Seiji Miyaguchi
Seiji Miyaguchi (宮口 精二 Miyaguchi Seiji, November 15, 1913–April 12, 1985) was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman) despite the actor's confession to have never handled a sword before the role, Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. He died of lung cancer.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.766 |
Birthday | 1913-11-14 |
Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
Also Known As | 宮口精二, 宫口精二, Сэйдзи Миягути, |
1965
Kwaidan
7.709/362
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan
1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.053/228
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1960
The Bad Sleep Well
7.692/239
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d...
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The Bad Sleep Well
1958
Stakeout
6.8/16
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
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Stakeout
1964
Pale Flower
7.333/102
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young wo...
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Pale Flower
1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
6.2/50
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the for...
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
1965
Samurai Spy
6.558/43
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high...
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Samurai Spy
1976
Melodies of a White Night
4.5/9
A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
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Melodies of a White Night
1967
Japan's Longest Day
7.2/25
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...
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Japan's Longest Day
1951
Early Summer
7.83/171
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
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Early Summer
1957
Black River
7/27
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell t...
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Black River
1964
Samurai from Nowhere
7.1/8
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of...
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Samurai from Nowhere
1962
The Broken Commandment
6.2/8
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...
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The Broken Commandment
1984
Mermaid Legend
6.9/14
After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.
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Mermaid Legend
1964
Night Scandal in Japan
0/0
Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market,...
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Night Scandal in Japan
1982
The Challenge
5.85/40
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between t...
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The Challenge
1952
Ikiru
8.311/1076
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru
1957
Throne of Blood
7.944/798
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi...
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Throne of Blood
1984
Farewell to the Ark
7/21
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among th...
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Farewell to the Ark
1956
Flowing
7.1/30
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...
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Flowing
1958
The Ballad of Narayama
7.473/75
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in...
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The Ballad of Narayama
1962
The Inheritance
7.2/24
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are...
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The Inheritance
1983
White Snake Enchantment
6.5/2
Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and hi...
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White Snake Enchantment
1971
To Love Again
0/0
A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one a...
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To Love Again
1957
Night Butterflies
6.3/3
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Night Butterflies
1964
Raised in a Palace
6/1
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a ge...
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Raised in a Palace
1959
Farewell to Spring
6.2/8
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
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Farewell to Spring
1951
The Good Fairy
5.5/6
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.
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The Good Fairy
1960
Deep River Melody
0/0
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
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Deep River Melody
1963
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
6.5/10
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1960
The Twilight Story
8/1
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...
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The Twilight Story
1958
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
6/1
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
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The Spell of the Hidden Gold
1961
Enraptured
0/0
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a class...
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Enraptured
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
5.7/7
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1956
Punishment Room
6.9/6
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
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Punishment Room
1959
A Secret Rendezvous
4.8/4
After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.
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A Secret Rendezvous
1965
Song of Farewell
0/0
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part wa...
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Song of Farewell
1963
A House in the Quarter
5.75/4
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to serve...
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A House in the Quarter
1960
Goodbye to Glory
0/0
A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.
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Goodbye to Glory
1964
Warrior of the Wind
6.688/8
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find the...
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Warrior of the Wind
1964
Our Happiness Alone
0/0
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder bro...
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Our Happiness Alone
1961
Miyamoto Musashi
7.3/11
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicio...
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Miyamoto Musashi
1962
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
7.4/11
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle aft...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1984
Antonio Gaudí
7.156/32
Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi T...
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Antonio Gaudí
1972
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
7.5/2
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1956
The Underworld
0/0
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuy...
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The Underworld
2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
10/1
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
1958
Accomplice
0/0
Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Accomplice
1960
Get 'em All
6/1
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
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Get 'em All
1965
The Start of Life
0/0
A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and t...
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The Start of Life
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
10/1
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life...
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The Radish and the Carrot
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
0/0
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with...
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Tokyo Omnibus
1946
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
6/1
Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes popu...
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A Descendant of Urashima Taro
1975
The Fossil
6.5/10
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes hi...
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The Fossil
1959
Someday I'll Know
0/0
A modern love story involving different affairs.
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Someday I'll Know
1968
My Brother, My Love
0/0
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My Brother, My Love
1963
The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
0/0
Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks...
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The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji
1964
Intentions of Murder
7.1/42
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect o...
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Intentions of Murder
1959
The Most Valuable Madam
7.5/4
lchiro, the president of Mihara & Co., is henpecked by his wife Momoko, a clever and beautiful woman, but prattling and intrusive. She makes her young...
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The Most Valuable Madam
1964
The Enforcer
0/0
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The Enforcer
1957
Tokyo Twilight
7.626/119
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
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Tokyo Twilight
1957
The Story of Pure Love
6.8/5
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately tr...
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The Story of Pure Love
1958
The Rickshaw Man
7.1/31
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
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The Rickshaw Man
1957
Untamed Woman
7/8
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...
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Untamed Woman
1951
Fireworks Over the Sea
5/5
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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Fireworks Over the Sea
1954
Seven Samurai
8.458/3525
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...
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Seven Samurai
1961
That Guy and I
10/1
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....
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That Guy and I
1974
Tora-san's Lovesick
7/2
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
1982
Lake of Illusions
1/1
A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white do...
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Lake of Illusions
1965
Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
5.9/9
The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an e...
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Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon
1968
Admiral Yamamoto
8.3/8
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet....
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Admiral Yamamoto
1954
The Street Without Sun
0/0
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The Street Without Sun
1956
Early Spring
7.549/71
A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
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Early Spring
1947
Three-Fingered Detective
0/0
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large trac...
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Three-Fingered Detective
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
6.1/7
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
1951
Beauty of Life
0/0
Inochi uruwashi
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Beauty of Life
1964
The Naked Executive
0/0
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest per...
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The Naked Executive
1964
Night Scandal
0/0
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Night Scandal
1963
Escape from Hell
6.2/5
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...
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Escape from Hell
1967
Pomegranate Time
0/0
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
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Pomegranate Time
1957
悪魔の顔
0/0
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悪魔の顔
1975
Aoi sanmyaku
0/0
Remake of 1949 film
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Aoi sanmyaku
1963
Youth After School
0/0
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was br...
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Youth After School
1963
Mother
6.8/4
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
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Mother
1964
Fumiko's Five Benefactors
0/0
A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.
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Fumiko's Five Benefactors
1962
Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
1971
Hajimete no Tabi
0/0
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Hajimete no Tabi
1970
The Militarists
8/1
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The Militarists
1957
A Dangerous Hero
0/0
A film by Hideo Suzuki.
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A Dangerous Hero
1967
River of Forever
0/0
Pure love story
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River of Forever
1962
Gekkyū dorobō
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Gekkyū dorobō
1956
Samurai of the Great Earth
0/0
A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".
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Samurai of the Great Earth
1956
Will-o'-the-Wisp
0/0
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Will-o'-the-Wisp
1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
5.265/17
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Neth...
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1960
Irohanihoheto
0/0
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...
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