Tomo'o Nagai
Ikiru
as NewspapermanKanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Solar Eclipse
as uncreditedWhen bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion,...
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Silence
as Prisoner officialTwo Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread...
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Play It Cool
as TakasakiThis Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter...
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August without Emperor
as Defense Minister YamamuraTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...
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Black River
as Okada (uncredited)A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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To Trap a Kidnapper
as uncreditedHideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from...
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Facing to the Clouds
as uncreditedA rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet...
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Diary of a Mad Old Man
as uncreditedUtsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke,...
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Blood Type: Blue
as uncreditedUFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned...
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Sing, Young People
as HiraiA story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of...
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The Love of the Actress Sumako
as uncreditedThe stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the...
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The Thick-Walled Room
as uncreditedA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
as uncreditedAn ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of...
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Three Faces of Love
as Lawyer OguraWhen a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
as uncreditedComing out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang...
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The Spy
as uncreditedBased on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped...
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3,000 Kilometer Trap
as uncreditedA young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the...
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The Scarlet Camellia
as uncreditedA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because...
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The Wild Sea
as OgakiYoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro,...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
as Kenkichi KimuraA youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Presiding judgeGisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a...
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Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
as uncredited[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni...
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Smashing the 0-Line
as ImaizumiKatiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and...
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
as uncreditedA nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of...
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The Lowest Man
as KunihiroA young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his...
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The Burdened Sisters
as Father EizoObscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
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The Time of Reckoning
as uncredited"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful...
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Typhoon
as uncreditedA group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has...
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Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves
as uncreditedThe sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He...
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Fall of the Shogun's Militia
as uncreditedKondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national...
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The Seasons of Love
as HirakawaA family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman...
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Ten Dark Women
as uncreditedKaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him....
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Patterns of Love
as IkenagaOmnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
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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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Mist and Shadows
as uncreditedThe film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale...
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Love Stopped the Runaway Train
as uncreditedBased on a novel by Ayako Miura.
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Men in a Rough Town
as Detective IshiiAn action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
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Messengers to Satsuma
as uncreditedBy all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven...
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Stepbrothers
as The regimental commanderIn a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal,...
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1
as uncreditedThe classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he...
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Kemono Michi
as uncreditedThe drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world...
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