Hal Yamanouchi

Hal Yamanouchi

Born: March 27, 1946
in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fluent in several languages and trained as a dancer, Yamanouchi moved to Europe in the early 1970's and embarked on an acting and performance career. At first in small roles in B films and as a stage actor, he eventually progressed into more and more international productions and even a few big budget Hollywood films such as PUSH, THE WAY BACK, and THE LIFE AQUATIC.

Movies for Hal Yamanouchi...

Milarepa
Title: Milarepa
Character: Yuguntun
Released: January 2, 2024
Type: Movie
In a 'no tech' future, 12 year old Mila must disguise herself as a boy in order to exact revenge on her father’s family for enslaving her and her mother.
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Iron Fighter
Title: Iron Fighter
Character: Alpha
Released: December 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Karate and K1 champion, Claudio Del Falco is ready for his last fight, a memorable event, followed live worldwide, with a prize money of 10 million euros. The enormous sum is tempting to Apha, the boss of a criminal organization who, while Claudio is busy fighting, breaks into his villa with his cruel and ferocious men to take his second wife, Camila, hostage, unaware that in the villa there is also the 14-year-old daughter Sara. When Claudio learns that Alpha is responsible for the death of his first wife, he secures Sara and decides to face the entire organization alone to take his revenge.
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The Land of Women
Title: The Land of Women
Character: Mamoto
Released: April 27, 2023
Type: Movie
The 1950s: in the ancient and far-off island of Sardinia, two generations of women fight against restrictive age-old traditions to reach sexual and emotional freedom.
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Luka
Title: Luka
Character: The Duke
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in the legendary Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience-endurance-sacrifice.
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Gli speciali
Title: Gli speciali
Character: Maestro Jun
Released: November 1, 2022
Type: Movie
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Fellini Forward
Title: Fellini Forward
Character: Admiral
Released: September 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Investigating the last years of the famous filmmaker in Rome, combining the history of Italian cinema with new production techniques and going behind the scenes on the filmmaking process.
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They Talk
Title: They Talk
Character: Prof. Hasegawa
Released: July 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Alex, a sound engineer, accidentally records mysterious voices: disturbing messages from the afterlife who warn him against an imminent and terrifying danger. Amanda, with whom he shares a terrible secret, re-emerges from his past. The appearance of the young woman triggers chilling paranormal phenomena that leave behind a trail of corpses. Is she the danger the voices of the dead speak about?
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Paangshu
Title: Paangshu
Character: Alieno
Released: August 21, 2020
Type: Movie
In a dilapidated rural courthouse a mother seeks justice for her son abducted by paramilitary men during the 1988/89 insurgency in Sri Lanka
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White Flowers
Title: White Flowers
Released: June 2, 2020
Type: Movie
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Hard Night Falling
Title: Hard Night Falling
Character: Goro
Released: December 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Goro, a criminal mastermind, plot to steal a massive cache of gold from the Rossini family. Unbeknownst to Goro and his soldiers of fortune, one of Rossini's guest is a highly trained foreign operative who fights to not only save the hostages and the gold, but his imperiled family.
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Spaghetti alla Martino
Title: Spaghetti alla Martino
Character: Self
Released: June 18, 2019
Type: Movie
The film documentary by Daniele Ceccarini and Francesco Tassara tells the prolific career of the Italian director Sergio Martino.
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San Valentino Stories
Title: San Valentino Stories
Character: Monaco buddista (segment "Per amor di Dio")
Released: February 14, 2018
Type: Movie
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The Slider
Title: The Slider
Character: Goro Nagano
Released: December 31, 2017
Type: Movie
Michael works as a hospital janitor and he lives with his wife Ester, who has fallen into depression after the death of their son. Michael is willing to do anything he can to save Ester, even things that no sane mind would ever dream of.
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Addio fottuti musi verdi
Title: Addio fottuti musi verdi
Character: Yang
Released: November 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Young Ciro Priello, an ultra-skilled Neapolitan graphic, can not find a job that satisfies and appreciates him. After sending the curriculum practically everywhere, he just have to send a copy in space. He will thus be able to work for an alien society based on competence and meritocracy.
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Al posto tuo
Title: Al posto tuo
Character: acquirente giapponese
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Two very different men have something in common: the work. When their companies are bought by a bigger one, who will take the only place of boss of the new company?
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The Confessions
Title: The Confessions
Released: April 21, 2016
Type: Movie
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...
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Zoolander 2
Title: Zoolander 2
Character: Wise Village Man
Released: February 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
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Earth
Title: Earth
Released: June 26, 2015
Type: Movie
When I wake will I be someone else?
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Doppia luce
Title: Doppia luce
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist
Character: Senzô
Released: May 23, 2014
Type: TV
A multi-layered series that looks back to the formative years of Ryu and Ken as they live a traditional warrior's life in secluded Japan.
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A Boss in the Living Room
Title: A Boss in the Living Room
Character: Maestro di meditazione
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
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Colpi di fortuna
Title: Colpi di fortuna
Character: Narambaatar (segment "Non è vero ma ci credo")
Released: December 21, 2013
Type: Movie
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Something Good: The Mercury Factor
Title: Something Good: The Mercury Factor
Character: Chimico di laboratorio
Released: November 7, 2013
Type: Movie
In a small village in China's Yunnan region, Xiwen mourns the sudden loss of her beloved, only child, a young boy poisoned by tainted food. Numbed by the pain, she seeks a reason to live.
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The Wolverine
Title: The Wolverine
Character: Ichiro Yashida / Silver Samurai
Released: July 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
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Nothing Can Stop Us Now
Title: Nothing Can Stop Us Now
Character: Mr. Lee
Released: June 13, 2013
Type: Movie
The training trip of 4 "special" boys, one narcoleptic, one internet-dependent, one suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and one obsessed with hygiene towards self-affirmation and acceptance of one's differences.
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Day of the Siege
Title: Day of the Siege
Character: Murad Giray
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
Storyline: In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.
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Sins
Title: Sins
Character: Hal
Released: May 5, 2012
Type: Movie
David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life amidst the violent Cortello family in Sicily ââ'¬Â¦ a family he ultimately betrayed. And the wages of sin are deadly.
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Title: Dove la trovi una come me?
Character: Mister Woo
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: TV
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All at Sea
Title: All at Sea
Character: Confù
Released: March 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After being assured that his attendants, and Khaled Omar, they did a good job, going to hoist the Italian flag, which stands on top of building.
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The Way Back
Title: The Way Back
Character: Official
Released: November 22, 2010
Type: Movie
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.
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Gorbaciof
Title: Gorbaciof
Character: Padre di Lila
Released: October 15, 2010
Type: Movie
Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.
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Tarda estate
Title: Tarda estate
Released: September 4, 2010
Type: Movie
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Push
Title: Push
Character: Pop Father
Released: February 4, 2009
Type: Movie
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
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Questa notte è ancora nostra
Title: Questa notte è ancora nostra
Character: Laowang
Released: March 19, 2008
Type: Movie
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Title: Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2008
Type: Movie
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
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Tutte le donne della mia vita
Title: Tutte le donne della mia vita
Character: Sakè
Released: April 13, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Inspector Coliandro
Character: Lu Yang
Released: August 24, 2006
Type: TV
Italian police inspector Coliandro — an ignorant, boorish, but fundamentally kind-hearted oaf, whose entire worldview is informed by American cop movies — protects the good citizens of Bologna, routinely saving the day and foiling the plans of evildoers of all sorts by a combination of dumb luck and genuine bravery, while always falling hopelessly in love with the woman at the center of the case.
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Title: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Character: Chief Pirate
Released: December 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
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Last Food
Title: Last Food
Released: March 5, 2004
Type: Movie
They are the only two survivors of an plane crash; two more different people you couldn’t imagine; an Italian Frenchman who’s always rushing about, always angry and who’s made a lot of money in his life and left his ideals by the wayside, together with a Japanese cook, who’s calm, relaxed and an aesthete. They find themselves abandoned in a desolate land and without help and so they’re forced to live together and confront, but above all battle with hunger which brings them face to face with extreme situations. And it’s from this experience that their lives radically change, especially the man who was frenetic and angry.
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All the Knowledge in the World
Title: All the Knowledge in the World
Character: Maggiordomo Al Farid
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: Movie
The “meaning of life” told by Eros Puglielli in his peculiar directing style: weird characters, odd mishaps, fates that meet, skim and loose each other. A student in love with her philosophy lecturer, a disabled man seeking for his legs recovery, a young pop star desperate for a spiritual leader to meet. And above everybody stands an overhanging odd luminous man, maybe true, maybe not.
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Guillermo Rivarola
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
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A Fish in Love
Title: A Fish in Love
Character: Console tailandese
Released: December 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Carpenter Arturo becomes a literary sensation when the children stories he writes in his spare time get published. However he comes to resent success and the spotlight that comes with it. One day he meets beautiful Matilde and falls in love with her, before finding out she's already married.
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Tutti gli uomini del deficiente
Title: Tutti gli uomini del deficiente
Character: Japanese CEO
Released: December 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune.
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L'elefante bianco
Title: L'elefante bianco
Character: Lo Yan
Released: April 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Late nineteenth century. Jarma is a small Asian kingdom that stands between the green of the rice paddies of Thai Samuthprakarn diamond crown beautiful tropical sea of French Indochina. For Maia, the young princess of Jarma, and Gabriel Barthes, the son of a French advisor their King. differences of race and class do not count. Instigated by the sweet wisdom of the monk Li, both young men are promised eternal fidelity. But the swirl of the separate colonial history of the cruelest form when a sinister character assassinate the brother of Maia.
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Banzai
Title: Banzai
Character: poliziotto giapponese
Released: September 25, 1997
Type: Movie
Sergio Colombo is an insurance agent. He had just gone through a divorce so he is a little bit scattered. Wanting to unwind he plans to go to vacation with a magnificent girlfriend but suddenly he is ordered off to Canada in order to sign an important contract. At the airport Colombo accidentally gets on a plane that flies in a direction directly opposite to Canada - to Bankgok.
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Nirvana
Title: Nirvana
Character: Okasama Starr
Released: January 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
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Title: Italian Restaurant
Character: Ciun-Lì
Released: November 6, 1994
Type: TV
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Craving Desire
Title: Craving Desire
Character: (as Hal Yamanoughi)
Released: June 9, 1993
Type: Movie
In this erotic thriller (Vittoria Bellevedere) is cast as the stereotypical evil woman who charms innocent men with her physical attractions and then destroys them like a praying mantis munching on her unfortunate mate, head first, just after their sexual union. Unlike the female mantis, this woman slowly ruins the life of the man she has seduced instead of finishing him off immediately - providing fodder for the film, and scenes reminiscent of Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct.
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A Bear Called Arthur
Title: A Bear Called Arthur
Released: February 14, 1992
Type: Movie
A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan, she is a secret agent who has her own reasons for wanting to meet him.
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Robot Jox
Title: Robot Jox
Character: Tubie #1 (as Hal Yomanouchi)
Released: October 1, 1989
Type: Movie
50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for possession of Alaska will be fought by two of the best. The conscientious Achilles fights for the Americans. Opposing him is a Russian, Alexander.
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Title: Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Character: Samurai
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
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Bangkok... One Way
Title: Bangkok... One Way
Character: Captain Luang
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Arriving in Bangkok, former boxer Marco Boschi meets Fabio and Andrea to organize the delivery of a cargo of heroin to Italy
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The House of Lost Souls
Title: The House of Lost Souls
Character: Buddhist Monk
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A handful of young geologists are unlucky enough to be forced to stay at a rundown hotel in the middle of nowhere. What they don't know is that the hotel has been abandoned for twenty years because the owner of the hotel had killed his family and all the guests two decades ago. Strange things begin to happen, and suddenly murders are committed...
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Treno di panna
Title: Treno di panna
Character: Cormal
Released: September 9, 1988
Type: Movie
A struggling musician living in New York starts working at an Italian restaurant and falls in love with two women.
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Phantom of Death
Title: Phantom of Death
Character: Swordmaster
Released: March 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions...
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Title: Treasure Island in Outer Space
Character: Shadow
Released: November 19, 1987
Type: TV
Treasure Island in Outer Space is a 1987 science fiction Italian and German television miniseries directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, setting the story in space on the year 2300. The series was produced by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in co-production with West Germany and France, and directed by Anthony M. Dawson. It is the biggest sci-fi production of Italian television. The miniseries of 5 episodes of 100 min was originally aired in Italy from November 19, 1987 on RAI Due channel. It was also adapted as a 120 min film. The miniseries is also known as Space Island (UK and Norway, USA on VHS) and Der Schatz im All (Germany).
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7 Kilos in 7 Days
Title: 7 Kilos in 7 Days
Character: il domestico cinese
Released: December 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.
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The Lone Runner
Title: The Lone Runner
Character: Nimbus, Skorm's henchman
Released: November 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The Summerking's daughter has been kidnapped, and the legendary hero of the desert comes to her rescue as he did when she was young. The Lone Runner proves to be an unstoppable hero with limitless fighting abilities. He battles those who would harm innocents, and does what ever else he can for them.
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Joan Lui
Title: Joan Lui
Character: Jarak
Released: December 25, 1985
Type: Movie
In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism.
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Anche lei fumava il sigaro...
Title: Anche lei fumava il sigaro...
Released: April 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: Guacanabo
Released: March 7, 1985
Type: TV
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.
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Warriors of the Year 2072
Title: Warriors of the Year 2072
Character: Akira
Released: January 28, 1984
Type: Movie
In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.
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Endgame
Title: Endgame
Character: Ninja
Released: November 5, 1983
Type: Movie
A telepathic mutant recruits a post World War III TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.
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Sing Sing
Title: Sing Sing
Character: Chu Lai
Released: October 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...
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Hearts and Armour
Title: Hearts and Armour
Character: Samurai
Released: September 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Love during wartime blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. A sorceress predicts to Bradamante that her beloved will die in battle at the hand of a fellow Christian paladin, Rolando, whom in turn is in love with Isabella, Ruggero's sister.
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2019: After the Fall of New York
Title: 2019: After the Fall of New York
Character: Rat Eater King
Released: July 22, 1983
Type: Movie
After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
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2020 Texas Gladiators
Title: 2020 Texas Gladiators
Character: Red Wolfe
Released: June 10, 1983
Type: Movie
In a post-apocalyptic Texas, a band of warriors fight against a fascist regime that is trying to take control of all surviving population.
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The Sword of the Barbarians
Title: The Sword of the Barbarians
Character: Li Wo Twan
Released: November 27, 1982
Type: Movie
A swordsman's wife is murdered by followers of the evil Goddess Rani. He vows vengeance upon the cult and journeys to the Ark of the Templars to get a magic crossbow that will help him accomplish his mission.
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The Last Hunter
Title: The Last Hunter
Character: Vietcong
Released: August 9, 1980
Type: Movie
During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Title: Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Character: venditore di orologi (episodio "Sabato")
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
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The Humanoid
Title: The Humanoid
Character: Humanoid Soldier
Released: April 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Golob, turning the unsuspecting victim into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength. The people of Metropolis must somehow outwit Graal before he can create an army of these soldiers, or their planet will be destroyed.
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Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Title: Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
Character: Manolo (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Intrepid photographer Emanuelle is taken deep into the Amazonian jungle to search for a cannibalistic tribe long believed to be extinct.
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White Collar Blues
Title: White Collar Blues
Character: Japanese Cook (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Jimmy Kee
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this property, of which this 1974 effort is the first. The bulk of the film consists of four episodes crudely spliced together. Scattered throughout are bizarrely irrelevant fight scenes from other episodes, which make the already disjointed plotting quite surreal. The television image was cropped to make a widescreen film, which means the tops of heads and hats are lopped off the frame with alarming regularity.
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The Last Redemption
Title: The Last Redemption
Character: The Griso
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In a land of swords and sorcery, bandits break from their gang to protect a little girl, pitting them against their old friends and former leader who was once like a father to them.