Minoru Chiaki — Actor (55)
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Case of a Young Lord 8 (1960)
若さま侍捕物帖 IMDb TMDB
Yasushi Sasaki actor: Hashizo Ōkawa / Ryūtarō Aoyagi …
other title: 若さま侍捕物帖
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's Council of Elders. Young Lord decides to take on the Shogun's vile chief attendant.
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Samurai Vagabonds (1960)
殿さま弥次喜多 IMDb TMDB
Tadashi Sawashima actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Katsuo Nakamura …
other title: 殿さま弥次喜多
On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just Munenaga is plunged into a dispute with Tokugawa Yoshinao that will lead to one of them ascending the throne. This is an exciting and informative film that brings the brilliant history of Japan to the surface in a new light.
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Taking the Castle (1965)
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Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Minoru Chiaki …
other title: 城取り / Taking The Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.
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Sasuke and His Comedians (1963)
真田風雲録 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tai Katō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Jerry Fujio …
other title: 真田風雲録 / Brave Records of the Sanada Clan
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a meteor that crashed onto the Earth…
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Saga of the Vagabonds (1959)
戦国群盗傳 IMDb TMDB
Toshio Sugie actor: Toshirō Mifune / Koji Tsuruta …
other title: Le scimitarre dei mongoli / 戦国群盗傳
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.
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Hero of the Red Light District (1960)
妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tomu Uchida actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Yoshie Mizutani …
other title: Meurtre à Yoshiwara / 妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り …
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
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Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
ゴジラの逆襲
Motoyoshi Oda actor: Hiroshi Koizumi / Setsuko Wakayama …
other title: Godzilla - Il Re Dei Mostri / Godzilla kehrt zurück …
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
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The Idiot (1951)
白痴
Akira Kurosawa actor: Setsuko Hara / Masayuki Mori …
other title: L'idiota / O Idiota …
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
人間の條件　第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇
Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte II – Cammino verso l'eternità / Guerra e Humanidade II: Estrada Para a Eternidade …
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.