Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

AKA: Jun Kuroi, 黒井洵, Kan Nihonyanagi
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1917-11-20

Hokkaido, Japan

Biography

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi (二本柳寛) was a Japanese actor.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {110}

1952-12-10 0

The Whisper of Spring

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater. ...
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1952-05-14 0

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another ...
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1964-01-12 0

Tale on Tokai Chivalry

The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying to live a real human life, violating the cruel law ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1956-10-09 0

Flesh Smuggling

A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to uncover the crime of an inhumane international prostituti ...
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1958-12-17 0

City with Beasts

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1967-04-01 6

Dissolution Rites

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has chan ...
Genre :Crime

1955-03-11 0

Bodyguard from Hell

Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1953-05-14 0

Aijô ni tsuite

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter ...
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Noge Shôsa

1961-01-28 8.4

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different h ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

1962-01-14 0

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1962-02-25 0

Kidō sōsahan muhō chitai

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1962-03-03 0

Kawa wa nagareru

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1958-11-25 0

Roar of the City

This action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman hidden in a wallet, and the justice and love-hate relationship between the men involved in the case. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1957-01-22 0

Saigo no totsugeki

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized by Toyama Tetsu of “Smuggling of the Body”, also dir ...
Genre :War

Iwatani

1953-08-05 0

White Fish

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of h ...
Genre :Drama

Kazuo Takenaka

1951-11-23 7.6

Repast

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband. ...
Genre :Drama

Okada

1966-02-12 6.7

Black Tight Killers

Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assass ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

Matsumoto

1964-02-01 6.5

Cruel Gun Story

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Keizo Horio

1960-06-03 6.5

Cruel Story of Youth

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Crime

1962-05-13 0

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1960-07-20 0

Wakai toppū

On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. I ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Shunji Minagawa

1949-05-02 0

A Bullet Hole Underground

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1962-06-24 0

Hitori tabi

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1958-04-29 0

Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Music

Torai Tei

1961-10-01 0

I'll End in Hell

Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and Joji has to use his skills as a fast and accurate sh ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Genba Tawaraboshi

1952-07-30 0

Fighting Yasubei

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a ...
Genre :Drama, History

1963-04-28 0

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

Genre :History, Drama

Yutaka Katô

1957-04-03 0

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers ...
Genre :Music

1954-11-15 0

続変化大名

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1962-10-21 0

Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1965-06-20 0

Loss of Innocence

A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1959-04-08 0

I Will Challenge

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Colonel Kawachi

1966-10-28 6.8

O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

1962-01-14 0

Kuro to aka no hanabira

Crime film distributed by Taiho. ...
Genre :Crime

1952-12-16 0

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds

1952 Japanese movie ...
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Masataka Tsuzuki

1956-02-19 6.3

The Balloon

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Mura ...
Genre :Drama

Commander Furukawa

1953-10-21 7.6

The Eagle of the Pacific

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pe ...
Genre :Drama, War

1955-11-01 0

Meigetsu sataro gasa

Japanese film. ...
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1962-01-03 0

Hatoba de akuma ga warau toki

Japanese action film distributed by Taiho. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1960-02-14 0

Maboroshi Tantei: Chiteijin Shūrai

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

1957-04-24 0

Madam

Japanese drama film. ...
Genre :Drama

Takehara

1951-08-17 6.3

Dancing Girl

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family. ...
Genre :Drama

Ryûsaku Hata

1955-02-12 0

Mysterious Dwarf

The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around town scattering body parts in public areas. ...
Genre :Horror

1951-02-24 0

Claws of Iron

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a monster like creature who kills with his claw like fing ...
Genre :Horror

Matsuda

1958-09-23 6.2

Red Pier

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Iwai

1967-10-21 0

Parole

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold. ...
Genre :Crime

Detective Numata

1959-10-11 6.5

The Rambling Guitarist

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Onizame

1957-09-29 5.7

The Eagle and the Hawk

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublema ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime, Adventure

1964-11-28 0

Kairaku no hôshû: Akuma

Freewheeling sex! The real truth about devils stamped in the flesh! ...
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1963-12-21 6.5

The Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja

The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1964-08-14 0

Tiger of the Sea

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Crime

Matsunaga

1959-10-06 0

A Turning to Hell

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dea ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Tazawa - Wakako's father

1960-10-30 1

Towering Waves

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Romance

Kisuke

1963-01-27 6.2

Escape from Hell

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 forced labor. Living conditions on the island are ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Coach Fujimoto

1957-01-03 0

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami. ...
Genre :Drama

1960-02-28 3.5

The Guitarist from the Sea

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1961-08-13 0

The Plateau Man

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu. ...
Genre :Western

Juzaburo Hotta

1960-02-14 0

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narco ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Hinotama gang boss

1965-11-20 0

Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko

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Izu

1956-12-12 0

Song of the Underworld

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a seni ...
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Funaba

1960-08-06 0

The Man with a Sinister Laugh

After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his missing sister. ...
Genre :Action

1960-06-04 0

Ore wa Ginza no kiheitai

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu ...
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Gō Kasamatsu

1962-02-03 0

Love in the Air

Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea ...
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1962-01-03 0

The Rambler Goes North

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bu ...
Genre :Action

1960-07-09 0

The Call of the Foghorn

A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to investigate the matter himself, and finds there may ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1959-08-02 0

Farewell to Southern Tosa

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard. ...
Genre :Action

Kenkichi Yabe

1951-10-03 7.9

Early Summer

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry. ...
Genre :Drama

1966-08-26 6

Nerves for Victory

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1962-09-09 0

The Young and Bad

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he ...
Genre :Thriller, Action

1956-11-21 0

Okinawa no Tami

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of war. Furukawa Takumi of “Backlight” is adapted and dir ...
Genre :War

Saeki

1967-03-11 0

A Warm Misty Night

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Rear Adm. Chuichi Hara

1970-01-26 7.1

Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lea ...
Genre :War, History, Drama

Shintaro Yazawa

1956-07-19 0

Shiawase wa doko ni

Genre :Drama

1947-08-16 6.8

The Love of the Actress Sumako

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theat ...
Genre :Drama

1969-08-13 0

Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami. ...
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Ding Shitun (Nanjing goverment's spy leader)

1952-08-13 0

Shanghai Rose

Genre :Drama

Hagimura

1954-06-24 0

The Street Without Sun

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers' steadfastness, which neither hunger nor violence could ...
Genre :Drama

1964-12-19 0

A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge

Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1956-03-21 0

Confession

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1956-08-14 0

Gyakukōsen

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has a boyfriend. ...
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1959-05-09 0

Umi wa kurutte iru

Genre :Drama

1958-10-29 0

Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha

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Nishiwatari

1963-07-07 0

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! ...
Genre :Crime, Action

Sumida

1944-03-24 6

My Nightingale

Sumida is separated from his wife and daughter when conflict erupts in Harbin. Years later, he finds that his wife passed away and her daughter was adopted by his friends at the Russian opera company ...
Genre :Music, Drama

1959-03-25 0

The Fugitive

An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original work. Jiro, who had been unable to rehabilitate b ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1949-02-28 0

The Man Who Laughs Last

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers gets injured and a substitute needs to be found. Ru ...
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Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff

1967-08-03 7.2

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Tetsuya Ohara

1950-03-05 0

The Motherland Far Far Away

Genre :Drama

1966-09-07 0

Three Wild Cats

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1960-01-09 0

The Devil's Sigh

Japanese crime film ...
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1950-12-02 0

Shojohou

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that has endured the winds and snow of love! Eisuke Tanig ...
Genre :Drama

1950-05-27 0

Confessions of a Gynecologist

A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable... ...
Genre :Drama

1961-07-01 0

Gambler in the Sea

Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1960-01-11 0

Tatsumaki kozō

Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after driving away a group of thugs causing trouble at a vari ...
Genre :Action

1959-02-10 0

A Man's Dark Finger

A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe. After being released from prison, he hopes to be rehab ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

1964-09-09 0

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few day ...
Genre :

1957-12-01 0

The Awakening

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1970-02-21 0

Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement

Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

1958-02-11 0

Sekai no haha

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1960-02-24 0

Kage no nai yōfu

1960 Japanese movie ...
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1964-08-29 0

Ningen ni kakeruna

Genre :Drama

Masujiro Ohmura

1954-06-01 0

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Despite facing opposition from his family and nationa ...
Genre :Drama, History

Yukihiko Kumazaka

1954-05-12 0

All of Myself

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of her fiancé. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-02-08 0

Ore wa toppu-yada: kao no nai bijo

1961 Japanese movie ...
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1952-08-07 0

Four Asakusa Sisters

Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-02-22 0

俺はトップ屋だ 第二の顔

1961 Japanese movie ...
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1966-06-01 0

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1961-04-03 0

機動捜査班

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1963-01-11 0

Umi no taka

Katsuragi Hideo was a student at a maritime university when, just before setting off on a long voyage, he found out that his family's agency was on the verge of going bankrupt, due to harassment from ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1965-04-14 0

Ochiba no honō

Two young lovers stake their lives on passion. Yet a cruel and capricious fate cruelly extinguishes the blazing flame of their love. ...
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