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Kinzō Shin 3q332z
Popularity:1.1505 2o3y1q
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1910-07-09
Place of Birth:Tokyo, Japan
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Also Known As:信 欣三, 信欽三

The Long Darkness (1972) 5y2ec
A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Angel and the Outlaw (1962) 6z5oe
1962 Japanese movie

Itsudemo yume o (1963) 5i532p
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full (1961) 132659
A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases,...

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969) r2w9
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...

The Song Lantern (1960) 58676m
The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

Hiroba no kōdoku (1953) 3456a
Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

Tokyo Twilight (1957) 5s2t6s
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

The Man Without a Map (1968) 525q4w
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man...

Giants and Toys (1958) 406i2t
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Break Down that Wall (1959) 2t404q
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Conflagration (1958) 1i21a
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

The Thick-Walled Room (1956) 3v6o72
A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

The Tale of Saikaido (1983) 4f1v4v
Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates elements such as mysteries and adventures...

A Billionaire (1954) 4i5xj
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Girl in the Glass (1960) 5i1u5t
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Ofukuro (1955) 1c4332
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

The Soundless Cry (1965) 295o6r
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

Northern City (1965) 2xmq
Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blossomed in a beautiful northern spring with a lot of...

荒木又右衛門 (1955) 1pi6r
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō killed...

Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun (1967) 6w1a2i
A film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.

Shogun's Holiday (1958) 726322
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

Sandakan No. 8 (1974) 6cy3w
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968) 6r4z3i
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...

Captive's Island (1966) 4r13m
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for...

The Sands of Kurobe (1968) 3f5948
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

The Inheritance (1962) 1f185a
A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and...

The Makioka Sisters (1959) 66h1z
1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

The Wolves (1955) 5h3b36
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) 44p72
This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...
How Sorrowful (1956) 342v2q
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident (1988) 1l3z5b
TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

The War Without Weapons (1960) 3k3z1
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

The Long Death (1964) b593k
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

The Tattered Banner (1974) 6c1q70
Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

The Golden Demon (1954) 662f3v
Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

Flora on the Sand (1964) 1u2b32
One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She...
Christ in Bronze (1955) s323v
Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

The Ditch (1954) 6z2b4x
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! (1963) 4u3z1q
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...

Internees of Kampili (1960) 4p23i
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied...

Revenge (1964) 23x2d
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The...

The Unbalanced Wheel (1957) y6xo
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

The End of a Day (1954) 3x1j2w
Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot...

The Black Current (1954) 5d3a5v
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing...

Black Ninja (1967) 1m4o5q
Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.

The SAKURA Code (1969) 4r376m
Cold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world.

Zenigeba (1970) 301j4l
Based on the comic by George Akiyama

Face in the Dark (1958) 3m914
Japanese suspense film.

Pure White Nights (1951) 6p3p2
"Pure White Nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial...
The Brick Factory Girl (1946) 4a6y2e
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

The Radish and the Carrot (1965) 543h3a
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

But the Flesh is Weak (1957) 203n39
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

Kanto Wanderer (1963) 5v6pk
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

Distant Love (1963) 171z29
A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

A Ripple in a Morning (1952) 1r1854
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Wait for Tomorrow (1960) 5r733v
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

Hiroshima (1953) 2o2x4m
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially...

The Sleeping Beast Within (1960) 2z4v4v
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...

Tower of Lilies (1953) 2p329
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Team of Ruffians (1969) 2u6x3r
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

Youth of the Beast (1963) 5c2269
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

A Gambler's Certain Death (1969) 255z4r
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt...

The Snowy Heron (1958) 726n72
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

The Last Women (1954) 2p1v5o
The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) 5ar6x
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...

On This Earth (1957) 6j4a6z
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

Clouds at Sunset (1967) 5s5l31
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

Willful Murder (1981) e4e5d
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

Gyakukōsen (1956) 266a18
Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has...

The Walking Major (1970) 3r3e19
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds...

Secret of Naruto (1957) 6zv11
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...

The Castle of Sand (1974) 551e6e
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Actress (1956) 422f4t
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

The Person I Chose (1959) 94ax
A 1959 film directed by Hiromu Edagawa.

The Earth is Born Again (1971) 58352p
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone...

I Love The Sun (1966) 56l23
A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

The Summit of Mt. Fuji (1970) 1c6a65
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese...

悲劇の将軍 山下奉文 (1953) 6a4ev
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the...

The Scarred Crest (1964) 2ijl
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the...

Kenkaku Shōbai: Kadowakashi (1983) 156z63
Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father...

The Flame of Devotion (1964) p60
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

Suna no Utsuwa (1977) 64517
Two police investigate the death of a corpse found in a train yard.