Shoji Nakayama
Birthday: Born in 1928-02-26 in Tokyo, Japan
Deathday: 1998-12-01
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流星人間ゾーン
Character: Yochiro Sakimori
Zone Fighter, known in Japan as Ryūsei Ningen Zone, is a tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. Produced by Toho Company Ltd., the show aired on Nippon Television from April 2 to September 24, 1973, with a total of 26 episodes, it was cancelled due to the oil crisis of 1973. This was Toho's answer to not only the popular Ultra Series, but the Henshin Hero phenomenon started by shows like Kamen Rider and Android Kikaider. The previous year, Toho had just made their successful firs...
ウルトラセブン
Character: Captain Kiriyama
In the not-too-distant future, the Earth finds itself constantly under attack from extraterrestrial threats. The Terrestrial Defense Force establishes the Ultra Garrison, a team of six elite members who utilize high-tech vehicles and weaponry. Joining their fight is the mysterious Dan Moroboshi, secretly an alien from the Land of Light in Nebula M-78, who transforms into his true form in times of crisis, Ultraseven....
徳川無頼帳
Character: Matsudaira Nobutsuna
Matsudaira Tadateru (Shin'ichi Chiba) the sixth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu that was stripped of his title and began life under an assumed name in the Red Light district of Edo. He solves crimes, heals the sick, saves the Geisha from evil Samurai and along the way he teams up with Yagyu Jubei (a role played numerous times by Chiba himself). Awesome Samurai Action....
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Police Precinct Part 12
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Attack from Space
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The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth....
Fateful Birthplace
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A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino....
The Life of Rikisha-Man
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Police Precinct Part 14
Character: Detective Yamagata
An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The ominous foreboding of the First Investigation Department hit the mark, it turned out that the discovered unidentified body of the drowned man was Hirasaka. Moreover, the land in front of the station, owned by Hirasaka, was sold by someone. Suspecting that this is a planned murder, the Investigative Group, fearing the escape of the criminal, begins t...
Police Precinct Part 13
Character: Detective Yamagata
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents of the murdered child. They use a towel, baby diapers and bruises on the baby's body as clues in the investigation. Who killed the baby?...
Woman His Prey
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Atomic Rulers
Character: Detective Okamoto
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!...
Police Precinct Part 17
Character: Detective Takayama
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno....
Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
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An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle....
A Charming Devil
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Movie adaptation of the TV series....
Anatahan
Character: Nishio
From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan....
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
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1962 Japanese movie...
Invaders from Space
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A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late....
The Desperate
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A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo (Hara Chisako), the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi (Hisashi Igawa) and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse....
Detective
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The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastically plays a police inspector who pursues a criminal who kidnapped his sister....
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2
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Tomorrow's Joe
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花笠太鼓
Character: 長次郎
In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works as a delivery boy for the caterer "Yaoyorozu." His brother, Chōjirō, who disliked being a plasterer, ran away from home and became a subordinate of the yakuza Yamashita no Gonsuke. On a delivery, Sanshirō catches a vagrant child, Erippē, stealing a flower hairpin from Ochiyo, the daughter of the wealthy merchant Narumiyaya Bunzaimon. Impressed by Sanshirō...
Super Giant Continues
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The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. (Part 2 of 2)...
Kaze no uchi so to
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Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
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A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled is thrown into turmoil when a murderous demon is unleashed in the headquarters office. Can the slow witted son of the company founder and a punk rock band of monsters (don’t ask) stop the evil forces before the employees are butchered?...
The Hoodlum Brothers
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A crime film released in 1965...
Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts
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A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!...
Queen Bee
Character: Shunsuke Yuri
Earlier version or Prequel to Queen Bee and the School for Dragons....
Ghost in the Regiment
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Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brother....
Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
Character: Inuyama Dôsetsu
In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi’s lineage, specifically from his wife, Fushihime. Outraged but facing annihilation, Yoshimi gives Fushihime a string of eight ancestral beads and urges her to escape to loyal retainer Inuda Kobungo. Instead, she goes alone to Anzai, followed by her dog, Hachibo. In a twist, Hachibo attacks and kills Anzai, al...
King of the Ring: The World of Glory
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Boxing film directed by Teruo Ishii in his directorial debut....
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
Character: Tokusuke Kosaka
The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo ...
Queen Bee's Anger
Character: Hiroshi
Part of the Queen Bee series....
剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Character: Major General Ijichi
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and its combatants often do not know what they are fighting for....
Queen of Asia
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Japanese war film based on the true story of Yoshiko Kawashima, played by actress Miyuki Takakura in her film debut....
The Sand City in Manchuria
Character: Hitomi
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople....
The Battleship Yamato
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The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato"....
Evil Brain from Outer Space
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An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet....
乾杯！女学生
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Biotherapy
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"Biotherapy" is a fairly nasty Japanese gorefest about a group of Japanese scientists stalked and viciously butchered by a creepy-looking alien....
Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
Character: Nakagawa
Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona....
The Warrior from Kishu
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This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his parents, hating his legacy and embracing everyone else from simple background. Only love can help him mature, hopefully in time to be a great lord for the people. A story of young Yoshimune, the future Shogun....
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
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The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes....
The Escape
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Film about the 2-26 Incident....
A Life of Intimidation
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Japanese action film....
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
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After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area....
Tale of Army Brutality
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Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination....
The Hidden Treasure
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Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama....
Shin ono ga tsumi
Character: Kenzo Tsukaguchi
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901)....
Nude Model Murder Case
Character: Shinichiro Hamano
Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?...
The Harbor Lights
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Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
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The Imperial Navy
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A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War....
The War in Space
Character: Staff officer
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships....
Showdown of Men 2
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Zero
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Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war....
Hell's Kitchen
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花眞珠
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Earth Defense Girl Iko-chan 3: Big Operation in Big Edo
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Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet....
Mid-August Commotion
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A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War....
Satsujinhan nanatsu no kao
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Japanese crime film...
Ningyō Sashichi torimonochō: Koshimoto Irezumi Shibijin
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The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomizo, the film was adapted by Mitsuo Kaneda (The Nude Model Murder Case), directed by Tatsuo Yamada, who worked on The Golden Bugyo, and shot by Kikuzo Kawasaki. Keiko Hibino, Shigeru Amachi, Tomisaburo Wakayama...
ウルトラセブン：ヴァンパイアの恐ろし
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