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Yoshio Kosugi

Yoshio Kosugi (小杉 義男 Kosugi Yoshio, 15 September 1903 - 12 March 1968) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 120 films from 1924 to 1967. Born : 15th-Sep-1903

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Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Released : 26th-Apr-1954

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The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
Released : 28th-Dec-1958

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Sanshiro Sugata

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo. The main character is based on Shiro Saigo, a legendary judoka.
Released : 25th-Mar-1943

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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.
Released : 24th-Apr-1952

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The Mysterians

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
Released : 28th-Dec-1957

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Zoku Hebihimesama


Released : 14th-Aug-1940

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Forty-Eight Man

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Released : 26th-Jun-1952

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恐妻時代


Released : 30th-Oct-1952

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An Edoite Judge

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
Released : 5th-Feb-1953

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Four Seasons of Women

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Released : 27th-Feb-1950

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Yasugorō shusse


Released : 15th-Apr-1953

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Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
Released : 3rd-Aug-1967

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Operation Mad Dog

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
Released : 29th-Sep-1963

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Doburoku no Tatsu

1962 Japanese movie
Released : 29th-Apr-1962

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Onna keizu

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
Released : 11th-Jun-1942

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Attack Squadron

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air force to gather its most brilliant pilots into an elite squadron and use the unit to pinpoint attacks on the Americans. Disrespected by the kamikaze pilots who think the "non-suicidal" pilots are afraid, the unit redeems itself by stunning victories. But success leads the military leaders to expect too much of the unit, and new orders portend disaster.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1963

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Snow Trail

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.
Released : 5th-Aug-1947

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Half Human

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
Released : 14th-Aug-1955

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Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity Enoken takes to farcical extremes.
Released : 10th-Aug-1939

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Man of the House

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha (Sachiko Chiba), and the deterioration of his partnership and marriage.
Released : 1st-Jun-1936

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Chihō kisha


Released : 13th-Oct-1962

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人生とんぼ返り

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
Released : 27th-Jun-1946

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The Human Vapor

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?
Released : 11th-Dec-1960

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A Man in the Storm

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.
Released : 5th-Feb-1957

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Rebels on the High Sea

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
Released : 8th-Aug-1956

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Subterranean Heat


Released : 1st-Feb-1938

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Young Swordsman

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.
Released : 31st-Aug-1963

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A Holiday in Tokyo

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
Released : 15th-Apr-1958

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So Young, So Bright

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.
Released : 1st-Nov-1955

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Sasaki Kojiro

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as the legendary master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for the first time and essentially sets the standard for future portrayals.This masterpiece is based on the original story as written by noted author Murakami Genzo and is far superior to any other versions. Following Kojiro from his earliest days through his fateful meeting with Musashi, this movie is filled with exciting and dramatic moments culminating in the best version of the final duel ever seen on film.
Released : 26th-Oct-1951

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Ato ni tsuzuku o shinzu

1945 Japanese movie
Released : 8th-Mar-1945

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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
Released : 20th-Dec-1964

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Mothra

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Released : 30th-Jul-1961

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Frankenstein Conquers the World

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
Released : 8th-Aug-1965

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Mothra vs. Godzilla

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
Released : 29th-Apr-1964

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King Kong vs. Godzilla

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
Released : 11th-Aug-1962

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Kantaro of Ina

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1943

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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Released : 15th-Jan-1959

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Ginza Cosmetics

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
Released : 14th-Apr-1951

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Iron Brothers

It's been a long time since the war. Since we haven't been at war with America yet, there is a line in the movie that asks, "How do you say "dried fish" in English?" Brothers who work at a factory that handles iron in Tokyo. After losing his parents, his older brother (Takada Minoru) sends his younger brother (Ito Kaoru) to night school, and the brothers help each other survive. The older brother wants his younger brother to study and attend a higher school (university?). A mysterious woman (Sachiko Chiba) moves into the apartment where the two live. The landlady of the apartment is busy gossiping about her and who she is.
Released : 28th-Jun-1939

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The Legend of the White Serpent

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
Released : 22nd-Jun-1956

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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2)

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Released : 2nd-Apr-1957

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The Spell of the Hidden Gold

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Released : 21st-Oct-1958

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The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1)

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Released : 26th-Dec-1956

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Karayuki-san

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
Released : 11th-Mar-1937

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The Life of a Horse Trader

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and a husband he is frequently drawn to taverns.
Released : 7th-Dec-1951

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裸足の青春


Released : 16th-Oct-1956

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The Gambling Samurai

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.
Released : 28th-Mar-1960

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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a ski-ers' shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film Ju Jin Yuki Otoko with added American-made footage, narration and music track.
Released : 1st-Dec-1958

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The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.
Released : 19th-Apr-1959

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