Wataru Kobayashi
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Cape of the North
1976-04-03
Cape of the North
Overview: A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-03
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Black Dice
1962-03-25
Black Dice
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
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The Angry Rambler
1960-11-16
The Angry Rambler
Overview: Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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Newlywed Hell
1975-12-06
Newlywed Hell
Overview: Yuki returns to her hometown after several years. She has been away ever since the tragic events surrounding her abusive older husband. While in town she barely escapes the sexual advances of an old friend and accidentally comes across a scene that repels and excites her. Through an open doorway she spies a woman bound with rope. Thus begins her descent into the world of submission and pleasure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-12-06
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True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues
1975-07-01
True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues
Overview: "Jealous" man-killer Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue) is sent back into solitary confinement after being re-arrested for the murder of the doctor who fingered her for a botched surgery. After emerging from solitary confinement to find an all-new gang of bullies picking on a meek, young female prisoner, Mayumi is now a much harder soul who takes no attitude from anyone, and she turns savage when the poor girl is enslaved by Yakuza.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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The Long Darkness
1972-05-25
The Long Darkness
Overview: A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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The Rambler Goes North
1962-01-03
The Rambler Goes North
Overview: In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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Records of Bloodshed
1970-06-10
Records of Bloodshed
Overview: Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of Kurahata, a member of the Yakuza who doesn't like him.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-10
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Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
1961-09-23
Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
Overview: Strife between competing lumber mills.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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Kindan: Seifuku no modae
1976-03-19
Kindan: Seifuku no modae
Overview: A high school girl has a secret crush on her older cousin. When he has an accident mountain climbing she decides to give herself to him. He roughly tries to take advantage of her pure love and she runs away. Later she discovers that an older woman has been paying him for his intimate attentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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The Rambler in the Sunset
1960-07-01
The Rambler in the Sunset
Overview: The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town while encountering the sinister rival, Masa "the pistol guy".
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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Akasen Honmoku chabuya no onna
1975-01-25
Akasen Honmoku chabuya no onna
Overview: Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-25
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Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
1962-10-21
Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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Women Smell of Night
1970-12-06
Women Smell of Night
Overview: A 1970 crime film.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-06
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The Sands of Kurobe
1968-03-01
The Sands of Kurobe
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
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Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
1975-04-26
Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
Overview: In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid, travels to Tokyo to visit her brother. Unaware that her brother has become involved in anti-governmental activities and left the city, the two women are captured, raped and tortured by the military police. Two years later, during the war, the government confiscates Yumiko's estate, turning it into a torture chamber for the inquisition of prisoners. Yumiko and her maid are among those who are subjected to sexual indignities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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True Story of a Woman in Jail: Sex Hell
1975-03-05
True Story of a Woman in Jail: Sex Hell
Overview: A nurse is framed for medical malpractice. In prison she meets the boss of their cell who is in for a crime of passion. They both have a reason to escape... revenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963-01-27
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Overview: Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-27
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Tattooed Life
1965-11-13
Tattooed Life
Overview: After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-13
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Light of Africa
1975-06-21
Light of Africa
Overview: Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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Branded to Kill
1967-06-15
Branded to Kill
Overview: After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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Blind Woman's Curse
1970-06-20
Blind Woman's Curse
Overview: Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
Genres: Crime Horror Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-20
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The Guys Who Put Money on Me
1962-12-09
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
Overview: An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-09
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Tokyo Drifter
1966-04-10
Tokyo Drifter
Overview: After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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Fighting Elegy
1966-11-09
Fighting Elegy
Overview: Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Genres: Comedy Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-09
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Okasareru
1976-07-31
Okasareru
Overview: A husband runs a jewelry store, supported by his serious and chaste wife. It was an ordinary and peaceful marriage. One day, the husband was threatened by a man acting like a yakuza and wanted to sell smuggled, irregular jewelry at the store. When the husband could not refuse complications ensued.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-07-31
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The Man with a Shotgun
1961-06-03
The Man with a Shotgun
Overview: Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-03
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Teenage Yakuza
1962-06-20
Teenage Yakuza
Overview: A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Outlaw: Kill!
1969-03-14
Outlaw: Kill!
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
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The Naked Seven
1972-12-27
The Naked Seven
Overview: Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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Oryu's Passion: Bondage Skin
1975-06-18
Oryu's Passion: Bondage Skin
Overview: When the boss of a yakuza clan in 1920s Osaka is assassinated, Oryu, his mistress, vows revenge. Her search for the killer takes her out of the city. The old boss' son proves a poor leader, only interested in Omitsu, his high-class girlfriend. Yajima, the second-in-command, is taking advantage of the situation to accumulate power for himself...
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-18
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The Slave Wife
1976-06-12
The Slave Wife
Overview: An arrogant and privileged lady of wealth finds she is in need of a loan. The man who offers to help her was a former chauffeur who she had mistreated and fired. Seeing his chance for revenge he captures her and subjects her to various humiliations and abuse.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-12
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The Devil's Sigh
1960-01-09
The Devil's Sigh
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-09
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961-12-01
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
Overview: A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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