Daigo Kusano — Actor (24)
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Mandala (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
曼陀羅
director: Akio Jissoji actor: Shin Kishida / Kōji Shimizu …
other title: 曼陀羅 / Mandara
Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked. Desperate for answers, they search for the attackers and come across a cult that promotes sexual freedom.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
子連れ狼 地獄へ行くぞ!大五郎
director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Akihiro Tomikawa …
other title: Lobo Solitário 6: Paraíso Branco no Inferno / Okami - Blutiger Schnee …
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979) [Movie] TMDB
金田一耕助の冒険
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Ikko Furuya / Kunie Tanaka …
other title: 金田一耕助の冒険
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
子連れ狼 死に風に向う乳母車
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Gō Katō …
other title: Lobo Solitário 3: Contra Os Ventos da Morte / Okami - Japango …
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
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Red Lion (1969) [Movie] TMDB
赤毛
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Toshirō Mifune / Shima Iwashita …
other title: 赤毛 / Akage – Red Lion …
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
御用牙　かみそり半蔵地獄責め
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shintarō Katsu / Toshio Kurosawa …
other title: Razor 2: The Snare / Hanzo The Razor 2 : L'Enfer des Supplices …
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.
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Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (1974) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
御用牙 鬼の半蔵やわ肌小判
director: Yoshio Inoue actor: Shintarō Katsu / Kō Nishimura …
other title: Razor 3: Who's Got the Gold? / Hanzo the Razor 3 : La Chair et l'Or …
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ring of young wives and a blind music teacher, and cuckolds a corrupt official under his very nose.
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
御用牙
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Shintarō Katsu / Yukiji Asaoka …
other title: Hanzo the Razor – Sword of Justice / Hanzo The Razor 1 : L'épée de la justice …
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市と用心棒
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Shintarō Katsu / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Zatoichi meets Yojimbo / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 20 : Zatoïchi contre Yojimbo …
Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.
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A Wanderer's Notebook (1962) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
放浪記
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Akira Takarada …
other title: Hourou-ki / Chronique de mon vagabondage …
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ゴジラ対メカゴジラ
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Masaaki Daimon / Kazuya Aoyama …
other title: Godzilla contro i robot / King Kong gegen Godzilla …
An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further complicated when a second Godzilla emerges, revealing the doppelgänger as a mechanical weapon.
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Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely (1980) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB
ミスター・ミセス・ミス・ロンリー
director: Tatsumi Kumashiro actor: Mieko Harada / Ryudo Uzaki …
other title: ミスター・ミセス・ミス・ロンリー / 寂寞先生女士小姐
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
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Ultraman Ace (1972) [TV] NeoDB TMDB
ウルトラマンA Season 1 part of TV Series: Ultraman Ace
director: 笕正典 / 山际永三 … actor: 高峰圭二 / 星光子 …
异次元人亚波妄想侵占地球，炮制了一系列宇宙怪兽和地球生物合成的超兽。被称为第1号的超兽贝劳克恩在日本福山市登场。前去迎战的地球防卫军全军覆没。这时，在惨遭破坏的大街上，有二位把自己生命置之度外的青年，他们是面包房的驾驶员北斗星司和护士小姐南夕子。二人竭尽全力救援遇难的人们，但终于精疲力尽倒在瓦砾中……救了他俩的是艾斯·奥特曼。艾斯把自己的生命溶入了二人的体中。
北斗和南夕子为了继续与亚波人战斗，参加了地球防卫军TAC，经过顽强地训练，终于战胜了贝劳克恩。
艾斯的战斗能力日趋强大，在自身掌握的特殊的光线技能和奥特兄弟的协助下，战胜了超兽和超人艾斯杀手，并会同奥特兄弟在异次元空间同亚波人展开了殊死的决斗。月球人的南夕子返回月球后，艾斯便附在北斗一人身上了。重任在肩，艾斯持之以恒地与超兽、亚波人搏斗。在击败了亚波人最得意的合成超兽后返回了光之国——奥特之星。
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Inn of Evil (1971) [Movie] WikiData IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
いのちぼうにふろう
director: 小林正树 actor: 仲代达矢 / 栗原小卷 …
other title: 虚掷生命 / いのちぼうにふろう …
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one who is forced to work in a brothel.
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Blood Type: Blue (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ブルークリスマス
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Hiroshi Katsuno / Keiko Takeshita …
other title: Blue Christmas / ブルークリスマス …
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
裸の十九才
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Daijirō Harada / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Vivir hoy, morir mañana / 裸の十九才 …
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
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Hymn (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
讃歌
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Nobuko Otowa / Tokuko Watanabe …
other title: 讃歌 / Sanka
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
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Too Young to Die (1969) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
死ぬにはまだ早い
director: Kiyoshi Nishimura actor: Toshio Kurosawa / Mako Midori …
other title: 死ぬにはまだ早い
A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues.