Acting

Kentaro Taki

Born

1919-03-13 (107)

Place of birth

Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Known for

Nanairo Kamen poster
9.0

Seven Color Mask (七色仮面, Nanairo Kamen) is the name and title character of a tokusatsu TV series, later called New Seven Color Mask (新七色仮面, Shin Nanairo Kamen). It was created by Kōhan Kawauchi, who also created Moonlight Mask. This B&W TV show was the first superhero TV series by Toei Company Ltd. It was broadcast on NET (now TV Asahi) from June 3, 1959 to June 30, 1960, with a total of 57 episodes divided into 7 segments. Aside from being Toei's first TV superhero show, this series was also the debut of actor Sonny Chiba, who was 19 at the time, who took over the title role from Susumu Namijima after Episode 32.

Nanairo Kamen

1959

Violent Street poster
NR

1963 Toei film

Violent Street

1963

Tokyo Untouchable poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo Untouchable

1965

The Eleventh Hour poster
7.4

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.

The Eleventh Hour

1957

Night of the Suspicions poster
NR

Tatsuo Torigoe, the president of Torigoe Industries, attempts suicide but survives and reveals his motives for suicide to his only daughter, Akiko.

Night of the Suspicions

1959

Police Precinct Part 12 poster
NR

In a corner of a warehouse at Shiodome Station, a alumni trunk, is found with the terrible smell of decay. The dead body of a woman is inside. Since the trunk was shipped from Osaka Tennoji Station, the murder investigation headquarters were established in Tokyo and Osaka

Police Precinct Part 12

1960

Film credits

1960s · 16 titles

Violent Street poster
NR

1963 Toei film

Violent Street

1963

Tokyo Untouchable poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo Untouchable

1965

Police Precinct Part 12 poster
NR

In a corner of a warehouse at Shiodome Station, a alumni trunk, is found with the terrible smell of decay. The dead body of a woman is inside. Since the trunk was shipped from Osaka Tennoji Station, the murder investigation headquarters were established in Tokyo and Osaka

Police Precinct Part 12

1960

Blue Film Woman poster
4.4

As his investments in the stock market fail, a man finds himself in serious debt to a lecherous loan-shark named Uchiyama. The man's wife hires herself to Uchiyama to buy time for the husband to pay off the debt. After Uchiyama uses the wife to provide companionship for his mentally-impaired son, she is hit by a car, and her husband falls into despair and illness. Their daughter works as a nightclub dancer, intending to save the money to help with the debt. After her father's suicide, the girl decides to get revenge.

Blue Film Woman

1969

Hospital in Front of the Train Station poster
NR

The 11th "Ekimae" feature.

Hospital in Front of the Train Station

1965

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance poster
5.7

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance

1963

Police Precinct Part 17 poster
8.0

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.

Police Precinct Part 17

1961

Pleasant Company poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pleasant Company

1962

No artwork available
2.0

Pinku from 1969.

Exposure Diary: Season of Lust

1969

新婚シリーズ 月給日は嫌い poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

新婚シリーズ 月給日は嫌い

1962

One Passed Through Hell poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

One Passed Through Hell

1960

No artwork available
4.3

Two boys set their sites on some vacationing girls in a summer resort town; they place bets on which one of them will score first.

Virgin's Weakness

1968

Hussy poster
3.7

16-year-old Tachiko (Kimiko Asuka) discovers the true nature of her father's wife, Fumie (Michiko Sakyo), who is after the fortune of the company president, Gozo (Keisuke Senda), and recommends divorce to him, but she is kidnapped and her virginity is stolen by Hayata (Ryoichi Amano) who is colluding with Fumie. After the funeral for her father, who committed suicide out of pity for his daughter, Tachiko disappears.

Hussy

1966

Red Castle Lullaby poster
NR

Red Castle Lullaby by Taizō Fuyushima

Red Castle Lullaby

1960

浪曲国定忠治 血煙り信州路 poster
NR

1960 movie directed by Taizō Fuyushima

浪曲国定忠治 血煙り信州路

1960

The Bite poster
4.5

Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn't like what he's doing, but he needs the money to take care of his seriously ill mother. One day he's given the assignment to seduce a pretty waitress and they wind up falling in love. Koichi tells his madame that is going to quit, but she has other plans for him.

The Bite

1966

1950s · 24 titles

The Eleventh Hour poster
7.4

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.

The Eleventh Hour

1957

Night of the Suspicions poster
NR

Tatsuo Torigoe, the president of Torigoe Industries, attempts suicide but survives and reveals his motives for suicide to his only daughter, Akiko.

Night of the Suspicions

1959

I Am Being Targeted poster
NR

A thriller of deduction and duels, in which a newspaper reporter bravely takes on a gang in the city’s skyscraper district over a mysterious recording by a diva.

I Am Being Targeted

1950

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha poster
7.0

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

1959

The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye poster
7.0

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye

1956

Foul Play poster
6.0

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.

Foul Play

1955

Police Precinct Part 5 poster
NR

The fifth installment of the Metropolitan Police Department story series. This time, detectives from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division are once again in action, full of thrills and speed, in pursuit of the perpetrator of a mysterious murder that suddenly occurred at an auto race track.

Police Precinct Part 5

1957

Toki no teizo: Sōshūban poster
NR

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished expression of a woman twisted by torment.

Toki no teizo: Sōshūban

1952

憧れの星座  poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

憧れの星座 

1953

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer poster
NR

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wallet that did not fit the field, earrings, and other valuable materials, which led them on a foot search. The woman's purse had been picked up by a male prostitute on the subway, and from the prostitute's testimony, they were able to identify the pickpocket's face, but the next day, the man was found dead in a road accident, apparently murdered.

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

1957

Mother Peacock poster
NR

Japanese drama film.

Mother Peacock

1956

Police Precinct poster
NR

A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, who suspect the perpetrator as a habitual offender, flew to Yanagibashi using the remains as clues, and suspect a forester, but before this case was closed, a new incident using the same method occurred in Shinbashi, and this time the driver's corpse was not found.

Police Precinct

1956

The Deep Blue Sea poster
5.0

To fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a young sailor Kenji takes on the task of delivering an heirloom to his friend’s daughter, Harumi, who has been adopted by another family. When he arrives, Kenji soon discovers that Harumi and her adopted family are the targets of an evil gang boss. In an attempt to help them, he decides to take matters into his own hands.

The Deep Blue Sea

1957

No artwork available
NR

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Murder on the Last Train

1955

Excursion to Treasure Isle poster
8.0

The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant fought against evil in olden times.

Excursion to Treasure Isle

1956

Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face poster
NR

A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license plate number three days ago at Shin-Arakawa Ohashi Bridge...

Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face

1959

Police Precinct Part 8 poster
NR

Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol car, veers off and hits a tree. Three men run out and escape. From inside the truck comes the body of the taxi driver.

Police Precinct Part 8

1958

Five Paths to Revenge poster
NR

The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on his late father's enemies.

Five Paths to Revenge

1956

G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization poster
9.0

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan

G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization

1956

Four Hours of Terror poster
6.2

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.

Four Hours of Terror

1959

Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer poster
NR

A robbery and murder occurred at a gas station facing the national highway at 1:00am. Detectives Nagata, head of the First Investigation Division, begins investigating. Two bullets were removed from the corpse of a staff member on duty at the station, and the last car to be refilled with gasoline, Sakura Taxi No. 5-E1044, appears on the line of investigation. The same night, a robbery murder case was discovered using the same US military gun that was used on the gas station victim.

Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer

1956

I Yearn for Father poster
NR

Yuji Makita (Wakahara) came to a hot spring port town as a singer who plays the guitar. Thirteen years ago, Sanae Shimura (Miyake) was in love with him, and now Sanae works at a bar in Tokyo to support her daughter Emiko (Misorah) and elderly father Daiseki (Ryuji Kita). While waiting for her mother to return, Emiko often goes to the dock and sings a song. Yuji finds out that Emiko is his own daughter, because the song she sings was once written by Yuji himself and was known only to Sanae...

I Yearn for Father

1951

Police Precinct: Car 108 poster
NR

Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the policeman investigates he is shot and the truck makes its getaway.

Police Precinct: Car 108

1959

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Challenge from the Dead poster
NR

King Rose returns, unleashing terror from beyond the grave. Detective Kotaro Ran, as Seven-Color Mask, investigates eerie crimes. As he unravels the mystery, he faces deadly traps and a final battle to stop King Rose's reign.. The third and final installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Challenge from the Dead

1959

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