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次郎長三国志 第八部 海道一の暴れん坊 (1954)
Character: N/A
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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江戸の朝風 (1960)
Character: Byakuran
The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.
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思春期 (1952)
Character: N/A
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
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十代の誘惑 (1953)
Character: N/A
Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
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春の囁き (1952)
Character: N/A
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.
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よい婿どの (1954)
Character: N/A
Asahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's father has already cleared up his eldest daughter Keiko to Mizukami, but this time Aiko's turn and her sister's wedding greeting card are handy to add a request for the color of her sister's son. However, Aiko, who wants to be herself, uses the help of her friend, private detective Nobuko Migishi, to break through the behavior of the matchmaker, Mrs. Yamaguchi, who is a matchmaker. However, Nobuko's mistress Rokuro Kojima has become sloppy these days, so when Aiko investigated this time, it was found that the cause was Kojima's best friend Hiroshi Minamimura. Aiko was completely indignant at Minamimura's rude attitude of saying what she thought. In the mouth of Mrs. Yamaguchi's match, Mr. Fumio Kaki, the sales manager, is the best candidate.
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恋人のいる街 (1953)
Character: N/A
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.
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新諸国物語 オテナの塔 前篇 (1955)
Character: N/A
Ainu chieftain Otena Kamui dies leaving a secret to his son. Years later, the grown son and his child are drawn into the hunt for the “Tower of Otena” treasure while a corrupt magistrate’s family fractures around them.
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新諸国物語 オテナの塔 後篇 (1956)
Character: N/A
As the map fragments are united, conspiracies tighten around the magistrate’s clan. Storms, uprisings and betrayals lead the young hero to the secret of the “Tower of Otena” and a final reckoning.
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麦笛 (1955)
Character: Odama
Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths dies, the other boy and the girl find they cannot forget him.
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眠狂四郎無頼控 (1956)
Character: N/A
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
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弁天小僧 (1958)
Character: Ohan
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.
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旗本退屈男 謎の大文字 (1959)
Character: N/A
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
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ハイ・ティーン (1959)
Character: N/A
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.
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若い樹 (1956)
Character: Hiroko Koizumi
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
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続思春期 (1953)
Character: Reiko Mamiya
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
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赤線基地 (1953)
Character: Fumiko Kawanabe
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
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伊津子とその母 (1954)
Character: Aiko Segawa
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
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四畳半・猥褻な情事 (1978)
Character: Kumiko
The ordinary life of an executive’s wife is altered when she begins to attend a mysterious club that serves more than just tea.
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裸足の青春 (1956)
Character: Kikue Hayashi
Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet
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恋化粧 (1955)
Character: Hinagiku
An Ishiro Honda film.
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続大番・風雲篇 (1957)
Character: Umeka
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful.
Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
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続々大番 怒濤篇 (1957)
Character: Takechio
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer.
Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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大番 完結篇 (1958)
Character: Takechio
Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions.
Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
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くちづけ (1955)
Character: N/A
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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アンコールワット物語 美しき哀愁 (1958)
Character: Maid
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess, though neither realizes the other's identity.
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すずかけの散歩道 (1959)
Character: Ayako Nozaki
Romantic drama about three beautiful sisters, based on the acclaimed play.
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赤穂浪士 (1961)
Character: N/A
Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When Lord Asano is unjustly executed, his loyal retainers strike back for revenge.
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裸の大将 (1958)
Character: N/A
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
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サザエさんの青春 (1957)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.
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婚約指輪(エンゲージリング) (1956)
Character: Ikuko Fujii
A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds his lost ring. Their growing affection challenges class boundaries and family expectations, leading to a sincere romance that defies convention.
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やんちゃ娘行状記 (1955)
Character: Yukiko Kusao
Olympic gymnast Yukiko resists marriage plans, stumbling into a newspaper job under reporter Tsubasa. Amid comic mix-ups with a fake fortune teller, jealous suitors, and her eccentric boss, she finds herself and finally chooses love with Tsubasa.
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右門捕物帖 まぼろし燈篭の女 (1961)
Character: Nami
Detective Umon’s services are called upon when ronin Yaichiro is killed with a peculiar weapon, a stone wrapped in a towel.
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花嫁立候補 (1955)
Character: Yukiko Kusao
Rookie reporter Yukiko helps save the failing Miyako Times with her friends, while romance and comic chaos unfold around her and fortune-teller Ishibashi.
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暗黒街 (1956)
Character: N/A
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.
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嫁さがし千両勝負 (1960)
Character: N/A
A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to have some fun and practice. And here he is attacked by a beautiful thief... A light comedy historical drama.
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又四郎行状記 神変美女蝙蝠 (1961)
Character: N/A
Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin.
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妖刀物語 花の吉原百人斬り (1960)
Character: N/A
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.
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続・サザエさん (1957)
Character: N/A
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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潮騒 (1954)
Character: Hatsue
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
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右門捕物帖 地獄の風車 (1960)
Character: N/A
Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as suspects in several recent murder cases. To prove their innocence and uncover the truth, Umon launches his own investigation.
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忍び大名 (1964)
Character: N/A
Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his concubine. However, Katsumaru suddenly lost his mind and appealed to the shogunate to hand over the reins of the family Yasunosuke, but the request was rejected. Vassal Osawa Kuranojo suspects that this is the work of Ishikawa Torajiro, a swordsman from the Katsumaru group, and begins an investigation.
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清水港に来た男 (1960)
Character: N/A
One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on to everlasting fame. Many of the gang members have become household names although their backgrounds and how they came to join the group are mostly lost in the mists of a time gone by. This is the tale of Masa, who arrived in Shimizu Port hungry and down on his luck. His adventures contain some light-hearted moments as he meets up with the other gang members and goes on to join the group and become one of their best swordsmen. A truly exciting tale starring the ever-popular Okawa Hashizo along with all-time great Okochi Denjiro.
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あやめ笠 喧嘩街道 (1960)
Character: Miyuki
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow, Ayame 's Gantaro, with the turbulent and exciting Wakizashi Hitoshi .
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さいころ奉行 (1961)
Character: N/A
Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as he is called to the aid of a beautiful young woman who asks to be abducted on the eve of her wedding so that she would not have to marry a country bumpkin. Instead she plans to go to Edo, where life can be cheap and common criminals run rampant. Can Magistrate Toyama, a gambler himself, see through the plot and keep her safe from harm. Don’t miss this spectacular showpiece of samurai era action led by superstar Kataoka Chiezo in one of his signature roles. When he bares his tattooed right shoulder, all hell breaks loose!
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生きものの記録 (1955)
Character: Sue Nakajima
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.
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きさらぎ無双剣 (1962)
Character: Oen
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan's corrupt Lord. It's a colorful bunch, a drunk samurai, a master thief, a sword instructor and a Lord who is disguised as a ronin since it is an executable offense for a lord to wander outside of their domain without permission. As the Chief Magistrate becomes suspicious of the Owari plot to send men to Kodenmacho Prison to start a riot he begins to investigate the rumors. He soon calls upon the Lord of Mikazuki Castle and the Shogun's best friend to help thwart the evil ambitions and battle the rouge swordsman hired by the Owari Clan.
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丹下左膳 妖刀濡れ燕 (1960)
Character: N/A
The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the benefit to poor farmers.
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サザエさん (1956)
Character: N/A
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
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新吾十番勝負 第三部 (1960)
Character: N/A
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is disturbed by those who wish to claim his life. This is the third part of "THE 10 DUELS OF YOUNG SHINGO", following the first 2 parts (which were actually done as one movie). The tension mounts as young Shingo must face obstacles the like of which he had never before seen. And, can he avenge the death of his master? The man to whom he owes everything.
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月形半平太 (1961)
Character: N/A
Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for power and put an end to meaningless feudal wars. When he is appointed to oversee the Choshu Clan, he takes it upon himself to work towards the peace that he has dreamed about. With his affectionate personality and compassion for life, Hanpeita’s popularity grows among the people, making him a threat to those thirsty for conflict and power. A betrayal by those closest to him leaves Hanpeita caught in a trap that could ultimately cost him his life.
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権九郎旅日記 (1961)
Character: N/A
Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.
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生きる (1952)
Character: Schoolgirl (uncredited)
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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ときめきの午後 (1985)
Character: N/A
Through the relationship between a woman who has lost her husband and her brother-in-law who proposes to her, the complexity of the female psyche and the differences between their hearts are portrayed in detail.
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素浪人百万石 (1960)
Character: N/A
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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無法者の島 (1956)
Character: N/A
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous for its bullfights. Today there is also a bull market in the village, and there are extremely many people here. The black bull "Great Tengu", which Gonzo from Misaki offered, cost 50,000, but was forcibly taken away by a Bakuro soldier, who possessed extraordinary strength and physique, for less than half the price. However, the violent soldier was in love with Tsunayo, the hostess of the inn and the organizer of the bullfight. One day, a young man from the city, an Ihara police officer, arrives in the village. And soon the real problems will begin…
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おしどり道中 (1959)
Character: Omon
With flashing swordwork and a terrific story, wandering gambler Kusama Hanjiro inspires the wrath of Boss Jirotaro who has been terrorizing travelers along the route through his territory. When Hanjiro steps in to gamble with him one-on-one it leads to a deadly vendetta that will show no mercy. Along the way Hanjiro is called upon to help sisters with no one else to depend on. Will the feud end in tragedy, or can the honest wanderer prevail against the bloodlust of an angry yakuza boss whom he had scarred for life?
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若さま侍捕物帖 黒い椿 (1961)
Character: N/A
Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacation. Unexpectedly, the island's boss, Amimoto, was brutally murdered with a harpoon. As usual, the Young Lord sets out to solve the case. However, most of the islanders have a grudge against Amimoto, and there are so many suspects that he is at his wits' end this time. Set against the beautiful sea of Izu and the majestic Mt. Mihara, the Young Lord's brilliant deductions and his secret sword Ichimonjo-Kakureshi cut through the mystery!
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ひばりのおしゃれ狂女 (1961)
Character: Okiyo
Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However, Omitsu, a woman who is thought to have gone insane after the sudden death of her father, openly disobeys this order and goes around town fancifully dressed. Unknown to all around her, Omitsu is merely acting, using her perceived madness to roam around town conducting her own secret investigation into her father's death. Will her skillful ruse help her to reveal the truth?
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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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