Nobuo Kaneko — Actor (99)
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The Glamorous Ghost (1964) IMDb TMDB
散歩する霊柩車
director: Hajime Sato actor: Kō Nishimura / Masumi Harukawa …
other title: 散歩する霊柩車
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with.
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Jigoku (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
地獄
director: 神代辰巳 actor: 原田美枝子 / 岸田今日子 …
other title: The Inferno / 地狱 …
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
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Japan's Don (1977)
やくざ戦争 日本の首領
director: 中岛贞夫 actor: 鹤田浩二 / 松方弘树 …
other title: 黑社会战争：日本的首领 / やくざ戦争 日本の首領 …
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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The Return of Godzilla (1984)
ゴジラ
director: Koji Yakusho 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 Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) IMDb 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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Sound of the Mountain (1954)
山の音
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Setsuko Hara / Sō Yamamura …
other title: Berggrollen / Le Grondement de la montagne …
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
人間の條件　完結篇
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte III – La preghiera del soldato / 人間の條件　完結篇 …
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps (1967) WikiData IMDb TMDB
眠狂四郎無頼控 魔性の肌
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Haruko Wanibuchi …
other title: Nemuri Kyoshiro 9 Une piste de pièges / 眠狂四郎無頼控 魔性の肌 …
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.
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Voice Without a Shadow (1958) IMDb TMDB
影なき声
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Yôko Minamida / Hideaki Nitani …
other title: 影なき声
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1979) IMDb TMDB
その後の仁義なき戦い
director: Eiichi Kudo actor: Jinpachi Nezu / Mieko Harada …
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Aftermath / その後の仁義なき戦い
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
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The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)
第三の影武者
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Hizuru Takachiho …
other title: A Terceira Sombra / 第三の影武者 …
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
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Intimidation (1960) IMDb TMDB
ある脅迫
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Jun Hamamura / Kō Nishimura …
other title: ある脅迫
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
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Duel at Fort Ezo (1970) IMDb TMDB
蝦夷館の決闘
director: Kengo Furusawa actor: Yūzō Kayama / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 蝦夷館の決闘
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
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Shogun's Samurai (1978)
柳生一族の陰謀
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Im Schatten des Shogun / Le Samourai et le Shogun …
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
仁義なき戦い 代理戦争
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Takeshi Katō …
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Proxy War / 仁義なき戦い 代理戦争 …
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
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.