Kenji Sugawara

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a...

Genre: History

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima - an anthology of three stories.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tsuno

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

"Eat the Schoolgirl" concerns two young adults who made a dirty work for a yakuza gang by making sadistic rape/snuff films. Both of them are sexually...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yuuki Fujita

Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui)...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

Genre: Music

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Negami

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Andō

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsuhiko Kobayashi

A man finds great camaraderie while traveling.

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Cast: Saburo Kitajima

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

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...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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Cast: Muga Takewaki

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

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Cast: Hideo Murata

Japanese movie.

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Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Sanjō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Genre: War

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

Genre: History

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A young man steals money for a cabaret singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rieko Sumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hajime Mitamura

The Domain: White Blade

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Cast: Ken Takakura

The Domain: Severed Relations

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Japanese crime film.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Set in a single location, this action-comedy stylishly depicts how a mistake caused by an accidental prank causes a series of people to fall like...

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Cast: Masaru Ikeda

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Order of Yakuza

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

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Cast: Keiko Takeshita

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Cast: Machiko Kyō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami

A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara