Toshie Kimura

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Yamanouchi

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shogen Nitta

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

A dark tale of murder and revenge set in old Kyoto.

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Kaga

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

The second part of the Gamblers series.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kayama

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Teishiro Nishijima

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yumi Shirakawa

Japanese drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Nakahara

First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tadashi Yokouchi

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata