Shōzaburō Date
Birthday: Born in 1935-12-07 in
Deathday: Alive
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宇宙鉄人キョーダイン
Character: Captain Marui
Space Ironmen Kyodyne was a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. The show, like numerous others of its type and era, were produced as a joint effort between manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei Company producer Hirayama Tôru. It premiered in 1976 and ran for 48 episodes. The show is well known for its strange plot and costume design, rapid-fire and purposefully disorienting editing, and unique, sometimes surreal, atmosphere. The late Yūsuke Natsu and Takeshi Sasaki...
ジャイアントロボ
Character: Chief Azuma
Join Daisaku Kusama and Giant Robo as they battle the interstellar terrorist group Big Fire....
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Kanto Woman Infamy
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Bridge of Japan
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Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that tr...
The Most Valuable Wife
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人形佐七捕物帖 鮮血の乳房
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Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest....
Triangle Moods
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Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko....
Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man
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This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear....
Sutekina 16-sai
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1962 Japanese movie...
The Lady Vampire
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Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime......
The Betrothed
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Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel....
母山彦
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Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
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Comedy movie...
Giants and Toys
Character: Ekichi
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies....
Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction
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The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)...
The Cast-Off
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The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)...
The Ghosts of Kagami Pond
Character: Yasujirô
A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed....
Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity
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The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. (Part 1 of 2)...
Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
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The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens....
Nenneko Shain
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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....
Zoku-sei to ningen
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1961 Japanese movie...
Closing Time
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Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
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After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction tried to usurp the rightful heir and take over the honored clan. Before his untimely death, the lord of the Kuroda bestowed “Nihongo”, a magnificent spear, on his finest warrior, which ultimately brings him into contact with two of Japan’s most famou...
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Character: Lieutenant Yamada
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor ag...
The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
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Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places....
Queen of the China Sea
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Rika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by First Lieutenant Yokoyama of the Japanese Naval Commander's Office. After the end of war, Yokoyama plans to escape from riot-ridden Amoy and finally succeeds with the help of Rika to whom he gives a destroyer. Rika is actually the leader of a gang of pirates, and plans to rule the East China Sea by crushing Banryu, her rival....
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
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Voyage Into Space
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Earth is invaded by an interstellar terrorist group, Big Fire (the Gargoyle Gang in the American version), led by Emperor Guillotine who spends most of his time in a multicolored space ship hidden at the bottom of Earth's ocean, from which he issues his orders. Big Fire is capturing scientists to create an army of monsters to conquer Earth. A boy named Daisaku Kusama (Johnny Sokko in the American version) and a young Unicorn agent named Jūrō Minami (Jerry Mano in the American version) are shipwr...
The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
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15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series...