Date of birth: 1928-01-01
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known for: Acting
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1963-03-01
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s
1972-02-05
Film by Deme Masanobu
1982-07-23
Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poo
1983-04-09
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting
1968-06-08
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headles
1970-08-01
Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells th
1974-06-15
Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to t
1974-06-15
Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to t
1970-10-31
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri
1985-06-01
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w
1955-11-22
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to
1988-11-12
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman name
1982-10-16
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunne
1970-10-14
Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they an
1972-04-14
Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seekin
1981-01-15
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner.
1965-08-01
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous mast
1963-09-11
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company
1968-08-14
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn
1973-11-17
A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.
1967-02-25
1984-03-02
After appearing on a TV program a young woman is recruited to be an advertising idol much to the dis
1984-04-14
A Japanese abalone divers' couple has to confront the arrival of brutal investors on their coastline
1976-06-19
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
1975-02-01
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
1969-09-10
Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an
1959-04-12
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban
1981-08-13
There are two bizarre rumors spreading about a girls' high school called “Seiwa Joshi Gakuen.” The f
1975-09-06
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a
1973-05-19
Based on a popular play from 1947.