Date of birth: 1922-03-30
Place of birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as:


1963-06-16
The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

1952-06-26
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

1967-07-22
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil

1957-04-02
Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

1963-11-16
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into tel

1957-12-17
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation

1965-01-03
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura

1961-12-17
Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

1954-02-10
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und

1955-12-28

1962-07-07
1962 Japanese movie

1960-04-10
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to l
1957-04-01
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on he

1965-12-19
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens,

1954-11-03
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the isla

1961-07-30
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expediti

1955-08-14
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn

1959-12-26
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on

1956-12-26
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehis

1964-04-29
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and

1962-08-11
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso

1960-12-11
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes

1954-04-26
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr

1964-08-11
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamond

1957-12-28
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v

1956-11-20
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat

1956-01-14
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

1956-05-03
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close

1964-04-18
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candida

1959-10-06
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second

1963-05-29

1956-10-16
Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet

1960-03-28
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be

1954-09-25
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a

1955-07-12
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky

1959-04-28
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no

1961-01-03
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has

1963-10-26
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier,

1959-11-01
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc

1957-04-30
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con

1965-07-04
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When

1952-11-27
An Ishiro Honda film.

1955-06-07
An Ishiro Honda film.

1955-01-15
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap

1953-10-21
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav

1953-12-08
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

1962-06-01
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese

1960-10-30
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anyt

1960-01-03
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o

1959-06-09
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the su

1967-08-03
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th

1953-05-07
1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

1965-09-05
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often d

1952-02-28
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable

1958-11-18
After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out

1957-02-05
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k

1965-08-25
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong

1961-06-23
A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small to

1965-10-22
Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.

1960-07-31
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths o

1961-11-12
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over

1959-05-12
When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young sala