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生きとし生けるもの (1955)
Character: N/A
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.
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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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運命の逆転 盗まれた企業秘密! (1992)
Character: N/A
Kazuhiko, a game software planner, resigns and decides to go independent after a trade secret leak to a rival company.
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花の生涯 彦根篇 江戸篇 (1953)
Character: 松平若狭守
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His friend, the Kokugaku scholar Nagano Shuzen, introduced him to a captivating shamisen master named Murayama Taka. Naosuke became deeply infatuated with her, disregarding the jealousy of his consort Shizu and the warnings of his senior retainer, Gaiji. However, upon discovering Taka's relationship with Shuzen, Naosuke promptly ended his ties with her.
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風に逆らう流れ者 (1961)
Character: N/A
Set in Toyohashi, the fifth and final installment of the ‘The Wanderer’ series sees Kobayashi Akira delve into the mystery of a friend's death.
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女優と名探偵 (1950)
Character: N/A
A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.
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わが道 (1974)
Character: Umina
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
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縮図 (1953)
Character: Kuramochi
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
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Shuzenji monogatari (1955)
Character: N/A
Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of tragedies. The central character is a Japanese monarch who would prefer to live a humble existence as a maskmaker. Unfortunately, events -- and destiny -- are against him. When first released, Shuzenji Monogatari was held in far lower esteem than such recent Japanese films as Gate of Hell and Samurai. Nevertheless, the film was selected as an entry at the Venice Film Festival, possibly on the strength of its excellent production values.
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武器なき斗い (1960)
Character: N/A
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.
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山の讃歌 燃ゆる若者たち (1962)
Character: N/A
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
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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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女の一生 (1953)
Character: N/A
Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant
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粋な風来坊 (1946)
Character: Seitarô Yamamoto
A lost film by Masahiro Makino
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有難や節 あゝ有難や有難や (1961)
Character: N/A
Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that have been damaged in accidents at a low price and scraps them for his own company. He uses the money he earns in this way to pay back Kanda Trading. Morita, the president of the company, is suspicious about the identity of Kanda Trading, from whom he borrowed money. However, what is borrowed must be repaid, and Koichi drives to Toyokawa to beg his grandfather for money as his scrap business is not going well. In addition to begging for money, Koichi has another secret purpose...
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朱の花粉 (1960)
Character: N/A
A short time after the war in Tokyo. Hamana, who was formerly a military police officer, had fallen into the role of a black market broker and had brought his former lover, Kameko, into his home, constantly clashing harshly with his wife, Kikue. Kikue could no longer endure such days and decided to run away with her young son, Kikofu. Learning of this, her brother-in-law, Itaro, tried to support Kikue. However, the pillar of Kikue's heart was the shadow of Takenaka, her former teacher from girl's school days, whom she had deeply admired.
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海を渡る波止場の風 (1960)
Character: N/A
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
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深夜の市長 (1947)
Character: N/A
After being discharged from the military, Kenzo, convinced of his older brother Kenichi’s innocence—who had been executed five years earlier for a bank robbery—set out with his close friend, the newspaper reporter Asami, to find Bunkichi Muroki, who knew the truth behind the incident.
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限りなき情熱 (1951)
Character: N/A
Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry abounds, a tale of love and chivalry blossoms into a beautiful flower of emotion.
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地図のない町 (1960)
Character: Masao Mochida
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
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暴力の街 (1950)
Character: Ino
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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風の視線 (1963)
Character: N/A
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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長崎の歌は忘れじ (1952)
Character: N/A
A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.
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喧嘩屋一代 どでかい奴 (1970)
Character: N/A
Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro
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口笛が流れる港町 (1960)
Character: N/A
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.
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男の紋章 喧嘩街道 (1965)
Character: N/A
The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.
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不死鳥 (1947)
Character: Yuji Yasaka
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
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硫黄島 (1959)
Character: N/A
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.
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駆逐艦雪風 (1964)
Character: N/A
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.
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最後の女達 (1954)
Character: sergeant Harashima
The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On July 7, an order comes that everyone must die in order not to be captured by the enemy.
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破戒 (1948)
Character: Bunpei Katsuno
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
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御用牙 (1972)
Character: N/A
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.
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原爆の子 (1952)
Character: (as Akira Yamauchi; como Akira Yamauchi)
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
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刺青一代 (1965)
Character: Kinoshita Yuzo
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
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朝を呼ぶ口笛 (1959)
Character: N/A
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bill and gave up going to high school. His friends heard about this, and they donated money to his mother. So, Minoru goes to high school and yet he delivers newspapers cheerfully whistling every morning. A memorable film debut by Sayuri Yoshinaga, a representative of the Japanese film industry.The film adaptation of "Newspaper Delivery" by Minoru Yoshida, who won the Minister of Education Award at the national small and Medium student essay competition.
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花扉 (1961)
Character: N/A
Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president.
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鍵を握る女 (1946)
Character: N/A
Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.
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Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? (1961)
Character: Hotsumi Ozaki
French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he was found supplying classified information to the Russians.
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二つの處女線 (1952)
Character: N/A
Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.
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人間の條件 完結篇 (1961)
Character: N/A
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.
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顔 (1957)
Character: Tetsuji Iijima
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 model.
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丘は花ざかり (1963)
Character: Haruo Ishiyama (as Akira Yamauchi)
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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死の棘 (1990)
Character: Masagaro
Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
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戦争と人間 第一部「運命の序曲」 (1970)
Character: Kanji Ishihara
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.
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豚と軍艦 (1961)
Character: Sakiyama
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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人斬り (1969)
Character: N/A
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
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激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦 (1971)
Character: N/A
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
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新幹線大爆破 (1975)
Character: Cabinet Chief Secretary
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
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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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病院で死ぬということ (1993)
Character: Kenji Kawamura
Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.
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富士山頂 (1970)
Character: N/A
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy.
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抜き射ち三四郎 (1962)
Character: N/A
Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!
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愛の渇き (1967)
Character: Kensuke
A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.
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誘惑 (1948)
Character: Saburo Takeda
A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.
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黒部の太陽 (1968)
Character: Tsukamoto
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.
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大幹部 無頼 (1968)
Character: Ryûsaku izumi
Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
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ある少女の告白 禁断の果実 (1968)
Character: N/A
A unique depiction of the awakening of male and female sexuality in youth.
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ゴジラ対ヘドラ (1971)
Character: Dr. Toru Yano
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 and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.
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脅迫の影 (1959)
Character: Senda
Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts and disperse. However, one by one, the henchmen die. The last survivor, Sima Kyuhei, gets a call and is informed that Ryu is alive. He is told that if he does not return the money, he will be killed, and he goes to the meeting place...
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子連れ狼 冥府魔道 (1973)
Character: Shinnoji Senzo
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.
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