Yoshi Katō — Actor (55)
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The Glamorous Ghost (1964) [Movie] 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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Hokusai (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
北斎
director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Yoshi Katō
other title: 北斎
A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.
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Love and Crime (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
明治・大正・昭和　猟奇女犯罪史
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Teruo Yoshida / Rika Fujie …
other title: Amor e Crime / Déviances et passions …
A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras.
Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.
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Apostasy (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
破戒
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yōko Katsuragi …
other title: Serment rompu / Apostasía …
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
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Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
月光仮面　怪獣コング
director: Satoru Ainoda actor: Fumitake Ōmura / Michiko Shirakawa …
other title: 月光仮面　怪獣コング
Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
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Points and Lines (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
点と線
director: Tsuneo Kobayashi actor: Hiroshi Minami / Isao Yamagata …
other title: 点と線
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide.
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A Legend or Was It? (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
死闘の伝説
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Shima Iwashita / Mariko Kaga …
other title: La Légende du combat à mort / 死闘の伝説 …
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
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Hiroshima (1953) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
ひろしま
director: Hideo Sekigawa actor: Isuzu Yamada / Eiji Okada …
other title: ひろしま
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.
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The Eleventh Hour (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
どたんば
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Takashi Shimura / Shinjirō Ehara …
other title: どたんば / The Eleventh Hour 1957
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
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The Wanderers (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
股旅
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Ichirō Ogura / Isao Bitō …
other title: 股旅 / Errance
Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.
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World War III Breaks Out (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
第三次世界大戦　四十一時間の恐怖
director: Shigeaki Hidaka / William Ross actor: Tatsuo Umemiya / Yoshiko Mita …
other title: 第三次世界大戦　四十一時間の恐怖 / World War III: 48 Hours of Fear
The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'.
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The Beast Shall Die (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
野獣死すべし 復讐のメカニック
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Hiroshi Fujioka / Toshio Kurosawa …
other title: 野獣死すべし 復讐のメカニック
Kunihiko Date, a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.
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Zero Focus (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ゼロの焦点
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Yoshiko Kuga / Hizuru Takachiho …
other title: Le Foyer zéro / ゼロの焦点 …
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
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Immortal Love (1961) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
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.