Jirō Tamiya
Birthday: Born in 1935-08-25 in Kyoto City, Japan
Deathday: 1978-12-29
Jirō Tamiya was born on 25 August 1935 in Kyoto City, Japan. He was an actor and producer, known for Miyamoto Musashi (1973), 3000 kiro no wana (1971) and Kuro no tesuto kâ (1962). He was married to Yukiko Fuji. He died on 29 December 1978 in Tokyo, Japan.
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光る崖
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The drama depicts the fateful meeting and falling in love between a man living in the glamorous world of the fashion business and a woman living in the social reality of law and order....
白い巨塔
Character: Gorō Zaizen
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research....
白い影
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Noriko Shimura is on duty for the first time at Gyoda Hospital. The duty doctor is Yosuke Naoe. After 9PM Jiro Toda, a childhood friend of Noriko's, is brought in with a cut to his forehead from a fight. But Naoe has gone out for a drink, and can't be found. Both Toda and the ambulance crew become angry and demand to know where the doctor is. Naoe returns and seeing the commotion, he orders Toda be locked in a toilet until he calms down. Noriko is horrified by Naoe's attitude but is later impres...
高原へいらっしゃい
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As a former manager of a top hotel, Seiji has been entrusted with the reopening of a hotel in the high plains that has been boarded up and closed for years. With a budget of 20 million, he begins to hire interesting characters to work there and rebuild the hotel. However, his attempts to get a top chef to draw customers fail. The staff members begin to worry about the hotel's future and try to leave, but at precisely that moment, an elderly man who used to be a chef at a top hotel pays a visit. ...
白い滑走路
Character: Shigeo Sugiyama
Sugiyama was undergoing training in Moses Lake, USA, for the Boeing 747 model transition training. After passing the exam and returning to Japan, he found that his wife Ayako had disappeared......
白い秘密
Character: Kyosuke Mimura
Munekata Yuko remembered the face of Mimura Kyosuke, a doctor who killed her mother by mistake in the course of an operation. Five years later, Yuko lost her eyesight due to craniopharyngioma. One day, Yuko has an accident and she is taken to the hospital. Ironically her doctor is no other than Kyosuke. Unaware of his identity, the woman begins to fall in love with him. And although Kyosuke reciprocates her affection, he has a strong dilemma, because he knows very well whose daughter Yuko is. W...
白い地平線
Character: Ryuzo Nakane
The series portrays veteran boxing world champion Ryuzo Nakane, played by Tamiya, as he fails to defend his title for the sixth time and falls from his glory after a scandal with famous singer Noriko Hanabusa, as well as his anguish and fighting instincts, and his involvement in the kidnapping of his son Takeshi, all the while pursuing family, love between parents and children, and love between men and women....
白い荒野
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The fifth installment of Tamiya Jiro's "White Series." Tamiya Jiro plays the editor-in-chief of a top weekly magazine, portraying the melancholy of a man living in a chaotic society....
樹氷
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
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A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido...
Yume de aritai
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1962 Japanese movie...
Their Legacy
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Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish....
Gonin no totsugeki tai
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Back Stairways
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A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge....
Black Temptation
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Fangs of Vengeance
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B.G. monogatari: Ekinyūmon
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1962 Japanese movie...
Black Test Car
Character: Yutaka Asahina
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....
The Creature Called Man
Character: Teruhiko Kujo
A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man....
The Great White Tower
Character: Goro Zaizen
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research....
Three O'clock in the Morning in a Big City
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To avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. An entertaining action drama and an interesting love story....
Order of Yakuza
Character: Hidejirô Ôgiya
Order of Yakuza...
Homeless Dog
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka...
Rampaging Dog
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series....
Quick-Draw Dog
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series....
Return of Gun Dog
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series....
Stray Dog
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
Stray Dog (野良犬) is a 1966 film directed by Yoshio Inoue. It is the seventh film in the Inu series....
Miyamoto Musashi
Character: Kojiro Sasaki
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage....
Black Speeding
Character: Takuya Tsuda
Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio Yazawa, the boss of the Sakamoto Motorcycle Club....
Black Challenger
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Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming from those at the very top of society....
Black Weapon
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Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi....
Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again
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Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo
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Sexy Sign Suki Suki Suki
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Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting and an advertising poster. The other is about coaching the hockey team. Simultaneously, however, he is head over heels for three gals, one is a hairdresser, one is a fashion model and of course the third is part of the cheering squad for the hockey team....
The Family
Character: Ataru Mima
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family....
A Night to Remember
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Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on....
Cobra
Character: Komura
Japanese crime film....
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!...
Chase That Man
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The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate....
The Spy
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Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment....
The Time of Reckoning
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"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son....
Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
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Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly loves Fuyuhiko Kanae, an architectural engineer who is designing her villa. For Reiko, the life of the Todo family is completely different, but when she meets the bright and intelligent Fuyuhiko, she feels more than just affection for him, goi...
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Character: Magazine writer Jiro
Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her....
Ninja in a Business Suit
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Main Line to Terror
Character: Takigawa
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him....
Tough Guy
Character: Motor Sada
Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her....
Sword and Flower
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Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori)....
Professional Killers
Character: Baian Fujieda
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching......
Theater Of Life
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Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku....
Flower and Dragon
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Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai....
The Silent Gun
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura...
Yellow Dog
Character: Kimura
A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation....
Superexpress
Character: Keiichi Kikyo
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express...
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Character: Hitoshi Fujii
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history....
Love and Greed
Character: Kenichiro Ishizuka
Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail....
Black Dividend
Character: Ryokichi Ibuki
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......
The Notorious Man's Return
Character: Seiji
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor
Character: Seiji
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Stolen Pleasure
Character: Asai
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up....
Clamouring Canines
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
The second film in the "Inu" series....
The Dedicated Gunman
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
Third film in the "Inu" series....
Trigger Happy Romeo
Character: Daisuke Kamoi
Fifth film in the "Inu" series....
Bury Me Deep
Character: Kyosuke Nakabe
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman....
She Came For Love
Character: Keisuke Ozeki
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair....
Les Mesdemoiselles
Character: Shûtarô Maki
A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture....
Fool's Love
Character: Masao Kumagi
A young man (Eiji Funakoshi) lavishes his complete attention and resources on a beautiful young girl (Junko Kano) who was picked up in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo....
A Woman's Testament
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The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger....
Sweet Seventeen
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The Midday Trap
Character: Satoru Fuji
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The Third Will
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A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father...
A Design for Dying
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Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love....
Bad Reputation: Imposter's Paradise
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
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Bad Reputation: The Big Drum
Character: Seiji
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Bad Reputation Returns
Character: Sada
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Bad Reputation of the Big Three
Character: Seiji
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New Bad Reputation Continues
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Bad Reputation: Cherry Blossoms
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Lips of Ruin
Character: Izumida
Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”....
Kirai Kirai Kirai
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Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend
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Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men
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A Woman's Life
Character: Eiji Tsutsumi
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo....
The Great Villains
Character: Nihei Tokuda
Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer....
Black Trump Card
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Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge....
A Man Worth the Money
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Goodbye, Hello
Character: Salesman
Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa...
You and I
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Giants and Toys
Character: Student (uncredited)
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies....
The Blue Sky Maiden
Character: Takenaka (as Gorō Shibata)
Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was....
The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Character: Plane Passenger (uncredited)
A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a strange buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs. Is the killer invisible or possibly some other incredible creature?...
Chikaiteshi
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A Killed Stewardess: White or Black
Character: Shinichi Mouri
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That Complicated Guy
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Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima....
A Storm Zone
Character: Jirō Kosaka
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A Drop of Grease
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The Informer
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Medal from the Devil
Character: Gorō Akune
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Tokyo Gambler
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Nocturne of a Woman
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A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached....
The Battle Begins at Night
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Fossil of Love
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Invitation to Jail
Character: Yoshio Kasai
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School for Thieves
Character: Akira Tamon
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Let's Dance Tonight
Character: Ryuji Ujiie
A drama about the sex industry....
The Corporation
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Trump Card of Revenge
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Prison Release Loyalty Offering
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Territory of the Night
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The Last Loyalty Offering
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Spy on the Masked Car
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An industrial espionage film....
300 Million Yen Mission
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
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An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop of the turbulent history of the Showa period and the magnificent nature of Hokkaido....
Kyukei no Koya
Character: Narrator
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his country, his wife and children, and risked everything to save his country from ruin, and the bond between father and daughter....
Diary of a Substitute Doctor
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The Person I Chose
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A 1959 film directed by Hiromu Edagawa....
Oniisan to oneesan
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A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda....
A Mother's Journey
Character: Saburō (as Gorō Shibata)
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Kawaii mendori ga utatta
Character: Susumu Sekine
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New Couple's Guide: The Young Wife is Popular
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A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young wife is a female doctor who has made a name for herself in sex medicine....
Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi
Character: Shimpei Kakei
A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them....
Ripe and Marriageable
Character: Koichi, Shinobu's brother
1959 youth comedy....
The White Road Across the River
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A Secret Night
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Night Butterflies
Character: Shuji's old friend
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival....
The Precipice
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Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works....
The Crowded Train
Character: Student
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career....
Love, Fireworks and Fire Bombs
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Bride Candidate
Character: (as Gorō Shibata)
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Nine Hours of Terror
Character: (as Gorō Shibata)
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Tokyo Eyes
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A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around these four characters....
Love River
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Morning Whistling
Character: Newspaper photographer
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Hey, Nakamura-kun
Character: (as Gorō Shibata)
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Mother
Character: Kinoshita (as Gorō Shibata)
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Mr. Minami is Very Embarrassed
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Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko....
Hit and Run Gang
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Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit. His younger brother Matabei vowed to challenge the culprit in front of his brother's grave. A fast-paced action-packed story....
The Judo Champ
Character: (as Gorō Shibata)
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....
Thirst
Character: (as Gorō Shibata)
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Daiei Studio is Bustling
Character: (uncredited)
A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars....