Seizō Fukumoto
Seizo Fukumoto was a Japanese actor, specialized in samurai movies. He often played the role of 'kirareyaku', the person who loses the sword fight and dies spectacularly: he is said to have acted out 50,000 on-screen deaths.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8267 |
| Birthday | 1943-02-03 |
| Place of Birth | Kasumi, Hyogo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Seizo Fukumoto, 笹本清三 , Seizō Fukumoto, |
2003
The Last Samurai
7.604/7493
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th...
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The Last Samurai
1986
Yakuza Ladies
5.5/12
When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful gangs in Japan.
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Yakuza Ladies
1984
Assassination Orders
6.5/2
The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai of the Numata Clan stand up against their corrupt...
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Assassination Orders
1973
The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
10/1
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
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The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
1977
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
8.125/4
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1976
Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
5.5/25
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she...
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
2006
Cho Ninja Tai Inazuma
6/2
Jun Terada is a producer in the year 2076 and is trying to convince the president of Magical TV to allow her to create her life's work, Chō Ninja Tai...
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Cho Ninja Tai Inazuma
1976
Yakuza Graveyard
6.6/35
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own...
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Yakuza Graveyard
1975
The Karate 3
6/2
This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion. Local Japanese karate sch...
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The Karate 3
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
7.355/69
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
2021
CHAIN
8/3
Set against the backdrop of the Aburanokoji incident, revered as the emblem of the Shinsengumi's decline, this captivating period drama intricately we...
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CHAIN
1978
Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie
0/0
The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.
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Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie
2011
Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals
6.286/14
Leading an expedition in Germany, Kougami unseals the resting place of one of the alchemists that created the Core Medals in an effort to retrieve a...
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Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals
1977
Japan's Don
7.667/3
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Japan's Don
1982
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
6.154/26
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. H...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1975
Confessions of Lady Mantis
3.8/4
Midori Satsuki stars as a serial seducer who destroys one man’s life after another. Finally she seduces a professional killer, with disastrous consequ...
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Confessions of Lady Mantis
1969
Brothers Serving Time
8/1
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. T...
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Brothers Serving Time
1975
Cops vs. Thugs
6.071/28
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the ac...
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Cops vs. Thugs
1974
The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
5.574/47
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crosse...
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
1973
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
5.412/17
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by siniste...
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
1994
The Man Who Shot the Don
9/1
Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.
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The Man Who Shot the Don
2014
Uzumasa Limelight
7/15
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with...
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Uzumasa Limelight
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
7.044/45
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new di...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1989
Shogun's Shadow
6.813/24
A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven warriors who are l...
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Shogun's Shadow
1983
Legend of the Eight Samurai
5.727/33
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Sh...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
2001
Red Shadow
4.907/27
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and def...
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Red Shadow
2013
Miroku
0/0
Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.
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Miroku
2010
The Last Ronin
6.618/17
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppu...
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The Last Ronin
2000
Another Battle
6/5
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with...
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Another Battle
2014
Judge!
7.2/23
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a jud...
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Judge!
2019
Love's Twisting Path
6.9/7
Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogu...
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Love's Twisting Path
2011
Memories Corner
5/1
Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake from 1995. Fifteen years after the disaster...
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Memories Corner
1974
Third Generation Boss
8/1
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
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Third Generation Boss
1974
Code of Wolves
7.5/2
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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Code of Wolves
1973
Female Yakuza Tale
6.1/40
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tor...
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Female Yakuza Tale
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.374/119
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1986
The Shogunate's Harem
5/8
A new shogun is appointed to the throne when his brother dies. He find out that the former Shogun one of the women from his brothers harem became preg...
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The Shogunate's Harem
1975
Gambling Den Heist
7.25/4
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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Gambling Den Heist
1982
Ninja Wars
5.64/25
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with th...
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Ninja Wars
2015
Yagyu Jubei: The Fate of the World
4/1
The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover what happened to 10 of the shogun’s spies that never...
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Yagyu Jubei: The Fate of the World
1969
The Fort of Death
6.778/9
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Oz...
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The Fort of Death
1977
Hokuriku Proxy War
6.75/12
A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs.
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Hokuriku Proxy War
1994
Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
7.333/3
The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks her life to protect her husband’s family and its...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
1975
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
7.333/18
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The nex...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1976
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
7/12
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constan...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1977
Doberman Cop
6.483/29
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grisly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into t...
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Doberman Cop
1984
Fireflies in the North
5.571/7
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced t...
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Fireflies in the North
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.711/19
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attemp...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1966
The Magic Serpent
6.429/7
In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince Ikazuk...
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The Magic Serpent
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
7.009/54
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new frien...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1999
The Geisha House
7.7/10
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprenticeship within the traditional community of geiko an...
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The Geisha House
1978
The Fall of Ako Castle
6.75/26
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
Shogun's Samurai
6.895/43
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the sho...
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Shogun's Samurai
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
7.279/43
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in thei...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1977
Decapitation of an Evil Woman
6.2/4
An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Po...
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
2018
Shiori
0/0
Living away from his family, a physical therapist sees his father entering the hospital he works at and watches him getting weaker, as his other patie...
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Shiori
1984
The Story of a Man Among Men
6/1
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
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The Story of a Man Among Men
1967
Samurai Wolf II
7.025/20
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dea...
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Samurai Wolf II
1976
The Three Ginza Rascals
10/1
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
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The Three Ginza Rascals
2017
Blade of the Immortal
6.696/631
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows tha...
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Blade of the Immortal
1979
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.5/2
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a gro...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
2019
GOZEN: The Sword of Pure Romance
3.5/2
GOZEN is a jidageki (period piece) dramas. The word “gozen” refers to a feudal game held in the presence of a Daimyo, described as a match “one must n...
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GOZEN: The Sword of Pure Romance
2015
Chambara: The Art of Japanese Swordplay
7.5/2
Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in Ky...
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Chambara: The Art of Japanese Swordplay
1967
Heiji, the Detective
5.375/4
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seig...
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Heiji, the Detective
1974
Return of the Street Fighter
6.048/94
Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the...
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Return of the Street Fighter
1978
Message from Space
5.853/58
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaib...
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Message from Space
1974
The Karate 2
0/0
This is the second film of the ZA KARATE trilogy (AKA BRONSON LEE CHAMPION). Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion and must...
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The Karate 2
1976
Operation Plazma in Osaka
7.667/3
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
1982
The Shogun's Vault II
5/1
A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the shogun's...
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The Shogun's Vault II
1976
The Rugby Star
10/1
The success of Truck Yaro (1975-1979) initiated a whole load of movies that put "Yaro" in their title, including this semi-bonkers sports comedy/drama...
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The Rugby Star
1974
The Street Fighter
6.81/113
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress...
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The Street Fighter
1974
The Tattooed Hitman
6.25/4
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...
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The Tattooed Hitman
1973
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
7/4
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
2011
OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders
6.269/13
Eiji and Ankh team up with Kotarou and Momotaros as they travel back in time to 1971 aboard the Den-Liner to stop three Mole Imagin. But Ankh’s desire...
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OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders
1980
Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
9/1
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Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
2004
Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo
6/4
Tange Sazen: Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo is a remake of a classic 1935 film of the same name by Yamanaka Sadao. Tange Sazen, the one-armd, one-eyed ex-samur...
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Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo
2019
BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja
7.1/10
The era when Samurai and Ninja existed in Japan. Rikka Isurugi was born and raised in a Ninja clan secluded from society. She soon meets Miya, a girl...
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BLACKFOX: Age of the Ninja
2013
Onihei Gaiden - Promise in the Shadows
8/1
Ex-bandit Komakichi has a random encounter with an ex-ally, Matsuzou. Seeing each other for the first time in 35 years, the two drink and talk about t...
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Onihei Gaiden - Promise in the Shadows
2008
Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! Movie BANG!
6.6/9
The Go-Ongers intercept the Recycle Barbaric Machine Beast Army in their Engines, managing to scrap the 13. However, trio of mysterious warriors appea...
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Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Boom Boom! Bang Bang! Movie BANG!
2019
A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight
0/0
This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Modeled on Toei), is asked by NHK to make a new samu...
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A Samurai Movie Rhapsody: Filming the Ultimate Swordfight
1979
The Inferno
6.917/12
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
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The Inferno
1983
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
8/1
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken for a snitch...
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
1983
The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado
0/0
Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple to explore the Sado Gold Mine. They suspect that...
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The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado
1979
The Shogun Assassins
5.4/10
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Shogun Assassins
1981
Roaring Fire
6.533/15
On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly...
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Roaring Fire
1992
The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
0/0
Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, journeyed along the Kiso Highway. As they approached...
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The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
1987
The Thief and the Expelled Master
0/0
The original novel is by Shugoro Yamamoto. It depicts a friendship that transcends social status and age, featuring the captivating monologue by Kunie...
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1971
Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
0/0
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil Hiro...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
1988
Gate of Flesh
6.225/40
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Par...
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1965
The Third Contest
7/1
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in E...
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The Third Contest
1983
Odokumiyaku Shushou Kawaite sōrō
0/0
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1974
The Karate
10/1
Bronson Lee, a Japanese-American raised by his grandma in the harsh, poverty-stricken desert Southwest, returns to Japan to demonstrate his mastery of...
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1989
Lonely Hitman
0/0
There are men in this world who seem to have been born to be a villain. His upbringing, his sexuality, everything about him was suited to being in the...
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