Jō Shishido
Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname "Joe the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).
Flower & Snake II
as uncreditedThe beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi...
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Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
as Junichi MizutaIn the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and...
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Edo Porn
as Jyuppensha IkkuThe world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income,...
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Branded to Kill
as Gorô HanadaAfter botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of...
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
as Junichi MizutaJunko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite...
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Gate of Flesh
as Shintaro IbukiIn the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of...
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Youth of the Beast
as Jôji 'Jo' MizunoWhen a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with...
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Retaliation
as HinoEmerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has...
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The Code
as Detective 500For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Katsutoshi OtomoWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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Kisaragi
as Ooiso Long Beach HostThe fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as Hachiro TachibanaBunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...
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The Gun Like Lightning
as GoroSadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
as JoeMaiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese...
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I Are You, You Am Me
as Kouzou Saitoh9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan....
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Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
as Tokuji HayakawaThe reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
as School PrincipalDuring the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is...
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The Visitor in the Eye
as Black JackKomori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball...
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The Maid's Kid
as uncreditedIn order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in...
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Shameless School: Tackle Kiss
as MacaroniStudents against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever.
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Velvet Hustler
as uncreditedA young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
as Jo ShishidoBroke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to...
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A Night in Nude: Salvation
as Naoki / YamagamiA beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming...
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Rusty Knife
as ShimabaraUdaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
as TominoichiKumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a...
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The Hard Core Criminal
as uncreditedIn the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
as Hideo TajimaTajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring...
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None But the Brave
as uncreditedStory is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a...
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A Colt Is My Passport
as Shuji KamimuraA gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
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Jinsei Gekijo
as uncredited1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.
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Cruel Gun Story
as TogawaBusinessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on...
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Return of the Vagabond
as uncreditedThe 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler,...
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Massacre Gun
as Ryûichi KurodaKuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover....
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Ore no sora
as Genjiro YasudaBased on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly...
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
as CopA rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her...
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Love Eternal
as uncreditedA deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an...
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My Sweetheart
as President ShishidoIt had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by...
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Cell No. 8
as uncreditedA man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their...
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Mobile Detectives: The Movie 3
as uncreditedKai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve...
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Frankie the Milkman
as Zenkichi MatsubaraRoppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out...
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The Dragon of Macao
as AizuRyu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand...
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Voice Without a Shadow
as HamazakiAsako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued...
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
as HidematsuThe action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
as Gin of the ColtWhen Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a...
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The Rambling Guitarist
as GeorgeArriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
as Hideo TajimaA sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
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Detective Office 5
as 500In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522...
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Gambling Code and Feuds
as Katsuya SekikawaIt is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action...
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The Trap
as Jo ShishidoWhen a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I...
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Blood for Blood
as uncreditedThe Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new...
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Policeman's Diary
as Patrolman YabutaLending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...
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Wind of Volcano
as uncreditedAn airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route...
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
as uncreditedSet in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to...
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Greatest Boss Of Japan
as uncreditedA man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
as uncreditedPrisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a...
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Sukanpin Walk
as Tatsuya SekikawaMusical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.
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Tiger of the Sea
as uncreditedA group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
as uncreditedAkiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she...
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A Surgeon Named Hitman
as uncreditedA trainee at a university hospital named Yoshioka, was in charge of a patient but the patient...
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The Rambler Rides Again
as uncreditedIn this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to...
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Drowning Fish
as Ace no JoWhen corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of...
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The Dragon and the Tiger
as uncreditedA young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old...
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Glass-Hearted Johnny
as JôJoe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a...
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Crimson pistol belt
as uncreditedWearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe...
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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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Leave My Girl Alone
as Bar OwnerHitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to...
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I'm All Yours
as uncreditedA beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door:...
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Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
as MacaroniIn this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is...
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Our Wedding
as uncreditedOn her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but...
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New Harenchi Gakuen College
as GebagebaFormer students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths...
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The Boy Who Came Back
as uncreditedNobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break...
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Red Crow and the Ghost Ship
as CaptainA fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in...
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To Love
as ChinenMitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets....
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Quick Draw Joe
as Joe the AceOne day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace,...
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The Alaska Story
as uncreditedA Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He...
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Exiled to Hell
as uncreditedIt is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the...
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The Cleanup
as uncreditedA real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
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100 Gamblers
as uncreditedSet in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss...
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Temptation
as Goro YasuiShokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an...
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Murder Unincorporated
as Jiro (Joe of Spades)When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful...
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
as uncreditedIn the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back...
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The Man with a Sinister Laugh
as KenAfter getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend,...
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8 Man - For All Lonely Nights
as Dr. TaniAfter Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's...
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A Man's World
as uncreditedTadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's...
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Blood Shed
as SeijiGinjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom,...
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The Guitarist from the Sea
as uncreditedPlans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza...
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Profile of a Boss' Son
as uncreditedFour years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his...
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Blue Jeans Memory
as uncreditedA trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that...
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium
as uncreditedTakao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari...
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Gambler in the Sea
as uncreditedJoe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and...
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The Guitarist and the Rancher
as uncreditedRambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old...
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The Aftermath of War
as uncreditedAfter World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or...
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Go As Messy As Messy Can Be
as MujitoriComedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father,...
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Shameless School
as MacaroniComedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
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The Champion
as Boxer IshiyamaEikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club...
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Conflagration
as Chief Engineer KosaiGlobal South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
as uncreditedA flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime...
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The Rough One
as Imano's BodyguardA tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a...
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The Rambler in the Sunset
as uncreditedThe young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu...
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Turning Point
as Hashizume, ReporterA middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the...
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Ofukuro
as uncreditedShizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading...
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Danger Pays
as Jôji KondôJoe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty...
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Tsukiyo no kasa
as uncreditedHousewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in...
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Bad Girl Mako
as YasuokaPatronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night...
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Notorious Bastard
as Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission...
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Wounded Beast
as uncreditedA tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister...
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The Setting Sun
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the...
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Caribe: Symphony of Love
as Shunsuke SaichuSet in Mexico. The love story of an architect and a fashion designer. Both from Japan
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
as Kokichi YamaguchYukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that...
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High Seas Hijack
as Chief Engineer KosaiTerrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
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The Sea of Genkai
as SawakiTwo yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean...
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The First Catch
as uncreditedBased on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
as uncreditedA reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from...
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New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
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Joe of Aces: Give and Take
as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who...
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I'll End in Hell
as Joji DanJoji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico....
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The Crimson Plains
as Joji SakumaThe action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki...
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Okusama wa 18 sai: shinkon kyoshitsu
as uncreditedLaughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.
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Asiapol Secret Service
as George EatonA major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of...
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Fugitive Alien
as Captain JoeAn alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.
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Asia-Pol
as GeorgeYang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter...
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Charming Men
as Kobe SaburoOne day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea...
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The Angry Rambler
as uncreditedFourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
as uncreditedA film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
as Joe of AcesAn exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007)...
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
as uncreditedMotozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and...
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Gokudô seisen: Jihaado
as uncreditedThe first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft...
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Your Life
as uncreditedA moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.
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Nozomi Witches
as Ryotaro's fatherNozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets...
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Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
as Jo of the ColtThe fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he...
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Muhō Ichidai
as uncreditedThe movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in...
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Monk's Paradise
as uncreditedA genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.
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Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
as Captain JoeIn this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed...
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Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
as Masaki YoshiharaA biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
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JACK KNIFE Wolves' Bet
as uncreditedKojiro Shimizu challenges the work of Kenzo Kitakata, a popular writer who depicts romance,...
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Run the Beast
as uncreditedThe beast that lives in a cool man is awakening now!
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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 Killers
as uncreditedA brilliant hitman and a veteran former hitman join forces to take revenge on the murdered woman...
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Tokyo no Kodoku
as uncreditedA coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for...
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You'll Fall For Me
as uncreditedMeet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter...
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Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living
as Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.
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Again
as uncreditedAn anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie...
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Tale on Tokai Chivalry
as uncreditedThe film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation...
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Fukushu no Teio
as Kazunari InabaTatsuya Shijo was leading a blissful life with her wife and daughter. But all hell came down...
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Danger Point: The Road to Hell
as uncreditedKillers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last...
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Merciless Bullet
as Yukie's loverKiller Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the...
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Taiheiyō no katsugiya
as uncreditedTetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by...
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The Files of the Young Kindaichi
as Fujio TashiroA young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective,...
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Kimi no na wa
as 角倉勘次A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
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Wind, Clouds, and Rainbow
as GendōKaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels...
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Blitz!! Strada 5
as Takamura Terujiro / JupiterBattle between international criminal organizations and the secret team of international police...
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Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
as uncreditedA maverick man arrives at Yūhigaoka School. The drama incorporates educational issues as well as...
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Star Wolf
as Captain JoeStar Wolf is a Japanese science fiction TV series inspired by the novel series bearing the same...
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Hashire! Nekketsu Keiji
as uncreditedSet mainly in and around the Aizumi Police Station, this detective drama depicts a detective...
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Netchū Jidai: Keiji Hen
as uncreditedThe struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch.
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