Hisao Toake — Actor (32)
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Where did Sharaku go? (1968) [Movie] TMDB
写楽はどこへ行った
director: Toshio Endo actor: Kei Satō / Isao Yamagata …
other title: 写楽はどこへ行った
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.
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Song of Yakuza (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
やくざの歌
director: Miki Wakabayashi actor: Sonny Chiba / Saburo Kitajima …
other title: やくざの歌 / Song Of Yakuza
A low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother later gets drawn into the yakuza business against his own wishes.
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Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ファンキーハットの快男児　２千万円の腕
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Sonny Chiba / Hitomi Nakahara …
other title: Le Type au drôle de chapeau : Le Bras de vingt millions de yens / ファンキーハットの快男児　２千万円の腕 …
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears right before signing a contract into the major leagues. Meanwhile, the body of an orthopedist is discovered in the river.
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Man with the Funky Hat (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ファンキーハットの快男児
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Sonny Chiba / Hitomi Nakahara …
other title: Le Type au drôle de chapeau / ファンキーハットの快男児 …
Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends get themselves involved in some shady business dealings involving a kidnapping.
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Las Vegas Free-For-All (1967) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
クレージー黄金作戦
director: Takashi Tsuboshima actor: Hitoshi Ueki / Kei Tani …
other title: クレージー黄金作戦
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets.
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A Flame at the Pier (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
涙を、獅子のたて髪に
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Takashi Fujiki / Tamotsu Hayakawa …
other title: Lágrimas en la melena del león / 涙を、獅子のたて髪に
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.
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You Can Succeed, Too (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
君も出世ができる
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Frankie Sakai / Tadao Takashima …
other title: 君も出世ができる / You Can Succeed Too …
A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.
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Zero Focus (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ゼロの焦点
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Yoshiko Kuga / Hizuru Takachiho …
other title: Le Foyer zéro / ゼロの焦点 …
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
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Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
第五福竜丸
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Jūkichi Uno / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Dragón de la suerte nº 5 / 第五福竜丸
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
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Tadare (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
爛
director: 増村保造 actor: 若尾文子 / Jiro Tamiya …
other title: 烂 / 爛 …
High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him into divorcing his wife, only for their new marriage to be destabilized by the arrival of her young niece.
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The Thin Line (1966) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
女の中にいる他人
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: Lo straniero dentro una donna / L'Étranger à l'intérieur d'une femme …
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
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Two in the Shadow (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
乱れ雲
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Yūzō Kayama / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: Nuages épars / Nubes dispersas …
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Tora! Tora! Tora!
director: Toshio Masuda / Kinji Fukasaku … actor: Martin Balsam / Sō Yamamura …
other title: Tora ! Tora ! Tora !
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.