Isao Yamagata — Actor (90)
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The Mysterious Cape (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
旗本退屈男　謎の竜神岬
director: Yasushi Sasaki actor: Utaemon Ichikawa / Kōtarō Satomi …
other title: 旗本退屈男　謎の竜神岬
Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogun, hears news of a doctor gone missing, he begins to suspect that things are not what they seem at Ryujin Misaki. Intent on discovering the truth, Saotome launches a private investigation.
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I Shall Not Forget (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
忘れるものか
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Eimei Nitani …
other title: 忘れるものか
Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew something about Yosuke's death, but he was unable to find out what she knew. Okabe investigates Yosuke's death, but someone kills the people who provide clues one after another. Okabe follows Rumi, a woman at a bar who was close to Yosuke, to Mt. Hiei, and to his surprise learns that Yosuke is still alive.
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Black Strait (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
黒い海峡
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 黒い海峡
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again.
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Seven Masks of Revenge (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
復讐の七仮面
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Chiezo Kataoka / So Yamamura …
other title: 復讐の七仮面
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome Town. Next day the man is found brutally murdered and the mystery starts to unravel.
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The Big Boss (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
最後の顔役
director: Yasushi Sasaki actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Ken Takakura …
other title: 最後の顔役
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka, whose territory is in the Jonan district, in response to Kikuya, the head of the Asahina family, refusing to join the Syndicate. Yamaoka relentlessly pursues the Asahina family and uses his brother Komatsu to kill Shibaki, Kikuya's brother, who owns Nagoya territory. When Kikuya receives information that a general meeting of the Brown and Yamaoka Syndicate is to be held in Nagoya, he is determined to root out the syndicate and rushes to Nagoya, ready to die...
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Hell's Companion (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
地獄の底までつき合うぜ
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Chiezo Kataoka / So Yamamura …
other title: 地獄の底までつき合うぜ
During the seventh-year memorial service for Katsugoro and Genji, Ikari Genji himself emerged from the coffin brought in by the hearse seeking revenge
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Evil Man of Edo (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
江戸の悪太郎
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Ryutaro Otomo / Keiko Okawa …
other title: 江戸の悪太郎
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less samurai who founded a school for underprivileged children in a poor neighborhood. Into the mix comes a young woman running away from a forced marriage disguised as a teenage boy and becomes a student of the beloved Sensei, while he staves off the advances of a skilled pickpocket and prepares for a bloody showdown against a direct retainer of the shogun!
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Sakura Official (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
さくら判官　
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Yoshie Mizutani …
other title: さくら判官　
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to face the truth about his estranged father’s possible involvement in a nefarious plot to take over rule of the Hizen Shimabara clan by assassinating the rightful lord, his son, and install one of Shogun Ienari’s offspring as daimyo.
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Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
右門捕物帖　南蛮鮫
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Ryutaro Otomo / Satomi Oka …
other title: 右門捕物帖　南蛮鮫 / Umon torimonocho: Nanbanzame
The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo. With the capital on edge, master crimefighter Kondo Umon is brought in to try and solve the case. His illustrious career aside, Umon must risk his own life, time and time again in order to bring the culprit to justice. This mystery will keep you guessing until the exciting climax. Umon has a flair for the dramatic and will hopefully solve the case before more innocent victims have their lives claimed!
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Goblin's Highway (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
天狗街道
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Ryutaro Otomo / Kōtarō Satomi …
other title: 天狗街道
Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries to save the good people of the Kiso Valley, he gets into a fight with local bad bosses who behave badly on the Tokaido road in the Kiso Valley.