Yûsuke Takita

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tadao Sawamoto

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tomo'o Nagai

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Set against the background of a giant newspaper company. A girl reporter on the staff of the newspaper witnesses the accidental killing of one of the...

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Cast: Bunjaku Han

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiro Kawarazaki

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi)...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Moeko Ezawa

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misako Watanabe

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Genre: Family

Cast: Teruko Kishi

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

Genre: History

Cast: Kei Yamamoto

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Reina Takahashi

The Saika clan, that had succeeded in battle against the large armies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, had in the Tokugawa era of Ieyasu, been driven into...

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Cast: Daisuke Ryū

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Lampson

Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kazuo Kitamura

Japanese horror movie from 1980.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Yamamoto

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michiko Sugata

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Gō Katō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A Violent School Revolution

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Cast: Masato Hoshi

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshizumi Ishihara

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiya Nakano

In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going...

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Cast: Setsuko Hara

A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Genre: History

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gorō Ibuki

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jiro Tamiya