Isao Yamagata — Actor (90)
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Souls in the Moonlight III (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
大菩薩峠 完結篇
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Yumiko Hasegawa …
other title: Le Passage du grand Bouddha III / 大菩薩峠 完結篇
Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be served for the lost innocent lives? The conclusion of the famed Jidaigeki series is an amazing film, with a completely different perspective on the story from the later versions. While the international audience is more familiar with the “Sword of Doom” and “Satan’s Sword” versions of Daibosatsu Toge (The Great Bodhisattva Pass), the “Souls in the Moonlight” trilogy casts an entirely different light on Ryunosuke and his motives. Can this brutal killer be brought to justice, or is living his life as a blind wanderer a more terrible fate? His sword skills have not diminished, nor has his desire to kill!
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Souls in the Moonlight II (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
大菩薩峠 第二部
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Michiyo Kogure …
other title: Le Passage du grand Bouddha II / 大菩薩峠 第二部
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.
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Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ひばり民謡の旅シリーズ　べらんめぇ中乗りさん
director: Masamitsu Igayama actor: Hibari Misora / Ken Takakura …
other title: Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-San / ひばり民謡の旅シリーズ　べらんめぇ中乗りさん
Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor. Sado Masasaburo, the founder of Sado Masa, one of the oldest lumber merchants in Kiba, has recently become very old and ill, and his tomboyish daughter Nobuko, a native of Edo, cannot stand the methods of Tadayoshi, who has risen to prominence through unscrupulous business practices. In a thrilling period drama in which Hibari plays a chic and stubborn lumberyard girl who, together with her partner Takakura Ken, punishes an evil lumber merchant. A thrilling youth drama that combines familiar songs with the stubbornness and love of Hibari and Takakura.
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Mid-August Commotion (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
八月十五日の動乱
director: Tsuneo Kobayashi actor: Koji Tsuruta / Shinjirō Ehara …
other title: 八月十五日の動乱
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.
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Secret Assignment (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
陸軍中野学校　密命
director: Akira Inoue actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Miwa Takada …
other title: 陸軍中野学校　密命
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.
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The Master Spearman (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
酒と女と槍
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Ryutaro Otomo / Chikage Awashima …
other title: 酒と女と槍
Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of the two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his final days.
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The Ambitious (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
幕末
director: Daisuke Itō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Bakumatsu / 幕末
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
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A Killer's Key (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ある殺し屋の鍵
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Kō Nishimura …
other title: ある殺し屋の鍵
A lone wolf assassin, masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta, is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens to engulf a powerful yakuza group with ties to influential figures in the political establishment.
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Points and Lines (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
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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Jakoman and Tetsu (1964) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
ジャコ萬と鉄
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Ken Takakura / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: Jakoman et Tetsu / ジャコ萬と鉄
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市海を渡る
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Shintarō Katsu / Michiyo Yasuda …
other title: Zatôichi's Pilgrimage / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 14 : Le Pèlerinage …
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
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Gate of Hell (1953) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
地獄門
director: Teinosuke Kinugasa actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Machiko Kyō …
other title: La porta dell'inferno / Ingen kan tvinge et hjerte …
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.
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The Forbidden Castle (1959) [Movie] TMDB
美男城
director: Yasushi Sasaki actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Keiko Okawa …
other title: 美男城
From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass), "Destiny’s Son" etc. comes the complex story exploring the mystery behind why Ino Morimasa betrayed his sworn brother Ishida Mitsunari, thus leading to the defeat of the Toyotomi at the Battle of Sekigahara. Starring Nakamura Kinnosuke in one of the strongest performances of his career as Ino's estranged son seeking justice. Originally known as "The Forbidden Castle".