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ごろつき部隊 (1969)
Character: N/A
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
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ゆずり葉の頃 (2015)
Character: N/A
An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the inspiration for the painting.
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秘剣 (1963)
Character: Sei
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.
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六本木の夜 愛して愛して (1963)
Character: N/A
Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks set against the backdrop of the Roppongi district in Tokyo. Masaaki (Minegishi Toru) is the son of a prominent judge and a Law student at university. Chikage (Nakagawa Yuki) is a teenager from an underprivileged home. Both are desperately looking for an escape from their lives when they meet in Roppongi one night and fall in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, their happiness isn't assured.
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馬鹿と鋏 (1965)
Character: N/A
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
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日本一の若大将 (1962)
Character: N/A
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his hometown. When his allowance stops coming in, Yuuichi moves back in with his folks to work part-time. He has his eyes set on nationals in the fall, until one day he runs into a young woman who's fallen into trouble with the Lightning Gang...
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恐るべき火遊び (1959)
Character: Yabuki Clinic Nurse B
Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company president.
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真紅の男 (1961)
Character: N/A
Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza running a dope ring. Battling gangsters all the way, Takashi searches for his former girlfriend, now a drug addict.
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伊豆の踊子 (1967)
Character: N/A
Kawasaki, a high school student from Ichiko, walks along a mountain path toward Amagi and encounters a troupe of traveling performers. He becomes captivated by Kaoru, a black-haired dancer carrying a drum on her back. Deciding to travel with the troupe to Shimoda, Kawasaki finds that Kaoru also harbors a tender affection for him.
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ある日わたしは (1959)
Character: N/A
A modern love story involving different affairs.
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守屋浩の三度笠シリーズ 有難や三度笠 (1961)
Character: Omatsu
When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against corruption. Teaming up with a rogue monk, bold tea-picking girls, and even a reformed thug, he battles a violent crime boss exploiting local families. Amid betrayals and brawls, justice and solidarity triumph.
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侍とお姐ちゃん (1960)
Character: N/A
Punch, Pinch, and Sench become involved in a murder mystery centering on a Chinese billionaire (Mihashi), actually a Japanese yakuza, who claims to be developing a tourist's paradise on the island of Oshima.
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青い野獣 (1960)
Character: N/A
The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder. After securing a position at a prestigious firm through deceit, he callously discards the women who helped him and embezzles company funds to further his personal gain. His cold-blooded ascent eventually leads to a web of blackmail and moral decay as his past actions begin to catch up with him.
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ウルトラQ怪獣伝説 万城目淳の告白 (2005)
Character: Self
Direct-to-video documentary special about the 1966 series Ultra Q. It is mainly comprised of interviews with the original staff and cast alongside stock footage of the show. The main cast reprised their roles for short in-character segments that are framed as interviews about the series' events.
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ニッポニアニッポン フクシマ狂詩曲 (2019)
Character: N/A
Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transferred from Aizu Wakamatsu City to Naraho Town to take over the Disaster PR Division. Murai takes Kokuhei around Fukushima including areas washed away by the tsunami. They examine the still incomplete railway lines, the unfinished decontamination area and villages in the danger zone, where deadly cesium continues to pile up. One day Kokuhei is told to organize a party to celebrate the professor who has been appointed as deputy director of the Atomic Energy Research Institute.
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Tokyo (1962)
Character: Fukimo
A segment of “Love at Twenty” is a weird, grotesque and clumsy tale of obsessive and morbid love.
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情無用の罠 (1961)
Character: N/A
Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.
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死ぬにはまだ早い (1969)
Character: N/A
A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues.
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斬る (1968)
Character: Yô
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
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忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻 (1962)
Character: N/A
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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恐怖の時間 (1964)
Character: N/A
A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns it’s the wrong Yamamoto, he still refuses to leave and threatens everyone with nitroglycerin. Tension peaks when the real detective’s wife arrives, but a quick intervention stops disaster, leaving the worker broken by loss.
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悪魔が呼んでいる (1970)
Character: Reiko
Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom, she begins to suspect someone is out to drive her insane, or worse.
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怪談残酷物語 (1968)
Character: Kurosaka Tae
A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
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どぶ鼠作戦 (1962)
Character: Girl (uncredited)
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.
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侍 (1965)
Character: Yae
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
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江分利満氏の優雅な生活 (1963)
Character: Michiko
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
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大誘拐 RAINBOW KIDS (1991)
Character: Eiko Yanagawa, 2nd daughter
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.
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L'Amour à vingt ans (1962)
Character: Fukimo
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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現代やくざ 与太者の掟 (1969)
Character: N/A
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
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