Kei Tani

Kei Tani

Born: February 22, 1932
Died: September 11, 2010
in Ota, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Kei Tani...

どーもくん
Title: どーもくん
Released: June 11, 2018
Type: Movie
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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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Chameleon
Title: Chameleon
Released: July 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowing he could be in big trouble.
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Postman
Title: Postman
Character: Kaoru Hada
Released: March 22, 2008
Type: Movie
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Smile
Title: Smile
Character: Kunio Imaizumi
Released: December 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds himself coaching a local ice hockey team of hapless youths and leading them to a championship
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Free and Easy 18
Title: Free and Easy 18
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: Movie
Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.
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Free and Easy 17
Title: Free and Easy 17
Released: August 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her.
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Returning the Favor
Title: Returning the Favor
Character: Principal Tanokura
Released: March 22, 2006
Type: Movie
Kitahara Kazunori was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the fall of his second year in high school, and thereafter spent a year and 10 months battling the disease. Although he studied hard for the university examinations and was successfully admitted to his first choice, [the prestigious] Tokyo University, he only managed to visit it for a day before passing away. After that, last January [i.e. 2005], Kazunori's mother compiled the thoughts he had left behind and published it as a book, and it was adapted into this drama. Even as Kazunori had to fight his serious illness, he received support from his friends, school teachers and family members, and had warm relations with many people. This drama illustrates the 1 year and 10 months young Kazunori persevered together with the people around him.
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Free and Easy 16
Title: Free and Easy 16
Character: Sasaki
Released: August 27, 2005
Type: Movie
Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing.
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Title: Be with You
Character: Suzuki Hachiro
Released: July 3, 2005
Type: TV
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Swing Girls
Title: Swing Girls
Character: Morishita
Released: September 11, 2004
Type: Movie
A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.
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Free and Easy 15
Title: Free and Easy 15
Released: August 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.
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Shinibana
Title: Shinibana
Character: Shōji
Released: May 8, 2004
Type: Movie
After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal 1.7 billion yen from a bank.
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Hakuro no Shibijin
Title: Hakuro no Shibijin
Released: April 26, 2004
Type: Movie
The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools down it's because she's been murdered!
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Youth Bakachin Cooking School
Title: Youth Bakachin Cooking School
Character: Eitaro Nakajo
Released: September 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Hitomi Kogure, has decided to drop out of high school. Deciding to tell her e-mail penpal "Ayumi-chan", her online friend reveals she is joining a cooking class. In order to meet her friend, Hitomi decides to join as well. What happens when she realizes "Ayumi-chan" is not who Hitomi had in mind?
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Title: My Little Chef
Character: Carlos Koizumi
Released: July 10, 2002
Type: TV
Seri, an unknown yet talented female chef from the country, arrives in Tokyo to work at French restaurant, Etoire, but discovers that they have gone out of business due to the departure of their main chef. Together with the restaurant's former manager, she opens a French restaurant of her own and begins to recreate the flavors her late father mastered as a famous gourmet chef. Unfortunately, Etoire returns with an unscrupulous manager, and to make matters worse, Seri learns that it happens to be owned by her birth mother living in Paris who she hasn't seen since she was a child. Seri wonders if her passion and skill will be enough to succeed. --TBS
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Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Title: Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project
Released: August 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.
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Stereo Future
Title: Stereo Future
Released: June 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film’s obnoxious ham of a star.
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The Stupid Teacher
Title: The Stupid Teacher
Character: Mystery man
Released: September 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.
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As the River Flows
Title: As the River Flows
Character: Tokio Misaki
Released: April 29, 2000
Type: Movie
2000 live-action Japanese film.
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Free and Easy 11
Title: Free and Easy 11
Released: February 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.
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Title: The Veteran Trio
Character: Kumogakure Nogenyume
Released: October 21, 1999
Type: TV
After spending 20 years searching for the object of his vengeance, Sekiya Kanbei discovers he is now a ronin. Inui Sanshiro was the head of a clan until his son succeeded him, or so he says. Genmu claims to have once been a ninja. These three elderly men join forces to travel the Japanese countryside together. Along the way, they encounter situations that bring out the "warrior" in each of them, and soon they are fighting the corruption and injustices that plague the common people.
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Title: Emergency Room 24 Hours
Released: January 5, 1999
Type: TV
Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone in need of help, who he treats and rushes to the Kohoku Medical University Emergency Center. This incident encourages him to once again work as an ER doctor. Confrontation erupts between female doctor Tamaki, and Shindo, now a just-arrived ER doctor. While this human drama depicts the relationships among doctors and nurses, it appeals emotionally to viewers on the subject of life.
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Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Title: Free and Easy: Samurai Edition
Released: December 23, 1998
Type: Movie
A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.
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Samurai Fiction
Title: Samurai Fiction
Character: Kagemaru
Released: October 27, 1998
Type: Movie
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.
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After Life
Title: After Life
Character: Kennosuke Nakamura
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: Movie
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
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Free and Easy 10
Title: Free and Easy 10
Released: August 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.
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Free and Easy 9
Title: Free and Easy 9
Character: Sasaki
Released: September 6, 1997
Type: Movie
Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veteran employee decides to find his boss, a divorced father, a new wife. The supervisor loves a bar hostess “mama-san,” but is unable to confess his true feelings until Hama-chan comes to his rescue.
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Love and Duty
Title: Love and Duty
Character: Saeki
Released: February 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Two married couples struggle to cope with their sex lives. Kenji and Misaki, a seemingly happy married couple, lead a sexless life. Misaki, whose numerous seductions have been turned down by her husband Kenji, longs for a way to solve their sexless marriage. On the other hand, Shoko, a career oriented woman, is annoyed by the constant sexual attention she receives from her husband Yoshihiko, who believes fulfilling Shoko’s sexual needs is the greatest expression of love. When a chance meeting brings Kenji and Shoko together in a passionate affair, they suddenly find themselves re-examining their lives and struggling to understand what is truly important.
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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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Title: Justice For All
Released: October 18, 1995
Type: TV
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The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
Title: The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
Released: July 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh life with pride and conviction. Minoru Akiba, Chief of the Investigation Division 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department, is a veteran detective who has passed through the shrine in numerous incidents. His wife was killed by a criminal he caught 13 years ago as revenge. There is a report that his former subordinate, Constable Murasawa, was stabbed to death under Akiba... Suzuki Kyoka plays his daughter.
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Free and Easy 6
Title: Free and Easy 6
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.
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Free and Easy 5
Title: Free and Easy 5
Released: December 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.
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The Games Teachers Play
Title: The Games Teachers Play
Character: Ikuo Haruyama
Released: April 25, 1992
Type: Movie
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.
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Yonigeya hompo
Title: Yonigeya hompo
Character: Juzaburo Hamazaki
Released: January 18, 1992
Type: Movie
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Free and Easy 4
Title: Free and Easy 4
Character: Kazuo Sasaki
Released: December 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.
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Free and Easy 3
Title: Free and Easy 3
Released: December 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems.
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Tokyo Heaven
Title: Tokyo Heaven
Character: Kawamura
Released: June 9, 1990
Type: Movie
A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.
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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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Free and Easy 2
Title: Free and Easy 2
Released: December 27, 1989
Type: Movie
Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woman saves Su-san when he collapses while fishing.
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Urban Marine Resort Story
Title: Urban Marine Resort Story
Character: Otsuka
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A story of love and adventure between a woman who likes water sports and a man who likes boats. Mariko thinks she's just in for a fun vacation when she and her friend Tomoyo discover a missing Korean War plane while scuba diving. Who will find the buried treasure first? Number two in the Hoy Choy Productions trilogy.
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Free and Easy
Title: Free and Easy
Released: December 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke Suzuki. Ichinosuke is a lonely and old man who learns to enjoy life again through his friendship with Densuke. Meanwhile, Densuke is completely unaware that Ichinosuke is the boss of his construction company. The two men become friends through their shared passion for fishing.
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Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Title: Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Character: Kei Taniyama
Released: November 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life.
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Whisper of the Spirits
Title: Whisper of the Spirits
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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L・O・V・I・N・G
Title: L・O・V・I・N・G
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Murder case.
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Kawai
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Title: A Ghost Love Story of Japan
Released: August 13, 1982
Type: Movie
A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi) fell in love with each other. They could not see each other for a while, but Otsuyu visited Shinzaburo's place late at night, led by a servant Oyone (Shoko Yagi). Tomorrow night and next night as well.
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Lonely Heart
Title: Lonely Heart
Released: October 10, 1981
Type: Movie
A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.
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Title: Tobeikarosu no tsubasa
Released: October 7, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Haguregumo
Released: April 2, 1978
Type: TV
Set at the end of the Edo period, the series depicts Kumo's family with his wife, Kame, their 11-year-old son, Shinnosuke. Kumo is always ignoring work and playing and he is also notorious for womanising.
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なにがなんでも為五郎
Title: なにがなんでも為五郎
Released: August 26, 1970
Type: Movie
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Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Title: Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Character: Koyama
Released: November 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.
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Crazy Big Explosion
Title: Crazy Big Explosion
Released: April 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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Vagabond Schemer
Title: Vagabond Schemer
Character: Mr. Samon
Released: March 15, 1969
Type: Movie
The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village.
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Mexican Free-for-All
Title: Mexican Free-for-All
Released: April 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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How to Make a Big Hit
Title: How to Make a Big Hit
Released: March 5, 1968
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Monsieur Zivaco
Title: Monsieur Zivaco
Character: Jiro Suzuki
Released: October 28, 1967
Type: Movie
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.
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Greatest Challenge of All
Title: Greatest Challenge of All
Released: August 5, 1967
Type: Movie
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
Title: Las Vegas Free-For-All
Character: Kaneo Nashimoto
Released: April 28, 1967
Type: Movie
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets.
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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Title: The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Character: Mori no Ishimatsu
Released: January 3, 1966
Type: Movie
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life
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The Crazy Adventure
Title: The Crazy Adventure
Character: Tanii
Released: October 31, 1965
Type: Movie
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True Osaka Grit
Title: True Osaka Grit
Released: October 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Title: The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
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Hana no Oedo no Musekinin
Title: Hana no Oedo no Musekinin
Released: December 20, 1964
Type: Movie
A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo Tanami, who worked on "Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sannin Yoba" and Kajiro Yamamoto, who worked on "The Story of a Genius Swindler: Tanuki no Hanamichi." Photographed by Seiichi Endo of "Things That Live at the End of the Earth."
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The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
Title: The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
Released: September 17, 1964
Type: Movie
The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.
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The Sandal Keeper
Title: The Sandal Keeper
Character: Igawa
Released: June 11, 1964
Type: Movie
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続・図々しい奴
Title: 続・図々しい奴
Released: June 3, 1964
Type: Movie
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Ant Hell War
Title: Ant Hell War
Released: April 29, 1964
Type: Movie
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima
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An Impudent Man
Title: An Impudent Man
Released: January 15, 1964
Type: Movie
Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent to Europe for his rather too liberal lifestyle…
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
Title: Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
Character: Akakabe Yasoba
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
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Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Title: Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Released: December 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.
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Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin
Title: Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin
Released: October 26, 1963
Type: Movie
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
Title: Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
Released: August 14, 1963
Type: Movie
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission of learning; with the introduction of his arch-rival Sasaki Kojiro; and lastly the large cast of characters rendezvouses for a fateful finale.
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The Best Playboy In Japan
Title: The Best Playboy In Japan
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series.
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Crazy Operation
Title: Crazy Operation
Released: March 24, 1963
Type: Movie
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Nippon Irresponsible Guy
Title: Nippon Irresponsible Guy
Released: December 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
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Wakai kisetsu
Title: Wakai kisetsu
Released: October 20, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Happy Go-Lucky
Title: Happy Go-Lucky
Character: Mr. Tanida
Released: July 27, 1962
Type: Movie
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
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Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
Title: Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
Released: April 15, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Woman Who Touched Legs
Title: The Woman Who Touched Legs
Released: August 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.