Acting

Kazuya Oguri

Born — Died

1923-04-02 — 2001-12-13

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Kogarashi Monjiro poster
8.0

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 traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents

Kogarashi Monjiro

1972

Moonlight Mask poster
7.0

Moonlight Mask (aka Gekko Kamen), is a black and white tokusatsu TV drama series, produced by the advertising agency Senkosha and was aired on KRTV (now TBS) from February 24, 1958 to July 5, 1959, with a total of 130 (or 131) episodes, divided into 5 segments. Since the original show, Gekko Kamen has gained the popularity of being the first Japanese live action television superhero, appearing in films and TV shows well past the length of the original series.

Moonlight Mask

1958

Attention Please poster
NR

First Japanese TV drama about flight attendants.

Attention Please

1970

Two in the Shadow poster
7.8

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

Two in the Shadow

1967

A Woman's Life poster
7.1

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

A Woman's Life

1963

Evil of Dracula poster
6.8

Professor Shiraki arrives at an isolated girls' boarding school to take a new position. Upon arrival, he learns the principal's wife died in a car accident and is being kept in the cellar, according to local tradition. The principal startles Shiraki by asking him to become his successor, but Shiraki soon discovers that the principal has much darker motives.

Evil of Dracula

1974

Film credits

1970s · 6 titles

1960s · 27 titles

Two in the Shadow poster
7.8

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

Two in the Shadow

1967

A Woman's Life poster
7.1

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

A Woman's Life

1963

Apple Blossom Town poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Apple Blossom Town

1963

Moment of Terror poster
5.9

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.

Moment of Terror

1966

The Lost Alibi poster
5.0

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.

The Lost Alibi

1960

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor poster
6.9

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 new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

1969

Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me poster
7.0

Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks set against the backdrop of the Roppongi district in Tokyo. Masaaki (Minegishi Toru) is the son of a prominent judge and a Law student at university. Chikage (Nakagawa Yuki) is a teenager from an underprivileged home. Both are desperately looking for an escape from their lives when they meet in Roppongi one night and fall in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, their happiness isn't assured.

Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me

1963

The Blue Beast poster
8.0

The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder. His cold-blooded ascent eventually leads to moral decay as his past actions begin to catch up with him.

The Blue Beast

1960

Monstrous! Who Am I?! poster
NR

Comedy starring the Crazy Cats' Kei Tani as a salaryman suffering from amnesia.

Monstrous! Who Am I?!

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ganpā kachō

1961

She and He poster
7.0

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.

She and He

1963

La Fée Diabolique poster
NR

Drama about a young woman, abused as a child, who carries on sexual relations with four men, but is unable to get close to any of them.

La Fée Diabolique

1963

No artwork available
7.0

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

Once a Rainy Day

1966

Women Called 'Wives' poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Women Called 'Wives'

1963

Jaguarman poster
NR

Jaguar-Man (豹(ジャガー)マン, Jagā Man) is an unaired tokusatsu TV pilot produced by P-Productions in 1967. It is an alternative pitch to Hyouman.

Jaguarman

1967

I'm a Single Salaryman poster
NR

Salaryman comedy.

I'm a Single Salaryman

1960

No artwork available
8.0

A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life.

The Call of Flesh

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Am a Medical Examiner

1964

Bonds of Love poster
9.0

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but tires of their authority over his life. A chance encounter with Yukiko Hirai one rainy night brings a new romance into Ryohei's life, and he and Yukiko fall deeply in love. Yukiko, however, reveals that she has a violent husband in prison - with only a week left until his release. Ryohei, desperate to maintain his social standing, brings Yukiko to the mountains in Nagano and sets in motion an unthinkable, tragic chain of events.

Bonds of Love

1969

Structure of Hate poster
7.0

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

Structure of Hate

1961

Hidden Fangs poster
8.0

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

Hidden Fangs

1961

Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū

1961

Too Young to Die poster
7.0

A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues.

Too Young to Die

1969

When Love Awakens poster
NR

Drama about an adolescent girl. Remake of Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

When Love Awakens

1969

Start Here poster
7.0

Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected remarriage lead her to rethink happiness and relationships.

Start Here

1965

Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun poster
9.0

1962 Japanese movie

Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

1962

わが愛を星に祈りて poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

わが愛を星に祈りて

1966

Series credits