Akihiko Hirata — Actor (82)
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Get 'em All (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
「みな殺しの歌」より　拳銃よさらば
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Hiroshi Mizuhara / Akemi Kita …
other title: 「みな殺しの歌」より　拳銃よさらば
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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The Killing Bottle (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
国際秘密警察　絶体絶命
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Nick Adams …
other title: 国際秘密警察　絶体絶命
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddhabal. ISP Agents Carter and Kitami are assigned to the case. When the Prime Minister arrives in Tokyo for a friendship visit, Carter and Kitami are on hand to protect him. On hand, too, are assorted ZZZ blackguards. Several attempts on the Prime Minister's life fail, until finally the ZZZ introduces a new device designed to eliminate not only the Prime Minister but the ISP Agents as well: THE KILLING BOTTLE, then, is a pocket-sized container filled with a substance that can expand to thousands of times its size and throttle its victim, then disappear leaving only the corpse.
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Ironfinger (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
１００発１００中
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Akira Takarada / Mie Hama …
other title: １００発１００中 / Chasseur d'espions …
A silly yet skilled Interpol agent flies to Tokyo and gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
柳生武芸帳
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Koji Tsuruta …
other title: Ninjitsu / 柳生武芸帳 …
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
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Varan the Unbelievable (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Varan the Unbelievable
director: Jerry A. Baerwitz / Ishirō Honda actor: Myron Healey / Tsuruko Kobayashi …
other title: Varan, das Monster aus der Urzeit / Varan, le monstre géant
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
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Latitude Zero (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
緯度0大作戦
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Joseph Cotten / Cesar Romero …
other title: Latitudine Zero / U 4000 - Panik unter dem Ozean …
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.
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Varan (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
大怪獣バラン
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Kōzō Nomura / Ayumi Sonoda …
other title: Varan - Das Monster aus der Urzeit / Varan, le monstre géant …
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
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Immortal Love (1961) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
永遠の人
director: 木下惠介 actor: 高峰秀子 / 仲代达矢 …
other title: 永远的人 / 永遠の人 …
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.
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Girl of Dark (1961) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
女ばかりの夜
director: 田中绢代 actor: 原知佐子 / 北明美 …
other title: 只有女人的夜晚 / 女ばかりの夜 …
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
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The Last Embrace (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
抱擁
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Yoshiko Yamaguchi / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 抱擁
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.
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Brain 17 (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Brain 17
director: Minoru Yamada / Michael Part actor: Masahiro Kamiya / Ulf Otsuki …
Brain is the world's greatest computer, and also the most intelligent being on planet Earth. One day, Brain decides to abandon its terrestrial moorings, and it's up to The Defenders to track it down. Unfortunately, Brain has developed an amazing army of deadly giant robots, including one with a huge "17" emblazoned on its chest-plate, with which it plans to subjugate its creators. A young boy whose family was killed by Brain's followers manages to activate Daitetsujin 17, which thereafter comes to his rescue whenever he is in danger from Brain's minions.
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Starwolf and the Raiders (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fugitive Alien
director: Kiyozumi Fukazawa / Minoru Kanaya actor: Osamu Murashima / Miyuki Tanigawa …
other title: Star Wolf and the Raiders / Fugitive Alien
1986 film
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Daredevil in the Castle (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
大阪城物語
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Kyōko Kagawa …
other title: 大阪城物語 / The Story of Osaka Castle …
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
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The Three Treasures (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
日本誕生
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Os 3 Tesouros / 日本誕生 …
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.