Kenji Kodama

Kenji Kodama

Born: June 3, 1932
in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Kenji Kodama...

Crime Mystery by Kosaku Asahina: Tragedy of Hanasaki Village
Title: Crime Mystery by Kosaku Asahina: Tragedy of Hanasaki Village
Character: Ryutaro Hanayagi
Released: June 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Mystery writer Kosaku Asahina scores yet another scoop in a case that occurred in the streets. He even personally conducts investigations and frequently makes these cases the basis for his own novels. It maybe because his late father was a scholar that he is cool, but brims with curiosity and action. One day, Kosaku is facing the computer in his living room and writing a new novel. The novel is based on the baffling case of a female who fell to her death in Setagaya in the past. Kosaku had personally conducted interviews and inspected the scene of her death, but still cannot get to the truth. Then a letter addressed to his father Konosuke who died more than 20 years ago, is delivered to Kosaku. The name of the sender is the female whose mysterious death from a fall, is the subject of Kosaku’s new novel.
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Free and Easy 20: Final
Title: Free and Easy 20: Final
Released: December 26, 2009
Type: Movie
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Tokyo!
Title: Tokyo!
Character: Judge (segment "Merde")
Released: August 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
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Best Wishes for Tomorrow
Title: Best Wishes for Tomorrow
Released: October 27, 2007
Type: Movie
A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.
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Title: Elite Yankee Saburo
Released: April 13, 2007
Type: TV
Based on the comedy manga by Abe Shuji, "Elite Yankee Saburo" tells the story of Ookochi Saburo (Ishiguro Hideo), a plain and shy boy entering high school. Unfortunately for him, his two older brothers had built a reputation as legendary troublemakers at that school. When Saburo arrives, he is immediately misunderstood and treated as an "elite yankee."
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Nihon no aozora
Title: Nihon no aozora
Character: Joji Matsumoto
Released: March 21, 2007
Type: Movie
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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
Title: Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
Released: June 14, 2003
Type: Movie
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
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監察医 室生亜季子㉚ 震える顔
Title: 監察医 室生亜季子㉚ 震える顔
Character: Azuma Clinic doctor
Released: October 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Kota Mizutani, a 10-year-old boy whose health worsened after he saw a murder, is brought to Akiko's clinic by his mother Mariko. Kota says that two months ago, he witnessed a man in a park strangling a woman with a cord and was chased by the man afterwards. Hamada, who listens to his story along with Akiko, immediately performs an investigation but cannot find any traces of the crime. However, Kota's testimony gains credence when the body of a woman killed two months before is discovered on a construction site in Kawagoe. Acting on a tip from a citizen who says she had been wearing the same clothes as the victim, the police search the house of Kazuko Shimazaki, a photographer who is often absent. But when Kazuko returns from her trip with her assistant Hirano, it becomes clear the victim is a different person.
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After the Rain
Title: After the Rain
Released: January 22, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
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Free and Easy 8
Title: Free and Easy 8
Released: August 10, 1996
Type: Movie
When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.
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Flower and Snake 5: Rope Magic
Title: Flower and Snake 5: Rope Magic
Released: December 5, 1987
Type: Movie
The story of the gambler,who is unable to pay his loan.His wife and daughter are kidnapped and subjected to many days of torture and sexual degradation.
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Title: Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance
Character: Hamawatari
Released: October 13, 1986
Type: TV
Kokuchou Academy used to be an elite school but it is now a nest of evil. Accordingly, spunky schoolgirls Miho, Yumi, Ruri and Kei form the Sailor Suit Rebel Alliance to eliminate wrongdoers from the school premises, wearing heavy makeup in order to keep their identities hidden.
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Snake and Whip
Title: Snake and Whip
Character: Takamizawa
Released: August 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A young woman gets a new job as an executive secretary. Her boss discovers that she resembles her late mother who he desired but lost to another man. Seeing his chance for revenge the boss and his sadistic circle of friends make plans to turn her into his personal sex slave.
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Flower and Snake 2: Sketch of Hell
Title: Flower and Snake 2: Sketch of Hell
Character: Yoshitaka Tôyama(遠山義隆)
Released: August 24, 1985
Type: Movie
The daughter of a wealthy family rebels when her father remarries and she becomes a leader of a girl gang. She hatches a plot to use her stepmother to get a large sum of money by pretending to be kidnapped. But the tables are turned when gangsters intervene and capture them both. They are subjected to various humiliations and sexual perversions.
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Office Love: Behind Closed Doors
Title: Office Love: Behind Closed Doors
Character: Senior Managing Director Masayoshi Kubota
Released: July 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Reiko is a high class call girl employed by a large corporation. She’ll do anything necessary to help her employer land new business, including kinky sex and humiliation, to please her high class clientele. Secretly bedding rival company executives on her own time, Reiko’s world turns upside down when a former lover comes back to her for affection. The problem is he’s married! With yet another shy employee vying for her attention, Reiko gets caught in a triple tryst that could change her future forever.
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Ran
Title: Ran
Character: Samon Shirane
Released: June 1, 1985
Type: Movie
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
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Aijin Bank Satsujin Jiken
Title: Aijin Bank Satsujin Jiken
Character: Assistant Professor Yoshida
Released: February 11, 1984
Type: Movie
An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.
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Musashino shinjū
Title: Musashino shinjū
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: Movie
The life and affairs of a famous writer is seen through the eyes of his last mistress.
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Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
Title: Pink Cut: Love Me Hard, Love Me Deep
Released: January 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Mayumi and Mai are hair stylists who open a Barber shop called The Pink Cut. The place is an immediate success, due mostly to their super-short skirts. When the girls decide to stop wearing underpanties, business goes thru the roof. Eventually Main and Mayumi add special massages and cream rinses to their list of extras. The girls laugh all the way to the bank. Ah, the joys of entrepreneurship!
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Female Teacher: Dirty Rumor
Title: Female Teacher: Dirty Rumor
Character: Takimura
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher gets a phone call regarding one of her female students. It seems that the young girl has been accused of prostitution, and requests help from her teacher. The young girl's situation brings to mind some dark incidents from the teacher's past that she is still trying to deal with.
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Tsumatachi no gogo wa yori: kannō no ori
Title: Tsumatachi no gogo wa yori: kannō no ori
Character: Shusaku Sakura
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Time passes quietly without incident. Shizue lives peacefully as a wife. Masako, who is Shizue's friend and lives in Nagoya, uses Shizue as an alibi and comes to Tokyo several times a month to have an affair. When Shizue learns that Masako's cheating partner is Akira, a star athlete back in high school, a faint feeling of jealousy runs through her...
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Sanshiro Sugata
Title: Sanshiro Sugata
Released: May 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
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High and Low
Title: High and Low
Character: Detective Hara
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted over whether he should pay the ransom.