movie
When a screenwriter named KAORU dies suddenly, she leaves behind a tangle of relations who are all pulled together for the final act in her life: performing her funeral. The chief mourner is her ex-husband, Jun. A failed actor, he drifts around Tokyo as a driver for callgirls. He has to clean himself up to lead the ceremony down in the small village in Okayama that KAORU came from. There, he meets a host of eccentric characters, TV people, and KAORU ’s daughter, all of whom have complicated feelings for the recently departed. As can be guessed, the funeral becomes chaotic as people quarrel and fight but the fact that KAORU was loved is not in doubt as nostalgia, bitterness, and affection for the woman come out from each mourner in comic confrontations.
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Hoshi 35
Title: Hoshi 35
Released: October 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Hoshi 35 (HOSHI 35 Hoshi Sanjūgo) is an upcoming crowdfunded tokusatsu kaiju film which will be written and directed by Hiroto Yokokawa and co-directed by Kazuma Yoneyama and Daisuke Sato, with effects by Sato. Presented by MRTS Co., Ltd. and produced by 3Y Co., Ltd., it will star Megumi Odaka, Daijiro Harada, Jun Hashizume, Hiroshi Miyasaka, and Yumiko Tanaka. The project, whose name is derived from the Japanese word for "star" (hoshi), will celebrate Odaka's 35th anniversary as an actress and will be her first film role in close to 30 years. It is to be tentatively released to Japanese theaters in October 2023. (Wikizilla:https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Hoshi_35)
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The Pledge to Megumi
Title: The Pledge to Megumi
Character: Shigeru Yokota
Released: February 19, 2021
Type: Movie
A film depicting the story of Yokota Megumi who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977.
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Odadoushikai Oda Seiji 2
Title: Odadoushikai Oda Seiji 2
Released: June 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Second entry in the Oda Seiji series
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Otoko no yasashi-sa wa zenbu shitagokoronande sutte
Title: Otoko no yasashi-sa wa zenbu shitagokoronande sutte
Released: May 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Miko Uda works as an attendant for a merry-go-round at a shopping mall and as a mascot. Miko believes in people to the utmost but has been rejected by every man she has ever given herself to. Unable to become the only one for someone, Miko spends her days alone on the merry-go-round.
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Front and Back Final Chapter
Title: Front and Back Final Chapter
Released: February 6, 2016
Type: Movie
The final 'Front and Back' film.
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Front and Back Chapter 5
Title: Front and Back Chapter 5
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
The fifth 'Front and Back' film.
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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories
Title: Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories
Released: December 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Bunsei era, at a time when Edo culture is at its peak, and barely 50 years before the arrival of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Sabu is a cheerful, honest young man who left his hometown with the dream of becoming a policeman. He is an informant to the policeman Saheiji of Asakusa in Edo and stays with him and his daughter Midori. One day, Sabu encounters the cool master swordsman Ichi, who makes a living giving massages, and they become partners in an unexpected way. Although Sabu is still an informant, he and the blind Ichi collaborate in a way that compensates for each other’s shortcomings. Sabu becomes Ichi’s eyes while Ichi becomes Sabu’s right-hand man and solves cases with his well-honed skills of deduction as they search for the truth in difficult cases in Edo. One case starts with the discovery of two dead bodies in the Sumida River. The bodies have diagonal slashes and were left in boxes.
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Front and Back Chapter 4
Title: Front and Back Chapter 4
Released: December 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The fourth 'Front and Back' film.
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Front and Back Chapter 3
Title: Front and Back Chapter 3
Released: November 28, 2015
Type: Movie
The third 'Front and Back' film.
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Front and Back Chapter 2
Title: Front and Back Chapter 2
Released: August 29, 2015
Type: Movie
The second 'Front and Back' film.
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Front and Back
Title: Front and Back
Character: Naosuke Kamiyama
Released: March 14, 2015
Type: Movie
The first 'Front and Back' film.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Talks
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: TV
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
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Winter Ghost Stories ~I and Me and Grandma's Story
Title: Winter Ghost Stories ~I and Me and Grandma's Story
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A horror movie with zombies towards the end
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The Yagyu Conspiracy
Title: The Yagyu Conspiracy
Released: September 28, 2008
Type: Movie
The classic tale retold. This is one of Japan’s most popular stories in a brand new version starring the great Matsukata Hiroki following in the footsteps of Yorozuya Kinnosuke as Yagyu Tajima, the grandmaster swordsman whose plot to maintain the succession of Iemitsu as shogun encounters obstacles on all sides. Loaded with action and featuring many of Japan’s new up and coming sword stars this exciting movie brings back the feelings of the golden age of motion pictures. Stunning cinematography brings 17th Century Japan to life in this exciting tale of loyalty and betrayal, leading up to an ending that won’t be found in any history book.
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Teacher and Three Children
Title: Teacher and Three Children
Released: September 27, 2008
Type: Movie
The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
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Chosyu Five
Title: Chosyu Five
Released: October 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still under sakoku (鎖国 "locked country").
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Sakura no daimon: chi no hōshū
Title: Sakura no daimon: chi no hōshū
Released: November 11, 2005
Type: Movie
The battle for life begins now; who will survive? A clash that transcends the boundaries between police and the yakuza.
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Howl's Moving Castle
Title: Howl's Moving Castle
Character: Heen (voice)
Released: September 9, 2004
Type: Movie
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
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Izo
Title: Izo
Character: Judge
Released: September 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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Owl
Title: Owl
Released: February 7, 2003
Type: Movie
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to stray to their cabin with sex, and kill them. All goes well until a local cop shows up and, then, an old relation.
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
Title: Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
Character: Nakajo
Released: September 21, 2002
Type: Movie
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers.
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The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Title: The Boy Who Saw the Wind
Character: Tarbal (voice)
Released: July 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People of the Sea. Together, they try to stop the Empire of the Golden Snake from destroying and conquering everything.
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Yakuza Ladies 9
Title: Yakuza Ladies 9
Released: November 27, 1999
Type: Movie
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In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
Title: In Search of a Lost Writer: Wandering in the World of the Seventh Sense
Character: Takeo Takahashi
Released: July 3, 1999
Type: Movie
A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of the Seventh Sense," her unknown years spent in poor health and poverty, and the present-day world from which we see her work.
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Special Cabinet Investigator ORDER 2
Title: Special Cabinet Investigator ORDER 2
Released: February 13, 1997
Type: Movie
1997 V-Cinema sequel.
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Special Cabinet Investigator ORDER
Title: Special Cabinet Investigator ORDER
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
1997 V-Cinema film.
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Home of Acorns
Title: Home of Acorns
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Slice of life drama about a couple and their young disabled daughter.
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Modern-Era Shameless School
Title: Modern-Era Shameless School
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The hot-blooded manga of love and excitement is revived in the Heisei era!
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Modern-Era Shameless School
Title: Modern-Era Shameless School
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Heisei Harenchi Gakuen
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Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon's Love and Ambition
Title: Date Masamune: The One-Eyed Dragon's Love and Ambition
Character: Yagyū Munenori
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The live of the daimyo Date Masamune
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Kachô Shima Kôsaku
Title: Kachô Shima Kôsaku
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane
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I Am Sukeban
Title: I Am Sukeban
Released: July 24, 1992
Type: Movie
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Title: The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Character: Nagai
Released: June 6, 1992
Type: Movie
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.
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Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue
Title: Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue
Character: Iwao Himuro
Released: February 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Doctors Kazamatsuri and Onizuka are geneticists researching cures on diseases such as AIDS and cancer by performing experiments to strengthen the human body. The test subject is Shin Kazamatsuri, motorcycle racer son of Doctor Kazamatsuri. Unknown to them, their operation is funded by a syndicate group, who plan to use this research to have the bodies of men strengthened for their own gain—they have already been experimenting in the field of cyborg soldiers, to a less-than-successful attempt. However, they did not count on Onizuka's own secret ambitions; the mad Onizuka wanted to create a new species, by fusing a grasshopper's DNA with the test subject's, in order to start a new civilization and be their god. He has tested on himself, but seems to be having greater success with Shin.
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Playtime Never Ends
Title: Playtime Never Ends
Released: October 5, 1991
Type: Movie
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
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Zato Schoolgirl Nami
Title: Zato Schoolgirl Nami
Released: June 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Film about a schoolgirl and what not.
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Title: Tales of the Bizarre
Released: April 19, 1990
Type: TV
Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.
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She-Shogun
Title: She-Shogun
Character: Inaba Masanari
Released: January 20, 1990
Type: Movie
The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the future 3rd Shogun is chronicled in this historical drama. Intrigue and suspicion abound as the two brothers Iemitsu and Tadanaga vie for the post of Shogun, while behind the scenes the remnants of the defeated Toyotomi faction, lead by Lord Ishida Mitsunari attempt to discredit the Tokugawa Shogunate and regain their former position as rulers of the nation. The hidden battles between Shogun Hidetada's wife and mistresses of the 'Ooku' come to light as they force the two brothers into a life or death struggle.
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The Silk Road
Title: The Silk Road
Character: Weichi Kuang
Released: June 25, 1988
Type: Movie
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a fortress, Xingde discovers Tsurpia, princess of the Uighur. He hides her; they fall in love. When he's sent away to study Xixian, he leaves Tsurpia in Zhu's care, but returns to find her engaged to Li. Tragedy follows, and he and Zhu enter a pact to take revenge when Li arrives at Dun-Huang, the region's seat of learning and culture. Against overwhelming odds, they find a surprising way to leave a monument to their life and love.
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Title: 君の瞳をタイホする!
Character: 松平裕之
Released: January 4, 1988
Type: TV
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Kyoufu no Yacchan
Title: Kyoufu no Yacchan
Released: July 4, 1987
Type: Movie
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MacArthur's Children—Part II
Title: MacArthur's Children—Part II
Released: January 24, 1987
Type: Movie
A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the beautiful girl with whom they went to school as children.
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Wandering -SASURAI-
Title: Wandering -SASURAI-
Released: May 28, 1986
Type: Movie
A high school girl becomes convinced that her mother, who was said to have died fourteen years ago, is alive and residing in Hokkaido.
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Star
Title: Star
Released: April 12, 1986
Type: Movie
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Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
Title: Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
Character: Aritomo Yamagata
Released: January 25, 1986
Type: Movie
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Title: I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Released: March 2, 1985
Type: Movie
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."
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Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning II
Title: Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning II
Released: February 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Reportage writer Kenzo has made an interview appointment with Morishima, the mastermind behind the political and business world. On that day, Morishima is killed and a 200 million yen diamond is stolen. The diamond was brought by jeweler Kuhara to sell to Morishima. A woman named Maki who was present and disappeared immediately after the incident is suspicious. However, the site is a completely closed room. Kenzo's older brother, Matsushita, the chief of the investigation section, also shook his head...
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Title: 水曜ドラマスペシャル
Released: October 17, 1984
Type: TV
“Monday Drama Special” (Getsuyou Drama Special) is a long-running drama that aired on TBS every Monday from 21:00 to 22:54 (JST) from October 2, 1989 to March 19 , 2001 . program.
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The Wangan Highway
Title: The Wangan Highway
Released: September 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
Title: Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
Released: July 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken for a snitch and about to be beaten up when he was saved by the quick thinking of a ferryman Sanji. The infiltration is the plan of Samon and chief elder Abe Isenokami, who has asked Samon to obtain smuggling evidence against shipping whole retailers Kawachiya Senemon and his son Sennosuke.
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The Man from Shimizu
Title: The Man from Shimizu
Released: December 28, 1982
Type: Movie
On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gambling den, where he bets the condolence money for his mother's funeral. No surprise to learn he loses the lot. Not the hard-boiled yakuza story it seems, this is a comedy featuring many new artists who were making a name for themselves at the time.
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Shadow Conspirator
Title: Shadow Conspirator
Released: November 26, 1982
Type: Movie
One night, Genjiro Tsurumi, a former ronin comes across a man being attacked by a group of assassins. The dying man is an official secret agent carrying a secret letter addressed to General Matsudaira. Genjiro meets with Matsudaira, who informs him of the existence of a mysterious group, the Hachitake... who aims to overthrow the Shogunate.
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Fall Guy
Title: Fall Guy
Character: Tachibana
Released: October 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.
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The Moon Mask Rider
Title: The Moon Mask Rider
Released: March 14, 1981
Type: Movie
The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.
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Truck Rascals X: Hometown Express
Title: Truck Rascals X: Hometown Express
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: Movie
Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love.
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Love and Faith
Title: Love and Faith
Released: June 3, 1978
Type: Movie
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.
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Title: Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Released: August 20, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: The Water Margin
Character: Hua Rong
Released: October 2, 1973
Type: TV
The Water Margin is a Japanese television series based on Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The novel details the trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws during the Song Dynasty. This adaptation follows Lin Chung and his clashes with the local government official Kao Chiu. The Water Margin is famous for its, sometimes obscure, but memorable philosophical quotes, such as "Do not despise the snake for having no horns,for who is to say it will not become a dragon?""
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Hymn
Title: Hymn
Character: Toshitarô
Released: December 29, 1972
Type: Movie
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
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The Iron Crown
Title: The Iron Crown
Character: Bellboy
Released: April 22, 1972
Type: Movie
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
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Kigeki: Hanayome sensô
Title: Kigeki: Hanayome sensô
Character: Akira Satomi
Released: October 30, 1971
Type: Movie
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Title: Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
Character: Michio Yamada
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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Eros + Massacre
Title: Eros + Massacre
Character: Wada
Released: March 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.