Mari Shiraki

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jun Hamamura

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Meiko Kaji

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to...

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Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Muga Takewaki

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.

Genre: Music

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.

Genre: Music

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group claiming the same name as Teruko and her group...

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Cast: Meiko Kaji

A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterious band of murderers wage a bloody battle against...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.

Genre: Music

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A violent fire one evening kills a husband and wife couple and burns their Kazusaya rice shop to ashes. Their daughter Sachi manages to make it out...

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Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being...

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Cast: Ai Saotome

A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoichi Yamamoto

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket...

Genre: Action

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion...

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yoko Shimada

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Genre: Drama

Cast: Midori Takei

Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rei Matsunaga

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and...

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period....

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe

Genre: Action

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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Cast: Yukie Kagawa

Strife between competing lumber mills.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The story of an adorable girl.

Genre: Music

Cast: Emi Ito

A crime film released in 1962

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association,...

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yuji Odaka

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tamayo Mitsukawa

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reiko Arai