Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

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Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

This action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman hidden in a wallet, and the justice and love-hate...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

Genre: War

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akemi Kita

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsuke Kawazu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danshirō Ichikawa

Genre: History

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Chiemi Eri

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming...

Genre: Action

Cast: Frederick Stafford

Crime film distributed by Taiho.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

1952 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Japanese film.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Japanese action film distributed by Taiho.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shinsuke Maki

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Horror film about a killer dwarf.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Joji Oka

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Freewheeling sex! The real truth about devils stamped in the flesh!

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Cast: Yoji Naruto

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinsuke Maki

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

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Cast: Muga Takewaki

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

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Cast: Kōji Wada

Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible...

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of...

Genre: War

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

Genre: War

Cast: Martin Balsam

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

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Cast: Kinichi Hagimoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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Cast: Masayuki Mori

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Cast: Mie Kitahara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

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Cast: Tamio Kawachi

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

Sumida is separated from his wife and daughter when conflict erupts in Harbin. Years later, he finds that his wife passed away and her daughter was...

Genre: Music

Cast: Grigori Sajapin

An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers...

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Cast: Saburo Date

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying...

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Cast: Kazuo Funaki

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōko Minamida

Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.

Genre: Action

Cast: Noboru Andō