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Okatsu the Fugitive (1969) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
妖艶毒婦伝　お勝兇状旅
director: Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Junko Miyazono / Yatarō Kitagami …
other title: 妖艶毒婦伝　お勝兇状旅 / Yôen dokufu-den: Okatsu kyôjô tabi …
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry and actually she doesn't seem too upset about the situation. At the same time, a bunch of farmers are being slaughtered by a corrupt group running a tobacco smuggling ring. They're being investigated by a man who is documenting their crimes and when they find out about it, they torture him for information but get none. It's not long before he and Okatsu's mother wind up dead and she sets out for revenge.
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The Brothers who Protect the Mountain (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
山を守る兄弟
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Hibari Misora / Ryūnosuke Tsukigata …
other title: 山を守る兄弟
In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the steward of Kakukura, Kurokawa Senjiro, was Tamaki Daisaburo, who was skilled with a handgun. Daisaburo had granted protection to the charcoal maker, Miyoshi, safeguarding a few mountains passed down from their ancestors. Daisaburo's elder brother, Iori, who had completed his training in Edo, saved Kakukura's only daughter, Koyumi, on his way back home. However, while Daisaburo rushed to Iori's aid after Koyumi was attacked by Kurokawa and his men, their family home was set ablaze.
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Gun Number Zero (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
拳銃0号
director: Tokujirō Yamazaki actor: Tamio Kawachi / Yoshiko Okano …
other title: 拳銃0号
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immediately sold it to Matsuko - another pauper. Soon, the weapon that moves from hand to hand, becomes a tool of many crimes.
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Family Crest: Die Like a Man (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
代紋 男で死にたい
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Hideki Takahashi / Yumiko Nogawa …
other title: 代紋 男で死にたい / Daimon Otokode Shinitai
The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the revenge of the youngest one when his siblings were killed by a rival vicious yakuza boss. The first in the two part Daimon series.
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Who is in the Background? (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
銀座旋風児 黒幕は誰だ
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 銀座旋風児 黒幕は誰だ
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi plays an active role in the death of a divine ghost in a skillful disguise. Takuya Nikaido appears in Kobe and approaches the mystery of the fake bill case.
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Back Stairways (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
裏階段
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Jirō Tamiya / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: 裏階段
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.