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Сато Масару, Masaru Satoh, Masaru Satou, Masaru Satô, Satō Masaru
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Masaru Satō (佐藤 勝) was a Japanese composer of film scores. The youngest of six brothers, all of them music lovers, Masaru Sato decided early in life that he wanted to be a composer. His models were two other composers born, as he was, on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido: Akira Ifukube and Fumio Hayasaka. After hearing Hayasaka's score for Rashomon (1950), Sato decided Hayasaka was the only one he wanted for his teacher. He absorbed much of Hayasaka's modernist leanings, and grew to know Hayasaka's best friend Akira Kurosawa during this period. The year 1955 was a vast turning point for Sato: after scoring numerous insignificant pictures for various studios in Tokyo, Sato won the assignment for Gojira no Gyakushu (1955). Then his teacher Fumio Hayasaka died tragically young, while finishing the score for Kurosawa's Ikimono no Kiroku (1955). Sato stepped in to complete the score, uncredited. Kurosawa was sufficiently pleased with Sato to use him for all his pictures for the following ten years. Though the two had a falling-out after Akahige (1965), Sato remained one of Japan's most in-demand film composers, returning to the Gojira series several times and remaining a favorite of many other directors such as Kihachi Okamoto and June Fukuda. After scoring Dun-Huang in 1987, Sato had to call a brief halt to his career in order to tend to family interests in real estate in his native Hokkaido; but within a few years, the problems were wrapped up, and Sato was able to go back to film composing full time, at last reaching and surpassing his 300th movie score. Sato is almost unique among Japan's prolific film composers in that he has written extensively for his chosen field, but has never written for the concert stage.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1928-05-29
- event Death Date 1999-12-05
- school Known for: Sound
- star Popularity: 0.7
- info Birth Place Rumoi, Hokkaido, Japan
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The Hidden Fortress
1958-12-28
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I Live in Fear
1955-11-22
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Throne of Blood
1957-01-15
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Three Yakuza
1965-05-22
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Yojimbo
1961-04-25
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Sanjuro
1962-01-01
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The Bad Sleep Well
1960-09-19
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High and Low
1963-03-01
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The Lower Depths
1957-10-01
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Goyokin
1969-05-01
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Hunter in the Dark
1979-06-17
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Kill!
1968-06-22
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
1969-12-05
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Son of Godzilla
1967-12-16
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I Am Waiting
1957-10-22
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Rusty Knife
1958-03-11
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The Forest of the Little Bear
1987-09-05
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Demon Spies
1974-02-09
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Song of the Horse
1971-08-31
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East Meets West
1995-08-12
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Heat Wave
1991-02-09
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Tracked
1985-10-26
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Tsuma to onna no aida
1976-01-17
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The Lowly Ronin 3: Duel at Dawn
1982-05-07
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The Desperate
1964-04-18
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Xiongmao Monogatari TaoTao
1981-12-27
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Ah! Nomugi toge - Shinryokuhen
1982-02-06
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My Brother, My Love
1968-09-07
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Judge and Jeopardy
1968-06-08
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The Alaska Story
1977-01-22
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幻の殺意
1971-04-15
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Half Human
1955-08-14
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13 Assassins
1990-03-28
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1970-08-14
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Blood Type: Blue
1978-11-23
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Himeyuri no To
1995-05-27
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Crazed Fruit
1956-07-12
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The Silk Road
1988-06-25
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Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e
1977-03-19
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
1960-11-13
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A Story of Modern Chivalry
1997-10-08
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Mitabi no kaikyô
1995-10-11
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Free and Easy 4
1991-12-23
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The Demon Comes in Spring
1989-04-15
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Guys Who Never Learn
1987-08-15
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Tokyo Bordello
1987-06-13
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
1968-10-25
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Fancy Dance
1989-12-23
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
1966-12-17
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Golden Eyes
1968-03-16
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In Blazing Love
1994-10-01
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Solar Eclipse
1975-09-06
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970-04-18
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Fort Graveyard
1965-09-18
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
1965-04-10
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Run, Genta, Run!
1961-11-22
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Godzilla Raids Again
1955-04-24
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The Vampire Moth
1956-04-11
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Desperado Outpost
1959-10-06
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Red Beard
1965-04-03
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The Human Bullet
1968-10-22
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The Battle of Okinawa
1971-08-14
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Tenchu!
1969-08-09
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Home from the Sea
1972-10-28
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The Family
1974-01-26
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
1974-08-03
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The Yellow Handkerchief
1977-09-30
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A Portrait of Shunkin
1976-12-25
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At This Late Date, the Charleston
1981-12-19
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The Highest Honour
1982-05-15
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Oar
1985-01-15
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Rainbow Kids
1991-01-15
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The Oil-Hell Murder
1992-05-23
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August without Emperor
1978-09-23
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Samurai from Nowhere
1964-01-15
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Oh, Bomb!
1964-04-18
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Death Shadows
1986-09-20
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The Last Gunfight
1960-01-03
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Blueprint of Murder
1961-01-03
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Westward Desperado
1960-10-30
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The Age of Assassins
1967-02-04
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Moment of Terror
1966-04-16
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Ironfinger
1965-12-05
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Season of the Sun
1956-05-17
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Taira Clan Saga
1955-09-21
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
1974-03-21
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Irezumi
1982-11-27
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The Living Koheiji
1957-08-04
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Operation Enemy Fort
1962-10-20
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A Slope in the Sun
1958-04-15
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After the Rain
2000-01-22
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The Shogun Assassins
1979-09-01
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Procurer of Hell
1961-09-29
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A Distant Cry from Spring
1980-03-15
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Our Teacher
1983-08-24
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The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
2001-03-09
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A House in the Quarter
1963-11-01
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The Magoichi Saga
1969-09-13
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1961-07-18
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Thirst for Love
1966-04-01
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Stray Dog
1973-09-29
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Deeper Than Blue
1973-02-10
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Organized Violence II
1967-06-29
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Samurai Pirate
1963-10-26
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Jakoman and Tetsu
1964-02-08
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Intimidation
1960-03-23
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Koto—The Lake of Tears
1966-11-13
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Man Against Man
1960-08-14
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
1957-07-19
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
1957-12-17
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Oban kanketsu hen
1958-07-01
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Ôban
1957-03-05
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Samurai Assassin
1965-01-03
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あの空の果てに星はまたたく
1962-05-20
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Admiral Yamamoto
1968-08-14
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
1963-11-16
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Life of Hishakaku 2
1963-05-25
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Life of Hishakaku
1963-03-16
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The Ambitious Youth
1962-06-03
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Sweet Revenge
1977-12-17
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Raised in a Palace
1964-09-23
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The Glacier Fox
1978-07-15
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Tale of Army Brutality
1963-06-14
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Zoku ôsho
1963-12-01
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Cash Calls Hell
1966-01-15
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The Sword of Doom
1966-02-25
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Organized Violence
1967-02-25
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Challenge to Live
1961-06-17
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Godzilla: Final Wars
2004-12-04
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Long Journey into Love
1973-07-07
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The Great Department Store Robbery
1987-12-26
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
1958-12-01
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Willful Murder
1981-11-07
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Yakuza Ladies
1986-11-15
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Lowly Ronin
1981-10-30
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Someday I'll Know
1959-09-08
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The Praying Man
1959-02-11
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Legacy of the 500,000
1963-04-18
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Samurai Banners
1969-03-01
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Aoba shigereru
1974-09-21
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Without Complaint
1975-02-01
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Crossroad
1956-03-14
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1971-06-12
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
1973-08-11
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君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった
1984-02-04
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Nomugi Pass
1979-06-30
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Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl
1983-04-08
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Blood on the Sea
1961-08-13
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Japan's Longest Day
1967-08-03
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Adrift at Sea
1983-12-03
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Fireflies in the North
1984-09-01
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
1977-09-17
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The Geisha
1983-09-10
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Dream Street
1989-08-05
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The H-Man
1958-06-24
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Toward the Terra
1980-04-26
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She-Shogun
1990-01-20
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Where Spring Comes Late
1970-10-24
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Vagabond Schemer
1969-03-15
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The Wolves
1971-10-30
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Shogun's Shadow
1989-01-14
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Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass
1983-08-05
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Sanshiro Sugata
1965-05-29
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喜劇 各駅停車
1965-09-18
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Portrait of Chieko
1967-06-22
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Free and Easy Special
1994-07-16
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Bloom in the Moonlight “The Story of Rentaro Taki”
1993-08-21
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War and Youth
1991-04-01
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Takeda Shingen
1991-01-01
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Taikoki
1987-01-01
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Kāsan no ki
1986-09-21
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Secret of the Forbidden Valley
1983-11-10
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Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
1983-02-18
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Dynamite Don-Don
1978-10-07
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Sugata Sanshiro
1977-10-29
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The Corporation
1976-08-14
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Kyukei no Koya
1975-06-07
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Tidal Wave
1975-05-28
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Machi no Hi
1974-04-27
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Violent Streets
1974-04-13
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Submersion of Japan
1973-12-29
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The Twilight Years
1973-01-15
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Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy
1972-08-12
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Sapporo Winter Olympics
1972-06-24
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Onna no hanamichi
1971-11-20
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Banner of the Young
1970-11-28
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City of Beasts
1970-05-23
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Incident at Blood Pass
1970-04-21
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
1969-11-22
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Travels of Lord Mito
1969-11-01
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Red Lion
1969-10-10
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Battle of the Japan Sea
1969-08-01
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Admiral Borneo: Betting at the Equator
1969-06-28
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Forward, Young People!
1969-05-10
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Futari no Koibito
1969-04-12
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Young People
1968-12-16
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Scrap Collectors
1968-11-28
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Sodachi zakari
1967-09-30
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Three Faces of Love
1967-01-14
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Zero Fighter
1966-07-13
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The Mad Atlantic
1966-07-13
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Stairs of Evil
1965-10-23
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
1965-10-09
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The Tattooed Lord
1965-02-25
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Juvenile Delinquents
1964-10-03
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The Sharks
1964-06-27
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Life of Hishakaku 3
1964-03-01
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Okashina yatsu
1963-11-01
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Warring Clans
1963-03-23
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Modern Children
1963-02-02
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Anything For Success
1962-12-08
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The Great Kurobe
1962-11-03
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Our Failures
1962-09-01
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零戦黒雲一家
1962-08-12
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Operation Sewer Rats
1962-06-01
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Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami
1962-05-13
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Facing to the Clouds
1962-05-01
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The Crimson Sky
1962-03-21
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Otoko no Uta
1962-03-11
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Gambler in the Sea
1961-07-01
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Yabure Kabure
1961-02-11
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Taiheiyō no katsugiya
1961-01-27
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Man at the Bullfight
1960-12-27
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Sixteen years old
1960-10-01
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Girls Behind Bars
1960-07-31
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The Gambling Samurai
1960-03-28
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The Age of Our Own
1959-11-25
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
1959-05-21
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A Man Explodes
1959-04-28
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959-04-12
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I Will Challenge
1959-04-08
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We Live Today
1959-03-10
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Kamen no Onna
1959-02-24
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The Stream of Youth
1959-01-15
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Crimson Wings
1958-12-28
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
1958-09-02
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Akutoku
1958-02-19
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Song for a Bride
1958-02-11
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Last Days of the Samurai
1957-07-13
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Muhō Ichidai
1957-03-20
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Streetlights
1957-02-13
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Nigetekita hanayome
1956-02-12
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Cell No. 8
1956-01-15
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Tactics of Love
1955-11-01
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The Samurai of Edo
1955-10-23
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Six Assassins
1955-06-05
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Ootone no Taiketsu
1955-04-10
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間諜
1964-09-16
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
1974-03-21
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Cry of the Mountain
1968-09-07
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Otome no inori
1959-07-21
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Friendship
1975-11-29
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Shokei zen'ya
1961-02-18
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A Love that Wagers the World
1959-07-12
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Three Sisters
1967-01-01
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Gokenin Zankuro
1995-01-09
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Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1993-05-21