Tomio Aoki
Also Known As: Томио Аоки, 突貫小僧
Biography: Tomio Aoki (October 7, 1923 in Yokohama, Japan – January 24, 2004 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan) aka Tokkan Kozō was a Japanese film actor. Aoki became famous as a child actor after debuting at the age of six in silent films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. His leading role in Ozu's 1929 short comedy Tokkan kozo gave Aoki his nickname. I Was Born, But... (1932), Passing Fancy (1933) and An Inn in Tokyo (1935) were three other Ozu films in which Aoki had notable roles. Aoki disappeared from Japanese cinema in 1940, at the age of 16, but returned to film acting in Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp (1956). During the 1960s he appeared in films for directors Seijun Suzuki and Teruo Ishii before retiring again in 1972. He again returned to the screen in 1995 in Makoto Shinozaki's Okaeri, and appeared in Suzuki's Pistol Opera (2001). He continued appearing in films, and in short comedies by Shinozaki until his death in 2004. He shared the Best Actor award at the French Three Continents Festival with two of his co-stars for Shinozaki's Not Forgotten (2000). By the time of his death, at the age of 80, Aoki had performed in over 300 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tomio Aoki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: October 07, 1923
Deathday: January 24, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
A Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa
Overview: The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-07-13
Popularity:
Pigs and Battleships
Overview: In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-21
Popularity:
Jungle Block
Overview: A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-15
Popularity:
The Burmese Harp
Overview: In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-21
Popularity:
I Was Born, But...
Overview: Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-06-03
Popularity:
Love Eternal
Overview: A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-09
Popularity:
Deka Matsuri
Overview: 12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-11
Popularity:
Kimagure tosei
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-18
Popularity:
A Story of Floating Weeds
Overview: An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-23
Popularity:
Black Dice
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
Popularity:
Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
Popularity:
Seinen no isu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-08
Popularity:
Foundry Town
Overview: Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-08
Popularity:
Apart from You
Overview: An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-04-01
Popularity:
Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-23
Popularity:
Facing to the Clouds
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:
Break Down that Wall
Overview: A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-23
Popularity:
No Blood Relation
Overview: An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-12-16
Popularity:
What Did the Lady Forget?
Overview: A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-03
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
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:
Street Without End
Overview: Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-04-26
Popularity:
Taiyō no yō ni akaruku
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-13
Popularity:
The Perfect Game
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:
The Shadow on the Wall
Overview: A blind woman suspects that something isn’t right about the reappeared wife of her brother after she was missing for 6 months. Soon things take a sinister turn.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-28
Popularity:
Passing Fancy
Overview: In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-09-07
Popularity:
The Rambler Rides Again
Overview: In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-12
Popularity:
The Thick-Walled Room
Overview: A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-31
Popularity:
Greatest Boss Of Japan
Overview: A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
Popularity:
Surging Waves
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-10-13
Popularity:
Modern Children
Overview: After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-02
Popularity:
Mother's Love Letter
Overview: Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-04-18
Popularity:
Forget Love for Now
Overview: Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-01
Popularity:
Not Forgotten
Overview: Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to fight back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-23
Popularity:
Welcome Home
Overview: Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe mental illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-02-10
Popularity:
Kokumin no chikai
Overview: This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war. A Japanese production, it was nevertheless made with German involvement in the form of skiing champion Sepp Rist and celebrated cinematographer Richard Angst (who also contributed to the script). Both had regularly worked with the inventor of the mountain film genre, Dr. Arnold Fanck, who had helmed the German-Japanese co-production "Die Tochter des Samurai", also shot by Angst, the year before. Angst apparently stayed in Japan until mid-1939 when he returned to Germany, carrying this film with him. Angst submitted it to the German censors later that year, but for reasons unknown to me it took three more years before the film was finally shown in Germany under the name "Das heilige Ziel" (The Holy Aim). (Karargara)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-11-16
Popularity:
Five Siblings
Overview: A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-07-20
Popularity:
Hitori tabi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
Popularity:
Crazy Jailbreak
Overview: A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-08
Popularity:
Moeru minamijūjisei
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
Popularity:
A Straightforward Boy
Overview: A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-11-24
Popularity:
Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
Overview:
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
Popularity:
A Man Explodes
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:
Jūdan no arashi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-02
Popularity:
Fangs of Night
Overview: A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
Popularity:
Yuganda tsuki
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-28
Popularity:
Blood for Blood
Overview: The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-10
Popularity:
Dancing Girls of Izu
Overview: A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-31
Popularity:
Hard Times
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-05-02
Popularity:
Mr. and Mrs. Swordplay
Overview: Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-01-21
Popularity:
A Hero of Tokyo
Overview: The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-03-07
Popularity:
I Flunked, But...
Overview: This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things don't work out for our roguish main character, but his classmates soon find themselves in a similarly sorry state...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-04-11
Popularity:
The Lady and the Beard
Overview: Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-02-07
Popularity:
Eclipse
Overview: The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rich Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-01
Popularity:
Chivalrous Life
Overview: In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido Federation, to which he belonged. The creditor, Izo, visited the local police station daily, worried about the safety of his boss, and himself came to the attention of the police. Izo embarks on a journey to escape, but in the meantime, the new rising yakuza Dojima plans to kill Iizuka...
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-07
Popularity:
Intimidation
Overview: Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-23
Popularity:
Walk Cheerfully
Overview: Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-03-01
Popularity:
The Strength of a Moustache
Overview: Kato's splendid mustache is an obstacle when it comes to finding a job. However, he gets a job as a security guard at a construction site. The president of the construction company tries to grow a mustache like Kato's and, failing, orders Kato to shave off his. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1931-10-16
Popularity:
Crying to the Blue Sky
Overview: After losing their parents, Eiichi and his sister Kikue are taken in by their aunt and uncle. Kikue is sent to Tokyo to work as a servant. Left alone, Eiichi wants a model airplane that a friend at school has, but finds found solace in reading the model-making instructions in a magazine that his sister sent him. One day, Eiichi gets into a fight and falls into a river, contracting pneumonia. Presumed to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-10
Popularity:
Chocolate Girl
Overview: Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-08-26
Popularity:
Burden of Life
Overview: A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-12-10
Popularity:
The Groom Talks in His Sleep
Overview: A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes back to sleep. Her neglect of daily duties starts to strain their marriage, and the couple is on the brink of divorce. However, a close friend of the husband, determined to save their relationship, introduces a hypnotist to uncover something.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-01-13
Popularity:
Walking With The Dog
Overview: Dumped by a bored pet owner, a mixed-breed mutt ends up with three time loser Yasuyuki, who's loveless, homeless and jobless. Yasuyuki finds solace in the dog, whom he calls Tamura, and uses it to mend fences with his ex, who's distracted by her mother's debilitating illness. A trip to a hospital reveals Tamura's ability to comfort dying patients, leading to dog and master attending the real-life Japanese Therapy Dogs training school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-27
Popularity:
金語楼の俺は殺し屋だ
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-16
Popularity:
A World For Two
Overview: On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled Japan fifteen years ago, Hojo Shuichi. To throw Kawase off, the man talks a female passenger, Reiko, into acting as if she was his long-time friend. When the man - who is, in fact, Hojo - secretly leaves the ship, Reiko, who has fallen for him, joins up with Kawase to go looking for him. Meanwhile, Hojo, who has returned to Japan to find the true murderer before the 15-year statute of limiitations on murder expires, tracks down the man whom he believes ordered the murder he was accused of.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-25
Popularity:
An Inn in Tokyo
Overview: An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-11-21
Popularity:
Savage Wolf Pack
Overview: A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-22
Popularity:
Fight of the Gamblers
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:
Born Under Crossed Stars
Overview: A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-25
Popularity:
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
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:
Him, Her, and the Boys
Overview: A Japanese film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-05-30
Popularity:
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
Overview: On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-27
Popularity:
The Eagle and the Hawk
Overview: In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-29
Popularity:
Children in the Wind
Overview: On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-11-11
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Rambling Guitarist
Overview: Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-11
Popularity:
Pure Emotions of the Sea
Overview: A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-28
Popularity:
The Rambler under the Southern Cross
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: 1961-01-03
Popularity:
Intentions of Murder
Overview: The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-28
Popularity:
The Young and Bad
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:
Return of the Vagabond
Overview: The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again. Of course, Noriko is in trouble. Of course, Shinji's yet another skilled rival named "Tetsu, the Gunman" comes to Sado shortly. Of course, the villain tries to kill Shinji and Tetsu. Of course, Shinji solves the problem and leaves Sado suddenly.
Genres: Music Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-23
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Will to Live
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-08
Popularity:
Take Aim at the Police Van
Overview: A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
Popularity:
Pistol Opera
Overview: An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-27
Popularity:
Youth of the Beast
Overview: When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
Popularity:
Underworld Beauty
Overview: The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-25
Popularity:
Passion and Rifle Bullets
Overview: Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-21
Popularity:
The Only Son
Overview: A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-09-15
Popularity:
A Japanese Tragedy
Overview: At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-17
Popularity:
Burden of Love
Overview: The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-18
Popularity:
The Sound of Waves
Overview: On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-29
Popularity:
I Am Waiting
Overview: A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
Popularity:
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-01
Popularity:
The Life of an Office Worker
Overview: When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-10-25
Popularity:
The Luck Which Touched the Leg
Overview: A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start borrowing money and selling him things he doesn't need, much to his wife's annoyance. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-10-03
Popularity:
An Innocent Maid
Overview: In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-01-20
Popularity:
The Call of Blood
Overview: Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
Popularity:
Temptation
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:
The Guitarist and the Rancher
Overview: Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
Popularity:
The Sky Is Mine
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-01
Popularity:
Lone Wolf
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-27
Popularity:
A Star Athlete
Overview: During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-05-01
Popularity:
The Incorrigible
Overview: Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-21
Popularity:
Frankie the Milkman
Overview: Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-12-05
Popularity:
Jûnana-sai no teikô
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:
Nishi Ginza Station
Overview: This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-29
Popularity:
The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Overview: Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-29
Popularity:
If You Throw This Child Away
Overview: If you throw this child away
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-08-08
Popularity:
With a Single Sword Bale
Overview: Period film from 1934.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-07-14
Popularity:
Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
Popularity:
Keiji monogatari jazu wa kurutchai nē
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
Popularity:
Shōjo
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
Overview: 1965 Nikkatsu youth film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-15
Popularity:
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Overview: Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-11
Popularity:
Joshiryōsai
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-06
Popularity: