Ichirō Sugai

AKA: Итиро Сугай
1.7617

1907-07-24

Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Crew Roles

Turbid Youth
Director
Frankie's Aliens
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {200}

Numata

1951-01-13 0

The Inner Palace Conspiracy

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka stylishly plays a constantly intoxicated geisha in this all ...
Genre :Adventure, History, Mystery

Grandfather Yoshino

1943-10-07 0

Hot Wind

Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast furnaces that prevent increased production. The fi ...
Genre :Drama

1961-08-13 0

A Good Man, A Good Day

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-03-11 0

Bodyguard from Hell

Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situation of drug trafficking around Yokohama. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Dr. Matsushita

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

1953-01-15 0

Reminiscence

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, ...
Genre :Drama, War

1962-01-21 0

Aru kankei

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1956-01-08 0

Evil Reward

After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of the Metropolitan Police Department, but the real Kenm ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

Kinosuke Aoi

1969-06-24 0

Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell

Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete recovery of his boss. However, three rival bosses, trying to steal the Aoi's territory, made take-over p ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Kinosuke Aoi

1969-03-15 0

Family Crest: Die Like a Man

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the revenge of the youngest one when his siblings were ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Police Chief Mishima

1943-03-25 6.549

Sanshiro Sugata

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo. The main character is base ...
Genre :Drama

Denkichi

1966-10-22 0

Chivalry Broken from All Sides

This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take up a sword again because of the emptiness of the Yak ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action

1962-01-29 0

Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Gembei

1954-11-23 7.8

The Crucified Lovers

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

1953-12-29 0

Jūdai no yūwaku

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako ...
Genre :

1962-02-21 0

Teppo Yasu no Shogai

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Shinzaemon

1952-04-17 7.717

The Life of Oharu

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall. ...
Genre :Drama

Sakurai

1951-04-14 0

The Man Without a Nationality

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa ...
Genre :

1953-07-17 0

Kurohyō

Genre :

Mr. Inokuma

1952-09-22 0

Beauty and the Thief

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to com ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

1962-03-18 0

Kono ni uruwashi

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1963-03-24 0

Futari dake no toride

Genre :

Mr. Kon

1950-03-07 0

Duel in the Sun

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki ...
Genre :Drama

1950-06-03 0

When We Came Back

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki ...
Genre :

1962-03-18 0

Nuki uchi fūraibō

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Yoshizo Fubiki

1945-05-03 6.1

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

Black-marketeer

1947-07-01 7.3

One Wonderful Sunday

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Carpenter

1955-09-21 7

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

Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section

1944-04-13 5.6

The Most Beautiful

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in ...
Genre :Drama, War

1962-04-18 0

Secret Love

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1930-07-25 0

Return to Heaven

Surviving fragments of a film by Tomu Uchida. ...
Genre :

Shukichi Mamiya

1951-10-03 7.8

Early Summer

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-04-29 0

Princess and I

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1942-06-11 0

Onna keizu

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel. ...
Genre :

1960-09-03 0

The Rambler on a Pearl Farm

Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming. ...
Genre :

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

1961-08-06 0

Gunman's Alley

Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the killer of the hood's brother. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Charlie Cho

1932-09-29 0

The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia

Propaganda film, presumed lost. ...
Genre :Drama

Kentaro Omoi

1949-02-13 5.6

Flame of My Love

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the p ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1962-05-13 0

Taiyō no yō ni akaruku

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1954-05-18 0

Cape Ashizuri

1950s Japanese drama. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-11-08 6.5

The Body

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute. ...
Genre :Drama

1964-03-04 0

Gun Demon Without Form

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from Kobe. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1962-06-24 0

Otoko dokyō no ayame kasa

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1971-11-10 6

Troops of Darkness

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Sanjuro Mori

1937-06-17 7.2

The Straits of Love and Hate

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man. ...
Genre :Drama

1952-04-17 8

Sisters of Nishijin

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy. ...
Genre :Drama

Artist Sakamoto

1953-12-08 0

Made in Japan

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the early post-war period, where new customs and old traditions ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1949-05-02 0

A Bullet Hole Underground

Genre :

1962-12-05 0

Umineko ga tonde

Genre :

1969-06-27 6.1

Yakuza Law

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Suganuma

1965-01-24 0

Flowering Maidens

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on t ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

赤羽根多仲

1953-01-22 0

江戸いろは祭

Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji, to embark on a journey. He killed a man on the Shikoku route, but later returned to Edo, ...
Genre :

Machiko's grandfather

1966-03-27 0

Night of Sorrow

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1962-08-08 0

Naku n janai ze

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Denkichi

1930-07-01 6.2

Mistress of a Foreigner

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) b ...
Genre :Drama

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

1945-01-11 0

The Admirable Isshin Tasuke!

1945 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Jisuke Sawaiya

1968-08-01 0

Duel in the Storm

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Doroemon

1959-12-27 6.2

Enchanted Princess

Once upon a time, Okuro (Ayako Wakao), a young female racoon, lived poorly with her drunken father. One day after they disguised themselves as parasols, they were wrongly brought to the Racoon Palace, ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Music

1945-02-22 0

Kanchō umi no bara

1945 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1966-09-08 0

Dash to the Sun

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite ...
Genre :Music

1953-03-21 0

Murahachibu

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections ...
Genre :Drama

Kono

1934-11-22 0

Karisome no kuchibeni

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

1961-11-12 0

Crimson pistol belt

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine. ...
Genre :Action, Western, Drama

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

1959-12-06 0

Who is in the Background?

Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi plays an active role in the death of ...
Genre :Action, 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

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

1927-06-05 0

The King of Rowing

A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This was shot at the banks of the Sumida River, where the regatta is still held today. The main stroke rol ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1969-10-29 6

Heat Wave Island

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an inves ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Yayoi Hotel owner

1949-10-17 7.535

Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for th ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1956-03-21 0

Victory Is Ours

A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun Suzuki's directorial debut. ...
Genre :Music, Drama, Action

1964-11-11 0

Profit from Killing

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki returns to his hometown after being released from Abash ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1969-05-01 0

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game

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

Minister of Justice

1954-03-31 8.104

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

1957-03-27 0

Frankie's Aliens

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super speed. He contacts the newspaper about it, but the edito ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

Mawatari

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

Admiral Koshirô Oikawa

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

1970-06-25 0

Silk Hat Boss

In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1955-07-03 6.8

The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Keinosuke Kazama

1948-11-30 5.8

Apostasy

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual. ...
Genre :Drama

1948-08-03 6

The Portrait

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait. ...
Genre :Drama

1956-09-07 0

How Sorrowful

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfor ...
Genre :Drama

1958-04-15 6.1

Night Drum

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spitefu ...
Genre :Drama, History

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

1950-05-14 6.5

The Angry Street

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazz ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1953-03-03 0

Kimi yue ni

Japanese drama film and Setsuko Miyuki's film debut. ...
Genre :Drama

Kondo

1956-02-12 0

I'm Not the Criminal

Japanese crime film. ...
Genre :Crime

1956-09-18 0

Tonari no yome

Japanese drama film. ...
Genre :Drama

1956-11-14 0

Kingorô no omawari-san

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone. ...
Genre :Music, Drama

1964-04-12 0

The Long Death

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation con ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Kinbei

1953-10-13 0

Before Dawn

Genre :Drama

1962-07-08 0

The Man From the Sea

Japanese action film. ...
Genre :Action

Gonjûrô Suehiro

1943-04-29 0

Military Song of the Morning Mist

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times. ...
Genre :Drama

Kinzo Onoyu

1958-11-18 6.5

Endless Desire

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relatio ...
Genre :Drama

Masseur

1959-06-23 6.3

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

Mizuta

1961-02-19 6.2

Killers on Parade

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy, Action

1952-12-17 0

Kanpai! Tokyo Musume

Romantic comedy about a love triangle between two girls who fall in love with a reliable young doctor. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Teppuu

1953-11-10 0

The Lovers

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves. ...
Genre :Comedy

1953-04-15 6.5

Mr. Pu

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ogasawara

1951-12-07 6.8

The Life of a Horse Trader

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and a husband he is frequently drawn to taverns. ...
Genre :Drama

1942-09-24 6

Mother Never Dies

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son. ...
Genre :Drama

1957-08-21 0

Harbor Rats

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed by arrogant captain and his officers. The crews c ...
Genre :Drama, 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

1954-07-27 7

The Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house. ...
Genre :Drama

1946-03-28 6

A Descendant of Urashima Taro

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party. ...
Genre :Drama

Minister of the Left

1951-06-11 5.5

The Tale of Genji

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much ...
Genre :Drama

Ôba

1956-07-11 0

Satan's Town

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money traffi ...
Genre :Crime

Ryu

1943-04-15 5.7

Suicide Troops of the Watchtower

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits." ...
Genre :Action, War

1948-04-04 6.3

A Visage to Remember

During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he m ...
Genre :Drama

Jinbee

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

Iwao Muraki

1966-03-27 0

Youth A Go Go!

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh." ...
Genre :

Nagabayashi, former chief

1942-05-21 5

Bouquet of the South Seas

Genre :War

1940-07-31 6.3

Spring on Leper's Island

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony. ...
Genre :History, Drama

Gozô Iwabuchi

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

1960-10-09 6.3

Blood Is Dry

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertisin ...
Genre :Drama

1970-02-21 6.5

Rise and Fall of Chivalry

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member. ...
Genre :

Yakuza boss Kanichi Shige

1968-12-28 6.4

Outlaw: Black Dagger

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notic ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Tsuyama

1961-04-16 6

Living by Karate

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

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 :

Lawyer Yamamoto

1956-03-26 6.6

Darkness at Noon

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story. ...
Genre :Crime

1964-08-14 0

Tiger of the Sea

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Crime

1967-09-28 6

Showdown of Men 3

After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1971-11-10 8

The Armed Organization

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at ...
Genre :Drama

Dr Goro Shizu

1960-02-14 0

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narco ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1957-12-07 0

The Naked Woman and the Gun

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed for a murder he didn't commit. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Fujioka

1971-10-14 7

The Gambler's Counterattack

Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1967-11-12 0

Journey

Genre :Drama

Yamashita

1951-01-13 6.5

Clothes of Deception

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board. ...
Genre :Drama

1969-11-20 0

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Detective Kinoshita

1965-10-22 6.3

Woman Gambler

Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

Kurimoto

1956-02-05 7

Love is Lost

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya. ...
Genre :Drama

Okaruhachi

1956-12-12 0

Song of the Underworld

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a seni ...
Genre :

Ezaki

1962-02-03 0

Love in the Air

Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea ...
Genre :

Saido

1959-09-20 0

The Human Cyclone

The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Man, popular and longing everywhere, and who is on t ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1961-03-21 5.9

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

Detective Kinoshita

1965-07-28 6.7

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

Jukichi Oyama

1964-04-29 0

The Sound of Waves

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1952-08-14 0

Tange Sazen

Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an old pot in which the secret of the treasure of 1000 ...
Genre :History, Action, Adventure, Drama

Daisaku Yabuuchi

1964-01-09 0

Hot Spring Doctress

A light comedy with Ayako Wakao charming her patients. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Tagawa

1949-10-16 0

A Fool's Love

Genre :Drama

1950-09-02 0

Senka o koete

Genre :

1964-11-11 0

The Flower and the Sword

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means nece ...
Genre :Crime

1944-01-27 6

This Happy Life

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Hitoshi Otsu

1960-05-14 0

The Gun Like Lightning

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Kei ...
Genre :Action

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

1970-04-10 6

Code Between Brothers: All New

When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a r ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1962-01-03 0

Nippon no obaachan

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was lookin ...
Genre :Comedy

Isogai

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

Cooper

1934-05-10 8

The Foghorn

Chiyokichi, a young man, hates Cooper, a white man who looks down on the Japanese. Chiyokichi picks Cooper’s pocket and is caught. He is brought to Cooper’s house and becomes his slave, and a riveting ...
Genre :Drama

Saeki

1953-08-12 7.509

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

1964-12-26 0

The Donkey Comes on a Tank

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken. ...
Genre :

1943-01-14 0

The Opium War

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of the film concerns this war. ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

Kiyosi Arakava

1939-04-01 5.6

A Brother and His Younger Sister

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-wo ...
Genre :Drama

1951-03-24 0

The White Orchid

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo ...
Genre :Drama

1946-02-14 0

Yoki na onna

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki ...
Genre :Drama

1947-04-29 0

Chikagai nijuyojikan

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai ...
Genre :Drama

1946-08-01 0

As Long as I Live

Genre :

Eikichi

1957-07-03 0

Who's the Real Killer

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble. ...
Genre :

Hikozaemon Okubo

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

1955-11-01 0

Iroha Elegy

Genre :Drama

1956-03-21 0

Confession

Genre :

Shinun Ogata

1966-03-12 7.3

The Pornographers

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru share ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

1965-10-08 0

The Man's Crest: I Shall Kill

Genre :Crime

Totsuka

1934-03-29 0

Tsuki yori no shisha

Genre :

1962-12-15 0

Yôki na tono-sama

Genre :Comedy

1959-12-14 0

Mighty Rules

Genre :Action, Crime

1958-10-01 0

Taiyō o buchi otose

Genre :

Osamu Kachigawa

1949-10-24 4.5

Sad Whistling

A young girl searches for her long-lost brother in postwar Tokyo, clinging to hope and music amid the rubble of a broken Japan. Along the way, she touches the hearts of those around her with her resil ...
Genre :Drama

1963-09-29 0

Blind Wolf

Genre :

1953-05-13 0

Yokubo

Genre :Drama

1943-04-14 0

World of Love

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the resi ...
Genre :Drama

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 :

1947-07-10 0

War and Peace

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns. ...
Genre :War, Drama

1946-07-11 8

Lord for a Night

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a local noble must not object, and his missing younger b ...
Genre :Drama

1960-02-24 0

Kirai Kirai Kirai

Genre :Drama, Romance

1946-04-25 0

An Enemy of the People

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie ...
Genre :Drama

1963-01-03 0

Bad Reputation of the Big Three

Genre :

1968-07-13 0

Secret Report From A House Of Women

Japanese crime film ...
Genre :

1952-08-25 0

Violence

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

1952-01-25 0

三万両五十三次

Genre :

1946-08-21 0

Eleven High School Girls

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will ...
Genre :Drama

1951-10-19 0

Honoo no hada

Genre :Drama

1955-07-03 0

Shōnen shikeishū

Genre :

1964-09-09 0

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few day ...
Genre :

Kuratani

1958-08-12 7

The Stars Know Everything

Saga Shiori, who had been held up as a genius writer, runs away to a nightclub to deceive her manager's eyes. She is no longer the genius writer she once was, but is now having a good time with Goro, ...
Genre :Drama

1968-11-22 0

魔性の女

Genre :

1957-09-03 0

The Way of Youth

1957 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1954-01-15 0

Kokoro no nichigetsu

Genre :Drama

1963-04-14 0

Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko. ...
Genre :Drama

1939-03-25 0

Haha ni sasaguru uta

As Noriko becomes widowed, her parents-in-law take her daughter Mitsuko, and Noriko moves to Shanghai to earn money to repay the debt that piled up due to her husband's illness. ...
Genre :

1965-09-18 0

Tokyo wa Koisuru

Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1965-01-03 10

The Radish and the Carrot

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. H ...
Genre :Comedy

0

十七才の逆襲　暴力をぶっ潰せ

1960 Toei movie. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1950-04-02 0

Wife and the Female Reporter: A Crisis of Young Love

Even a peaceful married life has its dissatisfactions. Then a female reporter appears, and love takes a complicated turn! ...
Genre :Drama

1946-01-17 0

Hinoki butai

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for the first time in several years. ...
Genre :Drama

Yamatoya

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

良二

1968-04-01 0

Ashita Koso

The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color. ...
Genre :Drama, Family