Ken Utsui
Birthday: Born in 1931-10-24 in Tokyo, Japan
Deathday: 2014-03-14
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心
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赤い運命
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The story of two girls switched in an orphanage....
危険なアネキ
Character: Gentaro Minagawa
Ito Misaki stars as the number-one cabaret/hostess club girl. Hailing from the Miyazaki countryside, she has been told since her youth that all she has is a beautiful face. Her brilliant younger brother (played by Moriyama Mirai) who aims to become a doctor, is her only pride. For his sake, she is willing to put up with all sorts of hardships in a display of unconditional love....
プリティガール
Character: Ryotaro Takamine
Looking for a job, Hana gets work at the Andrews Department Store, but her boss hates her and gives her impossible work to do. Her bubbly nature and creativity soon bring success to every job she is assigned though, and the president even wonders if her mysterious charm can rally the company and pull them out of their financial difficulties. But the President and Ryou, his straight-laced son, have different ideas about running the company. Perhaps if she finds true love for Ryou, she can soften ...
ムコ殿
Character: Masumi Arai（新井 真澄）
A sexy renegade male chauvinist rock singer by day, a bossed around, lousy dressed and demurring husband by night. Yuichi, the handsome, sexy, and a great rock singer, is known by his fans as 'The Wolf', a fearlessly independent musician who just couldn't care less about what others think of him. In reality, however, Yuichi is a lousy dresser, wears thick glasses and is totally devoted to his hidden girlfriend. Trouble ensues when he decides to marry in secret as he must fight to keep up his im...
｢ごくせん｣
Character: Ryuichiro Kuroda
Newly graduate Yamaguchi Kumiko an idealistic teacher who entered Shirokin High to be a math teacher. Having high hopes for her students, her world turned up side down when she finds out that she'll be teaching the class 3-D the hardest class to take care of. Class 3-D is a bunch of students who looks more like delinquents and trouble makers. The students show no respect to teachers nor a little kindness. Each and every student doesn't like teacher for almost everyone has no good memories of the...
武田信玄
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There was a very turbulent time in the warring period in the history, and Takeda Shingen is consider one of the great warlord among many other....
赤い疑惑
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Sachiko is the 17-year old daughter of radiotherapist Professor Oshima. After exposure to radiation in the hospital, she develops leukemia. As if that was not enough trouble for one lifetime, discovers that Oshima is not her real father, and that her boyfriend is really her half brother....
赤い迷路
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Akai Meiro is a Japanese television series starring Ken Utsui, Momoe Yamaguchi, Yusaku Matsuda, and Ryoko Nakano. It was broadcast from 1974 to 1975 on the TBS channel. It was the first of the "Akai" series of television dramas....
空港で待つ女
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One part drama starring Kuniko Yamada and Ken Utsui...
赤い死線
Character: 中年紳士
When Ryoko, a ballerina turned disco dancer, gets entangled in a murder and a stolen 10 million yen, she must race against time to uncover the truth and return to her hometown....
渡る世間は鬼ばかり
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A family drama series that follows the lives of the Okakura family, focusing on the parents and their five daughters. It explores personal struggles, and societal issues through the interactions and conflicts among the family members....
少女に何が起ったか
Character: Mysterious Man
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黄金の豚 －会計検査庁 特別調査課－
Character: Isao Kurume
Shinko (Ryoko Shinohara) is an accounting auditor who chases after tax evaders and embezzlers that hard working citizens needlessly pay for. Shinko has a knack for solving cases without common sense or standards....
薔薇海峡
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Ken Utsui plays a surgeon turned mayor...
相棒
Character: Fumio Kaneko
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective ...
ぴあの
Character: 桜井章一郎
The drama about the youngest of four sisters, all raised solely by their father, who wants to write children's books....
赤い衝撃
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A track and field athlete falls in love with a cop. After being paralyzed by a bullet from a detective investigating her father's crimes, a high school sprinter finds unexpected love and navigates a web of family secrets and forbidden love....
赤い絆
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さすらい刑事旅情編
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顔で笑って
Character: Daikichi Yamada
Set in a surgical hospital in Kamakura that has been in the female lineage for over 100 years, this drama depicts the daily life of a talented surgeon who is appointed director, his family, the hospital staff, and the patients....
ブランド
Character: Kawashima Tetsuo
Imai Miki plays Midori, a fashion industry executive who is dedicated to her job but beginning to wonder if she is not missing something in life. Company colleague and former lover Yoshida Eisaku suggests she needs a husband and children and appears ready to take on the assignment. But Imai insists it is a deeper, more internal question like: "Why was I born and what am I supposed to do in this life?" Little does she know she is about to meet Koichiro, the heir to a tea ceremony empire and a you...
ひまわりの歌
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シークレット部隊
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大地の子
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都市伝説の女
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Tsukiko Otonashi is a fashionista who is too beautiful to be a detective. She is also intrigued by urban legends so much so that she believes all crimes are somehow linked to these legends. She even conducts her investigations in such a way as to prove them to be true. Tsukiko also likes to make use of whatever she can. She especially likes to enlist the help of crime lab officer Hitoro Katsuura, who happens to have a crush on her. Many other unique characters will make appearances as she inve...
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Attack from Space
Character: Starman
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....
誘拐
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1962 Japanese movie...
情熱の詩人啄木
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1962 Japanese movie...
Evil Brain from Outer Space
Character: Starman
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....
Atomic Rulers
Character: Starman
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!...
Red Love, Green Love
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Hypnosis
Character: Sakurai
Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of the cases begins to suspect a connection between the three when he discovers that each person mentioned a "green monkey" before they died. With the help of a young psychiatrist he formulates the theory that hypnosis is somehow involved. In the mean time oth...
The Great Wall
Character: Crown Prince Tan
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall....
The Bullet Train
Character: Kuramochi
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb....
Princess and I
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1962 Japanese movie...
Shinibana
Character: Kōtarō Inō
After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shinibana" containing a plan to tunnel into and steal 1.7 billion yen from a bank....
Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
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After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?...
Invaders from Space
Character: Starman
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 Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor
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Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this world that he loves, Shiho (Emi Wakui) but when he meets her again, she is already someone else’s wife. Her husband is a key person in the Chushingura incident. Love reignites between Keinosuke and Shiho but they get caught up in the spiral of fate of the Chushingura incident......
Shoujo ni Nani ga Okotta ka
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Kuronekokan ni Kieta Otoko
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Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri....
The Demon of Sendai's Castle
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Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advisors from his entourage were assassinated, calling into question the possessions of the Date family....
Gokusen: The Movie
Character: Ryuichiro Kuroda
A passionate teacher, Kumiko Yamaguchi, a.k.a. Yankumi, is now overseeing the new students of Class 3D of Akado High School, who still have not opened up to her and are giving her a hard time. Current and former Class 3D students collide in this epic finale to the Japanese TV series....
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
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AIBOU: X-DAY
Character: Fumio Kaneko
Detective Kenichi Itami from the The National Police Agency and Akira Iwatsuki from the cyber investigation team investigate a complex murder case. The victim was under investigation by the cyber investigation team. As Detective Kenichi Itami and Akira Iwatsuki delve deeper into the case, pressure from around makes their investigation even more difficult. Secretly, a national financial doomsday scenario is carried out under the plan of "X Day"....
Flesh Pier
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Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style....
Life of Matsu the Untamed
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A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly....
Sekai no haha
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King of the Ring: The World of Glory
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Boxing film directed by Teruo Ishii in his directorial debut....
Broken Blossoms
Character: Kenji Yoshinari
War drama about army nurses....
Secret White Line Zone
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First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series....
東京の夜は泣いている
Character: Masaya Taki
Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film....
Queen Bee's Anger
Character: Hurricane Masa
Part of the Queen Bee series....
Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
Character: Shigenobu Ôkuma
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....
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Character: Lieutenant Commander Hirose
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....
The Little Runaway
Character: Teacher Tabata
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow....
Black Report
Character: Akira Kido
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime....
Shitto
Character: Mitsuo Anzai
Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi....
The Falcon Fighters
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In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at the Tokorozawa Flying School. Flying Kawasaki Ko-4 biplanes, Lt. Katō will train both friend and future foe alike. But as war in China breaks out, Katō now in command of the 5th Rentai will take his untested men flying antiquated planes into aerial ...
Gateway to Glory
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A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy....
Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
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1959 film directed by Teruo Ishii for Shintoho....
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....
坊ちゃんの特ダネ記者
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Japanese comedy 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!...
Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
Character: Lieutenant Kaneda
During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not being able to take part in the fighting. They had been held back by orders from the Naval Ministry, but there was also a plot by saboteurs, who were trying to prevent the sailing of the Mutsu. Director Komori developed a suspenseful plot by including a fictional adaptation of the Russian spy Richard Sorge, who had been captured in Japan and subsequent...
まぼろし探偵 幽霊塔の大魔術団
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Third and last "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata....
Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
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Japanese mystery film....
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Character: Ensign Murase
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Twilight Saloon
Character: Masumi
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of music in this ambitious ensemble drama....
The Human Wall
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Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home....
When Women Lie
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Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô)....
Nonki saiban
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A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter....
AIBOU: The Movie II
Character: Kaneko
The kidnapping of some chiefs of police by a rogue ex-policeman is just the beginning for a much much bigger story that it seems at first sight....
Tokyo Ninja Force
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雲を呼ぶ講道館
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Mysterious Pygmy
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Horror film about a killer dwarf....
Kissho Tennyo
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A story about Sayoko Kano, a junior high school student, who is believed to be a descendent of an Indian goddess. Sayoko is a kind of femme fatale, who uses her supernatural power to control people, especially men....
A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies
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The touching and dramatic tale of the relationship between a Japanese family, their dog and her three puppies, set against the backdrop of a devastating earthquake and the ensuing chaos, rescues and heroism....
Siberian Express 3
Character: Denzo Miyagi
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Fantasy of Youth
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Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi....
Signal
Character: Ruka's grandfather
University student Keisuke returns to his hometown during his summer holiday and takes a part-time job at a run-down movie theater. However, his boss Ruka, a projectionist who lives on the premises, has not set foot outside in three years, and always falls into a deep depression on Mondays. Keisuke feels himself becoming attracted to the mysterious Ruka, but......
Akiko
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Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his section chief, and as he is unable to return the money, tries to kill himself. Akiko determines to obtain the money by selling her chastity and soon becomes the mistress of Hasegawa, for 500,000 yen. Hasegawa gives her the money but does not make advances. Before she became Hasegawa's mistress Akiko was in love with Wake, who works in the same Compa...
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 Black Trademark
Character: Koji Sugino
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...
Girls Born in August
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Song of Love
Character: Tomekichi Nanase
What happens when young people meet amidst the warmth, soft breezes and gentle waves of Okinawa? This is a romantic love story about a young college student on break from Tokyo who meets a handsome dive employee on the beach. --groink...
Time Scoop Hunter
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A reporter is sent through time and space to document the lives of Japanese people at various times in history. This time, he is sent to unwrap the mystery of Azuchi castle which was built by Oda Nobunaga, one of the most famous shogun of all times, and lost within merely three years after its completion....
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
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The Matsukawa Incident
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Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident....
Seven Samurai
Character: Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food....
Shishun no izumi
Character: Tokizo
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Super Giant
Character: Super Giant
The 1st film in the Super Giant movie series, in which the title hero saves the world from foreign terrorsts threatening Japan with a nuclear attack (Part 1 of 2)...
Tales of the Bizarre: 2012 Autumn Special
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The Man Disappears Yesterday
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Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become his personal assistant. In a rice shop, Yoshimune meets a simple ronin Ohashi Kenshiro, and receives permission to stay at his house, but a mysterious corpse awaits him in the house... And then the second, third and fourth murders occur......
Yôki na tono-sama
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花眞珠
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Black Dead Ball
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A talent scout who had his eyes set on a star left-handed pitcher in the high school baseball world falls to his death at his hotel. Was it a homicide or suicide? His junior colleague pursues the mystery of his death....
Until the Lights Come Back
Character: Kanau Yoshikazu
A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past....
怒号する巨弾
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At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused as spy suspects and his father died in prison after being tortured. Ten years later, Amada seeks for revenge on the three men responsible for his father death....
Super Giant Continues
Character: Super Giant
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)...
Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
Character: Super Giant
The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens....
Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction
Character: Super Giant
The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)...
Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity
Character: Super Giant
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 Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite
Character: Super Giant
The 6th Super Giant film. Although he was believed to be destroyed by the Nazi-like army, Super Giant breaks into the satellite, and a long, riotous battle ensues. (Part 2 of 2)...
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....
Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears
Character: Super Giant
The 7th Super Giant film. Super Giant battles a marauding alien brain-like creature created by a mad scientist and an alien army. (stand-alone episode)...
Super Giant Continues: The Devil's Incarnation
Character: Super Giant
The 8th Super Giant film, in which he copes with a disfigured mad scientist, who turns his own daughter into an evil witch....
Super Giant Continues: Kingdom of the Poison Moth
Character: Super Giant
The 9th and final Super Giant film, in which he fights a group plotting to assassinate a Middle-Eastern prince for his country's treasure....
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....
The Story of a Blind Woman
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At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, stumbling on a staircase, he meets a businessman named Tsuruko and falls in love with him....
G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards
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Ocean Floor Crime #1
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The Panda Story
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Kayo, a zookeeper, dreams of raising a panda one day. However, she soon decided to study abroad in China, and her dream came true. As soon as Kayo arrived in Sichuan Province, she met a boy named Ryuryu, and together they helped save an injured panda cub. The panda cub regained his strength and was named Hua Hua, but one day he went missing…...
殺人者
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Kill Before Being Killed
Character: Kenji Minami
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School of Crime
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恋しぐれ 秩父の夜祭り
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1961 Japanese movie...
Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
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A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku"....