Masaaki Honme
Also Known As: 本目雅昭
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Department: Acting
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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
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Itsudemo yume o
Overview: This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-11
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Who is in the Background?
Overview: Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi plays an active role in the death of a divine ghost in a skillful disguise. Takuya Nikaido appears in Kobe and approaches the mystery of the fake bill case.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-06
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Cruel Gun Story
Overview: Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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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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Red Handkerchief
Overview: A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-03
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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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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
Overview: Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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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
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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Gambling Kitten
Overview: Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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The Sky Is Mine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-01
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Notorious Bastard
Overview: When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind this scheme.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-03
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The Day of Youth
Overview: At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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Black Strait
Overview: Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Kage no nai yōfu
Overview: 1960 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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