Hideji Ōtaki — Actor (28)
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Manhunt (1976) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
君よ憤怒の河を渉れ
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Ryoko Nakano …
other title: 君よ憤怒の河を渉れ / Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare …
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
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Outlaw Cop (1976) [Movie] TMDB
やさぐれ刑事
director: Yūsuke Watanabe actor: Yoshio Harada / Naoko Ohtani …
other title: やさぐれ刑事
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
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Tampopo (1985) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
タンポポ
7.9 (7 ratings) director: Jūzō Itami actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki / Nobuko Miyamoto …
other title: タンポポ
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
子連れ狼 冥府魔道
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Michiyo Yasuda …
other title: Lobo Solitário 5: Na Terra Dos Demônios / Okami - Der weiße Pfad der Hölle …
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.
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The War in Space (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
惑星大戦争
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Kensaku Morita / Yuko Asano …
other title: Guerra spaziale / 惑星大戦争 …
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.
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The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
赤穂城断絶
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: A Queda do Castelo Ako / Last of the Ako Clan …
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
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Talk of the Town Tora-san (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Elle court, elle court la rumeur / 男はつらいよ 噂の寅次郎 …
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
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The Last Swordsman (1974) [Movie] TMDB
沖田総司
director: Masanobu Deme actor: Masao Kusakari / Kyoko Maya …
other title: 沖田総司
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) [Movie] TMDB Douban
八つ墓村
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Mayumi Ogawa …
other title: 八つ墓村 / Village of the Eight Tombs …
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin (1968) [Movie] TMDB
無頼 人斬り五郎
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Tetsuya Watari / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 無頼 人斬り五郎
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
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Izo (2004) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
IZO
director: Takashi Miike actor: Kazuya Nakayama / Kaori Momoi …
other title: IZO / Izo - The world can never be changed …
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
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Black Sun (1964) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
黒い太陽
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Tamio Kawachi / Chico Lourant …
other title: 黒い太陽
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
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Gonza the Spearman (1986) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
鑓の権三
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Hiromi Go / Shōhei Hino …
other title: 鑓の権三 / Gonza le lancier …
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
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Death, Japanese Style (1984) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban
お葬式
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki / Nobuko Miyamoto …
other title: 江湖白事 / The Funeral …
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
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Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992) [Movie] TMDB
ミンボーの女
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Nobuko Miyamoto / Yasuo Daichi …
other title: La donna contro il racket dell'estorsione / ミンボーの女 …
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
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Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) [Movie] TMDB
あげまん
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Nobuko Miyamoto / Masahiko Tsugawa …
other title: あげまん / La femme porte-bonheur …
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.
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Haru's Journey (2010) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
春との旅
director: Masahiro Kobayashi actor: Eri Tokunaga / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 春との旅 / Harus Reise …
Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.
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Zatoichi in Desperation (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
新座頭市物語・折れた杖
director: Shintarō Katsu actor: Shintarō Katsu / Kiwako Taichi …
other title: Zatôichi in Desperation / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 24 : La Blessure …
After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel - but this causes more problems than solves them.
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Black Rain (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
黒い雨
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Yoshiko Tanaka / Kazuo Kitamura …
other title: Pioggia nera / Chuva Negra …
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.
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Proof of the Man (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
人間の証明
director: Junya Satō actor: Mariko Okada / George Kennedy …
other title: 人間の証明 / Sombras de una guerra …
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.