Minosuke Yamada

Minosuke Yamada

Born: November 13, 1893
Died: August 3, 1968
in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Minosuke Yamada...

浅草の侠客
Title: 浅草の侠客
Released: July 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorable Yakuza in Tokyo's Asakusa district.
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Title: Akatsuki
Character: 兼吉
Released: April 1, 1963
Type: TV
The 3rd NHK Asadora. Starring Shin Saburi as a professor who quits the university to become a painter.
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Varan the Unbelievable
Title: Varan the Unbelievable
Character: Secretary of Defense
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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The Human Vapor
Title: The Human Vapor
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?
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The Gambling Samurai
Title: The Gambling Samurai
Character: Uemon
Released: March 28, 1960
Type: Movie
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.
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The Three Treasures
Title: The Three Treasures
Character: Okuri of Kunizo
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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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Title: Gigantis, the Fire Monster
Character: Chief of Civil Defense
Released: May 21, 1959
Type: Movie
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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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: Secretary of Defense
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: Chief of Inspectors Kusuda
Released: June 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Title: Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Character: Monk
Released: March 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess, though neither realizes the other's identity.
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A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister
Title: A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister
Released: August 25, 1957
Type: Movie
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Living Koheiji
Title: The Living Koheiji
Character: Dressing room keeper
Released: August 4, 1957
Type: Movie
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.
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Last Days of the Samurai
Title: Last Days of the Samurai
Released: July 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted as a tragic romance between one of the ronins, Jurozaemon Isogai, and Omino. An adaptation of Seika Mayama play "Genroku Chusingura, the Last Day of Oishi", which tells about the torments of life and death of samurai living in feudal times.
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Ôban
Title: Ôban
Character: Murata
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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Rodan
Title: Rodan
Character: Mining Chief Osaki
Released: December 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Released: October 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
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The Underworld
Title: The Underworld
Released: February 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Title: Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1956
Type: Movie
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
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The Lone Journey
Title: The Lone Journey
Released: August 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.
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Godzilla Raids Again
Title: Godzilla Raids Again
Character: Chief of Civil Defense
Released: April 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
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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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Jirocho in Disgrace
Title: Jirocho in Disgrace
Released: July 14, 1954
Type: Movie
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Omatsuri hanjiro
Title: Omatsuri hanjiro
Released: November 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather toward the port town.
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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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Murahachibu
Title: Murahachibu
Released: March 21, 1953
Type: Movie
A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
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Ikiru
Title: Ikiru
Character: Subordinate Clerk Saito
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.