Minoru Ōki

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

Genre: Action

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Japan-Hong Kong co-production.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Muga Takewaki

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Asano

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This...

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

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

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tōru Abe

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In old Japan, the legend of the ninja lives on in Watari, the Ninja Boy, a motion picture like no other. This is the story of a young boy with...

Genre: Music

Cast: Yoshinobu Kaneko

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find...

Genre: History

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create an exciting black and white sequel to the classic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eiko Nakamura

A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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Cast: Muga Takewaki

In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a...

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the...

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Cast: Hideo Murata

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.

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Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Ichibei teams up with Chief Jindayo of the Goomune (Japan’s gypsies’) in order to steal the shogunate’s solid gold statue of Ieyasu...

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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Cast: Kamesaburo Bando

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children. A film that lightheartedly depicts a...

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Cast: Ineko Arima

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nijiko Kiyokawa

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minoru Ōki

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However after an assassination their henchmen will struggle to...

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street performer family with a nationwide organization...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

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Cast: Ken Takakura

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

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Cast: Ken Takakura

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

Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without Chicago bros. Yamashiro & Watanabe and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Takakura

The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who find themselves at the bottom of society, and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mariko Okada

The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Eighth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Mishima

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

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Cast: Takao Ito

It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassinating a group of young warriors who want to bring...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Wakahara

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with the Magistrate Kurobane Yatayu, who...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō killed...

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

1953 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kuniko Igawa

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid...

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Cast: Minoru Ōki

Japanese drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child!...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hibari Misora

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

Genre: War

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Toei yakuza film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada