Seiji Hoshikawa — Playwright (16)
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Curse of the Seven flutes (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
花笛伝奇
director: Yoshiki Onoda actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Katsuo Nakamura …
other title: 花笛伝奇
Genshiro is a famous Kenkaya of Edo. He turns up in incidents to get interfering fees but gets involved in a terrible incident… the Shichikudano Whistles known as Akinonanakusa and her seven sisters. The sisters were killed one after another. The whistle, in fact, shows the place of 300 thousand Ryo that their ancestors left. Genshiro gets one of the whistles and devotes himself try and solve the mystery.
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Family Crest: Die Like a Man (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
代紋 男で死にたい
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Hideki Takahashi / Yumiko Nogawa …
other title: 代紋 男で死にたい / Daimon Otokode Shinitai
The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the revenge of the youngest one when his siblings were killed by a rival vicious yakuza boss. The first in the two part Daimon series.
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Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
素浪人罷り通る 涙に消えた三日極楽
director: Akira Inoue actor: Toshirō Mifune / Kaoru Sugita …
other title: 素浪人罷り通る 涙に消えた三日極楽
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.
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Naked Ambition (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
おんな極悪帖
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Michiyo Yasuda / Masakazu Tamura …
other title: おんな極悪帖
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".
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Exiled to Hell (1969) [Movie] TMDB
地獄の破門状
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Akira Kobayashi / Hideki Takahashi …
other title: 地獄の破門状
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and performer Kataoka Koshin is reaching its climax when the Tawaraya family interferes... This is an entertaining action film bursting with righteousness and humanity, centred on men who try to live righteously against a corrupt boss who preys on the performers.
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Haunted Samurai (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
土忍記 風の天狗
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: Duel in the Wind / 土忍記 風の天狗
When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually deserts the organization. Hunted by an army of bizarre shadow warriors, the target turns on his pursuers when he finds something worth fighting for.
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Dice and Swords (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
遊侠三国志　鉄火の花道
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Hideki Takahashi …
other title: 遊侠三国志　鉄火の花道
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
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The School of Spies (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
陸軍中野学校
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Mayumi Ogawa …
other title: L’école militaire de Nakano / La escuela de espías de Nakano …
Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.
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Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
新選組始末記
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Shigeru Amachi …
other title: 新選組始末記
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.