Hajime Hana
Birthday: Born in 1930-02-09 in Tokyo, Japan
Deathday: 1993-09-10
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徳川無頼帳
Character: Kyoya Shozaemon
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....
古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Isamu Hiwa / Todoriki
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Wings of Icarus' Flight
Character: Hiroyuki Okano
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening acrobatics were filled with dreams, laughter, and excitement. From that moment on, his destiny changes. While living in the circus, the young man becomes fascinated by the art of performing, trains hard, and makes his debut on the big stage. He puts all of his youth into his quest to become a clown, the flower of the circus and the origin of laughter....
祭りだお化けだ全員集合！！
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Japan's No. 1 Disconnected Man
Character: Doi
Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job....
Life of Don Matsugoro
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Children's movie about a dog that can type messages into a word processor. When his owner is kidnapped, the canine summons his fellow dogs to help in the rescue effort....
Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda
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The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of Ueki etc. [Selection of Actors and Directors]....
Never Give Up
Character: Lieutenant Muranaga
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for which he is responsible. Years later, Ajisawa is forced to return to the scene of the tragedy for his new job as a claims adjuster where he is subsequently arrested for his suspected involvement. But the threat of jail time is the least of his worries as his former organization comes gunning for him....
Hunter in the Dark
Character: Hanba
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming....
スーダラ節 わかっちゃいるけどやめられねぇ
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1962 Japanese movie...
Hail the 3 Gents
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Nippon Irresponsible Guy
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Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan"....
Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama
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1962 Japanese movie...
Don't Mind
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Set in downtown Tokyo, it depicts the activities of a weak youth baseball team, the Chidori Boys, and the ordinary people who live there....
Alone Across the Pacific
Character: Youth's Friend
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination....
Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
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Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer....
Japan for Sale
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The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man"....
Preparation for the Festival
Character: Kiyoma Oki
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in....
Oar
Character: Ogasawara
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children....
The Japanese Belly Button
Character: Dry cleaning shop owner / Lorry driver / Lighting man
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss....
Cape Erimo
Character: Yasuko's Father
Harajuku, the fashion capital of Tokyo. Yasuko works at a boutique as a beginner seamstress. As snow covers the streets, the boutique's interior decorates itself with colorful clothing. An exhibition of the shop's spring line up is right around the corner. After a hard day at work Yasuko stops by at a produce market, setting all her unfinished work on the rear deck of a random truck. When she gets home, she realizes that she's missing a couple of things....
Hotsprings Holiday
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Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town an...
Hippo Director's Zoo Diary
Character: 西山登志雄(主人公)
Aging zoo keeper Nishiyama Toshio acquires two young trainees: short-tempered former chef Takeshi Ishizawa and gentle vet Ichiro Hasegawa. Both are surprised by the difficulties they face in a deceptively easy job but persevere through troubles such as an escaped pelican, a dying camel, and the birth of a hippo....
Yume de aimasho
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1962 Japanese movie...
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Character: Hajime Hanaoka
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life....
Wakai kisetsu
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1962 Japanese movie...
Cleopatra: Queen of Sex
Character: Caesar (voice)
Three people from the future, who travel spiritually to the era of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII Philopator and her Roman lovers Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, become their closest friends as they try to unravel the nature of the plan developed in their own time by a sinister enemy....
Mr. Hacchaki's Tokyo Game
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A movie starring Meijin Takahashi, the God of Famicom. Based on the Hacchaki Sensei manga....
Ghost Story of Two Travelers at Tenamonya
Character: Shunen
Japanese horror comedy from 1967....
Ichi ka bachi ka
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The final film by Yuzo Kawashima....
なにがなんでも為五郎
Character: 坂東為五郎
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やるぞみておれ為五郎
Character: 坂東為五郎
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花も実もある為五郎
Character: 坂東為五郎
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Dog of Fortune
Character: Chief Amamura
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds....
The Demon Comes in Spring
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Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the girl's enforced marriage to another man, in order that they may marry themselves. The ancient custom of the village decrees that the angry sea gods must be calmed by throwing the pair back into the sea. The lovers face being sacrificed to the sea gods or perhaps something even more difficult to bear....
Ore wa inaka no puresurī
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港町紳士録
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Ore wa Ueno no puresurī
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Hana no Oedo no Musekinin
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A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo Tanami, who worked on "Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sannin Yoba" and Kajiro Yamamoto, who worked on "The Story of a Genius Swindler: Tanuki no Hanamichi." Photographed by Seiichi Endo of "Things That Live at the End of the Earth."...
Red Diamond
Character: President
After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the azuki beans market. A young man tries to regain his wealth in the bean market....
ホラ吹き太閤記
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クレージーだよ 奇想天外
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クレージー大作戦
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空想天国
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クレージーの殴り込み清水港
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Happy Go-Lucky
Character: Yusaku Ujiie
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder....
Private Lessons II
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Ken, an insecure young man from Japan, meets Sophie, an interesting and sensual woman who teaches him the secrets of love and life....
School in the Crosshairs
Character: Kumakichi
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!...
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Character: Detective Heita
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....
Ten Dark Women
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Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life....
こんにちは赤ちゃん
Character: Kenkichi, Yasuhiko's dad
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A Distant Cry from Spring
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The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind....
Hokuriku Proxy War
Character: Mantani
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada, a Hokuriku yakuza who will use any measure for survival, disregarding parents, brothers, and tradition....
Las Vegas Free-For-All
Character: Shigekane Itagaki
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets....
Graveyard of Honor
Character: Shuzo Kawada
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa....
The Crazy Adventure
Character: Hanai
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The Lovable Tramp
Character: Gengoro Ban
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time....
Twilight of the Cockroaches
Character: Dad (voice)
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life....
Where Spring Comes Late
Character: Himself
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer....
Karate Cop 3
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A cop, Katayama, gains the trust of a mother and daughter whose father, Nishina, is missing after being accused of killing a gang boss....
Gamblers' Luck
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A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry....
The Best Playboy In Japan
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The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series....
Our Miyo-chan
Character: Teacher Hanayama
Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl....
Aoba shigereru
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Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue....
Swordsman For Hire
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After witnessing his chief retainer’s plot to murder their lord, Matahachiro fled to lose himself in Edo’s crowded streets. By day he sells his sword skills to the highest bidder. By night he fights for his life against deadly swordsmen his clan sends to silence him. His samurai spirit is at its lowest ebb, his only solace a lovely female ninja, his paramour and potentially his deadly enemy. But as Edo witnesses the unfolding of the legendary vendetta of 47 Ronin, sworn to avenge Lord Asano agai...
Hole in the Pants
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A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut video release from Pantsu no ana, a subsection of "BOMB" magazine....
Proof of the Man
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When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime....
Monsieur Zivaco
Character: Akechi Shakuro
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword....
The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Character: Jiro Shimizu
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life...
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
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Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken....
The Greatest Challenge of All
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After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem....
The Million Dollar Pursuit
Character: Kanichi Hazama aka Boss
Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds....
Vagabond Schemer
Character: Skipper
The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village....
The Honest Fool
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Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Yasugoro can confess his love....
The Irresponsible Fool
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Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act....
Crazy Big Explosion
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A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats....
Mexican Free-for-All
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A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats....
Get Married, Mother
Character: Mr. Watanabe
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Lord Mito
Character: Nise Komon
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to the silver screen in a dynamic and exciting tale featuring megastar Toshiro Mifune as an expert swordsman drawn into the action to fight injustice. The Elder Lord travels about disguised as a retired merchant with his two trusty bodyguards Sukesaburo and Kakunoshin by his side and secret agent Yashichi close by. After a chance meeting with a dying...
Tekken
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A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer......
Crazy Operation
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Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin
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Crossroads in Tokyo
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A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals....
Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
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A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers losing their land as a result of strict tax collection. The Tonegawa area of Boso was a lawless area for a generation, as two major forces fought against each other: Sukegoro of Iioka, who wields power with his industrial capital behind him, and Shigezo of Sasakawa, a rising yakuza. Furthermore, the successive floods of the Tone River, which could...
Me and Me
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Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla....
Kawachi fūten zoku
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1968 film...
Headless Island
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アッと驚く為五郎
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腰抜け女兵騒動
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1961 Japanese movie...