Akira Nagoya

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Akira Nagoya was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator who specialized in playing comical roles. He's well know for playing Yūtarō Asahina in the Tokusatsu superhero series Ultraman Taro. After graduating from junior high school in 1949, he entered the Tokyo Broadcasting Company (NHK) training school as a third-year student. His classmates included Hisashi Katsuta and Kazue Takahashi, who later became active as voice actors. In 1959, he joined the Bungakuza theatre company; in 1963, he participated in the founding of the theatre company Kumo. When Kumo disbanded in 1975, he moved on to work as a freelance theatre artist, appearing on stages such as Jijinkai and Komatsuza. Born : 8th-Dec-1930

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Princess Mononoke

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
Released : 12th-Jul-1997

Ônna himitsu chosain-kuchibiru ni kakerô

Japanese crime film
Released : 11th-Jun-1970

High and Low

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Released : 1st-Mar-1963

Chivalry Broken from All Sides

This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take up a sword again because of the emptiness of the Yakuza's life, and the passionate fate of his named sister Maki, nicknamed "The Scarlet Cherry Blossom", who falls in love with him without suspecting that he was the one who was responsible for her father's death and to whom she should take revenge.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1966

Dotanba

Dotanba - Last Minute
Released : 10th-Nov-1956

Woman

Released : 20th-Nov-1969

Hajimete no Tabi

Released : 9th-Jan-1971

Mahjong Horoki

A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.
Released : 10th-Oct-1984

Station

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Released : 7th-Nov-1981

Lovers Lost

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
Released : 12th-Jun-1982

A Thousand and One Nights

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.
Released : 14th-Jun-1969

Ultraman Taro: Like the Sun, Mother of Ultra

Theatrical version of episode 1 of the 'Ultraman Taro' TV series.
Released : 1st-Aug-1973

The Great Department Store Robbery

Released : 26th-Dec-1987

The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.
Released : 28th-Jun-1967

Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely

Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
Released : 20th-Dec-1980

The Tempters: Smile After Tears

Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but a tragic discovery about his family weighs on Shoken heavily.
Released : 29th-Mar-1969

Return of Ultraman

Episodes 5 and 6 of Return of Ultraman show, screened at Toho Championship Festival.
Released : 24th-Jul-1971

Lullaby of Death

Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist known as the “blue moth”, and political corruption.
Released : 9th-Oct-1982

Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters

A theatrical release of The Return of Ultraman episodes 13-14. It was released on December 12, 1971 as part of the Toho Champion Festival along with Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Earth's Greatest Battle ( edited from Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and shorter versions of The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee, and The Little Match Girl.
Released : 12th-Dec-1971

Basara: The Princess Goh

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Released : 11th-Apr-1992

Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
Released : 26th-Jul-1986

Round About Midnight

While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.
Released : 6th-Nov-1999

Bokyo

In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
Released : 9th-Oct-1993

Fort Graveyard

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
Released : 18th-Sep-1965

Love Letter

A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.
Released : 23rd-May-1998

A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Released : 29th-Sep-1962

A Portrait of Shunkin

Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
Released : 25th-Dec-1976

The Notorious Bored Samurai 9

The one who hurriedly ascended the castle upon hearing news of Shogun Tsunayoshi's illness was Saotome Mondonosuke. However, instead of an illness, he was prompted to consider a marriage proposal with Yaehime, a daughter of the Date clan. Yet, this was merely a pretext, as he was requested to investigate the truth behind the rumors of rebellion within the Date clan. Mondonosuke, who took on this task to stave off boredom, accompanied by his retainer Kinai, departed for Mutsu, following the procession of Yaehime returning to her home province. However, remnants of the Toyotomi faction, already plotting the overthrow of the shogunate, had gathered under Kii Koya Bunzaemon…
Released : 3rd-Jan-1994

Eve in a Summer Dress

Young lovers Makiko and Hidekazu break up because of misunderstanding. Makiko flies to New Zealand and soon recovers. When she is about to marry a man who really loves her, Hidekazu suddenly appears in her life again... Between a man who loves her and a man she loves, how would Makiko's choice be?
Released : 7th-Jul-1984

Nobuko Rides on a Cloud

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was born and what the world would be like if she where never born. While in the clouds she meets her grandparents and a few other people she loved who have passed on.
Released : 7th-Jun-1955

The Twilight Story

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Released : 28th-Aug-1960

ウルトラマンタロウウルトラの母は太陽のように

Released : 7th-Aug-1973

A Woman Who Warns of Death

Released : 1st-Jan-1973

Birth of a Fighter

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
Released : 4th-Feb-1967

Flying Phantom Ship

Hayato's home city is under attack from a gigantic robot. His parents are lying dead in the rubble and the only remaining friend is his dog. His only thought now is revenge against the owner of the Phantom Ship (from where the robot said he was sent). He ends up in the house of Kuroshio, the leader of the fight against the Phantom Ship and the most important person in the city. By complete accident, Hayato finds his way to an underground passageway where he realises that the true nature of events does not mesh with what Kuroshio has told him. His life is now in great danger, and only he can stop the plans of the evildoers.
Released : 20th-Jul-1969

Sweet Sweat

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.
Released : 19th-Sep-1964

Kandagawa

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the River Kanda, but are viewed coldly by people around them.
Released : 6th-Apr-1974

Yakuza Ladies: Decision

Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the boss of their rival yakuza family. She has to make a decision to revenge Nagoshi.
Released : 17th-Jan-1998

Suspicion

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
Released : 11th-Sep-1982

The Lucky Status Symbol

Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.
Released : 9th-Jun-1972

Kaito Ruby

Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi is a self-proclaimed master thief, but she needs socially awkward Toru's help to actually kickstart her so-called career.
Released : 12th-Nov-1988

Aoba shigereru

Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.
Released : 21st-Sep-1974

Follow the Girls

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Released : 19th-May-1971

Invitation of Lust

Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an unhappy marriage with Yazawa, who is also cheating on her with a younger lover. The tension builds up to an unforgiving, yet quiet climax...
Released : 5th-Apr-1975

Ellie My Love

Based on the comic by Mako Takami.
Released : 11th-Apr-1987

Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell

The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword actor Takahashi Hideki takes over as the former shogunate decapitator, and his stunning swordsmanship is second to none! The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.
Released : 22nd-Apr-1989

Woman in Witness Protection

Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of two dedicated cops, Biwako struggles to maintain her career, her public image, and her personal life as she prepares for her new role on the witness stand.
Released : 27th-Sep-1997

A Tale of Young Elopement

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.
Released : 7th-Feb-1987

A Young Female Instructor

A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.
Released : 15th-Apr-1978

The Symbol of a Man

In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
Released : 14th-Jul-1963

The Dragon Crest

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
Released : 10th-Nov-1963

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太閤記

Ichikawa Daisuke - Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1965

松本清張の聞かなかった場所

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Released : 17th-Mar-1979

恋人交換殺人事件

- Yoshiko Konno went on a winter trip in a car driven by her fiance, Yoichi Itokawa, but got lost due to a blizzard and arrived at a mountain cottage in the depths of a grove. They decide to rent a room. After greeting several men and women sitting by the fireplace, they enter the bedroom. In the middle of the night, Yoshiko woke up and, hearing a woman's voice from the next room, left the room to see what was going on...
Released : 20th-Feb-1982

乳姉妹

Pastor Wakayama - A moving story of intense love, hate, and reconciliation born out of a fateful encounter between the only daughter of a conglomerate leader and a girl from a poor family.
Released : 16th-Apr-1985

今朝の秋

- A former couple, separated for over 20 years, were reunited after being told their son had only 3 months to live. What should they do as parents? As they worried, they soon began to feel the weight of their family ties...
Released : 28th-Nov-1987

國語元年

- Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken language, this humorous drama focuses on how the national language used today was created.
Released : 8th-Jun-1985

俺たちの旅

- A milestone in Japanese teen drama, representing the 1970s. It questions the meaning of life, worries, and joys.
Released : 5th-Oct-1975

古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

Kameyama -
Released : 19th-Feb-1983

旅路

駅手・伊東栄吉 - The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national railroad living through 50 years of modern history with his wife.
Released : 3rd-Apr-1967

古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

Ryōzen -
Released : 19th-Feb-1983

帰ってきたウルトラマン

Narrator - In a fight between two giant monsters named Takkong and Zazahn, young race car driver Hideki Go is killed while trying to rescue a little boy and a dog from the falling rubble. His valiant sacrifice is noted by everyone, even his friends and the new defense force MAT, but an unseen being also takes notice. Looking over Go is the "New Ultraman", who is so touched by Go's actions that he decides to combine his life force with that of Hideki, thus bringing him back to life. Hideki Go then joins the MAT and fights alongside them and Ultraman against monsters and alien invaders.
Released : 2nd-Apr-1971

ウルトラマンT(タロウ)

Captain Yutaro Asahina - Kotaro Higashi trained to be a boxer, but after an icident with Astromons, he was killed. However, his body was brought to Nebula M-78 where Mother of Ultra saved his life by joining him with Ultraman Taro. Taro had spent many years training, honing his skills based on those of the other Ultra Brothers to become strong. The two returned to earth as a new kaiju era was beginning.
Released : 6th-Apr-1973

ゆうひが丘の総理大臣

- A maverick man arrives at Yūhigaoka School. The drama incorporates educational issues as well as family problems and adult romance, and can be enjoyed by the whole family.
Released : 11th-Oct-1978

不良少女とよばれて

Shusuke Tamba - Shoko's life, marked by delinquency and a harsh upbringing, takes an unexpected turn when Tetsuya's devoted affection and the soulful strains of his "sho"—a traditional Japanese gagaku wind instrument—offer her a melody of hope and a chance for reform.
Released : 17th-Apr-1984

津軽海峡殺しの双曲線　最後の青函連絡船殺人事件

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Released : 15th-Mar-1988

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