Yōnosuke Toba

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Utsui

Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Teruko Asahi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Akitsu

Romantic melodrama

Genre: Romance

Cast: Asami Kuji

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Japanese war-era film

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsuruko Baba

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

The adventures of a young patriotic samurai. This is the Nikkatsu version of Shin Hasegawa's original story. Shochiku released their version of the...

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Cast: Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

The adventures of the samuraï Chohachiro Tonami continues (sequel to Beni-kōmori - Dai ippen).

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Cast: Motoharu Isokawa

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisako Yamane

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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Cast: Yōnosuke Toba

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Cast: Yōnosuke Toba

Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died in the Battle of Hong Kong.

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

1949 Japanese movie

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Japanese romance film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Japanese film.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

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Cast: Rikidôzan

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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Cast: Fujiko Fukamizu

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Minoru Takada

A Japanese silent film

Genre: Action

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honorable side of himself, and maybe some form of...

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film.

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Entatsu Yokoyama

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Nakakita

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

1930s Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Genre: History

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuhiko Haida

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Jidaigeki from 1940

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.

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Cast: Kikutaro Onoe

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Japanese war movie

Genre: War

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Genre: History

Cast: Shuichiro Atsumi

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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Cast: Shinpachirō Asaka

Japanese movie

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roppa Furukawa