Haruya Katō — Actor (13)
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Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
雪夫人絵図
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Michiyo Kogure / Ken Uehara …
other title: Il ritratto della signora Yuki / Le Destin de madame Yuki …
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
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The Beast Shall Die (1959) IMDb TMDB
野獣死すべし
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Hiroshi Koizumi …
other title: 野獣死すべし
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
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Dogora (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB
宇宙大怪獣ドゴラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Robert Dunham / Yōsuke Natsuki …
other title: Dogora il mostro della grande palude / X 3000 - Fantome gegen Gangster …
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
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The Mysterians (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB
地球防衛軍
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Kenji Sahara / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: I misteriani / Os Bárbaros Invadem a Terra …
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
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Mothra (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
モスラ
★ 6.8 (6 ratings) director: Ishirō Honda actor: Frankie Sakai / Hiroshi Koizumi …
other title: Mothra bedroht die Welt / MOTHRA …
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) IMDb TMDB Douban Bangumi
キングコング対ゴジラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Tadao Takashima / Kenji Sahara …
other title: Il trionfo di King Kong / Die Rückkehr des King Kong …
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
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Westward Desperado (1960) TMDB
独立愚連隊西へ
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Makoto Satō / Yūzō Kayama …
other title: 独立愚連隊西へ
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.
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I Are You, You Am Me (1982)
転校生
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Satomi Kobayashi / Toshinori Omi …
other title: La Nouvelle de la classe / 転校生 …
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.