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闇の中の魑魅魍魎 (1971)
Character: N/A
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.
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黒田騒動 (1956)
Character: N/A
This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As his clan’s new leader, Tadayuki, becomes increasingly militant in his opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate, Daizen is forced to reconcile his loyalty to the clan with his loyalty to Tadayuki, who seems dead set on entangling the clan in destructive conflict. The Kuroda Affair’s mise-en-scène is said to have influenced future Toei director Eiichi Kudo. The film also features two of the greatest stars of Japanese period cinema, Chiezo Kataoka and Ryutaro Otomo.
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ひも (1965)
Character: N/A
A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.
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関東流れ者 (1971)
Character: N/A
Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.
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続・渡世人 (1967)
Character: Sakaki
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
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蟻の街のマリア (1958)
Character: N/A
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
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ブラック・ジャック (1996)
Character: N/A
Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license. Osamu Tezuka's comic of the same name was made into a series with an original video.
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極つぶし (1994)
Character: N/A
The original is a manga work by Shigeru Tsuchiyama serialized in the magazine "Leed Comic". The director is Takeshi Watanabe of "Kyouju Luger P08", the script is Masaya Ishikawa, and the shooting is Naoaki Imaizumi. A hard-boiled action by a combination of a former yakuza detective and a gangster who is a police officer. Performers are Kazuya Kimura, Rikiya Yasuoka, and Katsuya Kobayashi. Kyotaro Inugami, a detective at the port station, is a former yakuza. The young head of the gangster group Tsuneno-gumi, Choji Hanawa is a police officer. They were two people glaring at each other, but there are two people, Assistant Commissioner Masaru Sasaki and Shiro Sasaki ...
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借王 ナニワ相場師伝説 (1999)
Character: N/A
Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka after completing his sentence. Although he wants to get clean, Oyodo Shinkin Bank has tasked Naito to raise funds.
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その手にのるな (1958)
Character: N/A
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
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郷愁 (1988)
Character: Enomoto
The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.
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異母兄弟 (1957)
Character: Yoshitoshi, the third son of Kido
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
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女体 (1964)
Character: N/A
A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life.
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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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怪談佐賀屋敷 (1953)
Character: N/A
A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako Irie's first bakeneko (ghost cat) movie; it started a Daiei cycle which was very popular at the time in Japan.
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坊っちゃん (1958)
Character: Botchan
1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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夜霧の訪問者 (1975)
Character: Arao
Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.
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ソクラテス (1996)
Character: N/A
Based on the story "Gokudō Socrates"
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終電車の死美人 (1955)
Character: N/A
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
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隼の魔王 (1955)
Character: Koizumi
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.
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夜の手配師 (1968)
Character: N/A
Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-up women decorate the city at night. And then, there are men who live off of these women. This movie depicts the conflict of sex and desire between a procurer, called a "night arranger," and women who live in the neon city seeking money and pleasure.
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女殺し屋 牝犬 (1969)
Character: Goro Kijima
A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...
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真昼の罠 (1960)
Character: Onishi
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...
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颱風とざくろ (1967)
Character: Shingo Yamazaki
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
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侠骨一代 (1967)
Character: N/A
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza gangs.
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ヘルメス － 愛は風の如く (1997)
Character: The God Ophelius (voice)
The creator of the world orders Hermes to defeat the evil King Minos, tyrant of Crete. With his beautiful wife, Aphrodite, by his side, he bravely responds to the challenge. A battle between good and evil rocks the heavens as Hermes fights to unite Greece!
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不良番長 (1968)
Character: N/A
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
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波の塔 (1960)
Character: Yuuki - Yoriko's husband
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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十七人の忍者 大血戦 (1966)
Character: N/A
In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create an exciting black and white sequel to the classic story of 17 Ninja, one of the most famous films from that noted studio. In the year 1651 the Kishu clan is about to rise against the Tokugawa shogunate using a stash of muskets being guarded by Jinza the leader of the Koga ninja. The Iga ninja are called upon to stop the revolt under the leadership of Hattori Hanzo setting off a spy versus spy battle of silent ninja stealth. Through all the turmoil, Shizaburo and Yuka have broken the taboo of ninja falling in love and strive to achieve the forbidden life of happiness that is denied to all members of the ninja class.
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第三の忍者 (1964)
Character: N/A
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
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温泉ポン引女中 (1969)
Character: N/A
Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.
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櫻の園 (1990)
Character: Mr. Nakamura
At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
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三つ首塔 (1956)
Character: N/A
Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never heard of. The lawyers haven't located Shunsaku yet, allowing Otone to think about whether she accepts the conditions of the will. One month later after, Takato Shunsaku is found. Murdered. At the birthday party of Otone's uncle. With Shunsaku dead and thus making it impossible for Otone to marry him, the inheritence is to split amongst all (living) family members. And yes, as always, that means that the potential successors get killed off one by one. But Kosuke Kindaichi is on the trail...
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風前の灯 (1957)
Character: Akama
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
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修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌 (1974)
Character: Toad
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
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太平洋戦争と姫ゆり部隊 (1962)
Character: Captain Oshima
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
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無頼 人斬り五郎 (1968)
Character: N/A
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
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新座頭市 破れ！唐人剣 (1971)
Character: Kakuzen
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.
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文学賞殺人事件 大いなる助走 (1989)
Character: N/A
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
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マルサの女2 (1988)
Character: Yoneda
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
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女囚さそり けもの部屋 (1973)
Character: Sameshima
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
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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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Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? (1961)
Character: Yotoku Miyagi
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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十一人の侍 (1967)
Character: Chamberlain Tatewaki
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, the Oshi clan is blamed for what happened and sentenced to be disbanded. Eleven of the best samurai of the clan refuse the sentence and are willing to give their life for justice.
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私は貝になりたい (1959)
Character: N/A
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
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風の武士 (1964)
Character: Neko
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find themselves at the center of an intrigue surrounding the legendary land of Yasurai in the mountains of Kumano. Hidden gold, the love of a beautiful Princess, and the approaching evil sword all contribute in bringing you a Ninja action thriller that only the legendary actor Okawa Hashizo and the genius director Kato Tai could produce!
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人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇 (1959)
Character: Kô
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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ゼロの焦点 (1961)
Character: Kenichi Uhara
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
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無宿人御子神の丈吉 牙は引き裂いた (1972)
Character: N/A
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.
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殺しの烙印 (1967)
Character: No. 1
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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激闘 (1959)
Character: N/A
The president of the Hong Kong Almond Cola company, Liu's grandfather, signed a purchase and sale agreement with Showa Nakajima from Japan, and shortly before leaving for Japan, someone attacked him. Before he died, before he lost consciousness, he transferred all the rights to the company to his close confidant Murota and told him to transfer them to his daughter, whom he left in Japan 20 years ago. Murota, who inherited Liu's will, went to Japan. However, the gang of James Howe, the head of the Hong Kong trading world, was waiting for him, seeking to obtain the rights to Almond Cola…
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サンクチュアリ PART2 (1995)
Character: N/A
Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto region, and Asami to create a faction "Rifukakai," aiming to destroy Isaoka's system of the ruling Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the connection between Hojo and Asami is revealed.
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ずべ公番長 東京流れ者 (1970)
Character: N/A
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in Tokyo to face different challenges in the form of yakuza and… street vendors.
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赤い手裏剣 (1965)
Character: N/A
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.
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銀蝶渡り鳥 (1972)
Character: N/A
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
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戦争と人間 第一部「運命の序曲」 (1970)
Character: Shiro Jinnai
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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悪い奴ほどよく眠る (1960)
Character: Public Prosecutor Horiuchi
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
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続決着 (1968)
Character: N/A
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
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戦争と人間 第二部 (1971)
Character: Shiro Jinnai
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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私は貝になりたい (1958)
Character: N/A
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."
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阿片台地 地獄部隊突撃せよ (1966)
Character: N/A
Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the Wartime Generation”. It is a war drama set in China and depicts battles over opium.
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お吟さま (1962)
Character: Mitsunari Ishida
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
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写楽はどこへ行った (1968)
Character: N/A
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.
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狼やくざ 殺しは俺がやる (1972)
Character: N/A
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.
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花の特攻隊 あゝ戦友よ (1970)
Character: Commander Akiyama
In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.
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涙を、獅子のたて髪に (1962)
Character: N/A
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.
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網走番外地 (1965)
Character: Gonzo Gonda
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.
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徳川女系図 (1968)
Character: Yanagisawa Dewa-no-kami
A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.
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夕日と拳銃 (1956)
Character: N/A
A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man Rinnosuke Date, who, following his dream, love and passion, breaks through the blood- and dust-drenched land of Manchuria with a pistol in a piercing wind.
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風林火山 (1969)
Character: N/A
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
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チョップ先生 (1956)
Character: N/A
Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...
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銃殺 (1964)
Character: Major Oba
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26 and the execution of young officers.
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妖艶毒婦伝 般若のお百 (1968)
Character: Sengoku
Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.
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美味しんぼ (1996)
Character: N/A
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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遊侠三代 (1966)
Character: N/A
The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowing that they are relatives, and become victims of a brutal war for territory between the clans according to the merciless laws of the yakuza.
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夜叉ヶ池 (1979)
Character: Priest Shikami
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in their hands.
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