
Jiro Tamiya
Actor · 1935 – 1978 · Osaka, Japan
Jiro Tamiya was a Japanese actor, known for his performances in Black Test Car, The Great White Tower, and Miyamoto Musashi. He was married to Yukiko Fuji.
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Movie6.8ComedyDramaTamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
Movie10.0DramaComedyHeitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.
Movie7.1DramaComedyYuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.
Movie10.0DramaCentred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.
Movie8.0CrimeOrder of Yakuza
Movie6.9DramaThe story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Movie4.9CrimeActionA Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.
Yellow Dog
1973 · 4 votes
MovieCrimeMasuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).
Movie7.1ThrillerCrimeTwo car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Movie7.1ComedyDramaNishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Movie1962 Japanese movie
Movie7.5DramaHistoryThis anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Movie6.1Science FictionCrimePolice investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime.
Movie7.0ComedyCrimeDetective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
Movie7.5ActionDramaA top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.
Movie3.7DramaThrillerTadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.
Movie6.5DramaA traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
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Movie6.2DramaThrillerAkiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Movie9.0DramaSet in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
Movie7.3DramaActionIn Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Movie7.7DramaAKA Family of Women. A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.
Movie7.0ActionCrimeFirst movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
Movie7.5Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually finds sanctuary with a wealthy family that trades goods with China and becomes a successful businesswoman. Masumura dilutes the originally intended pro-Japan propaganda elements for a more anti-war approach.
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TV7.2Action & AdventureDramaHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · 164 votes
TV10.0DramaThe story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.