Yoshirô Kitahara

Yoshirô Kitahara

Born: March 11, 1929
in Japan

Movies for Yoshirô Kitahara...

Title: Dangerous Detective
Released: October 5, 1986
Type: TV
Abunai Deka, often shortened to AbuDeka, is Japanese television drama aired by Nippon Television between 1986 and 1987. Starring Hiroshi Tachi and Kyohei Shibata, the series became very popular and spawned films, spin-offs series, and books. The series follows a pair of detectives, Takayama and Oshita, from the Naka-ku branch of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police.
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Title: Pro Hunter
Released: April 7, 1981
Type: TV
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0計画を阻止せよ-総理大臣誘拐!!-
Title: 0計画を阻止せよ-総理大臣誘拐!!-
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.
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Title: Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
Character: Muto
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
The first heroes of the Super Sentai series! The heroes were brought together to defend the world from the Black Cross Army, who attempted to conquer the world. The five powers united as one to defeat the monsters.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: Professor Taro Kosaka
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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Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies
Title: Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies
Character: Ono
Released: July 11, 1970
Type: Movie
Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...
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The Falcon Fighters
Title: The Falcon Fighters
Released: November 1, 1969
Type: Movie
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at the Tokorozawa Flying School. Flying Kawasaki Ko-4 biplanes, Lt. Katō will train both friend and future foe alike. But as war in China breaks out, Katō now in command of the 5th Rentai will take his untested men flying antiquated planes into aerial combat against the Chinese Air Force who is now headed by Lt. Cho who Katō both earlier befriended and personally trained himself. While Katō's squadron ultimately achieves air superiority over the skies of Manchuria, it comes at a high price in men to which each loss carries a heavy burden that he alone must carry. As the war widens into the Second World War, Captain Katō must battle an ever advancing array of deadlier new enemies flying ever more modern fighter planes.
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Gateway to Glory
Title: Gateway to Glory
Released: July 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
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The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
Title: The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
Character: Goro Nanjo
Released: December 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.
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The Snow Woman
Title: The Snow Woman
Character: Seiju
Released: April 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him.
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Gamera vs. Viras
Title: Gamera vs. Viras
Character: Masao's Father
Released: March 20, 1968
Type: Movie
As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabitants, including Viras, a squid-like monster that grows to colossal size to battle Gamera.
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Gamera vs. Gyaos
Title: Gamera vs. Gyaos
Character: Dr. Aoki
Released: March 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.
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A Woman's Gamble
Title: A Woman's Gamble
Released: November 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. The series gets cited on lists of action yakuza films or woman avenger films, but once the films are actually viewed, it is quickly obvious they are not generally about action except in the nominal sense of acts of gambling. And while Ogin is in fact sometimes motivated by revenge, she is not as a rule a martial artist or a killer, & this series tends to place its female hero as far away from the "action babe" method as she can get. Ogin is an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling. She is samurai-like in that she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer, much as a samurai might go on his "warrior's pilgrimage" to become Japan's number one swordsman.
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The Great White Tower
Title: The Great White Tower
Released: October 15, 1966
Type: Movie
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
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Gamera vs. Barugon
Title: Gamera vs. Barugon
Character: Professor Amano
Released: April 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
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Gamera, the Giant Monster
Title: Gamera, the Giant Monster
Character: Mr. Sakurai
Released: November 27, 1965
Type: Movie
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
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Black Temptation
Title: Black Temptation
Released: October 2, 1965
Type: Movie
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Black Trump Card
Title: Black Trump Card
Released: July 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.
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Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Title: Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Character: Mitsunari Ishida
Released: December 28, 1963
Type: Movie
[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skulk another day, and sets his sights on bringing down the warlord who tried to turn him into soup – Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And as always, in the background, the suble hand of Tokugawa Ieyasu is pulling strings as he plots to rule all of Japan!
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Operation Underworld
Title: Operation Underworld
Released: October 19, 1963
Type: Movie
A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate.
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Typhoon Reporter
Title: Typhoon Reporter
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Ginza is square in its sights!
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Girls Born in August
Title: Girls Born in August
Released: February 19, 1963
Type: Movie
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Princess and I
Title: Princess and I
Released: April 29, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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誘拐
Title: 誘拐
Released: February 4, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Phantom Samurai
Title: The Phantom Samurai
Released: November 19, 1961
Type: Movie
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Buddha
Title: Buddha
Character: Kaundinya
Released: October 31, 1961
Type: Movie
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
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五人の突撃隊
Title: 五人の突撃隊
Released: April 26, 1961
Type: Movie
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Black Sea of Trees
Title: Black Sea of Trees
Released: December 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her sister's friendships to unravel the mystery of her mysterious death...
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Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Title: Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Released: September 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.
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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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The Rockabilly Lady
Title: The Rockabilly Lady
Character: Mukai
Released: March 8, 1960
Type: Movie
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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.
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Etajima, the Naval Academy
Title: Etajima, the Naval Academy
Released: September 6, 1959
Type: Movie
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.
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The Path I Remember
Title: The Path I Remember
Released: May 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Japanese drama
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Ojo-kichiza
Title: Ojo-kichiza
Released: April 21, 1959
Type: Movie
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Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
Title: Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
Released: March 17, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Most Valuable Madam
Title: The Most Valuable Madam
Released: February 11, 1959
Type: Movie
lchiro, the president of Mihara & Co., is henpecked by his wife Momoko, a clever and beautiful woman, but prattling and intrusive. She makes her younger sister Nashiko marry lchiro's younger brother, Jiro, manager of his company and now plans to marry her youngest sister Kyoko to her husband's youngest brother, Saburo. This means her domination of the Miharas and their business, a fine triple play which would gain her the title of "The Most Valuable Madam." However, in opposition to Momoko, Kyoko boldly declares that she will never marry Saburo. However Saburo is a most attractive young man and attracts Kyoko. Will she or her elder sister be able to win the title of "The Most Valuable Madam"?
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The Makioka Sisters
Title: The Makioka Sisters
Released: January 14, 1959
Type: Movie
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
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Chance Meeting
Title: Chance Meeting
Character: Shimizu
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya's brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister's office. When Aya finds Kana's discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana's brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she'd stepped upon in the train...
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Advance Patrol
Title: Advance Patrol
Released: December 28, 1957
Type: Movie
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...
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The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Title: The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Character: Chief Inspector Wakabayashi
Released: August 25, 1957
Type: Movie
A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs. Is the killer invisible or possibly some other incredible creature?
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The Betrothed
Title: The Betrothed
Released: May 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
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Nenneko Shain
Title: Nenneko Shain
Released: July 25, 1956
Type: Movie
A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.
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Seiryū no dōkutsu
Title: Seiryū no dōkutsu
Character: Morio Asahi
Released: February 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Part 2 of adventure movie
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Jagā no me
Title: Jagā no me
Character: Morio Asahi
Released: January 29, 1956
Type: Movie
First part of adventure movie
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Miai Ryokou
Title: Miai Ryokou
Released: November 15, 1955
Type: Movie
A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film.
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The Phantom Horse
Title: The Phantom Horse
Character: Toki Onoshi
Released: July 20, 1955
Type: Movie
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
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A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Title: A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
Released: April 23, 1955
Type: Movie
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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The Rainbow Man
Title: The Rainbow Man
Character: Yamamoto
Released: July 18, 1949
Type: Movie
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.