Acting

Shōzaburō Date

Born

1935-12-07 (90)

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Space Ironmen Kyodain poster
10.0

Space Ironmen Kyodyne was a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. The show, like numerous others of its type and era, were produced as a joint effort between manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei Company producer Hirayama Tôru. It premiered in 1976 and ran for 48 episodes. The show is well known for its strange plot and costume design, rapid-fire and purposefully disorienting editing, and unique, sometimes surreal, atmosphere. The late Yūsuke Natsu and Takeshi Sasaki starred as Skyzel and Grounzel respectively.

Space Ironmen Kyodain

1976

Giant Robo poster
7.5

Join Daisaku Kusama and Giant Robo as they battle the interstellar terrorist group Big Fire.

Giant Robo

1967

The Most Valuable Wife poster
8.0

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...

The Most Valuable Wife

1959

Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide poster
NR

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".

Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide

1961

Fight for a Woman, Fight for your Life! poster
NR

A motorcycle courier (Ken Utsui) is recruited to test a new high-speed motorboat but another company is willing to kill to win the competition to bring it to market.

Fight for a Woman, Fight for your Life!

1960

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal poster
8.0

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

1959

Film credits

1970s · 1 titles

1960s · 17 titles

Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide poster
NR

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".

Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide

1961

Fight for a Woman, Fight for your Life! poster
NR

A motorcycle courier (Ken Utsui) is recruited to test a new high-speed motorboat but another company is willing to kill to win the competition to bring it to market.

Fight for a Woman, Fight for your Life!

1960

Closing Time poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Closing Time

1962

The Woman Gambler's Trump Card poster
NR

15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

The Woman Gambler's Trump Card

1969

Black Trump Card poster
6.0

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.

Black Trump Card

1964

Kanto Woman Infamy poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kanto Woman Infamy

1969

Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū poster
NR

Comedy movie

Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū

1962

The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond poster
8.0

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places.

The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond

1960

No artwork available
NR

Crime film directed by Tatsuo Yamada for Shintoho.

Tokaido hijokeikai

1960

Triangle Moods poster
NR

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.

Triangle Moods

1961

Zoku-sei to ningen poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Zoku-sei to ningen

1961

No artwork available
NR

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.

Fûun Shinsengumi

1961

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻

1960

Sutekina 16-sai poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Sutekina 16-sai

1962

Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle poster
6.0

After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction tried to usurp the rightful heir and take over the honored clan. Before his untimely death, the lord of the Kuroda bestowed “Nihongo”, a magnificent spear, on his finest warrior, which ultimately brings him into contact with two of Japan’s most famous historical figures, Yagyu Jubei and Miyamoto Musashi. Can the three masters of martial art join forces to defeat their enemies and save the nation?

Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle

1960

No artwork available
NR

Japanese film.

Daitengu shutsugen

1960

恋しぐれ 秩父の夜祭り poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

恋しぐれ 秩父の夜祭り

1961

1950s · 18 titles

The Most Valuable Wife poster
8.0

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...

The Most Valuable Wife

1959

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal poster
8.0

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

1959

Bridge of Japan poster
7.8

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.

Bridge of Japan

1956

The Cast-Off poster
8.0

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)

The Cast-Off

1959

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

1958

The Betrothed poster
8.0

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

The Betrothed

1957

Haha yamahiko poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha yamahiko

1952

The Ghosts of Kagami Pond poster
8.5

A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.

The Ghosts of Kagami Pond

1959

Nenneko Shain poster
NR

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.

Nenneko Shain

1956

The Lady Vampire poster
5.4

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...

The Lady Vampire

1959

Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle poster
6.5

The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens.

Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle

1957

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Chests Covered In Fresh Blood poster
NR

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Chests Covered In Fresh Blood

1959

Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity poster
7.0

The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. (Part 1 of 2)

Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity

1957

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man poster
NR

This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear.

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man

1959

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo poster
NR

The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomizo, the film was adapted by Mitsuo Kaneda (The Nude Model Murder Case), directed by Tatsuo Yamada, who worked on The Golden Bugyo, and shot by Kikuzo Kawasaki. Keiko Hibino, Shigeru Amachi, Tomisaburo Wakayama

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo

1958

Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction poster
7.0

The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)

Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction

1957

Queen of the China Sea poster
NR

Rika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by First Lieutenant Yokoyama of the Japanese Naval Commander's Office. After the end of war, Yokoyama plans to escape from riot-ridden Amoy and finally succeeds with the help of Rika to whom he gives a destroyer. Rika is actually the leader of a gang of pirates, and plans to rule the East China Sea by crushing Banryu, her rival.

Queen of the China Sea

1959

No artwork available
NR

1959 Japanese film.

決闘不動坂の大仇討

1959

Series credits