Kihachi Okamoto — Playwright (16)
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The Last Game (1979)
英霊たちの応援歌 IMDb TMDB
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Toshiyuki Nagashima / Hiroshi Katsuno …
other title: 英霊たちの応援歌
After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.
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Sugata Sanshiro (1977)
姿三四郎 IMDb TMDB
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Tomokazu Miura / Kumiko Akiyoshi …
other title: 姿三四郎
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
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Ironfinger (1965)
１００発１００中 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Jun Fukuda actor: Akira Takarada / Mie Hama …
other title: １００発１００中 / Chasseur d'espions …
A silly yet skilled Interpol agent flies to Tokyo and gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
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Fort Graveyard (1965)
血と砂
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Toshirō Mifune / Makoto Satō …
other title: 血と砂 / 血与砂 …
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
座頭市と用心棒
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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Oh, Bomb! (1964)
ああ爆弾 IMDb TMDB
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūnosuke Itō / Fubuki Koshiji …
other title: ああ爆弾
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
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Westward Desperado (1960)
独立愚連隊西へ TMDB
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Makoto Satō / Yūzō Kayama …
other title: 独立愚連隊西へ
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.
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The Age of Assassins (1967)
殺人狂時代 IMDb TMDB
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Reiko Dan …
other title: L' Age d'or des assassins / 殺人狂時代
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.
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Red Lion (1969)
赤毛 IMDb TMDB
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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Vengeance for Sale (2002)
助太刀屋助六
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Kyoka Suzuki …
other title: 助太刀屋助六
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.