Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 20, 1935
Deathday: November 05, 1995
Popularity:
1962-01-14
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
Popularity:
1988-08-13
Overview: A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers. They're sick of heavy-handed teachers and iron-fisted parents. And now they're going to do something about it.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-13
Popularity:
1960-10-22
Overview: A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's major islands, to Hokkaido, it's northernmost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-22
Popularity:
1961-03-27
Overview: A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases, ranging from extortion, to drunken fathers, to corruption and even the persecution of a man who claims to be an alien. This entertaining film shows these cops with a human heart with humor.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-27
Popularity:
1962-03-25
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
Popularity:
1962-04-18
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-18
Popularity:
1973-11-17
Overview: Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-17
Popularity:
1962-05-01
Overview: A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-01
Popularity:
1973-02-17
Overview: The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon. He is on the trail of a narcotics smuggler (Mikio Narita) and his beautiful contact (Haruko Wanibuchi). Watari meets a former gangster (Yujiro Ishihara) who is seeking revenge against Narita, his former partner. Watari and Ishihara become allies and hijack the dope shipment. But Narita threatens the life of Haruko, who turns out to be Ishihara's sister, and demands the dope in return for the girl.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-17
Popularity:
1977-12-24
Overview: The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again... this time with a beautiful college student Masako.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-24
Popularity:
1960-09-28
Overview: A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an artificial lake.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-28
Popularity:
1958-11-11
Overview: College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-11
Popularity:
1970-02-07
Overview: Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuchi, a steady customer, had been quite friendly with Sawako and may know something. Tabuchi claims he knows nothing and Kagari lets the matter drop. Over time Kagari learns from Takijima, a businessman, that Sawako is in a hospital in Yokohama. Takijima explains that he found her in Singapore working as a street girl and brought her back to Japan. Sawako had lost her memory after being subjected to narcotics. Kagari swears to find the person responsible.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-07
Popularity:
1957-07-03
Overview: Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-03
Popularity:
1966-03-27
Overview: A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-27
Popularity:
1963-04-28
Overview:
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
Popularity:
1959-04-28
Overview: Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical treatment. In Tokyo, Kensaku visits his mother Kaneko who left her son years ago. She now owns an exclusive club and has a son, Isao, with the president of Kobe Concern. Isao plots to steal Kensuke's farm as part of a land development scheme with Fukiko's husband. Without knowing they are blood related, their conflict over the farm intensifies.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
Popularity:
1969-07-19
Overview: A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-19
Popularity:
1962-10-06
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-06
Popularity:
1962-11-03
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
Popularity:
1966-12-24
Overview: A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hachiro begins to investigate the cause of his older sister Sumiko's suicide. While Hachiro was in juvenile detention, Sumiko committed suicide, but there are too many mysteries surrounding this suicide...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-24
Popularity:
1959-04-08
Overview: Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His school friend is involved in the case, and Akira also becomes the target of villains...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-08
Popularity:
1962-12-16
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
Popularity:
1970-08-12
Overview: In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocked the referee down. Tagami lived with his wife and five children, but when he returned home, Hara, who had been suspended for a month, wanted to receive Tagami's Subaruta training.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-12
Popularity:
1968-03-01
Overview: Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-01
Popularity:
1963-12-25
Overview: Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-25
Popularity:
1968-01-13
Overview: The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
Popularity:
1958-06-29
Overview: Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-29
Popularity:
1964-08-14
Overview: A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-14
Popularity:
1972-02-05
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-05
Popularity:
1965-05-26
Overview: When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-26
Popularity:
1962-07-15
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-15
Popularity:
1959-09-13
Overview: While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-13
Popularity:
1957-04-03
Overview: Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-03
Popularity:
1965-03-20
Overview: After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a life of sincerity and love of the younger generation, and love but parting, in this lyrical and melancholy touching story of Ishizaka literature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-20
Popularity:
1979-03-03
Overview: Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
Popularity:
1957-12-15
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
Popularity:
1963-11-10
Overview: A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-10
Popularity:
1977-05-21
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-21
Popularity:
1960-05-28
Overview: An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-28
Popularity:
1963-07-14
Overview: In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-14
Popularity:
1961-08-16
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-16
Popularity:
1959-08-02
Overview: Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-02
Popularity:
1977-03-14
Overview: In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-14
Popularity:
1972-03-12
Overview: Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-12
Popularity:
1962-01-14
Overview: A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
Popularity:
1960-08-16
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-16
Popularity:
1962-09-09
Overview: Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-09
Popularity:
1957-07-14
Overview: Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-07-14
Popularity:
1962-08-12
Overview: Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
Popularity:
1961-05-22
Overview: Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-22
Popularity:
1955-05-29
Overview: Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives become intertwined...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-05-29
Popularity:
1961-09-10
Overview: Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-10
Popularity:
1956-09-11
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-09-11
Popularity:
1973-07-13
Overview: In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-13
Popularity:
1969-03-14
Overview: Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent to take sides. At a department store nearby, he sees an elevator lady being harassed by a couple of hoodlums. Goro decides to intervene. Unbeknownst to him, the hoodlums are Touyu-kai members – and the girl has strong ties with the opposing family.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-14
Popularity:
1980-08-02
Overview: Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-08-02
Popularity:
1956-03-21
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-21
Popularity:
1957-09-22
Overview: Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-22
Popularity:
1975-02-01
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-01
Popularity:
1958-10-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-01
Popularity:
1960-08-27
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-27
Popularity:
1959-02-04
Overview: A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-04
Popularity:
1958-01-29
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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:
1958-07-22
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-22
Popularity:
1955-12-27
Overview: The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-27
Popularity:
1970-03-07
Overview:
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-07
Popularity:
1960-01-16
Overview: A 1960 crime film
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-16
Popularity:
1961-01-27
Overview: Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the editor-in-chief of “Kokuikai” (Aviation World), was on Tetsuji's side. Tetsuji questions Jim, but Jim refuses to tell him anything, and the atmosphere turns sour. At that moment, Yosuke Sugie, a former classmate of Tetsuji's at the Civil Aviation College, enters the office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-27
Popularity:
1957-02-06
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-06
Popularity:
1970-02-28
Overview: The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-28
Popularity: