Hōsei Komatsu
Lady Snowblood
as Genzô ShibayamaYuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of...
Movie pageThe Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as uncreditedAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
Movie pageMinbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
as HanaokaAn upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help...
Movie pageBattles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Makoto NarasakaRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
Movie pageMadam Scandal: Let Me Die for 10 Seconds
as Takeo Miyamoto(宮本威夫)In the exotic location of Los Angeles, California a business woman enjoys all the men in her...
Movie pageLupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus
as Rhisley (voice)A simple diamond heist leads Lupin into the machinations of a bizarre cult based around the...
Movie pageProfound Desires of the Gods
as ShimajiriTokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori...
Movie pageThe Ceremony
as uncreditedOshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses...
Movie pageFarewell to the Ark
as uncreditedA surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions...
Movie pageGamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
as HebigumaThe second part of the Gamblers series.
Movie pageDiary of a Shinjuku Thief
as uncreditedIn Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at...
Movie pageDeath by Hanging
as District attorneyA Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the...
Movie pageHanzo the Razor: The Snare
as uncreditedAgainst the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo...
Movie pageJapanese Summer: Double Suicide
as uncreditedA sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe...
Movie pageFarewell to Rock'n Roll
as uncreditedThere is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry....
Movie pageThe Hoodlum Priest
as uncreditedThe first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in...
Movie pageTattooed Life
as Yamano SenkichiAfter his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his...
Movie pageZatoichi and the Fugitives
as MatsugoroZatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Movie pageNoboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
as uncreditedAndo on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old...
Movie pageVillage of Dreams
as GrandfatherTells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2....
Movie pageShimane Prison Riot
as uncreditedJapan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...
Movie pageNaked Ambition
as uncreditedWicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by...
Movie pageFemale Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
as TsujiAfter being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent...
Movie pageViolence at Noon
as Shino's fatherTwo young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a...
Movie pageOhyaku: The Female Demon
as uncreditedOhyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a...
Movie pageCops vs. Thugs
as uncreditedWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
Movie pageDouble Suicide
as TaheiSuccessful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the...
Movie pagePleasures of the Flesh
as EgiA corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase...
Movie pageThe Strangling
as uncreditedThe men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company...
Movie pageThe Sun's Burial
as uncreditedIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
Movie pageMonster of Frankenstein
as Frankenstein's Monster (voice)The film centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein. After creating the monster together...
Movie pageJapan's Don
as uncreditedA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
as uncreditedThe industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led...
Movie pageLive Today, Die Tomorrow!
as uncreditedMichio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a...
Movie pageThe Man Who Stole the Sun
as Loan OfficerA high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is...
Movie pageA Taxing Woman's Return
as SaruwatariRyōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...
Movie pageThe Highest Honour
as Sergeant Major YabeAfter a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new...
Movie pageThe Murder Corps
as uncreditedA violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front...
Movie pageDear Summer Sister
as Kôsuke KikuchiSunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because...
Movie pageThree Resurrected Drunkards
as FishermanThree students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a...
Movie pageOishinbo
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai...
Movie pageRape and Death of a Housewife
as Kurazo UtagawaThree young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a...
Movie pageDragon Princess
as uncreditedA karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He...
Movie pageSong of Dawn
as MakiMusical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then...
Movie pageSilence Has No Wings
as uncreditedFollowing the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido,...
Movie pageA Portrait of Shunkin
as Ichizo(市蔵)Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is...
Movie pageParole
as uncreditedThree men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
Movie pageBungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
as uncreditedA young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection...
Movie pageAftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Tadashi TakinoTwo Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful...
Movie pageNomugi Pass
as uncreditedThe story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early...
Movie pageJudo vs. Karate
as uncreditedA story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
Movie pageShinran: Path to Purity
as uncreditedIn the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...
Movie pageWicked Priest
as uncreditedDuring the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two...
Movie pageOre no sora
as Gonjiro KurodaBased on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly...
Movie pageOperation Plazma in Osaka
as uncreditedAmidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...
Movie pageNo More Comics!
as Show HostStuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions...
Movie pageJapanese Godfather: Ambition
as Shigemitsu SanadaAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
Movie pageThe Days of No Return
as uncreditedThe story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of...
Movie pageDissolution Rites
as uncreditedSawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in...
Movie pageBand of Ninja
as OnkichiA young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an...
Movie pagePostwar Secrets
as uncreditedEverybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel...
Movie pagePunishment of a Lawless Villian
as uncreditedIn the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong...
Movie pageNew Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
as uncreditedSuehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce...
Movie pageLullaby for a Tough Guy
as uncreditedA ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
Movie pageThe Woman Gambler's Supplication
as uncreditedEleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
Movie pageThe Man Without a Map
as uncreditedA private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is...
Movie pageBeast Alley
as uncredited"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite...
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
as uncreditedThe seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the...
Movie pageWicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
as uncreditedThe long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury...
Movie pageCaptive's Island
as uncreditedSeeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he...
Movie pageThe Private Police
as uncreditedAfter the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an...
Movie pageSex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
as uncreditedComedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
Movie pageBrave Red Flower of the North
as uncreditedAn exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of...
Movie pageYuki
as Oyakata (voice)Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go...
Movie pageThe Flower and the Dragon
as uncreditedA story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman...
Movie pageCriminal Woman: Killing Melody
as uncreditedReiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local...
Movie pageThe Rapacious Jailbreaker
as uncreditedConvicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...
Movie pageNinja's Mark
as uncreditedWhen the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes...
Movie pageThe Beast Shall Die
as Yusuke YajimaKunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action...
Movie pageOrganized Crime: Killer's Glory
as uncreditedA professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally...
Movie pageThe Japanese Belly Button
as Right wing / Ishii, the strip theatre ownerHelen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.
Movie pageSerial Killer: Coldblooded
as uncreditedBased on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
Movie pageBloodstained Clan Of Honor
as uncreditedIt takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created...
Movie pageCompany Executives
as uncreditedA fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
Movie pageThe Marked Man
as uncreditedA man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
Movie pageDangerous Games
as AiharaDrama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th...
Movie pageViolent Fraternity
as uncreditedSet in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's...
Movie pageThe Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
as uncreditedA crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and...
Movie pageThe Viper Brothers: Jail - Living for 4 1/2 Years
as uncreditedPart 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
Movie pageDan-no-ura Night
as uncreditedTaken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between...
Movie pageShort and Fat
as Iwaki's fatherA high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's...
Movie pageModern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
as uncreditedAfter the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its...
Movie pageTemptation of Eros
as MiyoshiTane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a...
Movie pageThe Bandits
as Ba TôtenAction drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese...
Movie pageShameless School
as Matagoro ArakiComedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
Movie pageRapewoman: Dirty Sunday
as IshimotoA single woman starts receiving obscene phone calls at home. Feeling fearful she stays at the...
Movie pageSeven Gamblers
as uncreditedHanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group...
Movie pageSword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
as ShindoAfter serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison....
Movie pageWet Lust: Opening the Tulip
as uncreditedAkira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but...
Movie pageThe Far Road
as uncreditedSet in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive...
Movie pageChoji Snack Bar
as MatsumotoEiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for...
Movie pageKidnapping Blues
as Pawn Shop GuyA man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to...
Movie pageRed Paper Lantern
as uncreditedA young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their...
Movie pageThe Sea of Genkai
as uncreditedTwo yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean...
Movie pageEve-chan no hime
as ShimotsukaA new high school teacher is secretly given a mysterious floppy disk. It leads her into danger...
Movie pageWithout Complaint
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Movie pageOrganized Violence
as uncreditedA war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
Movie pageThe Horrible Obsessions
as uncreditedDetective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after...
Movie pageThe Life of Chikuzan
as GotoA 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player...
Movie pageEros Nights in Tokyo
as uncreditedA horny college student is spotted peeping and is chased into a dark tunnel. He mysteriously...
Movie pageDowntown Blues
as uncreditedThe desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
Movie pageTruck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me
as uncreditedThe first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro...
Movie pageTokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
as uncreditedYabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as...
Movie pageShura ga Yuku 6
as uncreditedSet in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the...
Movie pageThe Experience
as uncreditedTwo boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
Movie pageTime Within Memory
as uncreditedMinoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old...
Movie pageWoman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
as Kojiro NumazawaSumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo...
Movie pageThe Forgotten Imperial Army
as (voice)Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese...
Movie pageThree Gamblers
as Denpo ChoThree closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling...
Movie pageSex Education Mistresses
as ShinjiAn erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex,...
Movie pageHoodlum Soldier
as uncreditedA young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in...
Movie pageA Young Man's Stronghold
as uncreditedA 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
Movie pageAdults Games
as uncreditedThe girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual...
Movie pageI Want to Be a Shellfish
as uncreditedTelevision production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan,...
Movie pageCode Between Brothers 2
as uncreditedThe services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal...
Movie pageEighteen Years in Prison
as uncreditedA former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes...
Movie pageThe Daring Nun
as Ichizo SogaOne of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she...
Movie pageBokyo
as KatsuoIn 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the...
Movie pageLefty Fencer
as uncreditedAs a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was...
Movie pagePink Tush Girl: Love Attack
as Kôhei KikawadaRena and Yuko, the two sexually-adventurous high school girl friends from Pink Tush Girl (1978)...
Movie pageScoundrel
as uncreditedShimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his...
Movie pageBlack Market Emperor: Silver and Gold
as uncreditedA man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and...
Movie page"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2
as uncreditedSequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".
Movie pageTanshin funin jōji no himitsu
as HiraiwaAn office lady follows his boss, whose work affairs had been discovered inside the company and...
Movie pageMilitary Comfort Woman
as uncreditedMovie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese...
Movie pageNever in the Morning!
as MisakiA free spirited woman signs a contract with her boss to be his mistress but finds she needs more...
Movie pageThe Last Swordsman
as Serizawa KamoPersonal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era...
Movie pageTroops of Darkness
as uncreditedA disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years...
Movie pageMahjong Hishoden: Ryu the Caller
as Suekichi MarukoThere is a man, who always win a mahjong game... His name is Ryu the Caller.
Movie pageThe Virgin Masquerade
as SakubeThree female college students become involved with a land developer. When a rich client and his...
Movie pageGetting Wild With Our Monkey
as KajiyamaA down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the...
Movie pageGambler: Victory Without Death
as uncreditedTsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing...
Movie pageThe Revelation of a Geisha
as uncreditedAfter the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on...
Movie pageDiary of Yunbogi
as NarratorThis ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on...
Movie pageTroubleman Laughs and Kills
as ActorKensho Yamashita's directorial debut.
Movie pageTokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
as IshiyamaAfter being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of...
Movie pageYakuza on Foot
as Officer SongAn Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug...
Movie pageCompetition: Married Couples Secret Technique
as Genzo FujitaInspired by a street interview about married sex life a TV food show host accidentally finds a...
Movie pageThe Drifting Life of Himeshiro
as uncreditedOtoino Himeshiro (Ikko Hurutani), called "Otohime" is a gambler. He wears juzu abound his right...
Movie pageKogarashi Monjiro
as KiyozoMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
TV Show pageNetchū Jidai
as uncreditedThis light-hearted comedy tells the story of a young man who chooses to become a teacher and...
TV Show pagePlease Hire Me!
as uncreditedEx-sword teacher Ihei Misawa is a skilled swordsman but because of his kind and judicious heart,...
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