Kōtarō Bandō
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1911-05-04
Place of Birth:Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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Cases of An Actor in Disguise: Mansion of beauties (1961)
The first work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the original work of Tatsuro Jinde. Kasumi Ippei is a...

Hatamoto taikutsu otoko: nazo no sango yashiki (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Gate of Hell (1953)
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her,...

Diary of Good Conduct Matashiro: A beautiful bat (1961)
Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin.

Small Rats of the Edo Town (1957)
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki (1932)

Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around...

Ghost of the 53 Stations (1960)
Kota and Kosuke, from the Hikyaku-ya shop in Edo, went to Kyoto. Contrary to their carefree appearance, they carry a secret letter concerning the...

Ô abare Songokû (1952)
Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952)

Nagurikomi Songokū (1954)
Second sequel to Saiyuki (1952)

Kisaragi Sword (1962)
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...

Monsters Catcher Oedo Seven Changes (1949)
Film about Ghost-Cat.

Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon (1951)
Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

Way of Morning Mist (1961)
Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace (1953)
Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl....

Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō (1956)
A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his excellent fighting spirit and endurance.

The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing (1954)
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle (1960)
After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact...

Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki (1954)
The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking...

甲武信嶽傳奇 (1956)
1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Kyōen Kobanzame (1958)
Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Elegy of a Geisha (1959)
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

The Phantom Goblin (1962)
An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his...

Family of Sorrow (1956)
Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Kingorô no omawari-san (1956)
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū (1959)
Japanese comedy film.

復讐秘文字峠 (1959)
1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

The Shadow Avenger (1959)
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

Military Song of the Morning Mist (1943)
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost (1961)
Yotsuya Kaidan, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story...

The Shogun’s Guard: Valor in Turbulence (1960)
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by...

Hibari’s Favorite 2 (1960)
Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her parents.

Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot (1954)
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

Duel at Sundown (1955)
A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

Ghost of Saga Mansion (1953)
A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is...

The Tale of Genji (1951)
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Ship of Outlaws (1950)
Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in Hokkaido.

The Opium War (1943)
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate (1935)
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is...

The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932)
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Little Tengu (1961)
A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage (1960)
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

Case of a Young Lord 8 (1960)
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's...

Dedication of the Great Buddha (1952)
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Road Warriors (1960)
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow,...

Osaka Woman (1940)
When Ochika, from a rich family, marries Danpei, a poor Shamissen player, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the...

Dance of the Capital (1942)
Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

Vanished Glory (1955)
In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training....

Ōedo kenka matsuri (1961)
1961 Japanese movie

Rikidozan: Man of Fury (1955)
The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

A Young Samurai (1955)
A jidaigeki movie about the strange fate of Ranmaru Mori.

Traveling of Two Young Men (1961)
At the crowded Komatsuya in Kawadome, travellers are holding a secret art contest to relieve boredom. However, a thief goes around. During the sudden...