Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 20, 1945
Deathday: May 16, 1991
Popularity:
1982-01-26
Overview:
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-26
Popularity:
1974-01-03
Overview: Since the arrival of the Black Ships, the Tokugawa Shogunate's dream of peace has been shattered, and the succession problem of the ailing Shogun Iesada has become a headache. At the same time, Tamamo, a prostitute in Yoshiwara, is dismissed from her position at the behest of a high-ranking noble family who has come on a secret mission.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-03
Popularity:
1976-06-12
Overview: A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady enter a room where a clown awaited her and watched as he pleasured her. But she spotted him watching and it aroused her more. Thus begins a story of two people who find they share similar desires and deadly passions.
Genres: Romance Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-12
Popularity:
1976-01-08
Overview: Sisterhood is powerful. Before leaving for a mission in Africa, Runa, a nun, visits her sister three years after entering the convent when her sister stole Runa's boyfriend. Runa comes to forgive and to help her sister make enough money buying and selling some convent property so she can marry. The old boyfriend has new women in his life, but he and the sister tell Runa they're a couple in order to keep the property deal. To make even more money, Runa's sister wheedles large gifts from various men she's stringing along. There are flashbacks to Runa's sexual awakening at the convent. But what are her real reasons to close this deal?
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-08
Popularity:
1988-08-27
Overview: A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer’s novels and recruits thieves, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies on stage for the delectation of his rich, jaded friends. In search of new sensations the nobleman orders one of the actors, on pain of death, to make love to the nobleman’s wife while he watches. Unfortunately, this incursion of real life into his fantasy world will have dire consequences for the count and his divinely decadent coterie.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-08-27
Popularity:
1977-07-09
Overview: After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-09
Popularity:
1985-11-09
Overview: Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-11-09
Popularity:
1985-05-25
Overview: Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-05-25
Popularity:
1990-09-15
Overview: After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-15
Popularity:
1978-12-02
Overview: After meeting an artist who specializes in the practice of BDSM a married couple decides to spice up their marriage with a little bit of doggie training. Woof. Woof.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-02
Popularity:
1977-02-12
Overview: Asami Ogawa in her first leading role as an office lady with a healthy sexual appetite who grows bored with the limited choices that society offers her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-12
Popularity:
1974-06-29
Overview: A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-29
Popularity:
1976-12-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-01
Popularity:
1979-09-22
Overview: A bored office clerk is having an affair with her married boss. Since he refuses to leave his wife, she and another couple plan to kidnap his daughter to collect a ransom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-22
Popularity:
1974-09-21
Overview: It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Eroticism, drama, and comedy mix as each hour a different event passes, in which all the women's stories come to the surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-21
Popularity:
1973-12-15
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-15
Popularity:
1973-12-05
Overview: A female teacher at a high school. Perhaps because of her germaphobia, she was still single and devoted herself to her education without even thinking about marriage. However, she often hit her students, which resulted in repeated protests from her vice principal and parents...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-05
Popularity:
1973-11-20
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-20
Popularity:
1974-10-26
Overview: Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), is mistakenly ushered into the back entrance of a woman's house one rainy night. When he finds out that her husband is away at war in Russia he tries to take advantage of the situation. Her honor is saved when he discovers she is wearing a chastity belt. But she is lonely and she has the key...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-26
Popularity:
1974-10-05
Overview: A yakuza plot goes terribly wrong. This involves a soon-to-be bride.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-05
Popularity:
1974-08-03
Overview: An older nightclub hostess has to choose between a relationship with her loser boyfriend who owes the yakuza money and a music producer who wants to make her a star.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-03
Popularity:
1974-06-22
Overview: The lives and loves of several prostitutes are shown on the night the Prostitution Prevention Law goes into effect and criminalizes their profession.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-22
Popularity:
1974-06-08
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-08
Popularity:
1974-02-06
Overview: The dull and disappointing life of an office lady is enlivened when she meets hot younger lover. But in order to keep him and feed his gambling obsession she resorts to crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-06
Popularity:
1975-07-23
Overview: A high school girl’s affair with a college aged tutor is thwarted by her new step-mother. Sent to live with her aunt she must contend with delinquent students and a seemly cruel world.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-23
Popularity:
1975-05-01
Overview: The movie takes place in four periods: the first, a group of female Christians are raped and crucified in 18th century Japan. The second deals with a man who beats his cheating wife and her lover. The third, is set in WW2 where inquisition soldiers torture, rape and abuse female traitors, and the fourth story deals with soldiers raping and abusing suspected female spies.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-01
Popularity:
1975-01-14
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-14
Popularity:
1975-01-14
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-14
Popularity:
1976-01-08
Overview:
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-08
Popularity:
1977-07-23
Overview: The amorous adventures of three shellfish divers who live and work in a rural fishing village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-23
Popularity:
1976-05-15
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-15
Popularity:
1976-09-08
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-08
Popularity:
1977-01-22
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
Popularity:
1977-05-07
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-07
Popularity:
1977-06-25
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-25
Popularity:
1978-08-05
Overview: A film adaptation of Koichiro Uno's original work that depicts the madness and debauchery that unfolds in a nurses' dormitory where men are strictly prohibited.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-08-05
Popularity:
1974-08-28
Overview: A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-28
Popularity:
1983-09-16
Overview: An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter and a visiting randy couple. But then the part-time lovers of the couple show up and complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-16
Popularity:
1985-09-14
Overview: The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhiko who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling police detective Kumashiro. The Tenryu Gumi is a collection of misfits and other troublemakers but are relatively peaceful due to their Christian beliefs. Their bitter rivals are the more traditional "Kuroiwa Gumi", a much more sadistic and violent group led by godfather Kuroiwa.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-09-14
Popularity:
1976-09-15
Overview: A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-15
Popularity:
1977-02-23
Overview: A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-23
Popularity:
1988-01-23
Overview: The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-23
Popularity:
1976-02-14
Overview: The sequel depicts Yuki's love affair with a young brothel owner who was once a Noh singer, and his complicated relationship with a woman who follows him around. Their love triangle nearly dissolves in Yuki's favour, but takes a sudden turn after an intervention of a perverted painter who believes in fatalism.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-14
Popularity:
1983-01-15
Overview: An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-15
Popularity:
1988-01-15
Overview: A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-15
Popularity:
1985-08-24
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-24
Popularity:
1979-12-01
Overview: A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-01
Popularity:
1977-02-11
Overview: Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-11
Popularity:
1976-10-01
Overview: Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-01
Popularity:
1975-10-14
Overview: In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-14
Popularity:
1980-11-21
Overview: A high school girl has a very very bad day. She is disciplined for disrupting class and sent to clean lab equipment. Feeling horny she uses a phallic looking test tube to pleasure herself. Unfortunately a passing teacher spots her and proceeds to further discipline her with additional equipment. She suffers as a parade of teachers dish out a variety of humiliations one after another. Finally escaping to home she finds her trials are not over as her parents decide to give her a rather perverse sexual education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-11-21
Popularity:
1981-01-15
Overview: The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-15
Popularity:
1974-02-16
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-16
Popularity:
1978-09-02
Overview: Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title) and goes down the stairs to self-destruction step by step.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-02
Popularity:
1978-02-04
Overview: A policewoman is attacked, handcuffed and raped while on night patrol. Rather than report the incident, she decides to find and punish the rapist herself.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-02-04
Popularity:
1982-04-09
Overview: Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
Popularity:
1977-04-23
Overview: Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the Minamoto Clan. When the Taira Clan had met ignominious defeat at the hands of Yoshitsuné, Kenreimon-in had jumped into the sea with her son, the infant Emperor, but only she had been rescued by Yoshitsuné. A rough-hewn warrior, Yoshitsuné had taken her by force until he awakened an answering love in the Empress with his chamber techniques.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-23
Popularity:
1970-10-24
Overview: Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-24
Popularity:
1980-04-29
Overview: A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-29
Popularity:
1974-12-28
Overview: Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
Popularity:
1984-06-12
Overview: A woman's life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-06-12
Popularity:
1984-02-11
Overview: An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-11
Popularity:
1971-09-29
Overview: On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet Japan's Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to shoot a newsreel film promoting the Palestinian resistance. Conceived as a ‘declaration of world war’ that implicates us all, the directors capture the everyday banality of military training and preparation exercises for imminent battle.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-29
Popularity:
1983-12-27
Overview: After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke decides to take his revenge on them. As Eisuke has no relatives, he is taken in by Keiko, who keeps an eye out for him due to his unusual behavior. One day, Eisuke breaks into the loan company with an improvised gun. In the moment, Keiko ends up becoming Eisuke's accomplice and helps him succeed in the robbery. However, the two are surprised when they hear something on the TV news that differs from the truth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-27
Popularity:
1991-12-07
Overview: A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence. The film is based on an autobiographical novel written by Kyuzo Sasayama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-12-07
Popularity:
1975-11-22
Overview: A tragicomedy that happened to three couples who switched partners, turning sex into a simple game to break off marital relations, gripped by a painful mood!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-22
Popularity:
1977-10-29
Overview: A high school boy with violent impulsive tendencies begins a troubled relationship with an older woman he sees at a funeral.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
Popularity:
1975-08-09
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-09
Popularity:
1981-06-06
Overview: After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-06-06
Popularity:
1974-11-22
Overview: A young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-22
Popularity:
1967-12-01
Overview: Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by artificial insemination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-01
Popularity:
1982-08-10
Overview: While Ryoko is in Vienna studying music, her boyfriend dies in a traffic accident. Ryoko believes that she has psychic powers which killed him, and when she returns to Japan she is sent to a mental hospital. While recovering, her brother-in-law, Kouji, decides to look after her, and she goes to his house to act as a governess for Kouji's sister Keiko's daughter, Alice – who Ryoko becomes increasingly sure had something to do with her sister Fuyuko’s death.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-10
Popularity:
1976-09-04
Overview: Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-04
Popularity:
1978-05-20
Overview: When a poor student can’t pay his bill at a snack bar a mysterious woman pays it for him. She ends up taking a room at the boarding house where he lives. With her lively personality she becomes erotically involved with all the residents living there and helps with their various sexual problems.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-05-20
Popularity:
1975-10-18
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-18
Popularity:
1975-03-21
Overview: A story about a female reporter investigating sex workers in Shinjuku.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-21
Popularity:
1985-06-08
Overview: Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Though her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in helping a man wrongfully accused of murder and in the process discovers love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-08
Popularity:
1973-02-12
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-12
Popularity: