Sanae Nakahara
May Love Be Restored
as OshinA tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
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Lady Snowblood
as Okono KitahamaYuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
as Todano tsuboneThis is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...
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Pigs and Battleships
as HiromiIn the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as KikueAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song
as Akiko InagakiNami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Shizuko MurataWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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Shogun's Samurai
as Lady KusagaFollowing the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by...
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Cops vs. Thugs
as uncreditedWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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Play It Cool
as MadameThis Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
as NobuIn the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as uncreditedThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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Endless Desire
as RyukoSet in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
as HisanoThe eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
as uncreditedAmidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...
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The Tokyo Mighty Guy
as RirakoMega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a...
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I, the Executioner
as Keiko HashimotoPolice investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage...
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Writhing Tongue
as SadaeMasako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
as Kazama's sisterComing out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang...
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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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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
as Mrs. OchiA war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for...
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
as KyokoSabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home,...
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Smashing the 0-Line
as Saeki ReikoKatiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and...
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Kanto Wanderer
as Yamada HanakoHandsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it....
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Shinran: Path to Purity
as uncreditedIn the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...
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Frankie the Milkman
as HatsuRoppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out...
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The Threat
as Mother of the babyTwo escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an...
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Nomugi Pass
as uncreditedThe story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early...
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The Rambling Guitarist
as SumikoArriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the...
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Red Paper Lantern
as uncreditedA young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their...
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Shiroi natsu
as uncreditedHey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received...
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That Guy and I
as uncreditedAsada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's...
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Ningen Gari
as uncreditedA detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations...
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Wait for Tomorrow
as Setsuko KajiwaraKohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given...
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Murahachibu
as uncreditedA villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
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Crimson Wings
as Yumie NaganumaAt about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown...
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
as Maki KuramotoAlso known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant...
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Warrior of the Wind
as OyumiA suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as Ruka UmebayashiFormer boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow...
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Female Ninja Magic
as OyuiIn Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's...
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Temptation
as Mitsuko SakuragiShokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an...
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The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
as uncreditedJapanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.
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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 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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The Baby Carriage
as uncreditedUpon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
as OryôFifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman...
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If You Were Young: Rage
as uncreditedIf You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on...
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Sequel: Secret Report From A Women's Prison
as uncreditedJapanese crime film
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Judo Showdown
as ToneIn the end of 19th century Japan, followers of judo and jujitsu battle for supremacy in Japanese...
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Streetlights
as 九里目鳥子A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally...
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Song of the Devil
as uncreditedBakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take...
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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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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
as uncreditedThe Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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Joe of Aces: Give and Take
as uncreditedAgainst the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who...
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Murder on the Sanriku Coast
as Keiko AizawaA travel writer on an assignment comes across a murder, tries and fails to chase down the...
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Farewell to Southern Tosa
as uncreditedStory of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
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The Law's Bloody Wounds
as uncreditedAn action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who...
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Memory & Desire
as Mrs KurodaSayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's...
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Red Pier
as MamiShortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
as uncreditedInspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace...
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The Seasons of Love
as HarueA family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman...
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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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Secrets of a Woman's Temple
as uncreditedA woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could...
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Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat
as uncreditedSixth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
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Phoenix
as uncreditedEmi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the...
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The Cannery Boat
as NatsuDescribes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily...
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Unripe Fruit
as uncreditedA youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on...
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Lily Festival
as Teruko SatoyamaSachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes...
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Sex Peddlers
as uncreditedA young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion....
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Catastrophe
as uncreditedA Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
as uncreditedAbout an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized...
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Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
as uncreditedThe film focuses on the romantic life of Tetsu (Watari), the drifter, and the girls he loves but...
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Saijo katagi
as AtsukoSet in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story...
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Nonchan no yume
as 結城すみ江（操の母）The 40th NHK Asadora starring Fujita Tomoko. It is about a woman who struggles to survive after...
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Tange Sazen
as OfujiThe loyal Sōma clan samurai Tange Samanosuke is attacked and mutilated as the result of a...
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Hikarugake
as uncreditedThe drama depicts the fateful meeting and falling in love between a man living in the glamorous...
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