Shinjirô Ehara
Lady Karuizawa
as Inspector Sakeshima(酒島警視)A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter...
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The Eleventh Hour
as YamaguchiBased on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s...
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The Ghost of the Hunchback
as Takashi YamashitaA hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as Shibiku-Shosuke Yasutaka HoriAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
as Lt. GotoA war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
as HaiyamaSecond part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Three Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as HaiyamaThe upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...
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The Story of Pure Love
as Kantaro HayakawaJunai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling...
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Tale of Army Brutality
as Tadayoshi YazakiDirector Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie
as uncreditedJust when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping...
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Father of the Kamikaze
as uncreditedVice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as Seijuro YoshiokaThe remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to...
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Outlaw: Kill!
as uncreditedGoro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as HaiyamaFinal part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
as YanagisawaA modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin...
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Invasion of the Neptune Men
as uncreditedClumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as Seijuro YoshiokaIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Blackmail Is My Life
as uncreditedThough he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the...
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Virtue in Spades
as uncreditedAdaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
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A Woman Called En
as uncreditedSet at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...
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Shadow Hunters
as uncreditedSet during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the...
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The Second Bullet is Marked
as uncreditedTsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
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Flower, Storm and Gangster
as 'Band'A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the...
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Jakoman and Tetsu
as OsakaIn a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the...
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Homicide
as Lieutenant KuribayashiThis film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of...
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All Rascals
as uncreditedIshihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named...
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Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters
as DirectorAfter the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for...
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Detective
as uncreditedThe first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a...
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Showdown at Lightning Pass
as KojiroA story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline.
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G-Men in the Pacific
as Kenji YoshiokaG-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to...
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The Naked Sun
as uncreditedA young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the...
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Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
as Narrator (voice)After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho...
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The Possessed
as uncreditedOshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply....
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The Thinking Leaf
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Kashima-nada no onna
as YoshiyukiDrama about the lives of seasonal migrant workers in Kashima
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With Songs in My Heart
as uncreditedSayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long...
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The Elder Sister
as Junichi KonnoFollows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
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Mid-August Commotion
as uncreditedA suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers...
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Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
as J2TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police...
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Thirst for Love
as ShuichiNatsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
as Yoshioka SeijuroIn the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the...
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Confessions of a Wife
as uncreditedA death occurs during a mountain-climbing expedition.
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Rascals! Go to Hell
as uncreditedA boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.
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Gang and G-Men Part 2
as uncreditedA gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that...
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Surgical Designs in Flames
as uncreditedA story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a...
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The Big Boss
as uncreditedA shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is...
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Men in a Rough Town
as Bathyscaphe SenkichiAn action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
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Lakeside Figure
as Takao YashiroA story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate...
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Travels of Lord Mito Pt.9
as uncredited9th film in the series about Lord Mito
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The Boss
as uncreditedTeruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
as KiyoAfter World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of...
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My Voiceless Friends
as uncreditedA man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country...
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
as MizuharaSabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home,...
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若さま侍捕物帖魔の死美人屋敷
as uncreditedThe daughter of the silk goods wholesaler, Sohbei Yamashiro, Oiku, was found murdered in the...
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Himalayan Wanderer
as uncreditedOne after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented...
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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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An Outlaw
as YanAssassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a...
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Rebellion from Below
as uncreditedTomu Uchida's Gyakushu Gokumon Toride is a masterpiece which treats class struggle in the end of...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Baba KurakichiGisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a...
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Express Train
as uncreditedAtsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor...
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Rice
as uncreditedA touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a...
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The Sentencer
as uncreditedA man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.
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Mito Komon Journey: Superhuman Apes
as uncreditedA series of grisly murders with strange claw marks lead Mito Komon into discovering a deadly...
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A Young Man's Stronghold
as uncreditedA 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
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Ninja Hunt
as uncreditedIt's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous...
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Case of a Young Lord 3
as uncreditedOkawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went...
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Fireball Magistrate
as uncreditedTwo guardians of the Nijo Castle, Shioya and Kamazawa, discover a map leading to a secret...
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Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō
as uncreditedChiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a...
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Shadow Hunters
as uncreditedIn the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate...
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Kusa Moeru
as Kajiwara KagetokiThe story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.
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Ronin of the Wastelands
as Shimpachi IkutaContinuing the tradition of the Yojimbo movies, Mifune Toshiro stars as Toge Kujuro, a wandering...
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Keijirō Engawa Nikki
as uncreditedThe time is the early 1800s. Keijiro Moriguchi loses his only daughter, Michiyo, in an...
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