Gen Kimura

Gen Kimura

Born: February 7, 1937
Died: February 21, 2021
in Osaka, Japan

Movies for Gen Kimura...

Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter
Title: Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter
Character: Choji
Released: January 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major armed robbery. At the same time dojo master Daijiro saves the life of man who, although skilled in archery has an aversion to killing and a woman artist comes into town where she is in danger of being raped by one of the thieves. From the pen of noted author Ikenami Shotaro, creator of such classics as Bandit Ve. Samurai, Hunter In The Dark, The Last Samurai, and Hissatsu-The Professional Killers! Brilliant storytelling that leads to superb swordsmanship!
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Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
Title: Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
Character: Choji
Released: December 14, 2004
Type: Movie
The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest they uncover a plot by one of the clan officials that could change the course of history.
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Housewife Meiko Murder Mystery - Death of a Teacher
Title: Housewife Meiko Murder Mystery - Death of a Teacher
Released: April 24, 1999
Type: Movie
Takahashi Meiko (Mano Azusa) used to work at a large newspaper company. However, she is now an ordinary housewife. She receives a call from Sasame (Kanda Masaki), a former colleague who is now working at another company asking her for her help. She is informed that a murder has taken place when she arrives and goes to the scene of the crime. She learns that the victim was her son’s intermediate school teacher.
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Murderous Intent in the Pacific
Title: Murderous Intent in the Pacific
Character: Detective Nishikata
Released: September 26, 1998
Type: Movie
A ferry captain named Sugisaki (Takahashi Hideki) and his first officer, Kojima (Funakoshi Eiichiro), participate in a photoshoot conducted by camerawoman Yamaka Shiori (Ohama Tomoko) of the ferry. The ferry reaches Miyazaki and Sugisaki and Kojima go to the hotel where a showing of Yamakawa's photos is being held. Yoshizawa (Nakajima Hisayuki), a magazine editor, is waiting for Yamakawa at the hotel.
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Kim's War
Title: Kim's War
Released: April 5, 1991
Type: Movie
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.
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There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
Title: There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
Released: December 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because of his family’s noble status, Benio must first undergo rigorous training to learn how to be a proper bride and wife before she can marry. However, because of her vivacious personality, this proves to me more challenging than anyone imagined.
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Title: Shoujo Commando IZUMI
Character: Eigo Tatsuzaki
Released: November 5, 1987
Type: TV
A high school girl, Izumi Gojo, who has been found guilty of murder, falls into the sea and disappears when running away from the police. However, a mysterious group rescues her and had her undertake training to transform her into an assassin. Years later, Izumi seeks to escape the group.
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Danchizuma no sakebi
Title: Danchizuma no sakebi
Character: Detective Namiki
Released: July 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case.
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The Rape
Title: The Rape
Character: Detective
Released: May 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Yahagi Michiko is accosted and raped walking home one evening. From there she maneuvers the logistics of the police, hospital, and criminal justice system while balancing her home life including romantic relationships.
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The Two Musashis
Title: The Two Musashis
Released: May 29, 1981
Type: Movie
Toru Emori leads the cast as Hirate Musashi while a Hiroshi Fujioka competes with him as Okamoto Musashi. They must not only contend with the Yoshioka and Yagyu fencing schools, but have to take on Chiyonosuke Azuma as Sasaki Kojiro, and deal with the women who pursue them for love. Unlike the Yoshikawa Eiji novel which is not historically accurate, this film offers a new view of Japan’s greatest hero! The film is based on the novel by Kosuke Gomi!
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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.
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Double Clutch
Title: Double Clutch
Released: April 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Hiromi Go plays a high school student who need's a role model in his life badly. He's raised by his older sister played by Keiko Matsuzaka who is a hostess at a night club. She meets a man who becomes her boy friend. He races in a off road car rally professionally. The same man becomes Go's role model and teaches him sophisticated car driving technique. One of the technique taught is 'double clutch' ( Thus the movie's title Double Kuracchi ) to make gear transition smoothly between shifts. Through a misfortunate accident Matsuzaka's character dies and Go is left to fend for his life. Hiromi Go was a big pop idol in Japan when this movie was created. Both Go and Matsuzaka still enjoys high celebrity status in Japan.
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
Title: Case of the Disjointed Murder
Character: Yumihiko Tango
Released: March 14, 1977
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
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Lullaby of the Earth
Title: Lullaby of the Earth
Released: June 12, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.
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Title: Blitz!! Strada 5
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: TV
Battle between international criminal organizations and the secret team of international police formed against these organizations. An action drama incorporating element of children's hero program, Tokusatsu, such as characters with superhuman motor nerves and the appearance of super machines. "Strada 5" is the name of this secret team.
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Title: Professional Killers
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: TV
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
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Title: Professional Killers
Character: Ninzaburo
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: TV
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
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Title: Kogarashi Monjiro
Character: Ronin
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: TV
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents
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The Genius and Delinquent
Title: The Genius and Delinquent
Released: February 17, 1971
Type: Movie
A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime.
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Island of Horrors
Title: Island of Horrors
Character: Minokichi
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cliffs, overseen by both an unforgiving sun and a crew of abusive male wardens. Meanwhile, the arrival of a newcomer among the island’s administrators, a disgraced policeman who is also the son of Nagasaki’s governor, creates dissension between the officials that, along with an untimely outbreak of bubonic plague on the island, ultimately sets the stage for a daring escape attempt on the part of the prisoners.
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Play It Cool
Title: Play It Cool
Character: Kazama
Released: May 1, 1970
Type: Movie
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
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The Angry Sword
Title: The Angry Sword
Released: April 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.
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Naked Ambition
Title: Naked Ambition
Released: April 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".
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The Invisible Swordsman
Title: The Invisible Swordsman
Released: March 21, 1970
Type: Movie
A coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Title: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Released: January 15, 1970
Type: Movie
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.
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Haunted Castle
Title: Haunted Castle
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 20, 1969
Type: Movie
This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes revenge for the death of its master as well as for the corruption in the feudal system.
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Sleepy Eyes Of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
Title: Sleepy Eyes Of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
Released: December 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
Released: October 4, 1969
Type: Movie
Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem when suspicion arises and Nemuri Kyoshiro gets involved.
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Prison Break
Title: Prison Break
Released: August 30, 1969
Type: Movie
Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father’s turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the entire conspiracy. His quest for justice leads him to prison where he must fend off the attack of a master assassin before he can make his escape and go after the true killer!
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Girl with Bamboo Leaves
Title: Girl with Bamboo Leaves
Released: July 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
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Lefty Fencer
Title: Lefty Fencer
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
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Devil's Temple
Title: Devil's Temple
Released: May 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?
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Broken Swords
Title: Broken Swords
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira. Remake of Hakuôki AKA Samurai Vendetta (1959).
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Kanto Woman Infamy
Title: Kanto Woman Infamy
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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Sworn Brothers
Title: Sworn Brothers
Released: February 22, 1969
Type: Movie
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.
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Secrets of a Woman's Temple
Title: Secrets of a Woman's Temple
Released: January 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare her for the horror and depravity that takes place behind the convent walls.
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Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
Title: Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
Character: Saheiji Kawano
Released: December 1, 1968
Type: Movie
When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
Title: Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
Released: November 6, 1968
Type: Movie
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be the heir to a fortune get what is rightfully hers. Matsuo Kayo, who first rose to international stardom as ‘the supreme ninja’ in “Shogun Assassin” gives an outstanding performance in this clever and exciting caper tale set in the samurai era. Ryuzen agrees to help her, but is he just in it for himself, and is she really who she claims to be? When they come up against Boss Tobei it’s a virtual free-for-all as everyone struggles to walk away with a fortune in gold!
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The Funeral Racket
Title: The Funeral Racket
Released: November 4, 1968
Type: Movie
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
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Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging
Title: Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging
Released: October 5, 1968
Type: Movie
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Kanto Woman Yakuza
Title: Kanto Woman Yakuza
Released: August 24, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Bride from Hades
Title: The Bride from Hades
Released: June 15, 1968
Type: Movie
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
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The Saga of Tanegashima
Title: The Saga of Tanegashima
Character: Tokuzô
Released: May 18, 1968
Type: Movie
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the first firearm ever seen in Japan. But like a great stone hurled into placid waters, this simple gift will start a revolution. Tokitaka tasks Kinbei, his greatest swordsmith, to copy this musket and build guns for Japan. While Kinbei struggles to forge Japan’s first musket, a great love blooms between Captain Pinto and Kinbei’s daughter Wakasa. But for Kinbei, to let Wakasa marry Pinto and go to Portugal is unthinkable. And as Kinbei creates Japan’s first matchlock factory, Lord Oda Nobunaga will seize upon firearms as the key to sweep all other clans before him, tearing a blood-soaked path of destruction through Japan.
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The Night before Pearl Harbor
Title: The Night before Pearl Harbor
Released: March 9, 1968
Type: Movie
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
Title: Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
Released: January 13, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Title: The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Released: October 28, 1967
Type: Movie
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
Title: Zatoichi the Outlaw
Released: August 12, 1967
Type: Movie
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
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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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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Title: Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Character: Hanzo the dice player
Released: January 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
Title: Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
Released: December 10, 1966
Type: Movie
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.
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Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
Title: Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
Released: November 9, 1966
Type: Movie
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Assignment Cloud
Title: Assignment Cloud
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.
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The Betrayal
Title: The Betrayal
Released: July 2, 1966
Type: Movie
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a master-less ronin, if not hunted down and killed.
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Dianas of the Campus
Title: Dianas of the Campus
Released: June 22, 1966
Type: Movie
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
Title: Zatoichi's Vengeance
Character: Tamekichi
Released: May 3, 1966
Type: Movie
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
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Daimajin
Title: Daimajin
Character: Mosuke - Take-bô's Dad
Released: April 16, 1966
Type: Movie
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
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The Thieves' Who's Who
Title: The Thieves' Who's Who
Released: February 26, 1966
Type: Movie
In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.
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Irezumi
Title: Irezumi
Released: January 15, 1966
Type: Movie
A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are then forced into a conspiracy-born nightmare, where they face the danger of becoming the very evil they seek to escape. With each new bloody incident, the spider's face seems to redden with ever-growing hunger.
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Sword Devil
Title: Sword Devil
Character: Takeshi Tanakura
Released: October 16, 1965
Type: Movie
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...
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New Tengu from Mount Kurama
Title: New Tengu from Mount Kurama
Released: September 18, 1965
Type: Movie
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for the overthrow of the Shogunate, and the Shinsengumi squad, who are chasing them. Suddenly, a mysterious masked warrior appears, on a white horse he is called Tengu from Mount Kurama and he opposes the Shinsengumi.
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Young Boss: Prison Release
Title: Young Boss: Prison Release
Released: August 14, 1965
Type: Movie
The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
Released: April 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan, and while the swords of some angry samurai may not cause Kyoshiro much trouble, the deadly wiles of two women may be more difficult to survive!
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Zatoichi's Revenge
Title: Zatoichi's Revenge
Character: Inspector Jingo Odate
Released: April 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.
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Bloody Shuriken
Title: Bloody Shuriken
Released: February 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Released: January 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.
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Adventures of Zatoichi
Title: Adventures of Zatoichi
Character: Yakuza dice thrower
Released: December 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Title: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
Character: Hyaku
Released: November 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
Released: October 17, 1964
Type: Movie
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
Character: Ninja Leader
Released: May 23, 1964
Type: Movie
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.
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Homeless Dog
Title: Homeless Dog
Released: May 2, 1964
Type: Movie
First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
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Ken
Title: Ken
Released: March 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Kokubu Jiro is the captain of his university's Kendo team. Often standoffish, mild, stoic and minimalist, Kokubu is a mystery to those who know him. Kagawa wants to understand Kokubu, but being arrogant and flashy, has a hard time connecting with Kokubu.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Released: January 9, 1964
Type: Movie
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.
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Zatoichi on the Road
Title: Zatoichi on the Road
Character: Yakuza enforcer
Released: November 30, 1963
Type: Movie
Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
Title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
Released: November 2, 1963
Type: Movie
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double crosses. The leader of the Kaga clan, who thinks he has killed his smuggling partner, fears that the shogunate will discover his illegal activities. He learns of evidence that will prove his guilt. Meanwhile, his partner is not dead, and, assisted by a master of Shorenji boxing, is looking for revenge and for his loot. The Kaga leader sends the beautiful Chisa to enlist Nemuri's aid. The unexpected happens: the hard-bitten Nemuri falls in love. Can he protect her, topple the criminals, and avoid the boxer's deadly skill?
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Bronze Magician
Title: Bronze Magician
Released: October 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).
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The Third Shadow Warrior
Title: The Third Shadow Warrior
Released: April 21, 1963
Type: Movie
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
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New Tale of Zatoichi
Title: New Tale of Zatoichi
Character: Yakuza member with mark on his face
Released: March 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.
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An Actor's Revenge
Title: An Actor's Revenge
Released: January 13, 1963
Type: Movie
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
Title: Shinsengumi Chronicles
Character: Shimpachi Nagakura
Released: January 3, 1963
Type: Movie
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
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The Lightning Sword
Title: The Lightning Sword
Released: December 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.
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Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Title: Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Released: December 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
Title: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
Released: October 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.
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The Fencing Master
Title: The Fencing Master
Released: September 30, 1962
Type: Movie
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.
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Ken ni kakeru
Title: Ken ni kakeru
Released: September 16, 1962
Type: Movie
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Destiny's Son
Title: Destiny's Son
Released: July 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The son of an executioner and the assassin he loved yet murdered learns of his origins, leaving his foster parents to avenge his mother's death.
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Kumoemon to sono tsuma
Title: Kumoemon to sono tsuma
Released: June 24, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Tale of Zatoichi
Title: The Tale of Zatoichi
Character: Sasagawa gambler spy
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.
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Sabakareru Echizen no kami
Title: Sabakareru Echizen no kami
Released: April 6, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
Title: Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
Released: March 4, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
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鉄砲安の生涯
Title: 鉄砲安の生涯
Released: February 21, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Temple of Wild Geese
Title: The Temple of Wild Geese
Character: Nanzō Sasai
Released: January 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.
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Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
Title: Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's uncle, Lord Mito traveled about the nation seeking to make sure that corruption and injustice did not go unpunished. Traveling together with his two faithful bodyguards Kaku and Suke, they board ship for a voyage to the far northern island of Ezo (modern day Hokkaido) where the indigenous people called "Ainu" live. Somewhat like American Indians, the Ainu had their own culture which had not been subjugated by the Matsumae clan, rulers of the vast island. A revolt is brewing within the leadership of the Ainu, which threatens to destroy their peaceful lives. The elder lord and his retinue are the only ones who can stop this reign of terror!
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The Gambler's Code
Title: The Gambler's Code
Released: June 14, 1961
Type: Movie
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man. In a brilliant performance from super-star Ichikawa Raizo, with strong support from two of the greats from Toho, Shimura Takashi (7 Samurai) and Aratama Michiyo (Sword of Doom) the heartfelt story reaches new heights. Tokijiro, having learned the true nature of the boss to whom he was obligated for having spent a night and eaten at the gang's headquarters takes up arms against them in a running battle fought across the back roads of the entire nation. Another powerful rendition of this superb story, it is not to be missed!
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Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Title: Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
Released: May 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.
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Straw hat of Itako
Title: Straw hat of Itako
Released: January 25, 1961
Type: Movie
A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.
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Samurai Save The Virgin
Title: Samurai Save The Virgin
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
A gripping historical drama full of suspense and a mysterious bewitching mood. A puzzle of a turbulent era in which various characters fall into a maelstrom of events - a pretty girl, a strange beggar woman, a charming thief, a clever detective, the famous magistrate Toyama Saemon no jo, they all struggle to unravel this mystery of the white bell, which provoked the sudden disappearance of two beautiful women caught in one place at the same time at midnight.
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Bara daimyo
Title: Bara daimyo
Released: December 7, 1960
Type: Movie
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Satan's Sword
Title: Satan's Sword
Character: Okada Yaichi
Released: October 18, 1960
Type: Movie
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue , a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
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The Blind Menace
Title: The Blind Menace
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
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Jirocho - The Chivalrous
Title: Jirocho - The Chivalrous
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
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Samurai Vendetta
Title: Samurai Vendetta
Released: November 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin.