Date of birth: 1918-09-09
Place of birth: Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 小田草之助


1969-10-01
A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying

1974-09-20
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many yea

1978-10-14

1960-02-26
1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

1971-02-10
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She no

1966-11-12
Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo

1962-06-03
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma

1967-08-05
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years

1968-05-30
A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his e

1962-01-25
A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

1970-12-30
Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

1977-08-20
Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his b

1982-09-11
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local

1964-01-15
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor

1968-08-14
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get t

1969-11-14
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

1965-05-28
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shar

1973-07-13
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not

1967-03-25
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the plane

1969-10-01
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his

1968-02-28
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by

1963-12-24
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a famil

1970-02-26
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii

1978-09-23
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove

1981-08-08
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to tra

1967-01-14
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal

1970-03-18
A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies

1981-09-26
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case i

1971-07-24
Comedy of a phony doctor.

1961-01-03
1961 Japanese movie

1979-10-20
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in

1961-07-09
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once

1960-08-23
Japanese crime film

1978-07-08

1970-02-27

1960-05-20
1960 Japanese movie

1969-01-11
1969 Japanese movie

1967-01-02
1967 Japanese movie

1964-03-01
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has tho

1968-06-15
A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.

1972-10-06
The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the dire

1960-11-30
A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and p