Kōichi Mizuhara

Acting

Kōichi Mizuhara

Born — Died

1909-04-01 — 1969-05-07

Place of birth

Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 21 titles

Zatoichi the Fugitive poster
6.9

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.

Zatoichi the Fugitive

1963

The Betrayal poster
6.5

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a ronin, if not hunted down and killed.

The Betrayal

1966

Sword Devil poster
6.3

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...

Sword Devil

1965

Zatoichi and the Doomed Man poster
6.8

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.

Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

1965

Zatoichi Challenged poster
7.0

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Zatoichi Challenged

1967

Zatoichi the Outlaw poster
6.7

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

Zatoichi the Outlaw

1967

Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess poster
6.6

The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends waves of ninja warriors to kill the samurai and plots diabolical schemes / ambushes without much success.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess

1966

Ninja, A Band of Assassins poster
6.4

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

1962

Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege poster
6.2

[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in Osaka castle. Ieyasu's ninja are the only ones who can penetrate the fortress, but unfortunately for Ieyasu, Kirigakure Saizo and the other Toyotomi ninja can just as easily get out. As armies of samurai maneuver for battle, the fate of the nation will be decided by a desperate struggle in the dark!

Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege

1964

The Man Disappears Yesterday poster
NR

Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become his personal assistant. In a rice shop, Yoshimune meets a simple ronin Ohashi Kenshiro, and receives permission to stay at his house, but a mysterious corpse awaits him in the house... And then the second, third and fourth murders occur...

The Man Disappears Yesterday

1964

Zatoichi's Vengeance poster
6.9

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.

Zatoichi's Vengeance

1966

The Bride from Hades poster
7.4

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.

The Bride from Hades

1968

An Actor's Revenge poster
6.6

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

An Actor's Revenge

1963

Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing poster
6.2

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing

1964

Buddha poster
10.0

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.

Buddha

1961

Secret Assignment poster
10.0

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

Secret Assignment

1967

The Woman Gambler's Supplication poster
10.0

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

The Woman Gambler's Supplication

1968

Bamboo Doll of Echizen poster
7.8

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a courtesan who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

1963

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold poster
6.9

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

1964

Ken poster
7.7

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

Ken

1964

Thoroughbred Women Gamblers poster
NR

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Thoroughbred Women Gamblers

1967

1950s · 38 titles

Essay on Conflict poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Essay on Conflict

1959

Nerawareta doyōbi poster
NR

A true-story film depicting a police officer’s pursuit of a criminal who carries out a series of attacks on pawnshops and banks, running amok with a handgun stolen from a police officer.

Nerawareta doyōbi

1957

Sora tobu wakamusha poster
NR

Kotaro Tenma, the young warrior of justice, infiltrates enemy territory and uses his ninjutsu skills with to defeat the villains.

Sora tobu wakamusha

1957

Shirazu no Yatarō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shirazu no Yatarō

1954

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: hachi-nin no hanayome poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: hachi-nin no hanayome

1958

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onibi tōrō

1958

Nagareboshi jūjiuchi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nagareboshi jūjiuchi

1958

Kijo keizu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kijo keizu

1959

Yōkina nakama poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yōkina nakama

1958

Kuchibue o fuku wataridori poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kuchibue o fuku wataridori

1958

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onna kitsune yashiki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: Onna kitsune yashiki

1957

Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago

1955

Otomi-san poster
NR

A period drama that depicts the romance between Otomi and Yosaburo.

Otomi-san

1954

Beni azami poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Beni azami

1959

Komusō henka: Tsubanari kaidō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Komusō henka: Tsubanari kaidō

1956

Ginji of the Seven Faces poster
NR

Yesterday a gentleman, today a student, tomorrow a stylish man in a casual kimono—Ginji, the pickpocket with seven faces, has his sights set on the gold watch of destiny. A tale of passion, love, human emotion, pistols, and thrills.

Ginji of the Seven Faces

1955

Zoku bakurō ichidai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zoku bakurō ichidai

1952

I Was Tokichiro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Was Tokichiro

1955

Karakuri hina ningyō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Karakuri hina ningyō

1959

Jigoku dani no hanayome poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jigoku dani no hanayome

1955

Haha shirayuki poster
NR

A child who was taken in and raised by a woman from a once-impoverished traveling theater troupe grows up to be a beautiful young woman and performs in a dance recital. Her biological mother, who suddenly appears, is the wife of a wealthy man.

Haha shirayuki

1956

The Rust Cleaner Sings poster
NR

A passionate young man takes on a corrupt boss, determined to save innocent teachers and numerous orphans.

The Rust Cleaner Sings

1955

Tōkaidō no yarōdomo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tōkaidō no yarōdomo

1958

Itarō jishi poster
NR

Itarō abandons his life as a hatamoto to become a yakuza.

Itarō jishi

1955

Machi no kotengu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Machi no kotengu

1952

Zoku suna-e jubaku: Yukijorō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zoku suna-e jubaku: Yukijorō

1953

Nuki ashi sashi ashi shinobi ashi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nuki ashi sashi ashi shinobi ashi

1958

Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi poster
NR

A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.

Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi

1952

Hana no nagadosu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hana no nagadosu

1954

Tenryū shibukigasa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tenryū shibukigasa

1958

No artwork available
NR

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura, who owned a jade ring. If he failed to fulfill this condition, the inheritance would go to Chigusa instead.

Byakuran kōran

1952

Akōgishi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Akōgishi

1954

The Footmark of a Snow Fairy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Footmark of a Snow Fairy

1958

Hana no sando gasa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hana no sando gasa

1954

Jirocho Fuji poster
7.4

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Jirocho Fuji

1959

Akutarō uridasu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Akutarō uridasu

1955

Conflagration poster
7.1

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

Conflagration

1958

Conflagration poster
7.1

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

Conflagration

1958

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