Saburo Date

AKA: Saburô Date, Takeshi Date, 伊达三郎
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1924-03-27

Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {209}

Anzo

1963-03-15 6.945

New Tale of Zatoichi

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

1957-09-21 0

Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower

The swordsman again crosses paths with the murderous Devil Mask Gang -- who as the name suggests, all wear hideous devil masks. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action

1956-09-12 6.2

Undercurrent

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-12-01 6.231

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his t ...
Genre :Action

1948-03-30 0

Children Hand in Hand

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates. ...
Genre :Drama

1964-09-17 0

The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his f ...
Genre :Crime, History

Kawaguchi-ya

1963-01-13 6.6

An Actor's Revenge

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago. ...
Genre :Drama

1949-08-14 0

Ghost Train

Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And it is said that anyone who sees the train will die ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery

1964-03-14 6.927

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

1958-06-15 7

The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt ...
Genre :Horror

1956-03-28 0

Asataro the Crow

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi. ...
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1962-02-21 0

Teppo Yasu no Shogai

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1965-11-27 5

New Kurama Tengu: Gojozaka Duel

At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, the ronin Kurayoshi Norizen rents the second floor of a hardware store and lives a carefree life, running a temple school. However, his true identity is Kurama T ...
Genre :Action, History

1962-09-16 0

Ken ni kakeru

Genre :Drama

1962-06-03 0

The Notorious Man's Return

Genre :Action, Crime

Imanishi

1953-08-12 7.527

A Geisha

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishne ...
Genre :Drama

Nakauchi

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

Mirosuke

1962-10-12 7.005

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

1969-03-12 6.3

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts

In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground, the door is opened for the Yokai Monsters to ste ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror

Jûbei Negoro

1958-12-21 0

Travels of Lord Mito

Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students Sukesaburo Sasaki and Kakunoshin Atsumi. At an inn in Sunaga ...
Genre :Adventure

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

1959-04-21 0

Ojo-kichiza

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1963-08-06 6.8

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspe ...
Genre :Action

1962-07-15 0

The Tragedy of a Young Warrior

Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima, Kyushu. Shuntaro Amano (Yukio Hashi) entered the school ...
Genre :Drama

1951-02-15 0

Judge of the Ashuras

Genre :Drama

1950-04-09 0

Song of Love

In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka Shōko, at a high school. As Yasuko confronts her past, she navigates themes of forgiveness, identity, ...
Genre :Drama

1961-05-03 0

Otemoyan

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Kagimatsu

1966-08-12 7.054

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

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

1977-11-19 7.1

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her. ...
Genre :Drama

Manta

1962-02-21 7

Her Hidden Past

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Zeniya Gohei

1963-11-02 5.2

Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade

Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double crosses. The leader of the Kaga clan, who thinks he has ...
Genre :Action

1967-09-15 0

Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack

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1966-11-09 0

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

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1968-10-05 0

Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging

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Flying Squirrel Banzo

1964-05-23 6

Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for t ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Action

1967-04-29 6.7

A Certain Killer

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Toda Shingo

1965-10-16 6.1

Sword Devil

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword c ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Police detective A

1958-09-22 7.1

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress. ...
Genre :Drama

Keisuke Yamanami

1963-01-03 6.5

Shinsengumi Chronicles

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, War

1971-11-20 0

Kumo no Yuna

Genre :Drama

1959-11-22 7.2

Samurai Vendetta

Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Okabe

1985-08-31 6.375

Typhoon Club

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly li ...
Genre :Drama

Juzo Kakei

1964-07-10 6.2

Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege

[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now bese ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

Tsukada

1975-04-04 5.705

Wolf Guy

Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, I ...
Genre :Crime, Horror, Action

1962-05-27 0

Sōran wataridori

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1962-05-27 0

Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1961-11-29 0

The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark

The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1974-06-01 0

Oh Wonderful Utamaro!

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1949-05-02 0

A Bullet Hole Underground

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1963-03-08 7.3

Assassins for sale

Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here, three wandering samurai who earn their living by killi ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1965-09-18 0

New Tengu from Mount Kurama

The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for the overthrow of the Shogunate, and the Shinsengumi ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

転法利平

1959-04-01 0

The Woman and the Pirate

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known as Misaki Shogoro, who was infamous for his devilis ...
Genre :

1980-11-22 0

The Woman

Erotic drama ...
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1960-04-14 7

Bonchi

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1964-06-06 0

Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery

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1969-11-15 0

Gokudô Petenshi

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They overturn the distorted trends and authorities of mode ...
Genre :Comedy

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

1961-07-12 5.2

Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo

Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's uncle, Lord Mito traveled about the nation seeking ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

1969-07-26 0

Girl with Bamboo Leaves

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies. ...
Genre :

1965-05-06 7

Rampaging Dog

Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

1967-05-27 6

Quick-Draw Dog

Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1960-09-28 0

風来物語 あばれ飛車

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1948-12-30 0

Thirty-three footprints

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka ...
Genre :Crime

1962-11-03 0

Hell's Assassin

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1953-06-03 0

An Heir's Place

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichi ...
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1987-10-24 5.8

Luminous Woman

A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer. ...
Genre :Drama

1952-12-23 7

This Way, That Way

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disar ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1965-07-14 0

Life of Matsu the Untamed

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. ...
Genre :Drama

Ikeda Kazue

1983-02-25 0

The Bored Samurai

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is pr ...
Genre :Drama

1958-11-29 10

The Gay Masquerade

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa. ...
Genre :Drama

1957-07-02 0

Yataro’s Travel Hat

Genre :Drama, Action

1973-06-30 4.762

The Bodyguard

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Fukami Shinzaemon

1970-06-20 6.5

Ghost of Kasane Swamp

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly t ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror

Ippei Cyjûma

1966-04-17 6.433

Daimajin

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord. ...
Genre :Horror, Fantasy, Drama

Kimpei

1954-03-31 8.085

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

Katada Government Official

1954-11-23 7.736

Chikamatsu Monogatari

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1975-08-15 5

Song of the Devil

Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kab ...
Genre :Drama

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

Tomoyuki

1953-10-30 7.1

Gate of Hell

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is m ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Ashvajit

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

Mizuno

1954-09-01 0

Daikichi Konomura

A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen ...
Genre :Drama

1959-07-12 6

Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord

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Keizô Sasatani

1949-09-26 6.3

The Invisible Man Appears

A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who wish to use the formula to rob a priceless jewel. ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction, Crime

Choshichi

1963-10-05 7.6

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late father. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Detective

1959-06-23 6.2

Odd Obsession

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife. ...
Genre :Drama

1963-12-28 7

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattor ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1960-05-18 5

Koga's Messenger

The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and witchcraft, a mystery and revenge swirl around the m ...
Genre :History, Action

1977-04-08 7

Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu

After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1959-07-01 6

The Ghost of Yotsuya

In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance. ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

1970-10-14 3.667

Island of Horrors

Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cli ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror

Official Envoy

1972-01-15 7.4

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Anzai

1965-04-30 6.2

Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan

Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan, and while the swords of some angry samurai may not ca ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1965-04-03 6.531

Zatoichi's Revenge

Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprison ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

1968-11-04 0

The Funeral Racket

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society. ...
Genre :Drama

Jinnai

1966-02-12 6.5

Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back

[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ie ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Hatori Hanzo

1964-12-30 6.667

Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo

[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'. Staying one step ahea ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

1975-02-15 6.58

Graveyard of Honor

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1956-02-26 7

Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan

It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichikawa Raizo and Katsu Shintaro are magnificent as th ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1963-04-21 7.1

The Third Shadow Warrior

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of inte ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Hirama Jusuke

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

1962-07-01 6.7

Destiny's Son

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive family is massacred for keeping the secret. Armed with an un ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1965-12-24 6.638

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turni ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

1965-08-14 3.8

Young Boss: Prison Release

The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1981-10-30 0

Lowly Ronin

Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV movie. The wandering ronin is reminiscent of his ...
Genre :Drama, Action, TV Movie

1967-06-17 10

Secret Assignment

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye ...
Genre :Action, War, Mystery

1966-09-17 2

Assignment Cloud

A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected ...
Genre :Action, War, Mystery

1972-06-10 6.3

The Trail of Blood

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 so ...
Genre :Action

1965-02-20 7.3

Bloody Shuriken

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. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

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 ...
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Tokunoshin Wakita

1968-05-18 5

The Saga of Tanegashima

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captai ...
Genre :Drama

1964-11-17 6.781

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He g ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

Ryôan Shimomura

1967-10-28 6.222

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for ...
Genre :Drama

Heikichi Hisama

1962-01-21 6.536

The Temple of Wild Geese

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melanc ...
Genre :Drama

1960-09-20 6

Scars of Honor

Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing their blades in a duel to the death. ...
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1968-04-19 6.8

Lone Wolf Isazo

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1966-12-10 6.3

Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku ...
Genre :Action

1962-05-27 6.3

Seven Miles to Nakayama

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Go ...
Genre :Action, History

First Ronin

1968-03-20 6.548

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 1 ...
Genre :Horror

Mon'nosuke Kaizuka

1965-01-12 6.2

Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire

Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberl ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1964-10-17 5.5

Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of hi ...
Genre :Action

Denzô Yuasa

1956-12-28 0

Gonpachi

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi. ...
Genre :

1959-01-28 0

Gambler and the Princess

Film directed by Kenji Misumi. ...
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Watônai no Yasu

1959-09-13 0

The Lord Pretends

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1977-08-27 0

Gambling Code and Feuds

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977) ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1960-09-01 6.5

The Blind Menace

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi. ...
Genre :

1962-09-30 5.5

The Fencing Master

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki sw ...
Genre :Drama, History

1970-04-04 0

The Angry Sword

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1969-02-22 8.3

Sworn Brothers

Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his origin ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1963-08-28 0

Maiko and the Assassin

19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate. ...
Genre :History, Romance

Policeman

1966-01-29 0

The Virgin Witness

A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is ...
Genre :

1967-07-15 6

Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps

The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1970-02-07 6.6

Mission: Iron Castle

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Is ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime, War

1968-05-01 6.4

Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair

The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wander ...
Genre :Drama, Action

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

1954-12-08 0

Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman ...
Genre :

1969-11-15 6.2

Blood End

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overth ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller, Romance, History

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

Kaizutoshi

1972-08-25 7

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Action

Monjiro

1965-03-13 7

Young Boss

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1969-06-14 4.3

Lefty Fencer

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has bec ...
Genre :Action

1967-08-12 6.592

Zatoichi the Outlaw

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

1969-10-04 5.6

Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman

Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem when suspicion arises and Nemuri Kyoshiro gets invol ...
Genre :Action

Genba Kanai

1957-09-03 0

Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through his tragic end this is the story of a beloved and l ...
Genre :

1967-12-02 6.7

A Killer's Key

Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

1969-12-20 4.667

Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters. ...
Genre :Action

Rokubei of Hakoda

1972-09-14 7

Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth

Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1966-07-02 6.3

The Betrayal

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the ...
Genre :Action, 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

1961-01-09 5.5

Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut

The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style. ...
Genre :Action

1973-11-17 7

Yokosuka Navy Prison

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison. ...
Genre :Action

Yakuza

1968-12-28 6.654

Samaritan Zatoichi

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true moti ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

Shokichi, samurai's servant

1957-03-06 5.4

An Osaka Story

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozabur ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Vassal

1953-03-26 8.002

Ugetsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

1968-11-06 5.7

Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be the heir to a fortune get what is rightfully hers. ...
Genre :Action, History

1963-09-07 0

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor

Genre :

1968-01-13 0

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty

Genre :

Hanji

1966-05-03 6.9

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

Maruyama

1985-12-21 6.6

Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1954-08-25 6

The Great White Tiger Platoon

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made ...
Genre :

1970-04-04 7

Naked Ambition

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts ...
Genre :Drama

Takeno Grandfather

1990-01-12 7.5

Takeshi: Childhood Days

A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at f ...
Genre :Drama

1955-09-21 6.817

Taira Clan Saga

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Kobotoke Kodaira

1963-05-29 10

A Samurai Never Tells a Lie

The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status. Soon, an offer of marriage is brought to Harima. Tryi ...
Genre :Drama

1957-06-04 0

Fighting Letter for 29 People

Genre :Drama

1958-01-09 0

Princess Tsuki

Genre :

1958-02-05 0

Hanatarō Jumon

Genre :Adventure

1958-06-10 0

The 7th Secret Agent to Edo

Genre :Drama

1964-11-14 0

The Gambling Samurai

Genre :Drama

1955-03-25 0

The Magistrate

Genre :Drama

1955-06-26 5

The Dancer and Two Warriors

Genre :Drama

1955-04-19 0

The Young Lord

Genre :Drama

1956-12-12 0

Fighting Fire Fighter

Genre :Drama

1956-11-07 0

Flowery Hood 2

Genre :Drama

1959-01-03 0

Peony on the Skin

Genre :Drama

1960-04-06 0

Yûrei koban

Genre :

1962-01-03 0

The Actress and the Three Rascals

Genre :Comedy

1961-12-27 0

Flowers of Chivalry

Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his younger brother Shinjiro (Yukio Hashi), who has completel ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1971-02-17 0

The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule

The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1957-09-29 6.9

Secret of Naruto

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody r ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1969-05-31 6.4

Devil's Temple

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenev ...
Genre :Drama

1968-06-15 7

The Bride from Hades

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her. ...
Genre :Horror

1966-02-26 7

The Thieves' Who's Who

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person. ...
Genre :Action

1951-09-07 7

Story of a Beloved Wife

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his ea ...
Genre :Drama

1965-04-03 0

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi

Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been commemorated in kabuki theatre, folk songs, jidaigeki, ...
Genre :

1966-06-22 0

Dianas of the Campus

Genre :Drama

Businessman's Man

1975-07-05 6.79

The Bullet Train

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Swift-style Swordsman

1972-09-02 7.065

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

1949-02-28 0

The Man Who Laughs Last

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers gets injured and a substitute needs to be found. Ru ...
Genre :

Kino

1950-03-05 0

The Motherland Far Far Away

Genre :Drama

1949-01-04 6

Goblin Courier

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune. ...
Genre :History

1957-04-01 6.3

Night Butterflies

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

1958-07-13 0

Megitsune Buro

Genre :Mystery

1964-11-28 0

The Battle Begins at Night

Genre :Action

1961-12-08 0

Oniisan to oneesan

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda. ...
Genre :

1956-02-05 0

Marathon Samurai

The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda Shozo ("The Return of the Ghost"). The main cast i ...
Genre :

1961-01-09 0

晴小袖

1961 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1969-06-28 6.2

The Curse of the Ghost

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella ...
Genre :Horror

1957-08-06 0

Mangorō Tengu

Genre :

1957-01-03 0

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi

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

1960-05-11 0

お嬢さん三度笠

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

1961-03-01 0

木曽ぶし三度笠

1961 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1961-02-22 0

Shikaku yashiki

1961 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Kanai Hanbei

1965-06-12 6.25

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die ...
Genre :Action

1972-09-02 8

Professional Killers

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

Senzo

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 ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama