Ryōhei Uchida
Also Known As: Ryohei Uchida, Ryōhei Uchida
Biography: Ryōhei Uchida was a Japanese film and television actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 05, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 15, 1984
Popularity:
Known For:
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
Overview:
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-01
Popularity:
Judo Hall Demon
Overview: Sequel to the movie Judo Ichidai (Judo Life) with Sonny Chiba
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-02
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Girl with Bamboo Leaves
Overview: Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-26
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell
Overview: Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete recovery of his boss. However, three rival bosses, trying to steal the Aoi's territory, made take-over plans in the shadows. The second in the two part Daimon series movies.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-24
Popularity:
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Overview: Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-20
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Overview: Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-06
Popularity:
Family Crest: Die Like a Man
Overview: The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the revenge of the youngest one when his siblings were killed by a rival vicious yakuza boss. The first in the two part Daimon series.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-15
Popularity:
Kimagure tosei
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-18
Popularity:
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Overview: Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-05
Popularity:
Black Dice
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
Overview: First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-26
Popularity:
Jeans Blues: No Future
Overview: Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-30
Popularity:
Yume ga ippai abarenbō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-01
Popularity:
Secret Club 000
Overview:
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
Popularity:
Take Aim at the Police Van
Overview: A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
Popularity:
13 Assassins
Overview: A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but because the Daimyo is the Shogun's younger brother, he will soon be appointed to a high political position from which he could wreak even more havoc. Convinced that the fate of the Shogunate hangs in the balance, a plot is hatched to assassinate the Daimyo. The two most brilliant strategic minds of their generation find themselves pitted against each other; one is tasked to defend a man he despises, and has a small army at his disposal. The other is given a suicide mission, and has 12 brave men. They are the 13 Assassins.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-07
Popularity:
The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Overview: Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-03
Popularity:
零戦黒雲一家
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-12
Popularity:
Samurai Wolf
Overview: This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-19
Popularity:
Samurai Wolf II
Overview: Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-13
Popularity:
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
Overview: The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no walk in the park, and in order to survive they must face a relentless army of ninjas and female warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to disrupt the delivery and claim the cannon for themselves.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-10
Popularity:
Shadow Hunters
Overview: Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-10
Popularity:
Japan Organized Crime Boss
Overview: Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-08
Popularity:
Badge of the Night
Overview: A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-31
Popularity:
Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
Overview: A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-03
Popularity:
Comedy: The Face is Life
Overview: A comedic tale that follows several quirky individuals who navigate the twists and turns of their daily lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-03
Popularity:
Blackmail Is My Life
Overview: Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-28
Popularity:
Black Rose Mansion
Overview: When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-30
Popularity:
I Will Buy You
Overview: A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-21
Popularity:
Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-20
Popularity:
The Thick-Walled Room
Overview: A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-31
Popularity:
Ankoku gai jingi
Overview: A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's organization and emerging powers. A huge gangster story depicting a three-way turf war on a large scale.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-13
Popularity:
Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies
Overview: Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-11
Popularity:
Poem
Overview: The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship between the lawyer's assistant and the maid, the lawyer's wife's sexual dissatisfaction, and the arrival of the lawyer's brother, who has a plan for the family's land and property.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-17
Popularity:
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
Overview: A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-12
Popularity:
Abare chōhan
Overview:
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-07
Popularity:
Mermaids and Sea Robbers
Overview: Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-21
Popularity:
The Worship of the Flesh
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-10
Popularity:
East China Sea
Overview: Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
Popularity:
早射ち無頼 大平原の男
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-06
Popularity:
Gambling Den Desire
Overview: In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling raven she meets on a whim. However, Koide, a businessman connected to the Masukawa clan, wants Setsuko to become his mistress... Setsuko puts aside her love and her regrets and bets on the greatest female challenge of her life!
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-21
Popularity:
Hitori tabi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
Popularity:
Profile of a Boss' Son
Overview: Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, so he went to sea. In the end, having returned, he again finds himself embroiled in a showdown between the yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-24
Popularity:
Kidō sōsahan Minato no ryakudatsu-sha
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-25
Popularity:
Blind Woman's Curse
Overview: Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
Genres: Crime Horror Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-20
Popularity:
Sixteen Years Old: Nymphets' Room
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-12-24
Popularity:
Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
Overview:
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
Popularity:
Women Smell of Night
Overview: A 1970 crime film.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-06
Popularity:
The Crimson Plains
Overview: The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over the ranch, which is run by his wife alone, but then the rancher's best friend, Joji, appears and saves the day. This is one of a series of Japanese westerns starring Jo Shishido.
Genres: Western Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-30
Popularity:
Harbor Light Yokohama
Overview: A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-04
Popularity:
Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
Overview: An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-17
Popularity:
その手にのるな
Overview: A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-16
Popularity:
俺は死なない
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-21
Popularity:
Pursuit
Overview: Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-10
Popularity:
Crimson pistol belt
Overview: Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine.
Genres: Action Western Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-12
Popularity:
Hageshī kawa
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-06
Popularity:
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Overview: Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-05
Popularity:
Hitoribotchi no futari daga
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
Popularity:
Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō bōryoku chizu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-22
Popularity:
He's the Witness
Overview: Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-26
Popularity:
Who is in the Background?
Overview: Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi plays an active role in the death of a divine ghost in a skillful disguise. Takuya Nikaido appears in Kobe and approaches the mystery of the fake bill case.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-06
Popularity:
Fountainhead
Overview: A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
Popularity:
Namari o buchikome
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
Popularity:
Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
Overview: Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. But later, he falls in love with her. Yasaburo, the oyabun of the Nishikawa Gang, loves her very much too. However, as he likes Tatsu's dynamic personality, he volunteers to become a go-between for their marriage. Yasaburo gets tipped off by Yajima who wants to take over the territory of the Nishikawa Gang, and is arrested and imprisoned. After his release, Yajima tries to kill him. Ginjiro, a lover of Tamaryu respects Kimiyakko as an older sister and a follower of Tatsu, is murdered. After the third marriage ceremony just between Tatsu and Kimiyakko, Tatsu goes off to the place of fighting.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-04
Popularity:
I Will Challenge
Overview: Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His school friend is involved in the case, and Akira also becomes the target of villains...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-08
Popularity:
Kidō sōsahan-gun ōkami no machi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-01
Popularity:
Return of the Vagabond
Overview: The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again. Of course, Noriko is in trouble. Of course, Shinji's yet another skilled rival named "Tetsu, the Gunman" comes to Sado shortly. Of course, the villain tries to kill Shinji and Tetsu. Of course, Shinji solves the problem and leaves Sado suddenly.
Genres: Music Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-23
Popularity:
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Overview: Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-23
Popularity:
Escape from Japan
Overview: As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-03
Popularity:
Female Yakuza Tale
Overview: Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-06
Popularity:
The Elder Sister
Overview: Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-09
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Song of Vengeance
Overview: Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of the company with a long-standing grudge who is responsible, but he died in the first ten minutes of the movie. Or did he? This may aptly be described as a giallo-noir for the unrelenting string of murders by a mystery man and the black-and-white gritty urban setting.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-09-17
Popularity:
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Overview: Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-07-12
Popularity:
Conflagration
Overview: Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an economically devastating ultimatum.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-07-12
Popularity:
Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
Overview: Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-28
Popularity:
Smashing the 0-Line
Overview: Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-25
Popularity:
Dead Angle
Overview: Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-04
Popularity:
Cobra 2
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-26
Popularity:
I Have the Sun in My Back
Overview: Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But a battle for leadership within his old gang causes him to be framed for murder. Shigeru sets out to uncover the truth to clear his name.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-07
Popularity:
Love in the Mud
Overview: This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-30
Popularity:
クレージーの殴り込み清水港
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-15
Popularity:
Stakeout
Overview: Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
Popularity:
Killers on Parade
Overview: A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-19
Popularity:
High Seas Hijack
Overview: Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-20
Popularity:
The Bad Guy Blues
Overview: A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-27
Popularity:
King of the Night Life
Overview: 1970 Toei movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-07
Popularity:
Hoodlum Match
Overview: A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-02-13
Popularity:
The Bodyguard
Overview: Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-30
Popularity:
Target
Overview: Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-19
Popularity:
Case of the Disjointed Murder
Overview: In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-03-14
Popularity:
Organized Violence II
Overview:
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-29
Popularity:
The Woman Gambler
Overview: Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-14
Popularity:
Judo Showdown
Overview: In the end of 19th century Japan, followers of judo and jujitsu battle for supremacy in Japanese martial arts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
Popularity:
The Threat
Overview: Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-17
Popularity:
A Kamikaze Cop
Overview: An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-23
Popularity:
Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair
Overview: Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-04-15
Popularity:
Internees of Kampili
Overview: In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the island of Celebes. Eighteen-hundred Allied women and children were interned for the duration of the war. Yamaji's iron rule for camp administration is : No violence; hands off internees; He also endeavors to establish self-administration by internees while aiming at a self-supporting camp economy within six months. His ingenuity gains the camp numerous pigs to enrich their diet, and sewing machines with to make fatigue uniforms for the military. The internees are grateful for what little aid he can give them. As the tides of war changes, Allied planes bomb the camp in error. But the surrender of Japan changes everything, and the internees join forces to save their former camp commander from the gallows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-29
Popularity:
Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
Overview: Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-01
Popularity:
Black Ninja
Overview: Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-08
Popularity:
Incidental Murders
Overview: The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the gang in an effort to shake down the tycoon for ten million yen. Upon joining forces, their first move is to rid themselves of the driver whose identity is known to the police because of a cap which he left behind at the scene of the crime. Upon obtaining the ransom money, the brothers murder the two kidnappers and go to the port city of Kobe. The younger brother, Takeshi, has fallen in love with the prisoner and refuses to allow her to be killed and they take her with them from one hideout to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-22
Popularity:
Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut
Overview: In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of a mysterious note written by his father, Inspector Sena, held a clue to the inspector's murder 18 years ago. As Ukyunosuke continues further with his investigation into the conspiracy to uncover the truth behind his father's death, he must confront those eager to take his life. The great Okawa Hashizo shines in one of his signature roles bringing the ultimate conclusion of this epic tale of murder and revenge!
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-12
Popularity:
Code of Wolves
Overview: In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-05
Popularity:
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Overview: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-01
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Man in the Storm
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-02-07
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Blood for Blood
Overview: The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-10
Popularity:
Organized Violence
Overview: A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
Popularity:
Demon's Room
Overview: A wife gets a call from a man claiming to be from her husband's company. He tells her that he will come to pick her up on his behalf. But when he takes her to the hotel he locks her in a room and rapes her. The kidnapper then calls her husband but he doesn’t want a ransom. For reasons not yet known all he wants to do is to sexually humiliate her and to make sure the husband knows it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-23
Popularity:
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Overview: An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-20
Popularity:
Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-20
Popularity:
League of Gangsters
Overview: A yakuza is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-31
Popularity:
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Overview: A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-20
Popularity:
Shingo's Final Duel
Overview: After Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest swordsman in the land, he tries to lead a peaceful life with his mother far away from the seat of government in Edo. Not wanting to inconvenience his father anymore his plan is to stay away from the city and enjoy life like a normal man. Unfortunately for him, his past comes back to haunt him in the person of his mortal enemy, the one swordsman that is skillful enough to defeat him. This is the most perilous moment of Shingo's life as he must face his deadliest foe in a battle to the death!
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-23
Popularity:
The Youth Killer
Overview: Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-23
Popularity:
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Overview: This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
Popularity:
Legends of Honor
Overview: First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-05
Popularity:
Prison Tales
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-10
Popularity:
The Rambler Goes North
Overview: In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
Popularity:
The Blazing Sword
Overview: Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Hijikata Toshizo is a samurai eager to test his skills and sword and make his first kill. The dojo he belongs to practices the Tennen Rishin style and teaches this to farmers. Not considered real samurai by other dojo's, they receive a request for a duel by a rival dojo practicing the Kogen Itto style. Sohaku Rokusha, a teacher there, challenges them and fights with Hijikata Toshizo. The outcome of the fight creates a deadly animosity between them that lasts through the ages.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-12
Popularity:
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
Overview: Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo, and directed by Ishii Teruo of "Kamba 101: Killing Bouncer" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also directed "Abashiri Bangaichi: Confrontation in the South" in the same series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-31
Popularity:
The Lost Diamond
Overview: Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-18
Popularity:
Farewell to Southern Tosa
Overview: Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-02
Popularity:
Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
Overview: A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-11
Popularity:
Kanto Drifter
Overview: Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-06
Popularity:
The Spiders' The Road to Bali
Overview: The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but the boys just want to Rock and Roll!
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-28
Popularity:
Sex Up and Down
Overview: A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-22
Popularity:
The Trail of Blood
Overview: Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-10
Popularity:
Burning Clouds
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-03
Popularity:
Utamaro's World
Overview: Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-20
Popularity:
Outlaw: Heartless
Overview: Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
Popularity:
Angel's Lover
Overview: Comedy about two employees who work against their boss.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Overview: Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of their special abilities. In the end, their plan goes beyond what was intended and turns into a good deed for many people. A masterpiece of historical drama, full of breathtaking thrills and action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-26
Popularity:
Five Star Private
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
Popularity:
Gambler
Overview: The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osaka Railway Company, leaving many poor people homeless. Tachibana engages in a fierce battle with villains for the poor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-11
Popularity:
Fill the Cup with Blood
Overview: Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-08
Popularity:
Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
Overview: Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-21
Popularity:
Pay Off Your Debt!
Overview: Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group was crushed, and instead, the emerging gangster Hokuyokai was in charge of the Oyane group's territory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-01
Popularity:
Chivalrous Nature
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-01
Popularity:
Diamonds of the Andes
Overview: Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his fiancée Reiko.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-28
Popularity:
Fangs of a Female
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-12
Popularity:
Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
Popularity:
Ambition in The Mirror
Overview: Kaori, the principal of Tanimoto Gakuen, a major player in the beauty industry, is aiming to expand into Shinjuku in order to make further progress. However, she is overtaken by the president of the Beauty Association and others. Then, a mysterious man, Segiyama, appears before her. He tells Kaori that he will take back the rights to the salon in Shinjuku in exchange for campaign expenses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-05
Popularity:
The Call of the Foghorn
Overview: A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to investigate the matter himself, and finds there may be more to the story...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-09
Popularity:
Genjitsu
Overview: Noh mask maker is unable to carve the young Noh masks he has ordered, and when a beautiful woman invites him to join her in town for a change of pace, he has a mysterious experience, which may be a dream or reality. The film "Genjitsu" (幻日) was completed in the autumn of 1966, but has not been shown to the public. Adapted from Soseki Natsume's novel "Ten Nights of Dreams" with experimental music by Joji Yuasa, the film was long considered lost but re-surfaced in 2017 and was shown for the first time at Kobe Planet Film Archive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-26
Popularity:
High-Ranking Yakuza
Overview: 1965 youth / yakuza film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-30
Popularity:
Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire
Overview:
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-17
Popularity:
Foggy Night Blues
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-30
Popularity:
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Overview: Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-11
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Wakai toppū
Overview: On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. In Yokohama, there is an uproar because Kenji's father, Shozo Hase, a customs officer, has been accused of stealing confiscated drugs. The story unfolds with thrilling action as Kenji bravely confronts the gang of villains who framed his father and kidnapped him, all while seeking justice and vindicating his father's innocence.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-20
Popularity:
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu
Overview: Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-02-19
Popularity:
間諜
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-09-16
Popularity:
Settlement of Love
Overview: Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an anniversary wake. Some time following the ceremony one of the attendees marries the widow. Soon another friend of the deceased and his family also make the house their home when they move to town. Everyone's life is changed quite a bit. When the newer husband sustains an injury to his leg and loses his job it leads to the wife having to work. By the time the fifth anniversary of the friend's death occurs and another reunion is held another friend is in love with the former widow.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-28
Popularity:
Wakai hyou no mure
Overview: A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen. 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: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-16
Popularity:
Flying in the Air
Overview: The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
Popularity:
Doing What I Please
Overview: Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that have been damaged in accidents at a low price and scraps them for his own company. He uses the money he earns in this way to pay back Kanda Trading. Morita, the president of the company, is suspicious about the identity of Kanda Trading, from whom he borrowed money. However, what is borrowed must be repaid, and Koichi drives to Toyokawa to beg his grandfather for money as his scrap business is not going well. In addition to begging for money, Koichi has another secret purpose...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
Popularity:
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Overview: Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate salaryman Goro Mutsu, who is transferred from Kyushu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-11
Popularity:
Ohana han: Dai ni bu
Overview: A sequel to Ohana han.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-01
Popularity: