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夜来香 (1951)
Character: N/A
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
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橋のない川 (1969)
Character: N/A
Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they encounter numerous obstacles due to their caste affiliation. Together with other "outcasts," the brothers take up the fight for their human rights.
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鶏はふたゝび鳴く (1954)
Character: N/A
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
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夜の緋牡丹 (1950)
Character: N/A
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
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人間模様 (1949)
Character: N/A
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
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現代インチキ物語 騙し屋 (1964)
Character: Red Dragonfly
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
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再会 (1953)
Character: N/A
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials of ten years when they fell in love and fell in love, climbed the hill of memories again. Surprisingly, there was an event that turned a moment of joy into tears ...
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三つの顔 (1955)
Character: N/A
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Shinagawa Station, which was crowded with repatriates. , The day of reunion is approaching.
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「赤坂の姉妹」より 夜の肌 (1960)
Character: Kikuzō Uetani
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
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かけ出し時代 (1947)
Character: Writer Matsuura
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
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銀座三四郎 (1950)
Character: Madman
An early film by Kon Ichikawa
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又四郎行状記 鬼姫しぐれ (1951)
Character: Kojirô Naitô
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
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無国籍者 (1951)
Character: Don-chan
Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa
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結婚行進曲 (1951)
Character: Jugoro Fujima
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
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恋風五十三次 (1952)
Character: Kitahachi
A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
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恋の応援団長 (1952)
Character: Philosophy Student
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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今日は会社の月給日 (1952)
Character: Director Koishi
Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
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夕焼け富士 (1952)
Character: Shigeshiro Baba
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
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魚河岸帝国 (1952)
Character: N/A
Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
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惜春 (1952)
Character: Toshikazu Kanemura
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
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広い天 (1959)
Character: N/A
A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.
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月夜の傘 (1955)
Character: N/A
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will discuss food shopping, and when four people come together, there will be laughter. Focusing on four housewives who gather at the edge of the well, it depicts the daily life of each household.
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風雲児 (1951)
Character: N/A
Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!
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いろはにほへと (1960)
Character: N/A
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand, Detective Muneharu Matsumoto of the Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigative Division has suspicions about this organization, and has been spying on the business association for many years. However, Matsumoto was having a hard time getting any solid proof of the nature of the incident...
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春を待つ人々 (1959)
Character: Artist Morita
This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and self-interest.
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青幻記 遠い日の母は美しく (1973)
Character: N/A
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
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「粘土のお面」より かあちゃん (1961)
Character: Toyoda Yoshigurô
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
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祇園祭 (1968)
Character: N/A
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
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砂漠を渡る太陽 (1960)
Character: Huang
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
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人間の壁 (1959)
Character: N/A
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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気違い部落 (1957)
Character: N/A
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
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とむらい師たち (1968)
Character: Doctor
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
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雲がちぎれる時 (1961)
Character: N/A
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
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修羅桜 (1959)
Character: N/A
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.
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明日は咲こう花咲こう (1965)
Character: N/A
Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread poverty and ignorance beyond her imagination.
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正義派 (1957)
Character: N/A
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.
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続十代の性典 (1953)
Character: Mr. Senoo
Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student named Masato Miki, who lives upstairs. However, when Masato becomes a part-time tutor for Akiko's classmate, Natsuko Shigeno, and Akiko becomes close to Natsuko, Akiko feels lonely. These feelings also help her to lose her purity to Junichi Yoda, whom she met by chance through an accidental mistake.
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続警察日記 (1955)
Character: N/A
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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どたんば (1956)
Character: N/A
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
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女の四季 (1950)
Character: Husband with children
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
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江戸っ子判官 (1953)
Character: Enma no Kitaro
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
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白魚 (1953)
Character: Komiya
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.
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僕たちの失敗 (1962)
Character: N/A
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
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未成年 (1955)
Character: Police detective Totsuka
A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
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筑豊のこどもたち (1960)
Character: N/A
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.
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愛人 (1953)
Character: Kaji
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.
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坊っちゃん (1958)
Character: Yamaarashi
1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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二等兵物語 死んだら神様の巻 (1958)
Character: Private first class Sasaki
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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赤い陣羽織 (1958)
Character: N/A
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among whom is the local governor, a timid creature, who is dominated by his high-born and beautiful wife, who dresses in a scarlet battle-tunic, a sign of his family's military merit around which he fabricates fantastic tales of his prowess in war. During the traditional festival when the villagers are released from observance of all social customs and restrictions, it is permissible for any man to attempt win the favors of the one he loves. However, the timid but romantic governor goes to the length of having the miller arrested to clear the way for his seduction of Osen. But Osen fights off his advances with an old hunting gun and dashes out of the mill. Jimbei, meanwhile, has escaped from jail and dashes home to finds the governor in his bed. Convinced that his wife has been violated, he decides to take an eye for an eye.
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足にさわった女 (1952)
Character: N/A
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
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銭形平次捕物控 平次八百八町 (1949)
Character: N/A
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
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少年探偵団 透明怪人 (1958)
Character: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
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少年探偵団 首なし男 (1958)
Character: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
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四萬人の目撃者 (1960)
Character: Fueki
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
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日日の背信 (1958)
Character: N/A
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyuki becomes torn between his love for Ikuko and his duty towards his sick wife.
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背広の忍者 (1963)
Character: N/A
An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident.
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億万長者 (1954)
Character: Politician
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
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あの手この手 (1952)
Character: N/A
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disarray by the emotional and energetic Ako.
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中山安兵衛 (1951)
Character: N/A
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
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暁の追跡 (1950)
Character: N/A
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered masterpiece, but still a must for Ichikawa buffs.
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美女と盗賊 (1952)
Character: Dohachi
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
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天下の快男児 突進太郎 (1960)
Character: N/A
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
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天下の快男児 万年太郎 (1960)
Character: N/A
An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.
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天下の快男児 旋風太郎 (1961)
Character: Captain Togawa
The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.
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悪女の季節 (1958)
Character: N/A
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
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悪の報酬 (1956)
Character: N/A
After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of the Metropolitan Police Department, but the real Kenmochi detective arrived a few minutes later. The corpse of the bunch went up in the moat near Akasaka, and the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1 was colored.
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一等女房と三等亭主 (1953)
Character: Senkichi Miyama
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being too boring and uninteresting.
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壁あつき部屋 (1956)
Character: N/A
A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
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源九郎義経 (1962)
Character: N/A
An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo.
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関東無宿 (1963)
Character: Okaru Hachi
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
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巨人と玩具 (1958)
Character: Junji Harukawa
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
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椿三十郎 (1962)
Character: Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
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血と砂 (1965)
Character: Mochida
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
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太陽は見た (1970)
Character: Kotaro Ushikura
Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a young man Jun her long oppressed mind leads her to commit a murder with Jun for Katakura’s enormous fortune.
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天国と地獄 (1963)
Character: Baba - National Shoes Executive
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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野良犬 (1949)
Character: Bluebird Theatre manager
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
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赤城の血煙 国定忠治 (1957)
Character: Monk Koen
Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and murder against the backdrop of the majestic Mount Akagi.
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にっぽん泥棒物語 (1965)
Character: Lieutenant Ando
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
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恋山彦 (1959)
Character: Hanabusa Itchō
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge his father-in-law's death and retrieve the family heirloom.
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新書・忍びの者 (1966)
Character: Sadayu
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.
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警察日記 (1955)
Character: Iwata
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
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若草物語 (1964)
Character: Yuzo Komura
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 young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
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五瓣の椿 (1964)
Character: Unno
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
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楢山節考 (1958)
Character: Matayan's son
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
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亡命記 (1955)
Character: N/A
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
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にせ刑事 (1967)
Character: N/A
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that someone has run off with his gun and later uses it to kill. Then he breaks up a group of hoodlums attacking a young girl named Mieko, and the police, his former friends, deciding he has gone too far, decide to sue him. On top of this the girl gets hurt and, consequently, a child from the kindergarten where Mieko teaches is kidnapped on his way home. Impersonating a policeman he tracks down the gangsters and rescues the boy. Due to this he also uncovers a scandal which allows the police to make a long due clean up in the political world. As a reward for all of this he wins the regard of the girl but now faces a stiff prison sentence for impersonating the policeman he had been and which, at heart, he truly remains.
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しとやかな獣 (1962)
Character: Tokizo Maeda, ex soldier
A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
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黄色いからす (1957)
Character: Ichiro Yoshida
Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been estranged from his son for many years, pays no attention to the boy, often punishes him unfairly, and gives all his tenderness to his little daughter, who was born after his return. The boy sees all the injustice of his father and, offended, leaves home. The father realized that he was wrong, that he was guilty before his son. The mother finds the boy and brings him home. The father and the son become friends from that day on.
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血を吸う薔薇 (1974)
Character: Detective Takakura
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
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血を吸う薔薇 (1974)
Character: Takakura / Detective
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
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日本のいちばん長い日 (1967)
Character: Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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昭和最大の顔役 (1966)
Character: N/A
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
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太陽を盗んだ男 (1979)
Character: Bus Hijacker
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
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三つの愛 (1954)
Character: Father Yasugi
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.
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乾いた湖 (1960)
Character: Goro Oseto
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.
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氾濫 (1959)
Character: Seyama
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
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華岡青洲の妻 (1967)
Character: Seishu's father
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments
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あなた買います (1956)
Character: Ippei Tamaki
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.
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丘は花ざかり (1963)
Character: President Yamada
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 Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....
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プーサン (1953)
Character: Yonekichi Noro
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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姿三四郎 (1965)
Character: N/A
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
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愛と死の谷間 (1954)
Character: Dr. Matsumura
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
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大岡政談 幽霊八十八夜 (1958)
Character: N/A
A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.
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ああ爆弾 (1964)
Character: Daisaku Oona
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
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侍 (1965)
Character: Kenmotsu Hoshino
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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ビルマの竪琴 (1956)
Character: N/A
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
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眠狂四郎女地獄 (1968)
Character: Jinnai
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.
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赤毛 (1969)
Character: N/A
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
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肉弾 (1968)
Character: Skipper
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
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さくら判官 (1962)
Character: N/A
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to face the truth about his estranged father’s possible involvement in a nefarious plot to take over rule of the Hizen Shimabara clan by assassinating the rightful lord, his son, and install one of Shogun Ienari’s offspring as daimyo.
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子連れ狼 子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる (1972)
Character: Retsudô Yagyû
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
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泥だらけの青春 (1954)
Character: N/A
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
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一等マダムと三等旦那 (1954)
Character: N/A
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
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放浪記 (1962)
Character: Gorô Shirasaka
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
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忍びの者 (1962)
Character: Sandayû Momochi
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.
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生きる (1952)
Character: Novelist
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
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けものみち (1965)
Character: N/A
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
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エデンの海 (1976)
Character: Principal
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love.
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素浪人百万石 (1960)
Character: Isobe Sakuzaemon
At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei Tsuchihashi, is murdered by unknown assailants, Tadakazu is summoned to Akane-ya, the landlord of this area. He promises to ensure the safety of Mino for three days, during which the Benten family must not harm her...
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関東女賭博師 (1968)
Character: N/A
Fifth 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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浪人市場 朝やけ天狗 (1960)
Character: N/A
The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.
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