Manabu Morita
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1924-04-25
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Also Known As:守田学哉, Gakuya Morita, 守田学, 森田学哉

スーダラ節 わかっちゃいるけどやめられねぇ (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Third Generation's Loyalty Offering (1962)
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

Back Stairways (1965)
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of...

Dynamite Doctor Returns (1966)
Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

The Wandering Princess (1960)
Pu Zhe, the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, marries Ryuko the daughter of an aristocratic family. To the surprise of all, a deep love...

The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge (1981)
Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of...

Triangle Moods (1961)
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...

Akiko (1962)
Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his...

The Shogun's Vault II (1982)
A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the...

Fangs of Darkness 2: Ieyasu's Head (1983)
Ichibei teams up with Chief Jindayo of the Goomune (Japan’s gypsies’) in order to steal the shogunate’s solid gold statue of Ieyasu...

The Betrothed (1957)
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Girl with Bamboo Leaves (1969)
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

The Precipice (1958)
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

Wrath of Daimajin (1966)
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A...

Flame of Father and Son (1981)
Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuhiko grow up. However, Kazuhiko rebels against his...

Fires on the Plain (1959)
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966)
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974)
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki...

The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...

The Woman Champion (1968)
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Assignment Dragon No. 3 (1967)
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...

The School of Spies (1966)
Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names,...

Lone Wolf Isazo (1968)
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...

Young Boss: Prison Release (1965)
The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.

Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)
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...

Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire (1965)
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself...

Prison Break (1969)
Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns...

The Last Betrayal (1960)
A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

Blood End (1969)
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...

The Silk Hat Boss 2 (1970)
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.

Lefty Fencer (1969)
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the...

Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
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.

Superexpress (1964)
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint (1968)
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who...

Gate of Youth (1981)
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty (1968)

Dog of Fortune (1979)
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a...

Internal Sleuth (1973)
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.

Black Test Car (1962)
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

The Black Hood (1981)
A horse-riding samurai fights villains.

The Rainbow Man (1949)
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu...

The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...

Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...

A Samurai Never Tells a Lie (1963)
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status....

On This Earth (1957)
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double...

Afraid to Die (1960)
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

The False Student (1960)
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

The Burdened Sisters (1961)
Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

A Woman's Life (1962)
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

Let's Dance Tonight (1967)
A drama about the sex industry.

Hit and Run Gang (1960)
Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit....

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great (1963)
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...

The Judo Champ (1958)
When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado (1983)
Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple to explore the Sado Gold Mine. They suspect that...

Made in Japan (1953)
A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the...

Black Trump Card (1964)
Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three...

Professional Killers (1972)
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one...