Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1943-10-07
Overview: Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast furnaces that prevent increased production. The film was shot on location at the actual Yawata Steel Works for an extended period of time, and special effects were created using a miniature blast furnace that closely reproduces the actual one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-10-07
Popularity:
1951-03-31
Overview: Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-03-31
Popularity:
1951-05-05
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-05
Popularity:
1951-05-18
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-05-18
Popularity:
1950-03-07
Overview: A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-07
Popularity:
1950-11-04
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-04
Popularity:
1950-11-18
Overview: Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-18
Popularity:
1960-11-16
Overview: Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-16
Popularity:
1956-01-15
Overview: A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
Popularity:
1956-03-21
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-21
Popularity:
1954-01-15
Overview: 1954 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-15
Popularity:
1957-10-15
Overview: The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling against the contradictions of feudal society.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-15
Popularity:
1966-08-01
Overview: Pinku from 1966.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-01
Popularity:
1967-04-01
Overview: A girl, whose parents were humiliated and killed by a policeman for suspected spy action during the war in China, takes revenge by torturing and then shooting him, the killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-01
Popularity:
1939-12-20
Overview: Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-20
Popularity:
1968-08-14
Overview: Jun Aisaka seduces one woman after another. His victims were flirtatious married woman Noriko, student Keiko, widow Mitsuko and dancer Rumi. As a result, he ends up in prison, but after escaping with another prisoner, he continues his criminal adventures with a partner. It is clear that this will not end well. Moreover, a couple of detectives are already on the trail of the criminals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
Popularity:
1956-08-22
Overview: 1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-22
Popularity:
1965-05-01
Overview: The pinku version of the famous ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-01
Popularity:
1965-10-01
Overview: Pinku from 1965.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
Popularity:
1957-12-28
Overview: Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
Popularity:
1943-01-03
Overview: War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-01-03
Popularity:
1954-01-03
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-03
Popularity:
1973-04-01
Overview: Shohei Yamamoto, a man whose marriage proposal was rejected because of his low educational background. From then on, he hated all women and seduced and assaulted them one after another in revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-01
Popularity:
1973-09-01
Overview: A widow who became extremely telepathic through a strange sex ritual. What she sees in her old hand mirror that reflects tomorrow's fate is a unique work. Hiroko Fuji is her telepath, Naomi Tani is her colleague who is given her unfortunate prophecy, and Rima Aoyama is her successor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-01
Popularity:
1959-12-06
Overview:
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-06
Popularity:
1938-09-18
Overview: This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an 80-minute compilation of the first (東海道の巻 or "Tokaido no maki") and second (日本晴れの巻 or "Japan's Fine Weather Reel") parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-09-18
Popularity:
1955-03-29
Overview: Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-29
Popularity:
1967-05-31
Overview: A young wife is murdered by her husband who drugged her and left her on a railway. Her severed head soon starts to exact revenge on the murderer.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-31
Popularity:
1968-05-28
Overview: Masako, the young lady of the family estate, returning from overseas following the death of her diplomat father. She had originally left in opposition to his second marriage to the avaricious Tomoko, who now parades her new lover Goro around the house as if it were her own. When the family lawyer informs the gathered masses that it is Masako who is the legal inheritor of the entire estate, her elder sister Sumie and fiance Shinjiro join Tomoko and Goro in hacking up the unfortunate heiress with an axe. It is not long before the assorted pieces of Masako begin cropping up to drive them all insane, followed by her apparition in the traditional white smock with eyes peering wildly through straggly black hair.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-28
Popularity:
1952-09-25
Overview: Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-25
Popularity:
1961-05-17
Overview: 1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-17
Popularity:
1953-06-15
Overview: The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-15
Popularity:
1950-11-11
Overview: Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance, he apprehends a criminal and reconnects with his former colleague, Sakamoto, leading him to become a security guard at a film studio. Haruko, secretly a singer, rises to stardom within the same studio. Unbeknownst to each other, they both work there. As the studio faces turmoil, their hidden identities are unveiled...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-11
Popularity:
1949-08-16
Overview: Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips in Tokyo's Ginza nightlife district.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-16
Popularity:
1952-04-04
Overview: In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-04
Popularity:
1937-05-11
Overview: Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-11
Popularity:
1937-08-11
Overview: Japanese film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-11
Popularity:
1955-04-24
Overview: A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
Popularity:
1968-01-01
Overview: Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent on committing suicide. The two embark on a passionate and violent affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-01
Popularity:
1963-04-25
Overview: Early pinku.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-25
Popularity:
1970-12-01
Overview: Pinku from 1970.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-01
Popularity:
1968-04-01
Overview: Set in the Edo Era, the film opens with a group of women being convicted of various crimes. The rest of the film is given to graphic depiction of the tortures the women endure as part of their sentences.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-01
Popularity:
1956-07-31
Overview: A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-31
Popularity:
1969-04-01
Overview: Pinku from 1969.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-01
Popularity:
1967-01-01
Overview: Pinku from 1967.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-01
Popularity:
1964-05-01
Overview: Early pinku.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-01
Popularity:
1969-01-01
Overview: Pinku from 1969.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Popularity:
1969-03-01
Overview: A love affair in which a gangster who makes married women cry risks his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-01
Popularity:
1968-01-01
Overview: Pinku from 1968.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-01
Popularity:
1969-02-04
Overview: Pinku from 1969.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-04
Popularity:
1941-11-30
Overview: This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-11-30
Popularity:
1939-02-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-02-01
Popularity:
1941-03-26
Overview: A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-03-26
Popularity:
1949-08-23
Overview: Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-23
Popularity:
1941-05-21
Overview: Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin. His brother (Kazuo Hasegawa) vowed vengeance on the day of his brother's death. So every year the villains are worried during the Awa Dance Festival (which is part of the Obon festival), but nothing has ever happened, until seven years later...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-21
Popularity:
1969-01-01
Overview: Pinku from 1969.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-01
Popularity:
1940-08-14
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-08-14
Popularity:
1957-07-30
Overview: Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the owner of the Matsukawa troupe, she grew up without knowing the love of her mother. She has been on stage since she was a child, but oneday she cried and complained to her father, and she stopped going to school. In a mock exams, Kanako overtook her classmate Tetsuji to take the lead. That evening, Kanako went to the Yasue Theater in the neighboring town with Eikichi, and saw the affair of her stepmother, Yumi, who should have been resting due to her illness. The man ran away in a hurry, and Yumi confessed that Kanako's mother, Miyako, had also run away for the same reason...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-30
Popularity:
1951-11-02
Overview: After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-02
Popularity:
1961-09-02
Overview: A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman pursuing a man's dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-02
Popularity:
1968-11-01
Overview: Pink film distributed by Roppo Eiga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-01
Popularity:
1968-08-01
Overview: Pink film distributed by Roppo Eiga.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
Popularity:
1954-11-08
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-08
Popularity: