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A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
遙かなる山の呼び声
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Ken Takakura / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Llanto de Primavera / 遙かなる山の呼び声 …
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData Min reol IMDb Douban
県警対組織暴力
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: Police contre Syndicat du crime / 県警対組織暴力 …
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.
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The Snow Woman (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
怪談雪女郎
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Shiho Fujimura / Akira Ishihama …
other title: 怪談雪女郎 / Kaidan Yukijorô …
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him.
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The Bullet Train (1975) [Movie] TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
新幹線大爆破
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Super Expresso 109 / Panik im Tokio-Express …
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
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Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
忍びの者 伊賀屋敷
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Kaoru Yachigusa …
other title: 忍びの者 伊賀屋敷 / Shinobi No Mono 6 The Last Iga Spy …
[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces. In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.
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Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌
director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Meiko Kaji / Jūzō Itami …
other title: 修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌 / 修罗雪姬2：怨恨的恋歌 …
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
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Youth of the Beast (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
野獣の青春
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Jō Shishido / Misako Watanabe …
other title: La giovinezza di una belva umana / 野獣の青春 …
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
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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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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics / 仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦 …
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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Curse of the Dog God (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
犬神の悪霊
director: Shunya Ito actor: Shin'ya Ohwada / Emiko Yamauchi …
other title: 犬神の悪霊
A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and after running over a dog, find themselves cursed by the locals.
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Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban
里見八犬伝
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Hiroyuki Sanada …
other title: Die Legende von den acht Samurai / La Légende des huit samouraïs …
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.
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Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市牢破り
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Shintarō Katsu / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: Zatôichi the Outlaw / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 16 : Le Justicier …
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
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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.
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The Return of Godzilla (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
ゴジラ
director: Koji Hashimoto actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Ken Tanaka …
other title: Il ritorno di Godzilla / Godzilla - Die Rückkehr des Monsters …
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.
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The Great White Tower (1966) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
白い巨塔
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Jirō Tamiya / Eijirō Tōno …
other title: 白い巨塔
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
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Samurai Reincarnation (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
魔界転生
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Sonny Chiba / Kenji Sawada …
other title: 魔界転生 / Makai tenshô: Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
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Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ノストラダムスの大予言
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Toshio Kurosawa …
other title: Catastrofe / Weltkatastrophe 1999? …
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
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The Hunter's Diary (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
猟人日記
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Noboru Nakaya / Masako Togawa …
other title: 猟人日記
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
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G.I. Samurai (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
戦国自衛隊
director: Kōsei Saitō actor: Sonny Chiba / Isao Natsuyagi …
other title: Time Slip - Der Tag der Apokalypse / Les Guerriers de l'Apocalypse …
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.