Yoshiko Kayama

1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kyū Sakamoto

War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kayama

The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falling in love to the rhythm of Yukio Hashi's song of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yukio Hashi

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A film adaptation of the great hit memoir of Shimada Yoshichi 'Saga no Gabai Bachan' which sold a total of 6.7 million copies for the entire series....

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Cast: Yoshiko Kayama

In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Teruhiko Aoi

Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamotsu Hayakawa

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isamu Nagato

Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando)...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chieko Baisho

A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yūki Meguro

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Kayama

At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Go Wakabayashi

A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yukio Hashi

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryûichirô Shibata

Story of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukio Hashi

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Kyoko Aoi

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Cast: Muga Takewaki

A musical romance.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yukio Hashi

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Kuroki

Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to think that he has gone mad with blood-lust. ...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isamu Nagato

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre...

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Cast: Hiroshi Fujioka

A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Nishiyama

This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.

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Cast: Yūji Hori

Japanese horror movie from 1987.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jun Inoue

The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melancholy set in Kitakyushu. Matsujiro...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Police detective Amachi fights against those who banished him from his job-both cops and criminals.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Sayuri Yoshinaga played the first appearance of the Shochiku film. Yufuko who was married from a lover who had been married for a year. However, she...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

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Cast: Teruo Yoshida

1966 Japanese movie

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Cast: Takashi Yamaguchi

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi