Ruriko Asaoka

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renaud Verley

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...

Genre: Music

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasunori Irikawa

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 hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

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

Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fang Ying

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Doctor Rie (Miho Kanno) is know as the Joan of Ark of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She works in a challenging environment with clinics shutting down...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Kanno

Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kotobuki Hananomoto

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jō Shishido

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

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

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

Genre: Western

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

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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

When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to...

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

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

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

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

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yuji Odaka

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

U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to...

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Cast: Jō Shishido

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

Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

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Cast: Tamio Kawachi

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Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the...

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Cast: Tōru Abe

A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on the...

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Cast: Kyoka Suzuki

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

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamehisa Aida

East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Strife between competing lumber mills.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Genre: Action

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

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza.

Genre: Action

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: Akira Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police...

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many...

Genre: Crime

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

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mie Kitahara

A 1981 TV movie based on a short story by Kuniko Mukoda, starring Kaori Momoi and Jinpachi Nezu. A housewife is slowly tempted by a mysterious man...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Momoi

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara