A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Ryotaro Shiba
福田定一
Birthplace:
Osaka - Japan
Born:
August 7, 1923
Died:
February 12, 1996
Novel:
1964 Assassination
1964 Warrior of the Wind
1966 The Blazing Sword
1969 Tenchu!
1999 Owls' Castle
1999 Taboo
2017 Sekigahara
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Original Story:
1963 Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1964 Assassination
1964 Warrior of the Wind
1965 Taking the Castle
1966 The Blazing Sword
1966 The Thieves' Who's Who
1969 Tenchu!
1969 The Magoichi Saga
1970 Mission: Iron Castle
1999 Owls' Castle
1999 Taboo
2017 Sekigahara
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Screenplay:
1963 Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1964 Assassination
1964 Warrior of the Wind
1965 Taking the Castle
1966 The Blazing Sword
1966 The Thieves' Who's Who
1969 Tenchu!
1969 The Magoichi Saga
1970 Mission: Iron Castle
1999 Owls' Castle
1999 Taboo
2005 Woman Onmyoji Awakening of Perversion
2017 Sekigahara
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Story:
1963 Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
1963 Castle of Owls
1964 Assassination
1964 Warrior of the Wind
1965 Taking the Castle
1966 The Blazing Sword
1966 The Thieves' Who's Who
1969 Tenchu!
1969 The Magoichi Saga
1970 Mission: Iron Castle
1970 The Ambitious
1999 Owls' Castle
1999 Taboo
2005 Woman Onmyoji Awakening of Perversion
2017 Sekigahara
2021 Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai
2022 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
Author:
2001 Nanohana no Oki
Creator:
1968 Ryoma ga Yuku
1980 Fujin no Mon
1990 As If In Flight
1997 Ryoma Forever
1998 Bloody Journal of the Shinsengumi
1998 Tokugawa Yoshinobu
2001 Nanohana no Oki
2009 Clouds Over the Hill
Novel:
1968 Ryoma ga Yuku
1970 Story of Yakuza in Naniwa
1980 Fujin no Mon
1990 As If In Flight
1997 Ryoma Forever
1998 Bloody Journal of the Shinsengumi
1998 Tokugawa Yoshinobu
2001 Nanohana no Oki
2005 The Story of Dominating Countries
2009 Clouds Over the Hill
Original Story:
1968 Ryoma ga Yuku
1970 Story of Yakuza in Naniwa
1973 Kunitori Monogatari
1977 Kashin
1980 Fujin no Mon
1990 As If In Flight
1997 Ryoma Forever
1998 Bloody Journal of the Shinsengumi
1998 Tokugawa Yoshinobu
2001 Nanohana no Oki
2005 The Story of Dominating Countries
2009 Clouds Over the Hill
Writer:
1968 Ryoma ga Yuku
1970 Story of Yakuza in Naniwa
1973 Kunitori Monogatari
1977 Kashin
1980 Fujin no Mon
1981 Sekigahara
1990 As If In Flight
1997 Ryoma Forever
1998 Bloody Journal of the Shinsengumi
1998 Tokugawa Yoshinobu
2001 Nanohana no Oki
2005 The Story of Dominating Countries
2009 Clouds Over the Hill
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
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