Shigeru Kōyama — Actor (38)
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) [Movie] TMDB
脱獄広島殺人囚
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: 脱獄広島殺人囚
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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Japan's Longest Day (1967) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
日本のいちばん長い日
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Seiji Miyaguchi / Rokkō Toura …
other title: The Emperor and a General / Le jour le plus long du Japon …
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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Himeyuri no To (1995) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
ひめゆりの塔
director: 神山征二郎 actor: 泽口靖子 / 永岛敏行 …
other title: 姬百合之塔 / ひめゆりの塔
The Girls' Division of Okinawa Normal School and the First Okinawa Prefectural High School for Girls were also known as "Himeyuri no Gakuen". In July 1944, the students, who were supposed to spend their summer vacations at home, were called back to school to prepare for the coming war and to fulfill their duties as subjects of the Imperial State. The fate of the girls and teachers awaited them as the American army attacked.
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Dr. Akagi (1998) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
カンゾー先生
director: 今村昌平 actor: 柄本明 / 麻生久美子 …
other title: 肝脏大夫 / カンゾー先生 …
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
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I Am a Cat (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
吾輩は猫である
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Eiji Okada …
other title: Je suis un chat / 吾輩は猫である …
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!
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Der Lindenbaum (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
菩提樹　リンデンバウム
director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi actor: Yoko Minamino / Masaki Kanda …
other title: 菩提樹　リンデンバウム
A young woman, Asami, searches for the man who helps her quest to enter medical school.
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Afraid to Die (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
からっ風野郎
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Yukio Mishima / Ayako Wakao …
other title: Le gars des vents froids / からっ風野郎
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.
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The Barren Zone (1976) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
不毛地帯
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: The Corporation / 不毛地帯
Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.
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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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Shag (1978) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
犬笛
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Bunta Sugawara / Kinya Kitaoji …
other title: 犬笛
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
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The Sea and Poison (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
海と毒薬
director: Kei Kumai actor: Eiji Okuda / Ken Watanabe …
other title: Das Meer und das Gift / La Mer et le Poison …
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.
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Killers on Parade (1961) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
夕陽に赤い俺の顔
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Yūsuke Kawazu / Shima Iwashita …
other title: Mon Visage embrasé au Soleil couchant / Mi rostro enrojecido al amanecer …
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
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A Flame at the Pier (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
涙を、獅子のたて髪に
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Takashi Fujiki / Tamotsu Hayakawa …
other title: Lágrimas en la melena del león / 涙を、獅子のたて髪に
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.
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The Ambitious (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
幕末
director: Daisuke Itō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Bakumatsu / 幕末
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
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Fusa (1993) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
その木戸を通って
director: 市川昆 actor: 中井贵一 / 浅野优子 …
other title: 阿房 / その木戸を通って
Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.