Tamio Kawachi
Also Known As: Tamio Kawaji, Тамио Кавати
Biography: Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: July 21, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 10, 2018
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
Overview: An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-22
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Jidanya
Overview: Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the insurance companies to avoid time-consuming legal actions that could come when no settlement is reached (while cheating both parties out of some piece of the settlement pay). Genkichi is a well versed old-timer, that sees how his freshly out of collage son struggles to fit into the business, while at the same time facing one of his lowest rivals in a car crash incident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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The History of Yakuza Struggles in Kyushu - The Ogura War
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant
Overview: Set many years after the end of the original Ultraman Tiga series, in which Daigo Madoka (human host of Ultraman Tiga) has a son with Rena, named Tsubasa Madoka. Tsubasa is a member of a new team, Neo Super GUTS, the successor to the original Super GUTS.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-25
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Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
Overview: Once again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes to defeat Scropis. Musashi has joined Team Sea to save the Blue Area. But there is mysterious evil monster, Sandros, who wants to destroy the Earth. Now it is up Musashi and Ultraman Cosmos to defeat Sandros and who’s the other Ultraman?
Genres: Action Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-08-02
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Gozu
Overview: Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-13
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Overview: Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-09
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Seishun no kaze
Overview: A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Overview: Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
Overview: Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in love with such a man...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
Overview: A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don't play along, which pisses Gokudo off. Things get worse when he starts helping a young teacher and Bunta has a crush on a pretty girl... and unbeknownst to them it's the same woman! Yes, the film has not one but two romantic subplots! Of course it all ends in bloodshed.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-31
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The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
Overview: Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. After serving four and a half years in prison, Masa and his brother Katsuji leave Kobe to go to Nagoya to help a hostess get her daughter back from her mother. As they arrive in Nagoya, they get into a scuffle with the local yakuza affiliate. Sugawara and Kawaji's chemistry is even more evident here than usual, the storyline is alright if melodramatic. Delightful start with Tatsuo Endo as a nice guy prison guard! How many times have you seen that? And we got Kyosuke Machida (henchman) with cool beard and the always good Tsunehiko Watase (young hood) on board as well. One of the best films in the series.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Conquest 11
Overview: The eleventh film in the 'Conquest' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-30
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Conquest 10
Overview: The tenth film in the 'Conquest' series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-17
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Hana no saigetsu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-28
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Road to the Don 23
Overview: The twenty-third 'Road to the Don' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-10
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Fighting Knife Yoshi
Overview: Kazuki spends his days training to leave his home town and become the best cook in Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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Bad Guys Only
Overview: A one shot game setup by lonely outlaws!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-14
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Sakura no daimon: chi no hōshū
Overview: The battle for life begins now; who will survive? A clash that transcends the boundaries between police and the yakuza.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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Road to New Don
Overview: The first 'Road to New Don' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-15
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Road to New Don 2
Overview: The second 'Road to New Don' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-17
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A Gangster's Morals
Overview: Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-24
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Kegareta daimon: kanketsu-hen
Overview: Kegareta daimon sequel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-29
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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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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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Story of a Prostitute
Overview: Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-27
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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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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Overview: An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses his unprecedented skills of fast shooting and karate secrets!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-11
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Shura ga Yuku 9
Overview: The 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at the top of the gangster society as a unit.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-18
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Watashi, chigatteiru kashira
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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Yakuza no daimon
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-13
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Yakuza Emblem Chapter 2
Overview: The second 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-01
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 3
Overview: The third 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-12-28
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 5
Overview: The fifth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-22
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 4
Overview: The fourth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-25
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Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution 2
Overview: Sequel of Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-25
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Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
Overview: An incident occurred where a member of the Sannokai who sparked a dispute at the gambling house was shot dead by a member of the Umeyama group dividing the place. This is the beginning of the "Osaka War" that shook the world of Japanese gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-25
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 6
Overview: The sixth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-31
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 9
Overview: The ninth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-30
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 7
Overview: The seventh 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-25
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 8
Overview: The eighth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-24
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 10
Overview: The tenth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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The Warped Ones
Overview: A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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I Hate But Love
Overview: A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-09
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Gunball
Overview: 1990. Takizawa, the head of the Hayama group's Takizawa group, ordered the members to shoot and kill Sasamoto, who betrayed the group and tried to join the fifth Sannokai-affiliated Minamiyama group. This triggered the interruption of the "Yamaha War" by Sannokai and Hayama-gumi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-25
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Empress
Overview: A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his mistress. But beware, power is fleeting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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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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Heat Wave
Overview: Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-02-09
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Black Sun
Overview: Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-24
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Taiyō no yō ni akaruku
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-13
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The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
Overview: A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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Everything Goes Wrong
Overview: Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-08
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Abare chōhan
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-07
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KISS ME
Overview: A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had a dangerous escape together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-06
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Wharf Temperament
Overview: The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-14
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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
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Gorotsuki
Overview: This coming-of-age drama comically depicts two young men who yearn to become members of the yakuza underworld, focusing on the apprenticeship of a rookie yakuza
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-21
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Naku n janai ze
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-08
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Prince of Wolves
Overview: As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of wolves. By chance, they were found by and became a members of a yakuza family. Five years later, Take dominated the port town as a young boss.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-04
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Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
Overview: In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in a feud with a rival gang. Though he successfully settles their differences he is turned out of the organization for the way in which accomplishes it. Upon his return he finds that the fortunes of the group have declined - there has been treachery and desertion. This time with the approval of the seniors he settles the differences with a duel. After winning, however, he declines the position of gang-boss, preferring his freedom, and once more leaves town.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Overview: A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-22
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Aruhi watashi wa
Overview: The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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若い川の流れ
Overview: The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship. For the sake of the company's managing director and his wife, Misako recommends her colleague Tensuke Sone to Fusako, the managing director's daughter and best friend. Fusako and Sone meet at the executive director's Karuizawa villa, but for some reason Kensuke becomes angry when he learns that Misako is the one who recommended him...
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-14
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Gambling is My Destiny
Overview: Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on the scenic Manazuru Peninsula, the action is set amidst rugged rocky terrain and raging waves!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-04
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Yoko o muita seishun
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-19
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Overview: Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend and her mom in her corner, Akiko suffers awful discrimination at school and at home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-03
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Hotbed of Crime
Overview: Released in the UK as Hotbed of Crime
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-26
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East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
Overview: Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the first time in Fukagawa. Overcoming the age difference, they are strongly attracted to each other. However, in Fukano, in addition to the problem of downtown and uptown, there was a deep “river” that separated women and men. However, Kana, on the other hand, easily crossed that "river" due to her sexual love with Fukano. "I never thought I'd live west of the Sumida River," Kana said. However, behind this lies the conspiracy of Fukano's old lover, Junko. The two get married, but Kana's behavior is gradually haunted by a mystery, and the shadow of her detective and old man flickers. The core of the mystery involved a strange sex shop
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Setting Sun
Overview: A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-15
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Utau abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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Loss of innocence
Overview: A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become a prostitute. Other stories are interwoven, and the journalist finally comes to the conclusion, which he publishes, that "keeping your virginity until your wedding day will never be a source of regret for either men or women."
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-20
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Escape Captivity Looting Love
Overview: The condemned criminal of the false accusation that I bet on a jailbreak to appeal for own innocence. It was revenge to the true criminal. The target is a fiance, beautiful woman OL of the true criminal. Innocence to take her, and to appeal for by a threatening telephone call. In the escape drama, she mentions the gentleness of the man and knows the truth. The beautiful woman female office worker who I lose a heart to a man gradually and open the body by oneself, and pushes forward self-surrender. The urge to kill of the true criminal who broke into it alone takes two people then. And the truth of the case is uncovered!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
Overview: The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this before. From the early days as a supporter of Imagawa Yoshimoto, then on to his days with Oda Nobunaga, leading to his wars against and ultimate victory over the Toyotomi to become shogun is a fascinating tale of his military genius coupled with a native intelligence that allowed him to become the last of the great warlords and ultimately the leader of the nation. With great performances from an all-star cast featuring names like Kitaoji Kinya and Takahashi Hideki this is history come to life on the screen.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-03
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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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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
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Woman from the Sea
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
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Spartan Education
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
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Cool Dimension: Innocent Assassin
Overview: Kidnapped in childhood. Raised as an assassin. Shiori's spent her entire life following the orders of her mysterious masters, never questioning the commands that have sentenced hundreds to die at her hands. But when a childhood memory suddenly resurfaces, the programming in her head is short circuited and her entire world is turned upside down! Now, before her masters realize she's slipped their leash, Shiori has to escape. But to do so means she must kill again... even the ones who are close to her!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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The Flower and the Angry Waves
Overview: A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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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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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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Retaliation
Overview: Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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Waterfront Blues
Overview: Based on Shinichi Mori song
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-03
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Carmen from Kawachi
Overview: Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-07
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
Overview: A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this only turns out to be a prelude of a bloody fight over the family's legacy.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-15
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極道はクリスチャン 修羅の抗争
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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The Forced Marriage with Children
Overview: Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the money he has and saves them from jumping off a bridge. The next morning, he wakes up to find that the woman and her sons have invaded his home and settled in…
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-06-25
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Star of Destiny
Overview: "She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their mother in almost 20 years. The war had separated them. When Eiji learns that his sister is engaged, he is determined to reunite with his mother and relay the wonderful news. With a pocket full of hopes and just one clue that may lead him to his mother, Eiji sets off for Taiwan.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-27
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Break Town Story
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-08-24
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Overview: The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-05
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修羅之魂 ～激動渡世編～
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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修羅之魂 ～侠客立志編～
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-07-25
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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
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A Slope in the Sun
Overview: The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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Yabure Kabure
Overview: Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to crawl out of the mire, and his lover who tries to save him at his own peril.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-11
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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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Welcome, My Baby
Overview: Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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The Black Sheep
Overview: Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who is related to the family hosting them and whom they keep running into, but can't help but to feel sympathy for. Of course, rumours start fast in a small town, but delightfully she doesn't really care at all. This is another very solid Shogoro Nishimura film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-03
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Mini-Skirt Lynchers
Overview: The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group claiming the same name as Teruko and her group appeared and began extorting them. The group was led by Rosa, who had come from Hayama. Teruko and the others were taken in by Detective Jitsusei on suspicion of extortion, and were even doused with oil. What saved the day was a witness, a runaway daughter named Toshie. Toshie is a half-sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-28
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Penitentiary Brothers
Overview: Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Chi-n-pi-ra
Overview: Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse races. One day, Yoichi's companion commits a crime, which leads him to become a real yakuza. In this way Yoichi wishes to put an end to his hoodlum days, but on the other hand he has to leave his brother Michio behind...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-17
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The Viper Brothers
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-01
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The Viper Brothers Rage Again
Overview: Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-01
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
Overview: A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Yakuza Don
Overview: Kazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under his group's kumicho (the Yakuza don) and surviving the group in-fightings, he learns what it really takes to be Yakuza.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-25
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Shimane Prison Riot
Overview: Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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Lost in the Sun
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-16
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Kanto Yakuza War: Chalice of Shura
Overview: In this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku forces, a newcomer of the Kishimori Group takes on the dangerous task of launching a new office in rival territory.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-25
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The Guitarist from the Sea
Overview: Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-28
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Whirlpool of Flesh
Overview: During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-21
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Kazoku no sentaku
Overview: A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-11-08
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A Man's World
Overview: Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-13
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Informal Dress
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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Waru: The End
Overview: Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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Professional Killers
Overview: Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-09
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My Sweetheart
Overview: It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-03
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I Fly for Kicks
Overview: A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-03
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Sukiyaki
Overview: Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-warming comedy takes place in Yokohama, where the Mihara family owns a restaurant called “Boston Grill”. Experience the ups and downs of this family and learn how they deal with the everyday problems they are faced with during difficult times.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-11
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The Rule for a Vagabond
Overview: A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-04
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Kitakami yakyoku
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
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The Imperial Japanese Empire
Overview: Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-08-07
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Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
Overview: After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-08
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Overview: Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Friendship of Jazz
Overview: Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Investigation of a Typical Love
Overview: The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks for marriage and looking for cats. One day, a request for a job that belongs to him comes in. It is from Masako, a married woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-21
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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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Ningen ni kakeruna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-29
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The Coming of Age
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-17
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Overview: Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-02
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Dream Young Man's Dream
Overview: An early contemporary yakuza action drama.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-09
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Umi wa kurutte iru
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-09
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Gun Number Zero
Overview: Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immediately sold it to Matsuko - another pauper. Soon, the weapon that moves from hand to hand, becomes a tool of many crimes.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Wounded Beast
Overview: A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective who is trying to catch a fleeing young criminal.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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Downhill Youth
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Mighty Rules
Overview:
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-14
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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
Overview: This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at Hokkaido University, who takes on a conspiracy involving a mysterious accidental death at a construction site.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
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The Stream of Youth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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When a Man Risks His Life
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-27
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Taiyō o buchi otose
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Hijo tehai
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-24
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Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-29
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Unripe Fruit
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
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Osaka no kaze
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-03
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
Overview: Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Overview: The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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The Gambler
Overview:
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-01
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The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
Overview: Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Katsuji finds his long lost mother, who is a rich lady of a respectable family. Comedy and melodrama ensue. A thrilling spectacle with an overly violent ending, and a remarkable, Japan's only post-prison rape comedy, Masa is determined to have sex with the female guard, despite the fact that there is a bar between them. Michi Azuma (topless swordswoman from Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril) plays a tomboy who wants to join her brothers.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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Kegareta daimon
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
Overview: A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-11
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Fossil of Love
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Cheers to the Sky
Overview: Stewardess Yuriko goes through rigorous two-month training and finishes her maiden flight safely with the help of her colleagues and instructors.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
Overview: A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-12
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Hokkaido Yakuza War: Elegy of the North Sea
Overview: Original video
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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The Lion Who Conquers Shura
Overview: Nozomi Hanada, the underboss of the Kanto Saiseikai Obara Group, lives his life on the path of chivalry while protecting his happy family with his wife Komaki and son Toru. One day, a major incident that shakes the Kanto Yakuza society breaks out. Nishimatsu, the chairman of the Saiseikai, decides to have the popular Obara succeed him, instead of the powerful Fukui. However, the ambitious Fukui is not satisfied with the decision and stabs Nishimatsu to death in order to take the chairman's position. He takes the outrageous step of putting the stigma of parent murder on Obara. Nozomi and his friends decide to fight to live the path of chivalry, but an even more cruel fate befalls them.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-02
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The Lion Who Conquers Shura 2
Overview: After assuming the title of second boss of the Obara Group, Nozomi Hanada begins a counterattack against the Kanto Saiseikai Fukui Group.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-02
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Shōjo
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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The Earth is Born Again
Overview: A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone development. The men who dream of making the overlooking wasteland as a big industrial area draw the courage to realize the ideal purely with the fishy desire swirling back to the coastal industrial area of Kashima Nada in Ibaraki prefecture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-26
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Night Butterflies
Overview: A 1971 crime film
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-04-24
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Flowers in the rain
Overview: A song-based action drama featuring hit songs by Hiroshi Inoue about a daughter who cries over an innocent crime and a young man who bravely stands up for the truth to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-30
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修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-28
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Aoime no Sugao
Overview: A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of youth.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-08
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Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey
Overview: Ultraman Tiga: The Final Oddysey was sort of an epilogue of the Ultraman Tiga series. Just when we thought that the world is safe, it's under attack again! A TPC excursion (including GUTS' Captain Megumi Iruma) headed to an old ruins and unintentionally woke up three evil ancient giants whom Daigo, later on, has visions of. What's so haunting about his visions is that they're not only three but four evil giants, including Ultraman Tiga in a very dark physique and a very evil aura. After a series of visions, Daigo was able to meet the three evils who beat him up and left the Black Spark Lens to him. Later on, the ultimate battle begins in the ancient ruins. Daigo as Ultraman Tiga, who is supposed to be the warrior of light, must use his powers, however dark, in order to defeat the three evils.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-08
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Emperor of Upheaval
Overview: The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-12
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午前零時の出獄
Overview: This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous intent, and the efforts of a journalist chasing after the truth. Due to the passage of time since the film's release, some scenes may be marred by visual and audio distortions. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-16
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Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Yonaki Numa
Overview: Otsuka, wife of actor Koheiji, is unfaithful and has many affairs. When Koheiji confronts her lover Takurō at Imba Swamp, Takurō pushes him into the bottomless depths. A month later, haunted by nightmares of Koheiji, Takurō mistakes Otsuka’s new lover for Koheiji’s bloody ghost and kills him. But Koheiji’s vengeful spirit continues to haunt him…
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-08
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Pimp Heaven
Overview: Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fired from his job. Having nowhere else to go, Shohei reluctantly becomes the manager of the place... The film is a comedy full of pathos about the connection between strippers called "special delivery" and the "pimps" who hang on to them.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-24
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A Bumpkin of Tokyo
Overview: Bonta comes to Tokyo with the determination to rule the world, gets a job at a lingerie company, and although he is ridiculed as a country bumpkin, he navigates the ups and downs of the city in this first installment of a new comedy series full of laughs and tears.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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Shokei zen'ya
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-18
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Boku wa naichicchi
Overview: Ichiro, who works for a shipping company, causes an accident while driving drunk. His younger brother Jiro questions his brother's drinking habits. Upon investigation, Ichiro discovers that his brother is involved in drug trafficking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-21
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Zurari oretacha yōjinbō
Overview: A trio of the best of the best! They beat up the bad guys with no mercy! The three main drug traffickers reigning in the underworld, and once they have their routes, they call in the three gangs, causing a huge three-way war and rounding them up in a thrilling and suspenseful entertainment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-24
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Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi
Overview: The film depicts the resilient life of the daughter of a Kyushu boss who becomes a Ginza hostess with Shinichi Mori singing in the background.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-18
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