Yūko Kusunoki

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Harukawa

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kō Nishimura

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Mujo no yume" by Mitsuo Sagawa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuji Odaka

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūji Honma

A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Dan

Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Noboru Andō

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Nakaya

1966 film directed by Kudo.

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryôhei Uchida

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sanae Nakahara

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...

Genre: Music

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

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

A 1961 crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association,...

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

Shigeru, a serious young man who works as a glass cleaner, has an older brother Kenzo, who has returned from prison. Kenzo was determined to become...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada