Bontarō Miake

AKA: 見明凡太郎, Бонтаро Миакэ, Bontarô Miyake
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1906-10-15

Shimane Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Actor. Born 1906, died 1987.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {195}

1952-05-14 0

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another ...
Genre :

1957-12-28 0

Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil

The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Fantasy

Masamichi Arikawa

1962-07-08 0

Yamaotoko no Uta

Genre :Drama

Father Seiichiro

1955-10-25 0

Brooba

Genre :Action, Adventure

1945-11-08 0

A Baby Given by a Fox

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1962-05-12 0

Sarari man donto bushi - Kiraku na kagyô to kita monda

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of Ueki etc. [Selection of Actors and Direct ...
Genre :Comedy

1953-12-29 0

Jūdai no yūwaku

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako ...
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1950-03-12 0

Hyōchū no Bijo

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo. ...
Genre :Crime, Horror

1962-03-04 0

情熱の詩人啄木

1962 Japanese movie ...
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Kondo

1960-04-27 0

Victory and Defeat

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title figh ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1953-07-17 0

Kurohyō

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1948-12-06 0

Shin Aizen Katsura

1948 Japanese movie ...
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Shinkichi Shigeno

1953-05-15 0

Zoku jūdai no seiten

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako. ...
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1960-05-18 0

The Song Lantern

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the actors of the Japanese classical theater No, frien ...
Genre :Drama

1973-10-27 6.6

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her t ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Kobayashi

1954-06-20 7.198

The Woman in the Rumor

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-04-04 0

雪の降る街に

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1960-06-01 5.7

Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlig ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1956-06-01 0

Outlaw island

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous for its bullfights. Today there is also a bull mark ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1930-07-25 0

Return to Heaven

Surviving fragments of a film by Tomu Uchida. ...
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1961-04-26 0

Gonin no totsugeki tai

Genre :War

1964-07-04 0

Muchana Yakko

A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up in a dirty carriage that his father owned. His dream ...
Genre :

1962-04-29 0

Princess and I

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1965-10-02 0

Black Temptation

Genre :

1973-11-17 7

The Blossom and the Sword

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accompli ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1956-03-04 0

Tokyo Crime Map

An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Chen-Hsuan-li

1955-05-03 6.68

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. Ge ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, History

1966-01-03 0

The Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again

Genre :Action

1971-11-20 0

Wicked Nun

Genre :

Heizo

1939-04-13 7.4

Earth

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts. ...
Genre :Drama

Maruju

1951-03-21 6

Carmen Comes Home

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Shinsaku Fujioka, Sakura Syndicate chair

1969-07-26 4.438

Bloody Territories

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gamb ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1950-02-19 0

Devil's Gold

1950 film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Yasuke Shiraishi

1955-07-20 6

The Phantom Horse

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby. ...
Genre :Drama

Oya, chief editor

1957-09-15 6

Hole in One

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Chief of the Metropolitan Police

1957-08-25 5.727

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Crime, Horror

Dr. Kamura

1956-01-27 5.162

Warning from Space

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular singer. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

1955-09-28 6

The Romance of Yushima

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secr ...
Genre :Drama

1956-11-21 0

Sound in the Mist

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confron ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1955-11-15 0

Miai Ryokou

A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film. ...
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1953-10-21 7.6

The Eagle of the Pacific

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pe ...
Genre :Drama, War

1960-12-27 6.6

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, History

1952-07-08 0

Forbidden Path

Genre :Drama

1961-05-17 7

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword tr ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1959-10-11 0

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears ab ...
Genre :Drama, History

1957-05-28 0

The Betrothed

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel. ...
Genre :Drama

1958-02-12 0

Shogun's Holiday

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuk ...
Genre :Drama, History

1970-07-22 0

Tomorrow's Joe

Genre :Drama

1945-01-25 0

Sugata naki teki

1945 Japanese movie ...
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1966-04-09 5.25

Return of Gun Dog

Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Comedy

1956-02-19 0

A Rainbow at Every Turn

Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom they have not had. While Asako is a sweet young lady, Mom ...
Genre :Drama

1962-09-16 0

Ashita au hito

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1964-04-04 0

Black Challenger

Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming from those at the very top of society. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Kiyotsugu

1960-08-09 3

Anchin and Kiyohime

Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spite of her beauty. One night, while Anchin is recup ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Horror

Sanpei Tsuchiya

1948-12-13 0

Ghost Tower

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki. ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Mystery, Horror

Karuyama

1934-11-22 0

Karisome no kuchibeni

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown" ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

1963-05-03 0

The Red Water

Comedy drama film ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Teacher Akiyama

1954-07-14 0

Asakusa at Night

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

松並の弟敏男

1929-05-31 6

Tokyo March

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Samu Kō

1929-01-02 0

Metropolitan Symphony

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film. ...
Genre :

1952-04-03 0

Kojiki Taishô

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and leaves the clan. Seven years later, he joins Toyotom ...
Genre :History, Drama

1947-08-26 0

Woman on the Night Train

Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is robbed! The second woman is almost killed! The third wom ...
Genre :Mystery

1931-02-17 0

Jean Valjean: Part One

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji Revolution. The film has not survived. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1931-02-25 0

Jean Valjean: Part Two

The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji Revolution. The film has not survived. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1962-12-01 0

Fūshinraishin

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1936-06-04 0

The Crown of Life

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They are polar opposites. When a boat sails out looking ...
Genre :

1936-02-13 0

Theater of Life: Youth Version

Genre :Drama

1934-03-29 0

Tsuki yori no shisha

Genre :

1948-01-20 0

Golden Devil

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil ...
Genre :

1948-02-03 0

Golden Devil Part 2

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2 ...
Genre :

1952-08-07 0

The Paths of Two Maidens

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers. ...
Genre :Drama

1945-07-26 0

Saigo no kikyō

1945 Japanese movie ...
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1969-05-01 0

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Seki

1954-06-15 7.3

Late Chrysanthemums

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating the ...
Genre :Drama

Patron

1958-09-02 7.5

Summer Clouds

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her olde ...
Genre :Drama

1945-12-27 0

Who Is the Criminal?

1945 Japanese movie ...
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1947-10-21 0

The Devil's toast

Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in the hotel. But when an ex-actress who is also a gue ...
Genre :Mystery

1946-06-13 0

A Face Glowing at Night

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole to the government. The next day, the jewel disappea ...
Genre :Mystery

Channa

1961-10-31 0

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion whe ...
Genre :Drama

1962-07-15 6.8

The Whale God

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

1966-10-15 6.7

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothin ...
Genre :Drama

1970-10-29 6

The Last Kamikaze

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has se ...
Genre :War, Drama

Prosecutor Narumi

1963-01-13 6.182

Black Report

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1969-11-01 0

The Falcon Fighters

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to b ...
Genre :Drama, War

1947-07-01 0

Diary of a Nurse

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu. ...
Genre :Drama

Sahira

1959-08-12 0

Beauty the Enemy

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1963-07-13 0

Typhoon Reporter

Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, mea ...
Genre :Thriller

Kichiji

1954-03-31 8.1

Sansho the Bailiff

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier. ...
Genre :Drama

Chief army surgeon Yamada

1953-06-15 0

The Battleship Yamato

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato". ...
Genre :Drama, War

Nomura

1952-04-04 7

Lil's Return from Shanghai

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then. ...
Genre :Action, Mystery

1963-11-16 0

High School Third Graders

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with th ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Drama

Veterinarian

1952-05-15 5.5

The Ataka Family

Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family ...
Genre :Drama

Yasuzo Yasui, Kikuchi's nephew

1928-08-31 0

Town of Love

Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl". ...
Genre :Drama

Saisuke Okazaki

1955-01-29 0

All is Well

Genre :Drama

1967-02-04 7

Birth of a Fighter

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1959-02-18 0

Tasogare no Tokyo Tower

A sweet and melancholy story that depicts, with beautiful sentimentality, the day when a dreamy and lovely young girl first discovers love in the twilight of Tokyo Tower. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Numata

1951-08-17 6.3

Dancing Girl

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family. ...
Genre :Drama

Sergeant Fujimoto

1938-01-07 5.9

Five Scouts

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A company commander calls on five men. They are to reco ...
Genre :War, Drama

Arifusa

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

1965-05-27 0

雲を呼ぶ講道館

Genre :

1933-08-31 5

The Feast of Gion

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film. ...
Genre :Romance

1978-04-07 5.962

The Most Dangerous Game

The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable gov ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1952-10-09 0

Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete

Genre :Drama

Shinzô

1933-06-01 7.2

The Water Magician

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Crime

Tomoda

1967-06-29 6

Organized Violence II

Genre :Crime, Action

Ichizô

1961-10-14 0

Okoto and Sasuke

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō. ...
Genre :

Kurisu

1961-03-08 0

Blind Devotion

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Urajuku no Shichibee

1960-10-18 6.6

Satan's Sword

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tel ...
Genre :Action

1967-12-08 0

Thoroughbred Women Gamblers

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, History

1966-11-26 0

A Woman's Gamble

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yak ...
Genre :Action, Crime

President Yukawa

1968-06-15 0

The Pit of Death

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Crime, Drama

1957-04-01 6.3

Night Butterflies

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival. ...
Genre :Drama

1958-10-01 0

Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of ...
Genre :

1931-06-12 0

And Yet They Go On

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film. ...
Genre :

1968-12-20 0

The Woman Gambler's Revenge

Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, History

1957-07-23 6.6

Kisses

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1967-02-25 6

Organized Violence

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans. ...
Genre :Crime

Shuntaro Nonomura

1969-05-17 5

BGs of Ginza

Story of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar. ...
Genre :Drama

1963-04-21 0

Black Dividend

Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resig ...
Genre :

1962-12-15 0

Forbidden

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-03-21 5.375

A Lustful Man

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experienc ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1961-01-03 7

Vagabonds from Badgerville

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society. ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure, Music

1948-10-02 0

Nocturnal Gate

Genre :Drama

1941-05-23 0

Submarine Number One

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a subma ...
Genre :War

1965-07-31 6

Strange Triangle

A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is pregnant and so he agrees to live with her. But he ...
Genre :Drama

1957-12-28 5.5

Advance Patrol

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headq ...
Genre :Drama, War, Action, Adventure

1960-01-14 5.8

A Woman's Testament

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed b ...
Genre :Drama

1964-11-14 0

The Enforcer

Genre :Drama, Mystery

1964-12-19 0

Sweet Seventeen

Genre :Drama

1964-08-22 0

Green Fruit

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears ...
Genre :Drama

Adm. Koshiro Oikawa

1970-01-26 7.1

Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lea ...
Genre :War, History, Drama

Miwata

1967-01-14 0

Dreams Come True at Night

Genre :Romance, Drama

1959-05-27 0

The Path I Remember

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin. ...
Genre :Drama

Kihachi Oguri

1962-06-30 6.9

Black Test Car

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

1962-04-06 6.6

The Broken Commandment

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination. ...
Genre :Drama

Ryuzu Maya

1949-07-18 6.7

The Rainbow Man

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house ...
Genre :Fantasy, Crime, Horror, Mystery

1958-11-29 4

The Snowy Heron

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her. ...
Genre :Drama

1937-05-13 0

The Naked Town

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani. ...
Genre :

1964-02-24 7

Love and Greed

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers i ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

1953-05-15 0

Zoku jūdai no seiten

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako. ...
Genre :

Self-Defense Force General

1966-04-17 6.4

Gamera vs. Barugon

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action, Science Fiction

Moriyama

1957-11-22 0

On This Earth

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the d ...
Genre :Drama

Kikuzawa

1964-08-08 0

Bad Reputation: The Big Drum

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1958-11-29 0

Nusumareta Endan

Genre :Drama

1953-09-22 0

Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako ...
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Kan'ya Morita

1956-04-23 7

Zangiku monogatari

Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese Kabuki theatre. Set in Japan in 1885, the story follows Kikunosuke Onoe, the adopted son of a famous ...
Genre :Drama

1963-03-15 0

Black Money

The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1963-11-30 0

Lips of Ruin

Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also known in English as “Black Parking Lot”. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

1942-10-01 0

New Snow

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attract ...
Genre :Drama

1942-03-07 0

The General, Staff and Soldiers

Genre :Drama, War

1937-02-18 0

Sōbō

Genre :Drama

1959-03-04 8.5

Image of a Mother

The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of her own. As Michio clings to memories of his mother, ...
Genre :Drama

1958-04-29 0

Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko

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1958-11-15 5

Ambush at Iga Pass

Genre :

1959-12-01 0

Across the Darkness

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1937-11-03 0

Unending Advance

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into ...
Genre :Drama

Father Keita

1961-12-17 0

The Burdened Sisters

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961. ...
Genre :

Parent C

1964-01-19 0

Fools at Work

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito. ...
Genre :

1942-04-16 0

Horror of the Fifth Columnist

Genre :

1956-08-14 0

Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin

Genre :Mystery

Officer Nonomura

1956-03-18 7.677

Street of Shame

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law. ...
Genre :Drama

Tokioka

1959-07-26 0

A Storm Zone

Genre :Drama

1950-05-27 0

Confessions of a Gynecologist

A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable... ...
Genre :Drama

1957-03-29 6.8

The Crowded Train

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the c ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1959-05-27 0

Diary of a Substitute Doctor

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Konosuke, Shinobu's father

1959-09-17 0

Ripe and Marriageable

1959 youth comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1957-11-22 0

Bride Candidate

Genre :

1958-04-22 0

Love River

Genre :Drama

1957-03-13 0

Morning Whistling

Genre :Drama

Senkichi Yuasa

1958-03-05 0

Mother

Genre :Drama

1960-10-08 0

Hit and Run Gang

Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit. His younger brother Matabei vowed to challenge the c ...
Genre :Action

1958-06-01 0

Thirst

Genre :Comedy

1948-10-25 0

The Dead Beauty Incident

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was po ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1972-06-15 0

Shōwa Gokudōshi

Genre :Action, Drama

1951-08-10 0

The Bitch

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer. ...
Genre :Drama

1958-09-14 0

A Grain of Wheat

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba ...
Genre :Drama

1961-05-31 0

Shin Jinsei Gekijo

1961 Theater of Life adaptation. ...
Genre :

1970-12-03 5.333

Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters

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 i ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1959-09-06 0

Etajima, the Naval Academy

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's d ...
Genre :Drama, War, Mystery

1957-12-22 0

Jū nana-sai no dangai

1957 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1958-11-22 0

Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei

1958 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1967-01-14 0

The Suitors

Genre :

1964-09-05 0

Ocean Floor Crime #1

Genre :

1961-02-22 6.6

Three Young Samurai

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, War

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Prize of Flesh

Genre :

1961-12-27 0

Wakai yatsura no kaidan

1961 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1954-03-03 0

Maiko monogatari

Genre :

1960-01-03 5.3

The Two Musashis

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu clan's top instructors and then taking on Sasaki K ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

1966-01-29 0

Trump Card of Revenge

Genre :Action, Crime

1950-12-02 0

Shojohou

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that has endured the winds and snow of love! Eisuke Tanig ...
Genre :Drama

1956-05-11 0

Shinkon nikki: Ureshii asa

Newlyweds Saburo and Chieko are renting a room. The two get into a fight over something trivial. ...
Genre :

Miyamoto

1959-01-03 6

Goodbye, Hello

Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Their families think differently and strive to arrange ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1952-11-02 0

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of cours ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Superintendent

1960-08-24 6

The Woman Who Touched Legs

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for ove ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1964-04-04 0

A Public Benefactor

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness. ...
Genre :Drama