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Yoshio Inaba (稲葉 義男 Inaba Yoshio, July 15, 1920–April 20, 1998) was a Japanese actor best known for his role as one of the title characters (the good-natured, second-in-command Gorobei) in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. He died of a heart attack at the age of 77.
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26 April 1954
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
15 September 1962
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual.
07 July 1973
A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another.
04 September 1965
Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.
01 February 1975
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
14 June 1961
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man.
15 January 1963
The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping 1 ryo, and unable to face his customers openly anymore, Tasuke closes the shop and goes on a trip to celebrate the first wedding anniversary with his wife Onaka.
11 June 1988
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.
23 November 1974
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with a young sprightly girl.
10 December 1961
A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of the man who framed him.
20 October 1979
Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for fair Fumiko.
24 October 1956
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
09 April 1983
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
16 October 1960
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
15 January 1957
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures.
14 August 1968
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet.
22 December 1957
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene.
28 June 1980
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
27 January 1960
In a corner of a warehouse at Shiodome Station, a alumni trunk, is found with the terrible smell of decay.
20 November 1963
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent story with expert fighting.
27 August 1977
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
01 July 1978
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves.
15 July 1967
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series.
14 March 1964
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts.
01 September 1984
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 to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
04 July 1965
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history.
12 July 1955
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto.
02 July 1983
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.
14 April 1957
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan.
30 May 1969
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira.
04 June 1983
The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
03 January 1964
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army.
01 August 1969
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.
03 January 1965
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
30 December 1964
[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'.
15 October 1957
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances.
11 February 1959
A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
09 September 1978
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
02 August 1980
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905).
17 October 1964
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro.
03 January 1960
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
26 June 1960
The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder.
28 January 1962
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
23 November 1978
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue.
03 November 1959
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
03 June 1964
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century.
01 July 1962
In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine.
19 June 1976
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
01 March 1963
The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself.
13 November 1971
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
29 October 1977
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.
24 September 1971
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
16 April 1966
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.
06 October 1979
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
