Tadao Takashima — Actor (8)

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You Can Succeed, Too (1964)
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other title: 君も出世ができる / You Can Succeed Too …
The closest Japanese cinema ever came to the full-blown Broadway-style musical, with singing and dancing on the streets of Tokyo, music by avant-garde composer and jazzman Toshiro Mayuzumi, lyrics by renowned poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, and direction by one of Toho’s most prominent “new wave” directors, Eizo Sugawa. Popular jazz drummer and actor Frankie Sakai stars in this comic version of the “industrial competition” genre: two tourism companies compete for foreign clients in the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Highlighting the coming internationalization of Japan, the film dramatizes the felt tensions between tradition and modernity, the pressures of the “economic animal” lifestyle, and the energy of high economic growth.

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Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
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other title: 科学怪人对地底怪兽 / フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣 …
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.

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Son of Godzilla (1967)
怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子
★ 5.6 8 ratings
other title: 怪兽岛决战:哥斯拉之子 / 怪獣島の決戦 ゴジラの息子 …
Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.

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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
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★ 5.5 13 ratings
other title: 金刚大战哥斯拉 / キングコング対ゴジラ …
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.

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Chushingura (1962)
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★ 8.3 6 ratings
other title: 忠臣藏 / 忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻 …
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.