Kōji Takahashi

Kōji Takahashi

Born: June 10, 1935
in Niigata, Japan

Movies for Kōji Takahashi...

Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World 2: I was surprised when I died!!
Title: Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World 2: I was surprised when I died!!
Character: Yashiro
Released: January 13, 1990
Type: Movie
The second installment of the spirit world guide movie based on the original idea of ​​Tetsuro Tamba, made after the hit of the previous work. Depicts the world after death seen by a man who was sentenced to death for murdering his wife and sent to heaven.
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Godzilla vs. Biollante
Title: Godzilla vs. Biollante
Character: Genshiro Shiragami
Released: December 16, 1989
Type: Movie
After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Title: Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Character: Rohan Koda
Released: January 30, 1988
Type: Movie
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Desperate Pursuit
Title: Desperate Pursuit
Released: May 17, 1986
Type: Movie
In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's lawyer, Yamamoto, receives a visit from two men that attempt to steal the deceased CEO's will. This is witnessed by two detectives, Tsuzuki and Ōnuki, but they fail to catch the perps. Yamamoto hands the detectives a set of keys before he stops breathing. Tsuzuki and Ōnuki now have to investigate Kurata's murder...
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F2 grand prix
Title: F2 grand prix
Released: April 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Drama set in the world of Formula 2 motor racing in Japan.
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Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2
Title: Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2
Released: August 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of a policeman in Edo. This places Hamakichi between the rock and a hard place.
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Good Luck Love
Title: Good Luck Love
Released: December 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
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The Imperial Navy
Title: The Imperial Navy
Released: August 8, 1981
Type: Movie
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
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An Ocean to Cross
Title: An Ocean to Cross
Character: Abe no Nakamaro
Released: January 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
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Title: Ōgon no Hibi
Character: Oda Nobunaga
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
Luzon Sukezaemon is a merchant who imports vases from the Philippines. The vases are highly valued as tea utensils and he makes a huge profit. This was the first taiga drama to concentrate on the lives of commoners and the reviled merchant class of the Tokugawa period. It documents the rise and fall of the merchant city of Sakai, as seen by its most famous resident, the semilegendary Luzon.
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The Last Swordsman
Title: The Last Swordsman
Character: Hijikata Toshizo
Released: November 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Professional Killers
Title: Professional Killers
Character: Sanai Nishimura
Released: June 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
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Title: Lone Wolf and Cub
Character: Retsudo Yagyu
Released: April 8, 1973
Type: TV
Ogami Itto is a master swordsman who holds a position of high power in the Tokugawa Shogunate. Highly trusted by the Shogun, he serves as the official decapitator, assisting lords and samurai who have been ordered by the Shogun to commit seppuku. One day, Itto’s wife and members of his household are brutally murdered by a clan seeking to avenge their lord’s execution, which had been carried out by Itto. In the wake of the attack, two items are left in Itto’s home: his unhurt infant son, Daigoro, and a symbol meant to signify Itto’s betrayal of the Shogun. Disgraced by the false symbol, Itto is labeled a traitor and forced to forfeit his position. He becomes a ronin, wandering the country with his son, searching for the men who killed his wife, seeking to clear his name and avenge her death.
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Title: Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Character: Masanori Takanata
Released: June 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Ganma Superior (voice)
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Title: Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Character: Masanori Takanata
Released: August 14, 1970
Type: Movie
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.
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Dawn of Judo
Title: Dawn of Judo
Character: Shogoro Yano
Released: July 25, 1970
Type: Movie
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
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Title: 姿三四郎
Released: January 18, 1970
Type: TV
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Too Young to Die
Title: Too Young to Die
Character: Matsuoka
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A young couple, composed by a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues in director's Kiyoshi Nishimura's debut film, almost totally filmed in one space.
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Title: Heaven and Earth
Character: Takeda Shingen
Released: January 5, 1969
Type: TV
The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.
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Two Wives
Title: Two Wives
Released: April 15, 1967
Type: Movie
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...
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Bride of the Andes
Title: Bride of the Andes
Released: July 3, 1966
Type: Movie
A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a first-generation Japanese and both are bound to the time-honored tradition of arranged marriages. Bringing her child from a previous marriage, she finds her new husband living with Andes Mountain Indians and working for an archaeological expedition. The man and her boy take to each other, and the woman begins to study and understand the lives of the Indians. When her husband is killed mining for Incan treasure, she uses the money sent by the state to stay and help the villagers whom she has come to love.
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Title: Ohanahan
Character: 速水謙太郎
Released: April 4, 1966
Type: TV
The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a family by herself.
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Conquest
Title: Conquest
Character: Yakushiji Jirozaemon
Released: November 21, 1965
Type: Movie
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
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Samurai Spy
Title: Samurai Spy
Character: Sarutobi Sasuke
Released: July 10, 1965
Type: Movie
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Released: February 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
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Title: Taikouki
Character: Oda Nobunaga
Released: January 3, 1965
Type: TV
Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan.
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Our Happiness Alone
Title: Our Happiness Alone
Character: Ichiro Sakawa
Released: March 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wife, Masuko, is from a very high-class family. Mototsugu becomes disgusted with such strait-laced living and leaves home to marry Yoshiko, a blind masseuse, and they live in a small apartment near a pinball parlor where he works.
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Mother
Title: Mother
Character: Haruo
Released: November 8, 1963
Type: Movie
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
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Youth After School
Title: Youth After School
Character: Mieko's Husband
Released: March 21, 1963
Type: Movie
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was broadcast on NHK TV in 1963, but the program recording technology was not mature at that time, and relevant people called it "phantom TV drama (幻のドラマ)". However, this TV series that was originally thought to be lost has been rediscovered after 50 years.