Hideo Takamatsu
Birthday: Born in 1929-10-24 in Nagaoka-gun, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Deathday: 2007-02-26
Hideo Takamatsu (高松英郎) was born on October 24, 1929 in Nagaoka-gun, Kochi, Japan as Tetsuro Takeichi (武市 哲郎). He was an actor, known for El último emperador (1987), Shogun (1980) and A Wife Confesses (1961). He died on February 26, 2007 in Kanagawa, Japan.
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天と地と
Character: Kanazu Shinbei
The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora....
Shōgun
Character: Lord Buntarō
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan....
夏子の酒
Character: 佐伯浩男
Natsuko, who was a copywriter, starts to cultivate rice called Tatsunishiki, which is a phantom kind and it is very difficult to grow. She does it to make her dead brother's dream come true. His dream was to make the......
男たちの旅路
Character: Keigo Izumi
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war....
虹を織る
Character: 島崎宗太郎
The 26th NHK Asadora. Shimazaki Kayo is a woman from Hagi, Yamaguchi, who joins the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-female musical theater troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyougo Prefecture, Japan. Women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shoujo manga and Japanese folktales....
藍より青く
Character: 田宮行義 校長（真紀の父）
The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is the heroine, married to Shuichi who must go to war. She stays home and takes on the role of other war widows, managing business and a Chinese restaurant....
雲のじゅうたん
Character: 利根優
The 17th NHK Asadora. Starring Youko Asaji as a woman who wants to become a pilot....
特捜最前線
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秀吉
Character: Hayashi Sado no Kami
A dramatized biography of the second of Japan's three legendary leaders. Rising from obscurity, Hideyoshi served under the command of Oda Nobunaga. With an extraordinary combination of intelligence, bravery and military skill, Hideyoshi rose to near-absolute power and greatly expanded upon Nobunaga's unification of Japan's warlords. This series also focused on Hideyoshi's personal life, particularly his relationships with his mother and his wife, and the pair's rivalry for influence over him....
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Yokohama Bakkuretai
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Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto....
A Geisha on Horseback
Character: Kojuro Ichikawa
Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early Taisho era....
誘拐
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1962 Japanese movie...
Road to the Don
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The first 'Road to the Don' film....
Road to the Don 3
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The third 'Road to the Don' film....
Road to the Don 4
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The fourth 'Road to the Don' film....
Road to the Don 2
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The second 'Road to the Don' film...
Road to the Don 7
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The seventh 'Road to the Don' film....
Road to the Don 6
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The sixth 'Road to the Don' film....
Thug Business Worker Sabu
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The truth of a sniper becomes clear in the turmoil of a drug robbery that shakes the underworld....
Road to the Don 12
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The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film....
Road to the Don 9
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The ninth 'Road to the Don' film....
Road to the Don 8
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The eighth "Road to the Don' film....
Road to the Don 11
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The eleventh 'Road to the Don' film....
雀狼伝2 必殺！！亜空間殺法
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The second full-fledged mahjong drama presented with the full cooperation of the Japan Professional Mahjong Federation! The strongest rival appears. The most formidable rival appears. What will Ando Mitsuru do? Will the subspace killing method be defeated?...
Kurohyō
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雪の降る街に
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1962 Japanese movie...
Goryokaku
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After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of th...
Resurrection
Character: Haruo Tsuda
When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”....
Judo for Life
Character: Shusaku Kuruma
Naoya Ichijo uses special judo techniques to succeed....
Tokyo Crime Map
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An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence....
Shura ga Yuku 2
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A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series....
Giants and Toys
Character: Ryuji Goda
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies....
Tosei Burai
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Ryoji Minami, an elite trading company man, falls in love with Minako Kano, the daughter of the fifth president of the Kanto Kano family, overcomes obstacles, and has a wedding. A sudden misfortune befell Ryoji. On the day of the wedding, his father and daughter were killed by a bomb planted in a package. In anger and sadness with nowhere to go, Ryoji vows to take revenge on the bomber, and as the sixth head of the Kano family, confronts the Kyoei Alliance....
Elegant Beast
Character: Ichiro Katori, Talent agents manager
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved....
A Wife Confesses
Character: Public Prosecutor Kasai
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession....
The Romance of Yushima
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Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocke...
Code of Ruffians
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Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group....
Kodokan Under a Morning Moon
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The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal com...
I Can’t Study
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Hidemi is bored of school, and decides to find another way to succeed in life....
Asakusa at Night
Character: Komakichi
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action....
Shura Group
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Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)...
Fūshinraishin
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1962 Japanese movie...
The Pachinko Game Drifter II
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Bokyo
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In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives....
Rennyo and His Mother
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Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a backgro...
Advance Patrol
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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......
Black Test Car
Character: Toru Onoda
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch....
Gone Without Saying Goodbye!
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This TV drama special depicts the obsession of a sister and two detectives searching for her missing brother who witnessed the crimes of a political fixer....
Black Report
Character: Kusama
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime....
Typhoon Reporter
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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!...
Yakuza Hooligans
Character: Kurokawa
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza....
The False Student
Character: Prosecutor
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students....
The Last Emperor
Character: General Ishikari
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic....
A Giant Monster Appears in Tokyo
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A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder where the monster will head next....
Company Executives
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A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away....
Ninja in a Business Suit
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Character: Yasufumi Yamashita
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed....
Secret Information
Character: Tetsuji Miki
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him....
Night Butterflies
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A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival....
Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
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The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style....
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Character: Tôbei Yamada
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan....
Accomplice
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Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto....
Patterns of Love
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Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories....
The Messenger from the Moon
Character: Doctor Ikeuchi
Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume....
The Detective
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Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him dead in order to rescue the hostage, but the public denounces his actions as stemming from the personal grudge of a detective whose wife was just murdered, and he is demoted....
Black Dividend
Character: Lawyer Kiyohara
Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains another spy in Ayuko Ichinoi......
Forbidden
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Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her....
The Rockabilly Lady
Character: Shirasaki
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The Black Trademark
Character: Akio Kakiuchi
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret d...
Samurai Secret Agent
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A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory being used by two samurai clans that try to usurp power and gain the position of shogun for one of their own....
The Midday Trap
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A businessman who dreams of a successful career ends up embroiled in a murder case after a love affair....
The Snowy Heron
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The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her....
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
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A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Character: Daijiro Akamatsu
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu clan, who, along with Katsuro Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma, sought to fulfill the dream of a new peaceful era in Japan. Can he realize his ideals or will he die in the chaos of internecine fights......
The Ghost of Yotsuya
Character: Naosuke Gombei
In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance....
Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
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五十円横町
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The Story of Jiro
Character: 宗太郎
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children....
Black Money
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The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan....
Turning Point
Character: Editorial Writer
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials....
Across the Darkness
Character: Ikuta
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign....
Love and Life
Character: Detective Tamai
Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura....
A Storm Zone
Character: Toshiyuki Fujikawa
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Mother
Character: Matsuda
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The Judo Champ
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When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to use the school for teaching the Ryukyu art of Karate....
Daiei Studio is Bustling
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A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars....
Wild Touch: Pachisuro Daikōryaku
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Original video...
Warrior's Justice 3 - Termination
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Kojima Takeshi, who has strayed from the yakuza world, launches a gang that draws a line in the sand with today's yakuza society. However, the Sekiyama and Jinno gangs, who find this an eyesore, attempt to crush Takeshi and his gang. The Sekiyama and Jinno gangs send in an assassin, Kishigami, a former brother of Takeshi......
Ah Special Attack Corps
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Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps....
Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
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The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire....
Zero Escape Visibility
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Emperor of Upheaval
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The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving....
Kokoro no nichigetsu
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Kill Before Being Killed
Character: Issaku Nomura
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Conquest
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The boss of the Miyakonojo family is attacked as it is suspected that there's a traitor among them, starting a crisis inside the family....