Akira Sera

Akira Sera

Born: October 14, 1912
in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Akira Sera...

Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
Title: Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
Released: June 11, 1988
Type: Movie
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.
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Title: Shōgun
Character: Old Gardener
Released: September 15, 1980
Type: TV
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
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The Revolt
Title: The Revolt
Character: Prime Minister Inukai
Released: January 15, 1980
Type: Movie
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his sister. Upon finding Kaoru at a party working as a geisha and later rescuing her from committing suicide, Col. Miyagi allows her to move in with him. Over time, the two grow close, but in spite of Kaoru's growing feelings for him, Col. Miyagi is unable to bring himself to return her love. On the night of his deployment to war, Col. Miyagi finally admits his feelings for Kaoru, but will they ever be able to enjoy a peaceful life together now that a very violent and bloody military revolt is under way...
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Dog of Fortune
Title: Dog of Fortune
Released: June 2, 1979
Type: Movie
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.
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The Castle of Sand
Title: The Castle of Sand
Character: Fan Shop Owner
Released: October 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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The Last Kamikaze
Title: The Last Kamikaze
Released: October 29, 1970
Type: Movie
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.
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Sex and Life
Title: Sex and Life
Released: February 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mikami's specialty is sexual clarification... The world's best-selling sex literature was filmed here in a manner close to the original. And the openness of the image shows the shocking conflicts of young people in scenes that were never filmed. Shocking documents about sex life from the doctor's office.
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Code Between Brothers 6
Title: Code Between Brothers 6
Released: December 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.
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Varan the Unbelievable
Title: Varan the Unbelievable
Character: Village High Priest
Released: December 7, 1962
Type: Movie
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
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Get 'em All
Title: Get 'em All
Released: November 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
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The Twilight Story
Title: The Twilight Story
Released: August 28, 1960
Type: Movie
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
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The Secret of the Telegian
Title: The Secret of the Telegian
Character: Genzo
Released: April 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
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Hito mo arukeba
Title: Hito mo arukeba
Character: Fukuda
Released: February 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Title: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Character: Mizutani
Released: January 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
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The Three Treasures
Title: The Three Treasures
Character: Anazuchi
Released: November 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
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Desperado Outpost
Title: Desperado Outpost
Released: October 6, 1959
Type: Movie
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.
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The Beast Shall Die
Title: The Beast Shall Die
Character: Detective Okada
Released: June 9, 1959
Type: Movie
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
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Samurai Saga
Title: Samurai Saga
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
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Echo Mountain
Title: Echo Mountain
Released: January 22, 1959
Type: Movie
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Big Boss
Title: The Big Boss
Released: January 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
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The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Title: The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Released: October 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
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Varan
Title: Varan
Character: Village High Priest
Released: October 14, 1958
Type: Movie
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
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The H-Man
Title: The H-Man
Character: Horita - fisherman
Released: June 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
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All About Marriage
Title: All About Marriage
Character: Mariko's Father
Released: May 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Title: Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Released: July 19, 1957
Type: Movie
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
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Ôban
Title: Ôban
Character: Ookawara
Released: March 5, 1957
Type: Movie
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Title: The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)
Released: December 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
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Aishu no machi ni kiri ga furu
Title: Aishu no machi ni kiri ga furu
Character: Apartment resident
Released: October 31, 1956
Type: Movie
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A Wife's Heart
Title: A Wife's Heart
Released: May 3, 1956
Type: Movie
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.
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I Saw the Killer
Title: I Saw the Killer
Released: January 29, 1956
Type: Movie
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Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume
Title: Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume
Released: December 28, 1955
Type: Movie
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So Young, So Bright
Title: So Young, So Bright
Released: November 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Two high school girls, Ruri and Yumi, go to Kyoto on a school trip, here they get acquainted with Hinagiku, there are many adventures ahead of the three of them. A musical starring 3 Japanese pop music and TV stars.
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Half Human
Title: Half Human
Character: Matsui
Released: August 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
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All is Well
Title: All is Well
Released: January 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Daichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but the company changed its name to Toyo Denki Seisakusho, and the president Shingo Mori was the general affairs manager.
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Floating Clouds
Title: Floating Clouds
Released: January 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
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A Man Among Men
Title: A Man Among Men
Character: Safety manager
Released: January 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match in which Maki has an interest in one of the fighters. After a terrible brawl, the two gangsters discover that they have both been played for suckers by their bosses. They join forces to turn the tables on the bosses.
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Invisible Man
Title: Invisible Man
Character: Man at street stand
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Title: Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
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Eagle of the Pacific
Title: Eagle of the Pacific
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
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Youth of Heiji Senigata
Title: Youth of Heiji Senigata
Released: August 19, 1953
Type: Movie
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Bot-chan
Title: Bot-chan
Character: Uranari
Released: June 15, 1953
Type: Movie
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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Their Father's Wife
Title: Their Father's Wife
Character: Itaro
Released: May 27, 1953
Type: Movie
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Mr. Pu
Title: Mr. Pu
Released: April 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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The Man Who Came to Port
Title: The Man Who Came to Port
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1952
Type: Movie
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Ikiru
Title: Ikiru
Character: Worker in General Affairs
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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Jakoman and Tetsu
Title: Jakoman and Tetsu
Released: July 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.