Zenpei Saga

AKA: 瑳峨善兵

0.221

1909-05-18

Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Biography

Crew Roles

Vacuum Zone

Producer

Ai Sureba Koso

Producer

The Street Without Sun

Producer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {82}

1961-05-13 0

Tōkyō dodonpa musume

Motomu Ida movie ...

Genre :

1960-06-15 7

Jungle Block

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. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1941-12-30 6

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph

Genre :Drama

1961-03-27 0

The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full

A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policemen solve a series of unusual cases, ranging from extortion, to drunken fathers, to corrup ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Man

1950-02-27 0

Four Seasons of Women

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda ...

Genre :Drama

1952-03-14 0

The Stand in Hakone

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights. ...

Genre :Drama, History

1972-12-30 6.186

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

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 supe ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1964-10-11 6

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel

An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1954-05-18 0

Cape Ashizuri

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student activist disenchanted by the increasingly hawkish state of Japa ...

Genre :Drama

1963-02-02 0

Modern Children

After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat. ...

Genre :

Eitaro Mishima

1965-12-04 0

A Girl of the Plateau

Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. One day, Kazuo is attracted to the beautiful young lady who is visiting the ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Kinsuke

1938-02-01 0

Subterranean Heat

Genre :History, Drama

Manufacturer

1942-02-14 0

Currents of Youth

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beaut ...

Genre :Drama

1937-05-21 0

Japanese Women's Textbook

Genre :Drama, History

1959-04-22 0

Shadow of Intimidation

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. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1959-12-16 0

Kikenna onna

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper. ...

Genre :Drama

1966-08-27 0

Star of Destiny

"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their mother in almost 20 years. The war had separated them. When Eiji learns that his sister is engaged, ...

Genre :Music, Drama

1966-12-24 0

The Scarred Angel

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hachiro begins to investigate the cause of his older ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1958-07-13 0

The Night is Mine

Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a skirmish between bandits, and the second is wounded by ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Kim Dong-Kwang

1961-06-03 6.375

The Man with a Shotgun

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1962-12-26 0

Utau abarenbō

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1971-09-26 0

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 12 - The Mystery of the Ever-Changing Tamamushi Mansion!

Twelfth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series. ...

Genre :Horror

1942-04-01 0

Green Earth

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their fami ...

Genre :Drama

1964-02-08 6.9

The Flower and the Angry Waves

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitres ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1961-06-19 0

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and sorrows she experiences there. ...

Genre :Drama

1956-06-19 0

Meiken monogatari

Japanese film. ...

Genre :Family

1962-09-30 0

Sararīman monogatari: Teki wa ikuman aritotemo

Japanese comedy film. ...

Genre :Comedy, Action, Drama

1960-08-16 0

金語楼の俺は殺し屋だ

Japanese comedy film. ...

Genre :Comedy

1939-05-31 0

Ichiyo Higuchi

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896). ...

Genre :Drama

1937-03-11 0

Karayuki-san

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes Uni ...

Genre :

Suekichi Asai

1941-06-18 0

The Poppy

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Fukui's father

1963-02-10 8

The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's f ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, Crime

Shimaki

1950-02-26 6.5

Street of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Okakura's manager

1943-03-18 0

音楽大進軍

A 1943 film. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

1962-10-07 0

Chibusa o daku musume tachi

Japanese drama. ...

Genre :Drama

Tokutake

1961-02-01 6.8

Tokyo Knights

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Yoshimitsu

1959-10-06 0

A Turning to Hell

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dea ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Jiro's father

1964-11-22 0

Eddy Currents of Life

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not bei ...

Genre :

1975-09-06 6.8

Solar Eclipse

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot. ...

Genre :Drama

1976-04-03 1

Skyscraper Murder Case

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 princip ...

Genre :Thriller

Daizo Onogaki

1965-07-28 6.8

Gambling Kitten

Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yu ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Shirobei Senoo

1981-10-03 6

Island of the Evil Spirits

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold. ...

Genre :Drama, Horror, Mystery

1937-12-18 6.2

Learn from Experience, Part Two

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by close friend Michiko and her mother but a ...

Genre :Drama

1940-01-02 0

China Night

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shan ...

Genre :Drama

1960-10-26 0

Wait for Tomorrow

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignmen ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Kinto Yo

1960-06-25 6.227

Smashing the 0-Line

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female ga ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1980-01-15 6

The Revolt

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his s ...

Genre :War, Drama

1957-10-15 6.8

The Story of Pure Love

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1953-04-01 8

Miniature

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 j ...

Genre :Drama

1963-10-13 0

The Gambling Monk

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the famil ...

Genre :Comedy

1937-10-01 6

Learn from Experience, Part One

Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. The two lovers flee to Tokyo, but when Shintaro re ...

Genre :Drama

1975-08-09 7

Company Buggers

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain. ...

Genre :Crime

Tax Office Chief

1987-02-07 6.667

A Taxing Woman

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 ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

1978-09-23 7

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revi ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

1934-01-05 0

Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyô

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou ...

Genre :

1988-04-01 5.7

Sakura-tai Chiru

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing ...

Genre :Documentary, Drama

1956-06-08 0

Twice on a Certain Night

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when sh ...

Genre :Drama

1954-06-24 0

The Street Without Sun

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers' steadfastness, which neither hunger nor violence could ...

Genre :Drama

1964-12-19 0

A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge

Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Saito

1966-02-07 6.1

Carmen from Kawachi

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move i ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Totsuka Iwamatsu

1965-11-13 7

Tattooed Life

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1959-10-21 0

The Ghost of Iwojima

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 ...

Genre :War, Drama

Motokichi Sakakibara

1958-02-19 0

Akutoku

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi Shin, a well-known actor who also demonstrated his ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

1961-04-17 0

Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire

Genre :Action

Hayashi

1942-01-14 0

Sky of Hope

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance, War

1971-07-24 0

Price of Life

Comedy of a phony doctor. ...

Genre :Comedy

1936-11-12 0

Hikoroku Laughs a lot

Hikoroku Laughs a lot ...

Genre :Comedy

1955-12-13 0

Ishigassen

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a stone battle took place. Takemaru, the only son of ...

Genre :

1956-11-27 0

Actress

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness. ...

Genre :Drama

1961-09-02 0

The Story of a Salesman: Every Man Has a Dream

A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman pursuing a man's dream. ...

Genre :Comedy

1959-02-18 7.3

Lucky Dragon No. 5

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Ato ...

Genre :Drama

1962-06-03 0

Quick Draw Sanshiro

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters! ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1935-10-09 0

Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu

Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she's pregnant, he begins to worry. His company hasn't paid his backsalary and he doesn't kno ...

Genre :

1961-12-01 0

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1954-11-08 0

Wakai hito-tachi

Genre :

1961-01-21 0

An Angel is Chasing Me

A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only to find himself embroiled in a thrilling and hilari ...

Genre :Action, Comedy

1962-01-23 0

Ningen Gari

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out. ...

Genre :Crime

1963-06-02 0

Ginza no jirochō

Genre :

Police Doctor

1965-05-15 6

Witness Chair

Murder case and trial. ...

Genre :Drama

1969-12-06 0

Biographies of Killers

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Bizenya

1972-01-01 8

Kogarashi Monjiro

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mou ...