Tatsuya Fuji
Also Known As: 藤 竜也, تاتسویا فوجی, Tatsuya Fuji
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tatsuya Fuji (藤 竜也 Fuji Tatsuya, born 27 August 1941) is a Japanese film actor. He has appeared in 50 films since 1964, and was the first Japanese actor to appear in full-frontal nudity with explicit sexual scenes in a non-pornographic Japanese film, In the Realm of the Senses, which was released worldwide in 1976, but has yet to be shown in Japan itself. He has starred in two films (Empire of Passion and Bright Future) that have been entered into the Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia Tatsuya Fuji, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Beijing, China
Adult: No
Birthday: August 27, 1941
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Male
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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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In the Realm of the Senses
Overview: A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-15
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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Overview: Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Bright Future
Overview: Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-18
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Blood Vendetta
Overview: The film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and who is bound by an oath to his brother in a conflict between the Gamblers' family and the Tekiya family.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-31
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Women's Police
Overview: Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, makes customers pay up and women play straight. So he is called 'the woman's police-man' and he takes his job seriously. One day, Chiyoko (Yukiyo Toake), a former hostess, comes to him. Her husband has been murdered and she wants help. The man had been a college classmate and Kagari decides to do what he can. In his investigation he overturns a whole nest of intrigue. Men he had thought irreproachable turn out to be corrupt; solid citizens are seen as the worst kind of scoundrels. Until now, Kagari has specialized in women and their problems. But, realizing the real state of affairs, he rolls up his sleeves for a good cleaning- up-at the same time discovering the murderer of his friend.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-08
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The Cleanup
Overview: A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
Overview: Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to leave Takamasa because of him. She travels to Tomioka for advice from Matsumiya Seiji, who previously helped her. However, the latter is killed due to a conflict with the Kaizu-gumi yakuza family, making his wife Tane a widow...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-22
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The Blazing Continent
Overview: A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-14
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Gun Breath A Perfect Night to Die
Overview: Ultimate Gun Action!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-10
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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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Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss
Overview: A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Action Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-02
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Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
Overview: Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist macho pigs led by the evil Baron, who hate half-breeds. When one of the girls start dating a half-breed, they start a terror campaign to take all of them out of town. Mako and her gang fight back, helping their new friend Kazuma find his long gone sister.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-01
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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
Overview: Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-22
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Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo
Overview: Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious leader, he and his posse make plans to rob her partner.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-01
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Empire of Passion
Overview: In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-06
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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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Wakai senpū
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
Overview: The story depicts the sorrows and joys of women in Shinjuku, centering on a daughter who became a hostess burdened with a large compensation payment after her father was imprisoned for causing a traffic accident while driving under the influence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-30
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Soup Opera
Overview: Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-10-02
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A Single Flower Withered
Overview: Shiratori Shinichi, is released from prison and now roams the streets in search of his sister. While at a red-light district in Chiba, Shiratori finds out that his sister is in Tokyo. However, things take turn for the worse as he gets into a fight with the local Handa gang...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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Seishun no Sabaki
Overview: University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
Overview: The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of the Japan Coast Guard are detained. Under the extremely tense situation, the Japanese government sends Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and an escort fleet to the area. Ryota Akitsu is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and Toshiya Niinami is second-in-command. It is now 6:23 am. and Japan faces one day which they never have before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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Kamataki
Overview: Twenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send him to his uncle Takuma in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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Bloody Territories
Overview: A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is it the police? Rival gang members? Or is it an entirely new group of hired killers who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of Tokyo's "bloody territories"?
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Kill or Be Killed
Overview: When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-07
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P. P. Rider
Overview: Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-02-11
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Midnight Eagle
Overview: A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense Force must reach the craft before the enemies do.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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Velvet Hustler
Overview: A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-06
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Bad Girl Mako
Overview: Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mako swears vengeance on her beloved's murderer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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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
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Massacre Gun
Overview: Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-06
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Women's Police: Part II
Overview: Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about attempts to lure hostesses from Club Rose. Aron's madam Hisayo reminds him of a tragic experience five years before, when a lovely girl named Kumi committed double suicide with a man in a hotel. For Aron's madam is Kumi's elder sister. Kagari's friend Hayazaki introduces him to Chie, the young sister of the man who died with Kumi, who has come to Tokyo to learn the truth about her brother's death. Kagari sends them both away. But he continues to be haunted by the warmed-over memories. When Club Aron is found selling bootleg whisky Kagari learns that Hisayo has been a tool in the hands of the Akune group who are also responsible for trying to steal his girls, and that Fujikura, the public prosecutor who presided over the case of Kumi's death and ruled it suicide, is now the personal lawyer of the Akune group...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-28
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Takano Tofu
Overview: Tatsuo and his daughter Haru run Takano Tofu Store in Onomichi. They begin their work before dawn every day. They carefully select beans to make their tofu. While they have peaceful days, Tatsuo worries about his daughter being alone after his death.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-23
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Pandemic
Overview: ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-17
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Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire
Overview: Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United States and discovers professional wrestling, he becomes a hero back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2004-12-15
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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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Golden Partners
Overview: A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-04-28
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Great Absence
Overview: It's about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost memories and scattered fragments of lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-07-12
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Prisoner of Lust
Overview: Pinku from 1969.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-28
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Let Him Rest in Peace
Overview: A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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Go! Go! Sakura Club
Overview: 76-year-old Oda Momojiro (Fuji), who lost his beloved wife and was living a lonely life, reunites with Sakura (Yamaguchi Karin), with whom he worked together as a rugby club manager during their student days. When Sakura learns that the day care service she runs is in danger of going bankrupt, she gathers her former rugby club friends and devise a plan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-12
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The Aftermath of War
Overview: After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the name of Kentaro before she died and this was something that people in this small section of downtown Tokyo remembered. Life went on, however, and local boss Hiramatsu Daizo decided to build a market, aided by his daughter Aya. They met opposition until one day a young man named Kentaro appears who it is rumored he was the vengeful lover of the murdered girl. He lives with Sabu and Yukari, the children the girl looked after before she died, and helps with the market, coming to the rescue with a bulldozer when Daizo is threatened by a rival group. When Daizo is finally killed, Kentaro carries on the work. Finally the market is completed, the rival group makes a last stand but is machine-gunned down by Kentaro who, after saying that he was not the one whose name the dying girl called out, leaves town for good.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-18
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Youth Bell
Overview: A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates him with the spirit of sports and falls in love with the daughter of the owner of the house. A masterpiece of youth drama starring the eternal idol Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-11
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Night of Sorrow
Overview: A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-27
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100 Gamblers
Overview: Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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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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Blossoms Bloom
Overview: Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins to show signs of dementia, Shunsuke takes the family on a trip in a desperate attempt to pull them together before it is too late. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's short story of the same name received the awards for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Music at the 1st Asia International Film Festival in Taipei.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-05
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Snow on The Blades
Overview: At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility and shame for this failure is Shimura Kingo, master swordsman and chief of the guard. Forbidden to take his own life in atonement, he is instead tasked with hunting down the remaining assassins; however, fate intervenes and now only one is left. Devoted to his late lord and his duty, he relentlessly pursues the sole remaining assassin for the next thirteen years. But times are changing in Japan and the way of the sword has become outlawed. What does this mean for Kingo?
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-09-20
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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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Flavor of Happiness
Overview: Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-11
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My Man
Overview: As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and adopts her as his daughter.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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Bōkyō no umi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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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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Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
Overview: Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-25
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ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius
Overview: A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia steadfast on his hypothesis. When a Japanese student visits him in Australia with strange questions about mermaids, how the young man survived in the ocean, and why he doesn't remember anything.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-08-31
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Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71
Overview: The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-03
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At River's Edge
Overview: A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has to accept the mission even though he has inner conflicts.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-02
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Wakai futari
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Fearless Comrades
Overview: The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal death at the hands of the gang leader. He goes on a trip with a guitar in his hand and ends up in Yokohama. The guitar he plays at the bar in the evening was given to him by his late best friend. At the bar, Kosuke meets Kumagoro. Kosuke saves Kumagoro from bandits. Kumagoro is a funny man, he came to this city to reunite with the woman he swore to marry. Kosuke decides to settle in this city and help him find his beloved, but the future of this city is not cloudless either, because the cruel Yakuza is in power in the city, and soon Kosuke will have to fight with him...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-08
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The Village Album
Overview: Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the place for future generations, the villagers decide to take photographs of all the families in the village. Kenichi, the only photographer in the village, is put in charge of the project. He calls his son Takashi, an aspiring photographer, to help him with the task. Takashi is puzzled since his father and he are not at all close, but as they visit each family in turn and Takashi sees his father working, Takashi's feelings towards his father begin to change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-04-23
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Where Does the Sand Go?
Overview: A film-within-a-film from Kawase's "Radiance" (2017). The film depicts a man who is obsessed with the woman of his destiny and clings to the past, and his wife who suffers from dementia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-30
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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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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Overview: A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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The Reckless One
Overview: Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe from Omura Sangyo. Kosuke's partner Kumagoro investigates and finds out that Hasebe, who killed the head of the Muraoka clan, made Takehara disappear in order to keep him silent. The third film in the series.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-09
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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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The Singing Gunman
Overview: Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the bullion transport.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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Break Out
Overview: An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he can't go any lower, he is suspended from the force for disregarding orders to halt his criminal investigation of a Congressman. However, even this setback won't stop the determined cop from getting to the bottom of the scandal.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-30
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Kappa
Overview: As famous photographer, Yuta Suzumori's (Tatsuya Fuji) health is worsening he tells a childhood story of when he saw a kappa in his hometown village of Kitagawa.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-10
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Chivalrous Pride
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-13
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Until Spring Comes
Overview: Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her heart, but she eventually opens up to him, as depicted in the beautiful images of Kamakura from fall to winter and then to early spring.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-06
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The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
Overview: A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been created. "The Short Films: We all started as children." The theme that runs through the five short films is "children." The styles vary from period dramas to contemporary daily life scenes, but all of the works highlight the dreams of children, who are entrusted with Japan's future, as well as the issues facing the social system surrounding children. ©ABC Television
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-23
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Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Overview: Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Bright Future". But director Fujii has taken the "behind the scenes"-concept to unprecedented heights with this unique documentary offering a close look into the world of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the auteur. Scenes from the surprisingly low key and relaxed production of "Bright Future" are of course sprinkled liberally throughout the documentary, but between these we are treated to interesting and revealing interviews with actors, producers and Kurosawa's many other collaborators. And perhaps the most surprising thing of all is how much of Kurosawa there is, talking candidly about his working methods and the philosophy behind it all.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-02-08
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Secret Zone of Tokyo
Overview: The third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which two young men come to Tokyo and meet face-to-face with a nocturnal organization that controls women with sex and violence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-06
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Sea Monkey
Overview: The movie "Umizaru" is the story of 14 young Japan Coast Guard officers who take part in a grueling training to become rescue divers. They must endure and survive a 50-day training. Daisuke Senzaki (Hideaki Ito) and 13 other recruits take part in the training. With his love for the ocean and dream to work as a rescuer at sea, a rescue diver seemed like the perfect occupation for Daisuke.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-06-12
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
Overview: In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an asteroid. Seven long years later, Hayabusa achieved its goal and was the first of any kind of craft launched from Earth to safely return samples of this kind to home base. The story was one of such great national pride for Japan, and in the wake of the tsunami and resulting tragedies in Japan it’s strong nationalistic message became the subject of no less than three rival films. Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s high-profile effort, simply titled Hayabusa (2011) starred the incomparable Toshiyuki Nishida. Most recently, Welcome Home, Hayabusa (2012) was released to Japanese audiences. Slipping in between those two was Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home, concentrating on the people on the ground who helped return the probe safely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-11
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Metamorphosis
Overview: A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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The Rough One
Overview: A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob the wrong gang, led by brutal boss Konno. When Zenkichi's pals start to bite the dust, he hooks up with a more traditional yakuza, Tetsugoro, to retaliate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-13
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The Man in White
Overview: After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-29
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My Dad and Mr. Ito
Overview: He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her doorstep with his belongings. She has little space, a boyfriend she lives with it and does not need a cranky father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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Guys Who Never Learn
Overview: Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-15
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Radiance
Overview: The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-05-27
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The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
Overview: This is the thirteenth film in the series.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-14
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The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
Overview: A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-04-21
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Light of Africa
Overview: Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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The Wolves of the East
Overview: Akira is a hunter in a village where wolves disappeared 100 years ago. After he overspends community money on his obsessive hunts, his coleagues spurn him. He decides to go into the forest to kill a wolf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-26
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It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Overview: A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-15
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Chase That Man
Overview: The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-23
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Yakuza Skirmishes
Overview: In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Overview: On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-02
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Dangerous Games
Overview: Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as it sweeps up the entire school. Brawls. Seduction. Yazuka. And more!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Complicity
Overview: A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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Woman Gambler
Overview: Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for help. He's being pursued by a dangerous gang of yakuza.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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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
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Only the Cat Knows
Overview: Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from them. Masaru and Yukiko enjoy their peaceful days, but, one day, Yukiko tells her daughter Naoko that she wants to divorce Masaru.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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Melody of Rebellion
Overview: The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-22
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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 Stormy Man
Overview: A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-03
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Showdown in Gangland
Overview: Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-07
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Blood Shed
Overview: Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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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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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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Shutsugeki
Overview: An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
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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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Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man
Overview: The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Taking the Castle
Overview: The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-06
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Song of my Life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-29
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The Four Loves
Overview: A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-28
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Typhoon Family
Overview: Ittetsu and Maitsuko are married, but they are not just any normal couple. They robbed a bank and took a cool million or two from the capitalists. Then they duly vanished. Years have passed and their children have congregated to divide their parents' money, but first there is the matter of arrangements and a funeral.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-09
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Gambler's Dilemma
Overview: The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-27
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Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
Overview: In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-16
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Star Watching Dog
Overview: An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died months later. This is the story of the life of the loving and faithful dog and his owner told from the dog's point of view. City hall employee Kyousuke Okutsu is assigned to uncover the man's identity for a proper funeral. As he investigates the situation, he remembers his late family and his own dog's unfailing loyalty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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Onna no Iji
Overview: 2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living with him. She was determined to discover who was the man who won her sister's heart. But what will happen when she found out that the man in question is Shuhei, her first love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Nakamatachi
Overview: Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends who are always close to him. A movie adaptation of a hit song by Kazuo Funaki.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-14
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Three Wild Cats
Overview: Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-07
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Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
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Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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The Fatal Raid
Overview: Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-23
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Kiri ni Kieta Hito
Overview: The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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Foggy Night Blues
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-30
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Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando
Overview: This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-26
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Boku dōshite namida ga deru no
Overview: 1965 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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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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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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