Ryudo Uzaki

Ryudo Uzaki

Born: February 23, 1946
in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Ryûdô Uzaki (宇崎 竜童, Uzaki Ryūdō, February 23, 1946), born Shuji Kimura (木村 修司), is a Japanese singer, composer, actor, entertainer, and film director. He is from Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. His group, the Down Town Boogie-Woogie Band, was one of the most prominent 1970s Japanese rock music bands. He is married to lyricist and actress Yoko Aki (阿木 燿子).

Movies for Ryudo Uzaki...

Bad Lands
Title: Bad Lands
Character: Mandala
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.
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Title: Grace's History
Released: March 19, 2023
Type: TV
In her beloved car, "Grace", a wife is on her way to Narita. Following a bus accident that kills her, her husband, Kikuo, gets access to her GPS which contains the history of all the places she travelled to without his knowledge. Suspecting infidelity, Kikuo embarks on a journey to trace the history of the car's GPS in order to solve the mystery.
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ナニワ金融道 3発目~大蛇市マネーウォーズ~
Title: ナニワ金融道 3発目~大蛇市マネーウォーズ~
Released: December 9, 2022
Type: Movie
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ナニワ金融道 2発目〜銭と泪と権利と女〜
Title: ナニワ金融道 2発目〜銭と泪と権利と女〜
Released: December 2, 2022
Type: Movie
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ナニワ金融道 1発目~灰原、帝国金融の門を叩く!~
Title: ナニワ金融道 1発目~灰原、帝国金融の門を叩く!~
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Hitotsubashi Kiriko's Crime Diary
Character: Kazuo Terada
Released: October 8, 2022
Type: TV
Hitotsubashi Kiriko is sinking into a pit of sorrow when her one and only best friend whom she lived with for three years, dies of illness. Living on a pension and working part-time is not easy, and the thought of having solitary death terrifies her. One day, she was fascinated by the statement of an arrested person she saw on TV which inspires her to commit crime so she could live in prison. And so, Kiriko's "Life in Prison" plan began. As Kiriko proceeds with her crime plan, she finds new experiences and encounters.
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I Am Makimoto
Title: I Am Makimoto
Character: Kabuki
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
Sou Makimoto works in the "send-off" department at the city hall. The department's main responsibility is to hold funerals for people who die alone and bury them at a cemetery. Makimoto doesn't like to socialise with his colleagues or listen to them. By doing his job, he meets various people and slowly begins to change his life.
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Odadoushikai Oda Seiji Final Chapter
Title: Odadoushikai Oda Seiji Final Chapter
Released: August 25, 2022
Type: Movie
10th entry in the series
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Odadoushikai Oda Seiji 9
Title: Odadoushikai Oda Seiji 9
Released: June 25, 2022
Type: Movie
9th entry in the series
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The Voice of Sin
Title: The Voice of Sin
Character: Tatsuo Sone
Released: October 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
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Peaceful Death
Title: Peaceful Death
Released: July 25, 2020
Type: Movie
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Fancy
Title: Fancy
Released: February 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
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Welcome to the Surfing Office
Title: Welcome to the Surfing Office
Character: Tatsuo Iwasa
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Kenshi Tokunaga runs an IT company in Tokyo. Due to a big company, he has a hard time in hiring engineers. He decides to find engineers for his company in his hometown of Minami, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
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Title: The Good Wife
Character: Kazuya Tojo
Released: January 13, 2019
Type: TV
Kyoko Hasumi (Takako Tokiwa) is a former lawyer who quit her job to become a housewife and a mother. Her husband is an elite prosecutor. He works as the leader of a special investigation department at the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office, but he is charged with corruption and gets arrested. A scandal with another woman is also revealed. Kyoko Hasumi's life as a "good wife" begins to change. To protect her children, she decides to work again as a lawyer. She is hired temporarily at a law office and begins to work as a lawyer for the first time in 16 years.
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Title: Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Character: Takizawa
Released: January 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke Sasaki). One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada. Shimada decide to invest in the film and he assigns Yasuhiko Kuwabara to oversee his investment in the film. Film producer Koshimizu though runs away with their investment money. Keisuke and Yasuhiko struggle to get Shimada’s money back from Koshimizu.
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Title: 99.9 Criminal Lawyer
Character: Joker Chigasaki(ジョーカー茅ヶ崎)
Released: April 17, 2016
Type: TV
Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit of the truth even if offers only a 0.1% chance of being discovered. Japan’s 99.9% criminal case conviction rate leads the world, attesting to a “highly reliable” judicial system. In other words, once a crime suspect is indicted, prosecutor arguments tend to be accepted hook, line and sinker. In the face of those 99.9% odds, there’s no money in being a defense lawyer specializing in criminal cases, but for Miyama, that’s where the interest and kernels of truth lie. From unexpected places, the mold-breaking Miyama stakes his reputation on a prayer of a chance as he clashes with hotshot lawyers who’ll go to any lengths to win in this gloriously fun, legal mystery.
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Title: Love Song
Released: April 11, 2016
Type: TV
Kohei Kamishiro (Masaharu Fukuyama) worked as a musician in his past. He only had one hit song and his recording contract was eventually canceled. He became devastated and left the field of music. Twenty years later, Kohei Kamishiro keeps his distance from music, but his passion for music hasn't faded away. He leads a boring life. Due to his past experience, he finds it difficult to have a relationship with women. One day, a woman appears in front of him. She has a complex and because of this leads a solitary life. The woman though has an amazing singing voice. By meeting her, Kohei begins to think he wants to make music again.
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New Gang Emblem 8
Title: New Gang Emblem 8
Released: February 11, 2016
Type: Movie
The final 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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New Gang Emblem 7
Title: New Gang Emblem 7
Released: November 26, 2015
Type: Movie
The seventh 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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Grasshopper
Title: Grasshopper
Character: Bourei
Released: November 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
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Title: Angels and Demons: The Cold Case Unit
Character: Ryoichi Kagurazaka
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: TV
Makita Hikari is a police officer. She has a pure personality and doesn't question people’s motives. Due to her personality, she is constantly deceived by suspects and finds herself relegated to a trivial job in the cold case resource room. One day, a mysterious man, Chajima Ryunosuke appears. Through Chajima, Hikari begins works in the newly formed Cold Case Anonymous Investigation Unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The department tackles unsolved cases by offering leniency to suspects for information on the main culprits. Ryunosuke Chajima is himself a devious attorney. Why he takes part in the Cold Case Anonymous Investigation Unit is unknown.
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New Gang Emblem 4
Title: New Gang Emblem 4
Released: April 3, 2015
Type: Movie
The fourth 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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New Gang Emblem 6
Title: New Gang Emblem 6
Released: March 20, 2015
Type: Movie
The sixth 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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New Gang Emblem 5
Title: New Gang Emblem 5
Released: February 27, 2015
Type: Movie
The fifth 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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New Gang Emblem 3
Title: New Gang Emblem 3
Released: December 5, 2014
Type: Movie
"Why Yakuza still grows in this nation? The secret is in its soil." Starring Koji Matoba,this is the third story of this series. The former head of the Yamakura group returned to their side as a member of the Minobe group. Its opponent organization launched the Kanto Seido Mutsuchi Kyokai to fight again them. Born as the son of a gang member, Raizo lived a strong life. One day, he then takes a step in the world of the Sula for revenge, treachery and deceit will be repaid in blood....
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Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Title: Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: Movie
For his first film in fourteen years animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptuous adaptation of "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya". A dream project for the director that would hopefully establish the recently formed Ghibli Studio 7, created to meet the demands of a new type of modern animation process. But almost immediately the epic production is faced with difficulties and falls dramatically behind schedule. In this compelling and insightful documentary we follow Isao Takahata and his dedicated team of artists as they frantically strive against adversity to make their vision a reality and bring Studio Ghibli into a new Era.
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New Gang Emblem 2
Title: New Gang Emblem 2
Released: November 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Sequel to 'New Gang Emblem'.
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New Gang Emblem
Title: New Gang Emblem
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The first 'New Gang Emblem' film.
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Title: Shin Yakuza no Daimon
Character: Nakabayashi
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: TV
Third son Raizo is a good man, but when another organization targets his father and his family business, it awakens his violent side.
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Family no Kizuna
Title: Family no Kizuna
Released: June 6, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Title: The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Character: Great Counselor Otomo (voice)
Released: November 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.
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Beautiful World
Title: Beautiful World
Character: Michitoshi Asahina
Released: November 16, 2012
Type: Movie
A gangster runs a budget nursing home.
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Title: Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: TV
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
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Permanent Nobara
Title: Permanent Nobara
Released: May 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad luck with men and laughing over dirty jokes. Unbeknownst to them, Naoko has been secretly seeing her former teacher, Kashima.
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The Homeless Student
Title: The Homeless Student
Character: Masamitsu Kawai
Released: October 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on an autobiography by Hiroshi Tamura, the film follows story of the author's experience of homelessness when this father suddenly decides to abandon his family. Hiroshi and his older siblings do all what they can to withstand the trouble they encounter along their way.
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Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
Title: Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
Released: July 25, 2008
Type: Movie
In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his life after college while competing with Kyoko's impossibly perfect tennis coach for her affection.
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Title: The Detectives
Released: March 1, 2008
Type: TV
A drama about a rookie detective who teams up with a veteran detective and develops a good rapport while overcoming difficulties. Keigo starts his new post at a local police station where he partners up with Shoichi, a frigid, yet warm-hearted, detective on the verge of retirement. The drama features how the young detective builds up his career with the veteran and those who are connected with his cases.
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The Musical Note and the Seaweed
Title: The Musical Note and the Seaweed
Character: Kouji Kogure
Released: January 26, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Title: The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Character: Matsuzo Toyota
Released: November 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
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Title: ハゲタカ
Character: Syougo Nishino
Released: February 17, 2007
Type: TV
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Devilman
Title: Devilman
Character: Keisuke Makimura (Miki's father)
Released: October 9, 2004
Type: Movie
A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira and Ryo wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.
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Antenna
Title: Antenna
Character: Shunpei Soma
Released: January 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs. But his younger brother claims to be able to sense their sister with his "antenna".
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g@me.
Title: g@me.
Released: November 8, 2003
Type: Movie
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.
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The Choice of Hercules
Title: The Choice of Hercules
Character: Shinichi Udagawa
Released: May 11, 2002
Type: Movie
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Title: Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Character: SDF Adm. Taizô Tachibana
Released: December 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.
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Dora-heita
Title: Dora-heita
Character: Yoshijuro Senba
Released: May 13, 2000
Type: Movie
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
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The Crossing
Title: The Crossing
Released: March 29, 2000
Type: Movie
14-year-old Takuya lives in a rural town near mountains and rivers. His 29-year-old uncle Koji works as a graphic designer in urban Tokyo. Koji's father dies and Takuya is arrested for attempted robbery-the two young men must now face a crucial crossing in their lives. The concluding chapter to director Higashi Yoichi's "boy and river" trilogy, the film highlights contemporary themes like family, adolescence, and the healing properties of nature. The wild but beautiful Kuma River stars as a threatening symbol for the boy's rite of passage. Supernatural beings reign in the mountains above the village.
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Assault Rakugaki Fools
Title: Assault Rakugaki Fools
Released: September 12, 1997
Type: Movie
This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.
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An Angel with Many Scars
Title: An Angel with Many Scars
Released: April 19, 1997
Type: Movie
An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search of the boy’s mother, and the detective’s buddy Hisashi joins them later.
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Title: Gift
Character: Haruhiko Shibasaki(柴崎 日彦)
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: TV
Gift is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from April 16, 1997 to June 25, 1997 every Wednesday. It features music by Bryan Ferry and Howard Jones. It raised several issues in Japanese society, due to its casual use of a butterfly knife and its resulting violence.
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Boxer Joe
Title: Boxer Joe
Released: May 27, 1995
Type: Movie
A docudrama about the boxer Jôichirô Tatsuyoshi. The documentary part follows Tatsuyohi for 18 months, from his comeback from an eye injury to his match against Yasuei Yakushiji in 1994. A fictional part follows a restaurant owner, fan of Tatsuyohi, waiting for the match with his friends and family.
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47 Ronin
Title: 47 Ronin
Character: Yasubê Horibe
Released: October 22, 1994
Type: Movie
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
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Erotic Liaisons
Title: Erotic Liaisons
Character: Negishi
Released: October 17, 1992
Type: Movie
A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her lover and partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. After the wealthy Okuyama hires them to trail his French mistress Lorraine whom he believes to be having an affair, feeble-willed Kishin finds himself seduced by this femme fatale and way out of his depth in a seamy underworld of rich Japanese businessmen, S&M games and huge piles of money.
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神様のピンチヒッター
Title: 神様のピンチヒッター
Released: May 23, 1991
Type: Movie
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See You
Title: See You
Released: May 18, 1988
Type: Movie
Even while having tremendous technology, now have a funeral shop walk picking up the car was retired in the desert Honma (Ken Takakura) is invited from the team DANKAI which declined to Paris-Dakar Rally, the team because of the publicity to supporting popular star had to join. Eventually Among the various speculation of various people, rally began ....
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Paris/Dakar 1500
Title: Paris/Dakar 1500
Character: Narration (voice)
Released: May 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Plot missing
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Cabaret
Title: Cabaret
Character: Yasuhara
Released: April 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
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The Bloody Afternoon
Title: The Bloody Afternoon
Released: July 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Action film about a bank robbery.
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Out of Focus
Title: Out of Focus
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female camerawoman. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside the city to Tokyo and upon arrival and on her first day is tasked with immediately snapping pictures. Her boss sends her on a mission with a senior colleague. The senior cameraman uses rogue ways surprising his new colleague. A new assignment related to a former Japanese Prime Minister falls on her lap. The court does not look fondly at photography of this kind.
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Shanghai Vance King
Title: Shanghai Vance King
Character: Wataru Matsumoto (Bakumatsu)
Released: October 6, 1984
Type: Movie
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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The Moments We Lived
Title: The Moments We Lived
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 19, 1982
Type: Movie
After working as a reporter and an assistant at a radio station, Watanabe Yoshimitsu, former leader of the bosozoku gang Black Emperor, returned to his old stomping grounds and began to make a film about bosozoku. At the time, he was 21. The teenage members of the bosozoku group, also known as " Thunder " would get into their revamped motorbikes and cars and race around the city. With the police as their enemies, they ran from patrol cars and did other defiant acts. They would put on outlandish clothing and, as a result of fights with rival groups, were very loyal to other members of their own gang. Every Saturday, they would cruise around, vanish and reappear throughout the entire night with no particular goal. However on 1 December 1978, because of provisions in the new highway transport law, the end was at hand for their " season of running wild. " The film shows them simply continuing to run wild on this last night before the law is to take effect.
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Wolf: Running Is Sex
Title: Wolf: Running Is Sex
Released: November 20, 1982
Type: Movie
First production by Directors' Company. A man stripped bare of all modern values lives in a pure form, like a beast, feeding and satiating his every primal desire whenever they may arise. He takes on a mate, a woman intrigued by his personage or lack thereof, and they live in his den in central Tokyo. As time goes on, we see how this animal clashes with modern man, and the consequences of their coexistance.
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Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex
Title: Harlem Valentines Day: Blood Is Sex
Character: Film crew
Released: November 20, 1982
Type: Movie
Set in the near future after a nuclear war, the film portrays a man who is searching for his former lover.
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Tattoo
Title: Tattoo
Character: Akio Takeda
Released: June 5, 1982
Type: Movie
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
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Station
Title: Station
Character: Yukio Kinoshita
Released: November 7, 1981
Type: Movie
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
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Yokohama BJ Blues
Title: Yokohama BJ Blues
Character: Jojo
Released: April 25, 1981
Type: Movie
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.
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Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Title: Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Character: Ichio Hanzaki
Released: December 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
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G.I. Samurai
Title: G.I. Samurai
Character: Ochimusha
Released: September 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
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Shimoochiai Yakitori Movie
Title: Shimoochiai Yakitori Movie
Released: June 23, 1979
Type: Movie
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Title: Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Character: Shoji Negishi
Released: May 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
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Title: Ashura no Gotoku
Released: January 13, 1979
Type: TV
Kuniko Mukōda's masterpiece, a poignant and subtle portrait of the jealousy and suspicion that secretly swirl behind seemingly peaceful family relationships.
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Title: Double Suicide of Sonezaki
Released: April 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.