Jun Hamamura
Jun Hamamura was born on 7 February 1906 in Fukuoka, Japan. He was an actor, known for High and Low (1963), Gamera: The Giant Monster (1965) and Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963). He died on 21 June 1995 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.
High and Low
as Second CreditorIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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Samurai Reincarnation
as ShigesaemonAfter surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
as Miura TatewakiIn the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by...
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Kwaidan
as (segment "The Woman of the Snow")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Doi ChûiKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
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The Burmese Harp
as ItoIn Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises...
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Samurai Rebellion
as Hyoemon ShiomiThe mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The...
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Gamera, the Giant Monster
as Professor MuraseA nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his...
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The Battle of Okinawa
as uncreditedThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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Mr. Baseball
as Hiroko's GrandfatherJack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball...
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An Actor's Revenge
as IsshosaiIn Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their...
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Fires on the Plain
as uncreditedIn the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his...
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Love Is in the Green Wind
as uncreditedA youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his...
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The Castle of Sand
as PatrolmanTwo detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in...
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
as BeggarA mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an...
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Profound Desires of the Gods
as SatokuriTokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori...
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Double Suicide
as uncreditedSuccessful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the...
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Lovers Lost
as uncreditedA poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the...
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The Inferno
as SudokuHell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a...
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Himiko
as NarratorThe myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern...
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Cruel Story of Youth
as MasahiroA budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for...
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
as Seijiro KatakuraIn the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the...
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The Inheritance
as KamioA dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose...
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The Vampire Doll
as Public OfficerA young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and...
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Ballad of Orin
as SaitoA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Motohike Kakei - Imperial Household General Affairs ChiefFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Conflagration
as Goichi's FatherLearning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the...
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Her Brother
as DoctorSet in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of...
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The Makioka Sisters
as OtokichiThis sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto...
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The Strange Tale of Oyuki
as uncreditedA story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of...
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Gonza the Spearman
as uncreditedThe tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which...
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The Demon
as Welfare OfficialWhen Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of...
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The Pornographers
as Company ManagerSubu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed...
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Sharaku
as uncreditedA crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential...
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Samurai Spy
as Joshin Temple PriestYears of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke...
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Fighting Elegy
as uncreditedKiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his...
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Zatoichi's Vengeance
as Blind Biwa PriestZatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
as Mori SokichiThe heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries...
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Sleeping Man
as Old Man at Post OfficeEver since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors...
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The Man with a Shotgun
as Village MayorRyoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a...
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Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
as GoheiA greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people...
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The Sun's Burial
as uncreditedIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
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Night Drum
as uncreditedFollowing a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...
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Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip
as uncreditedAkira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but...
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Bitter End of a Sweet Night
as uncreditedAn opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to...
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Dark Room
as The Man in Black clothes(黒服の男)A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his...
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
as DoctorBased on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker...
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Red Lion
as Jinbee of stablesJapan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows,...
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Mount Hakkoda
as uncreditedTwo infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the...
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Main Theme
as Ichirota DaitojimaA kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find...
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Afraid to Die
as DoctorOn his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on...
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August without Emperor
as SecretaryTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...
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The Catch
as uncreditedTowards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural...
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Demon Pond
as The Shadow / Yatabei, the BellkeeperWhen a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
as Old manA runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in...
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Evening Primrose
as HokujojiThe Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown...
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Odd Obsession
as Dr. SomaA middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he...
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A Flame at the Pier
as uncreditedA young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the...
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Charming Men
as KikumatsuOne day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea...
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Samurai from Nowhere
as uncreditedMisawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of...
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Lone Wolf Isazo
as uncreditedIsazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his...
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A Legend, or Was It?
as uncreditedA Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry...
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Koto—The Lake of Tears
as Kahei IwataA touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo,...
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Lost Love
as Shigeru AobaAt a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent...
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The Broken Commandment
as Ushimatsu's fatherUshimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now...
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Bonchi
as uncreditedKikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal....
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Koto: The Ancient City
as uncreditedChieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store....
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Preparation for the Festival
as Shigeyoshi OkiTateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
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Tora-san's Grand Scheme
as uncreditedAfter winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to...
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My Sons
as uncreditedTetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has...
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Intimidation
as NozakiKoreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
as uncreditedIn the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong...
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Our Marriage
as MitsuiWhen two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
as Kanoke-boshiAn outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
as uncreditedA fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
as uncreditedThree stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman...
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The Angry Sea
as uncreditedA semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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Sakura-tai Chiru
as uncreditedA documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived...
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Foundry Town
as uncreditedSet in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families...
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Being Two Isn't Easy
as Older DoctorThe days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point...
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The Black Current
as uncreditedA reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company,...
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The Shadow of Fear
as uncreditedIn the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by...
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Island of the Evil Spirits
as Old FishermanFamous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he...
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Deeper Than Blue
as Juzo OsugiAbout a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging...
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Bad Girl
as uncreditedWakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom....
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Yume-Chiyo
as uncreditedYumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do...
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Ten Dark Women
as ActorKaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him....
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Traffic Jam
as uncreditedA hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and...
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Beyond the Green Hills
as uncreditedShinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance...
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The Gate of Youth
as uncreditedMainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...
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Green Light to Joy
as Hirai's fatherDrama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to...
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The Black Sheep
as uncreditedYoung female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little...
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MacArthur's Children
as uncreditedIn this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village...
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Temptation
as Boarding House OwnerShokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an...
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Time Within Memory
as uncreditedMinoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old...
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Glory on the Summit
as uncreditedA treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the...
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Interpol Code 8
as uncreditedAgent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
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The Glamorous Ghost
as A man in the morgueBased on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black...
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Lonely Heart
as uncreditedA police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
as uncreditedNezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in...
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Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
as TessaiA young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was...
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Gun Number Zero
as uncreditedEric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It...
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Break Down that Wall
as uncreditedA man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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The Wild Reporter
as uncreditedSeven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a...
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Hole in One
as Taxi driverA female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from...
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The Curse of the Ghost
as uncreditedAbout 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon...
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Love and Life
as Taisuke NakamizoContemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
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The Wolves
as uncreditedA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...
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A Mummy’s Love
as uncreditedIn post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation...
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Gunman's Alley
as uncreditedNitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs...
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Ghost Story of Devil's Fire Swamp
as Jinzaemon ShinoharaNishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear...
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A Woman's Life
as MiyoshiOne of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle...
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The Storm over Arabia
as uncreditedJapanese action film set in Arabia.
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Child of the Sun
as uncreditedA couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school...
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Kitsune
as Hospital Old ManIt is early summer in the Nekushiro Plains of Hokkaido. A scientist, Ogata, who was dispatched...
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The Lucky General
as uncreditedThe action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1
as uncreditedThis is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and...
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Fangs of Night
as uncreditedA young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some...
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Jungle Block
as Yoshichi KomuroA young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted...
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For Kayako
as Akio MatsumotoA film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between...
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The Body
as uncreditedThe sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job...
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Woman from the Sea
as uncreditedWhile in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who...
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The Money Dance
as uncreditedMachida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time,...
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The Abalone Gals
as uncreditedSouth of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times....
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That Guy and I
as Professor TakanoAsada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's...
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Actress
as uncreditedBased on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her...
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Without Complaint
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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The Crowded Train
as uncreditedTamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do...
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The Tattered Banner
as uncreditedFilm about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
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Volunteering for Villainy
as DetectiveTwo outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
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The Temptress and the Monk
as The CriminalNominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
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The Forest of No Escape
as uncreditedAdaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
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Tokyo Bay
as SaekiAn investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets...
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Across the Darkness
as uncreditedA journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed...
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Sixteen years old
as uncreditedSenko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the...
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Edogawa Rampo Theater: The Man Who Travels With Prints
as uncreditedAt the beginning of the Showa era, a man who was captivated by a girl he saw through a telescope...
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Stolen Pleasure
as TatsuoBased on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo,...
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel
as MinobeNikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a...
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Black Sea of Trees
as uncreditedSachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car...
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Epitaph to My Love
as Shin NakanishiIshihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an...
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
as uncreditedA Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked...
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The Black Trademark
as Kazunori TagoIde of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as...
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A Killer Without a Grave
as uncreditedNakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money...
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The Sharks
as uncreditedA film adaptation of Masatsugu Nobuhiko's novel of the same name, directed by Tasaka Tomotaka...
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He's the Witness
as uncreditedTakuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the...
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Who's The Real Killer
as uncreditedHarsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
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Season of Farewell
as uncreditedA touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Shibukawa Company CommanderBased on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military...
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Ohan
as uncreditedA story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.
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Tetsugen
as uncreditedJapanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
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Women's Prison
as uncreditedA prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and...
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Oyuki
as uncreditedA movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually...
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other...
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Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
as uncreditedThe Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.
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Crossroads in Tokyo
as uncreditedA three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of...
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New - No Longer Human
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught...
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俺の故郷は大西部
as uncreditedGeorge Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb
as uncreditedFourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Woman of Design
as TsubouchiStory of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a...
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Tales of the Bizarre
as uncreditedInspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...
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Romansu
as 真之助の祖父・香木真人The 32nd NHK Asadora. Starring Takaaki Enoki as a young man who becomes a film director. The...
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Kashin
as Fujimura TakashiCentered around Masujiro Omura, who became a commander for the Choshu clan, and founded the...
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Taikouki
as Hirate NakatsukasaBased on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period...
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Kokugo Gannen
as uncreditedSet in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was...
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Taiyō no Namida
as uncreditedThe day before he leaves on a business trip to Europe, Shoji meets an old man named Ogawa while...
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