Kinzō Shin
Tokyo Twilight
as Yasuo NumataTwo sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the...
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Hiroshima
as uncreditedThe film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of...
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The Castle of Sand
as Linguistics Professor KuwabaraTwo detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in...
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Revenge
as Nishida SaburobeiAn innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai...
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Princess Yang Kwei Fei
as ServantIn eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family...
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Sandakan No. 8
as Sanetaka IchijoA young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at...
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Youth of the Beast
as Shinsuke OnoderaWhen a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with...
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Giants and Toys
as Kohei YashiroNishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new...
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The Long Darkness
as Shino's fatherA delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric...
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The Diary of a Police Officer: The piggy bank is full
as uncreditedA small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group...
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Willful Murder
as uncreditedThe president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
as HatanoTajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring...
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The Inheritance
as IshimodaOn his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among...
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A Ripple in a Morning
as uncreditedAtsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in...
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The Man Without a Map
as Coffee Shop OwnerA private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is...
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The Thick-Walled Room
as KawanishiA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
as IdeWhen a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as uncreditedKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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A Billionaire
as Juji GanAn ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
as HonmeidoNear the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards...
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Conflagration
as uncreditedLearning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the...
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Captive's Island
as uncreditedSeeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he...
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Listen to the Voices of the Sea
as uncreditedThis film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese...
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The Walking Major
as Old doctorU.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan,...
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Secret of Naruto
as uncreditedFrom the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima...
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Flora on the Sand
as uncreditedOne evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into...
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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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Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun
as uncreditedA film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.
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Tower of Lilies
as uncreditedA group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the...
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The Ditch
as uncreditedPostwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid...
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The Song Lantern
as uncreditedThe title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The...
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Break Down that Wall
as Presiding JudgeA man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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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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Girl in the Glass
as Sugitaro - Yasuko's fatherThe film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating...
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Kanto Wanderer
as UdebunHandsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it....
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A Gambler's Certain Death
as uncreditedPart 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic...
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Pure White Nights
as uncredited"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the...
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Clouds at Sunset
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start...
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The Radish and the Carrot
as uncreditedOne day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled...
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
as uncreditedWith his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of...
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The Tattered Banner
as uncreditedFilm about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
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Itsudemo yume o
as uncreditedThis is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the...
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The Golden Demon
as ShigisawaTokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
as uncreditedA study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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The End of a Day
as uncreditedMilitary doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl....
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The SAKURA Code
as uncreditedCold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world.
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The War Without Weapons
as uncreditedIt's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children,...
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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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The Long Death
as Sadamichi HirasawaOn January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned...
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On This Earth
as Satomiya - teacherKanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a...
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The Makioka Sisters
as uncredited1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
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The Flesh Is Weak
as MakitaA woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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Shogun's Holiday
as uncreditedDuring the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo...
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The Soundless Cry
as JudgeShinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His...
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Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident
as uncreditedTV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to...
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The Person I Chose
as uncreditedA 1959 film directed by Hiromu Edagawa.
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Wait for Tomorrow
as uncreditedKohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given...
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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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Team of Ruffians
as Professor MochizukiPrisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
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荒木又右衛門
as 津田豊後Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but...
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Internees of Kampili
as Lawyer TakakuwaIn the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects...
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The Snowy Heron
as uncreditedThe story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a...
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Black Ninja
as uncreditedHistorical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.
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Northern City
as Kôhei KojimaNikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have...
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Distant Love
as uncreditedA romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.
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The Last Women
as YoshidaThe events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the...
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The Tale of Saikaido
as uncreditedSet in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates...
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Suna no Utsuwa
as 桐原小十郎Two police investigate the death of a corpse found in a train yard.
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