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美徳のよろめき (1957)
Character: Shozo Tsuchiya
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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日本暴力地帯 (1997)
Character: N/A
The first directorial work of Kazuhiko Murakami, a master of gangster comics. Yano-gumi Wakato and Kito Kiyoji, whose leader was shot dead, boarded the Owada-gumi alone. Owada-gumi chairman, Gozo Shimamura, who was impressed by that spirit, asks Kito to rectify the injustice of Owada Ichimon as a dark punisher who runs through the path. You can't go to the world without justice! The blade of Kito Kiyotsugu's judgment begins here!
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幌馬車は行く (1960)
Character: N/A
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's major islands, to Hokkaido, it's northernmost.
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獣のいる街 (1958)
Character: N/A
Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.
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帰郷 (1964)
Character: 隠岐達三
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-minded university professor, whose only worry is protecting his family name from the slightest blemish.
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第８監房 (1956)
Character: N/A
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
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七人の刑事 女を探がせ (1963)
Character: N/A
This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.
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闘牛に賭ける男 (1960)
Character: N/A
An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yujiro who risks his life to invite bullfighting.
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球形の荒野 (1975)
Character: N/A
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his country, his wife and children, and risked everything to save his country from ruin, and the bond between father and daughter.
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太平洋のかつぎ屋 (1961)
Character: N/A
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the editor-in-chief of “Kokuikai” (Aviation World), was on Tetsuji's side. Tetsuji questions Jim, but Jim refuses to tell him anything, and the atmosphere turns sour. At that moment, Yosuke Sugie, a former classmate of Tetsuji's at the Civil Aviation College, enters the office.
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黄金のパートナー (1979)
Character: Nobuhiro Kamiya
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it.
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現代人 (1952)
Character: N/A
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.
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縮図 (1953)
Character: N/A
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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愛欲 (1966)
Character: Chairman Aso
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
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あやに愛しき (1956)
Character: N/A
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
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小説吉田学校 (1983)
Character: Ichirō Hatoyama
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
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女優 (1956)
Character: N/A
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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鹿鳴館 (1970)
Character: N/A
TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
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紅の拳銃 (1961)
Character: N/A
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.
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ギター抱えたひとり旅 (1964)
Character: N/A
Kobayashi Akira stars as a wandering musician, who lost his brother and lover to dishonest rival Henmi. The third work in Nikkatsu's "Gambler" series.
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燃える秋 (1978)
Character: N/A
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer. Lecherous Saburi Shin knows what she wants, and is able to produce it for her.
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一万三千人の容疑者 (1966)
Character: N/A
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
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超高層ホテル殺人事件 (1976)
Character: N/A
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control of the hotel, blackmail and jealousy. The principals involved are two business partners, a political string puller and his son, lovers carrying on an illicit affair and a secretary turned blackmailer.
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赤いハンカチ (1964)
Character: N/A
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
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出撃 (1964)
Character: N/A
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”
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姿三四郎 (1977)
Character: Mitsuyasu Minamikoji
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
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愛と死 (1971)
Character: N/A
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 circumstances, they try to not act on their attraction. However, as time goes by, they realise that, perhaps, they cannot be without each other. Will the forbidden love affair move forward and can they finally be with each other?
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昭和残侠伝 唐獅子牡丹 (1966)
Character: N/A
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
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帰って来た旋風児 (1962)
Character: N/A
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the fifth in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi dressed as a hero of the dead ghost. Familiar Takuya Nikaido challenges the international call girl organization.
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大海原を行く渡り鳥 (1961)
Character: N/A
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
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網走番外地 (1959)
Character: N/A
Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground
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花と竜 (1962)
Character: N/A
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
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秩父水滸伝 必殺剣 (1965)
Character: N/A
1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai spirits still lived. Out of the many schools that taught Japanese swordsmanship, the school of Ono and Kogen were most dominant. Every year, they each selected a master swordsman to fight a dedicatory match held at the Chichibu Shrine. Gengo (Hideki Takahashi) represented the school of Ono. His opponent Danhichiro of the Kogen school was feared by many as the "Devil".
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二階堂卓也 銀座無頼帖 銀座旋風児 (1959)
Character: Gōzō Hotta
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Man, popular and longing everywhere, and who is on the side of justice of the divine ghost.
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涙になりたい (1966)
Character: N/A
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.
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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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さらば掟 (1971)
Character: N/A
Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei. This is Watari Tetsuya's first film to star in Shochiku.
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悪太郎 (1963)
Character: N/A
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
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落陽 (1992)
Character: President of Mantetsu
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
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迷走地図 (1983)
Character: Shigenobu Katsura
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love letters changes the situation.
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最後の女達 (1954)
Character: lieutenant Inokuma
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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戦争と人間 第三部 (1973)
Character: Keisuke Godai
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
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非情な銃弾 (1959)
Character: Matsumoto
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sawamura clan (Kaneko), who is with his mistress, impassively pulls the trigger of a pistol with a silencer. Kenji was hired by Sawamura's advisor, Matsumoto (Ashida). It was a cunning plan: eliminate Sawamura, sell the smuggling rights to the Hamasaki clan and make a profit. And for Kenji, the motive did not matter, as long as he was paid, his job was to kill opponents without a miss.…
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渡世一代 (1965)
Character: N/A
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido Federation, to which he belonged. The creditor, Izo, visited the local police station daily, worried about the safety of his boss, and himself came to the attention of the police. Izo embarks on a journey to escape, but in the meantime, the new rising yakuza Dojima plans to kill Iizuka...
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張込み (1958)
Character: N/A
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
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原爆の子 (1952)
Character: N/A
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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仁侠八方破れ (1966)
Character: Kijima
This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take up a sword again because of the emptiness of the Yakuza's life, and the passionate fate of his named sister Maki, nicknamed "The Scarlet Cherry Blossom", who falls in love with him without suspecting that he was the one who was responsible for her father's death and to whom she should take revenge.
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無頼無法の徒 さぶ (1964)
Character: N/A
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel.
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暗黒の旅券 (1959)
Character: N/A
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master Seijun Suzuki.
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野性の証明 (1978)
Character: Sakamoto, head of the Defense Agency
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for which he is responsible. Years later, Ajisawa is forced to return to the scene of the tragedy for his new job as a claims adjuster where he is subsequently arrested for his suspected involvement. But the threat of jail time is the least of his worries as his former organization comes gunning for him.
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この子の七つのお祝いに (1982)
Character: Takahashi
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist known as the “blue moth”, and political corruption.
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紅の翼 (1958)
Character: Tadahiro Sasaki
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...
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マルサの女 (1987)
Character: Ninagawa Kihachiro
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
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夜霧の慕情 (1966)
Character: N/A
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
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渡世人 命の捨て場 (1971)
Character: Boss Yosida
End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provinces) were to raise funds for the construction of the Chuji Kunisada monument. Responsible for the fundraiser was Jokichi from the Asami family, but Matsugoro from the Kuromatsu family, who wanted to become the greatest boss of the Kanhasshu yakuza, is trying to take over the textile market that Jokichi controls and intercept the fundraiser.
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226 (1989)
Character: Kantaro Suzuki
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
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あくま の まち (1956)
Character: Akagi
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.
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にあんちゃん (1959)
Character: Sakai
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.
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影なき声 (1958)
Character: Muraoka
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
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すべてが狂ってる (1960)
Character: Keigo Nambara
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
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真夜中の招待状 (1981)
Character: N/A
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
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傑作時代劇 国境を越えた男 (1987)
Character: N/A
Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his servant Gonsuke to the country from Edo. Along the way, they are attacked by masked samurai on a mountain road. Genichiro is saved by Sukezaemon Tsuda, the supervisor of public works who was out hunting. Upon arriving in the domain, Genichiro is given a warm welcome by the vassals, who force him to drink heavily and find his subordinates to be rebellious. His proposed fiscal reforms are met with resistance, except by Tsuda who understands Genichiro's intentions. Genichiro marries Matsuo, the daughter of a senior councilor, but soon faces accusations of corruption.
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継承盃 (1992)
Character: Eikichi Doba
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate.
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柳生一族の陰謀 (1978)
Character: Chamberlain Doi
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.
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伊豆の踊子 (1954)
Character: N/A
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story.
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人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇 (1959)
Character: (uncredited)
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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果しなき欲望 (1958)
Character: N/A
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
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夜の狼 (1958)
Character: N/A
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
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愛のお荷物 (1955)
Character: Congressman Sakuma
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu
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影の車 (1970)
Character: N/A
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
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女のみづうみ (1966)
Character: Yuzo
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
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春の鐘 (1985)
Character: Toichiro Miyake
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.
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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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愉快な仲間 赤ちゃん特急 (1956)
Character: N/A
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name suggests. Daikichi was a driver working for the East-West transportation company, and Rokuheita served as his assistant. The Daikichi truck, which was packed with luggage today, has left for its destination. And soon after Daikichi's truck left, Rokuheita heard a cat meowing from behind, so Daikichi stopped the car and turned to check the cargo, and there in a large basket he saw a crying baby...
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暗黒街の美女 (1958)
Character: Ôyane
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.
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ブルークリスマス (1978)
Character: N/A
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
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風立ちぬ (1976)
Character: N/A
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB
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社葬 (1989)
Character: N/A
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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事件 (1978)
Character: N/A
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.
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戦争と人間 第一部「運命の序曲」 (1970)
Character: Keisuke Godai
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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流転の海 (1990)
Character: N/A
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel of the same name written by Teru Miyamoto, and the screenplay was written by Eizo Sugawa, who also wrote "Horagawa". The director is Takeichi Saito, who also directed "Kawachi no Osan no Uta: Yokita no Ware". Kozo Okazaki, who worked on "I am a Cat," is in charge of the cinematography.
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戦争と人間 第二部 (1971)
Character: Keisuke Godai
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.
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次郎物語 (1987)
Character: 恭亮
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
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赤い天使 (1966)
Character: Dr. Okabe
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.
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赤穂城断絶 (1978)
Character: Shikibe
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
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富士山頂 (1970)
Character: Tatsukichi
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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千利休 本覺坊遺文 (1989)
Character: Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
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真昼の暗黒 (1956)
Character: Yoshii
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
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１３号待避線より その護送車を狙え (1960)
Character: Jûbei Hamajima
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
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真昼の誘拐 (1961)
Character: N/A
A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a coffee shop about this. They were told that if you kidnap a child from a rich family, search for him/her, their family would give you about 50,000 yen if you could send the child back.A woman named Motoko disappeared in the midst of evil, but no one noticed it. Shortly after, Kaneda and Chii appeared in a quiet residential area and took a girl about five years old from the Ohara family....
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危険な女 (1959)
Character: Ryukichi Sugimoto
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
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その壁を砕け (1959)
Character: Takuji Samejima
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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七人の刑事 (1963)
Character: N/A
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...
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野良犬 (1973)
Character: Detective Sato
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
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球形の荒野 (1992)
Character: N/A
Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the heroine Kumiko because she finds evidence that her father, who should have died, was "alive." Set in 1945, near the end of WW II, Kenichiro Nogami is reported to have died in a Swiss hospital. In fact, he is working behind the scenes to save Japan from destruction. For this cause, Kenichiro Nogami has left behind his wife and nation to work in hiding.
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「流木」より 女豹とならず者 (1957)
Character: N/A
A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose love and action unfold against the backdrop of a rice field in the middle of a vast forest.
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青年の樹 (1960)
Character: N/A
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.
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黒部の太陽 (1968)
Character: N/A
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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太陽と星 (1962)
Character: N/A
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.
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銀座二十四帖 (1955)
Character: Gorô Mitsuboshi
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.
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「廓」より 無法一代 (1957)
Character: N/A
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.
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けものの眠り (1960)
Character: Junpei Ueki
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.
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美味しんぼ (1996)
Character: Daizo Ohara
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya.
Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
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上を向いて歩こう (1962)
Character: Tokuzô Nagai
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.
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爆薬に火をつけろ (1959)
Character: N/A
An action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop of a large landfill full of intrigue and violence.
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狂った果実 (1956)
Character: N/A
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
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