Zenpei Saga
Popularity:0.09
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1909-05-18
Place of Birth:Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
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Also Known As:瑳峨善兵

Jungle Block (1960)
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

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

Four Seasons of Women (1950)
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

The Stand in Hakone (1952)
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel (1964)
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia...

Modern Children (1963)
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

A Girl of the Plateau (1965)
Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. One day, Kazuo is...

Currents of Youth (1942)
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Shadow of Intimidation (1959)
Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...

Kikenna onna (1959)
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Star of Destiny (1966)
"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their mother in almost 20 years. The war had separated...

The Scarred Angel (1966)
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...

The Night is mine (1958)
Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a...

The Man with a Shotgun (1961)
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of...

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 12 - The Mystery of the Ever-Changing Tamamushi Mansion! (1971)
Twelfth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Green Earth (1942)
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

The Flower and the Angry Waves (1964)
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo (1961)
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...

Sararīman monogatari: Teki wa ikuman aritotemo (1962)
Japanese comedy film.

Ichiyo Higuchi (1939)
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Karayuki-san (1937)
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

The Poppy (1941)
1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart (1963)
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

Street of Violence (1950)
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Chibusa o daku musume tachi (1962)
Japanese drama.

Tokyo Knights (1961)
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

A Turning to Hell (1959)
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...

Eddy Currents of Life (1964)
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

Solar Eclipse (1975)
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Skyscraper Murder Case (1976)
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are...

Gambling Kitten (1965)
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the...

Island of the Evil Spirits (1981)
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.

Learn from Experience, Part Two (1937)
Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

China Night (1940)
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

Wait for Tomorrow (1960)
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...

Smashing the 0-Line (1960)
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

The Revolt (1980)
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col....

The Story of Pure Love (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...

Miniature (1953)
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

The Gambling Monk (1963)
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...

Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)
Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

Company Buggers (1975)
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.

A Taxing Woman (1987)
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

August without Emperor (1978)
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô (1934)
Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

Twice on a Certain Night (1956)
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge (1964)
Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.

Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...

Tattooed Life (1965)
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

The Ghost of Iwojima (1959)
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Akutoku (1958)
A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

Sky of Hope (1942)
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Price of Life (1971)
Comedy of a phony doctor.

Hikoroku Laughs a lot (1936)
Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Ishigassen (1955)
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a...

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

The Story of a Salesman: Every Man Has a Dream (1961)
A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman pursuing a man's dream.

Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

Quick Draw Sanshiro (1962)
Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu (1935)
Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His...

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab (1961)
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Tenshi ga ore o oi kakeru (1961)
A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only...

Kogarashi Monjiro (1972)
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been...