Taketoshi Naitō

AKA: Taketoshi Naito, Такэтоси Найто
1.1842

1926-06-16

Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {138}

1955-04-10 0

Sisters

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city. They stay with their kind-hearted aunt and her jovial ...
Genre :Drama

Kanzen Inukai

1998-10-27 6.6

Samurai Fiction

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

1981-09-19 0

Fifth Movement

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orche ...
Genre :Drama

1969-10-04 0

Kanto Woman Fortitude

Genre :

Toyobo

1989-10-07 5.4

Death of a Tea Master

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Kobayashi

1956-01-21 7.9

The Burmese Harp

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Tange Ittôhei

1959-11-20 8.2

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Ob ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

Tange Ittôhei

1961-01-28 8.4

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different h ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

Mawatari Hachiro

1973-08-11 7.268

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller, Adventure

1974-09-20 7.8

The Last Samurai

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1963-02-11 0

Itsudemo yume o

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor. ...
Genre :

1963-08-11 0

Beautiful Calendar

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just started, and a chemistry teacher Murao who she res ...
Genre :

1962-03-28 0

Hana no saigetsu

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Some person

1987-02-14 5.7

Sukeban Deka: The Movie

After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, s ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Takegami, Chief Cabinet Secretary

1985-08-23 6.791

Godzilla 1985

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

1993-07-16 0

Marriage

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Narrator

1988-01-01 0

The Farming of the old times

A documentary made at the very end of the Showa era, looking back at traditional agricultural models as they still existed at the beginning of this same era (in the 1930s). A working year is recreated ...
Genre :

1969-05-14 0

前科・仮釈放

Genre :Action

Sakai Yoshihiro

1976-02-11 6.214

Manhunt

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1965-05-15 0

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

1965 Nikkatsu youth film. ...
Genre :Drama

1989-04-29 0

Green Boy

In order to encourage his son who became paralyzed due to a traffic accident, he depicts a former boxer aiming for aiming to win. ...
Genre :Drama

Minô

1968-04-20 6.9

The Snow Woman

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luc ...
Genre :Horror, Fantasy, Romance

1971-05-05 0

君は海を見たか

Genre :

1971-10-02 0

Wakaki hi no kōdōkan

Genre :

Army officer

1973-07-07 6.35

Coup d'Etat

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1998-05-29 0

My Sky (Detective Edition)

Ippei Yasuda, the scion of the Yasuda Zaibatsu who has continued his wandering journey, becomes a detective and corrects evil! Recognized for outstanding grades at the police academy, Ippei is assigne ...
Genre :Action

1983-05-27 0

The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado

Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple to explore the Sado Gold Mine. They suspect that large amounts of money are being diverted to somew ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1954-05-18 0

Cape Ashizuri

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

1962-05-27 0

Kiriko no unmei

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Novelist

1992-04-25 5.5

Luminous Moss

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-07-01 0

Sun and Stars

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action

1961-07-01 0

Dawn of a Canvas

Genre :Drama

1959-09-27 0

The Wild Reporter

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of th ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1985-10-10 6.1

Gray Sunset

Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his affliction serves to deepen family ties. Japan's submiss ...
Genre :Drama

Yuki

1993-06-12 0

Summer of the Moonlight Sonata

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years later, she seeks out the relatives of the pilots w ...
Genre :Drama

Shotaro Morita

1997-02-15 6.5

My Secret Cache

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cas ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Noro Jinnai

1972-12-16 6.7

Eight Men to Kill

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despit ...
Genre :Action

1960-03-02 0

Teenage Wolf

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which distorted energy explodes! A unique social drama tha ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1969-07-19 7.3

Safari 5000

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The Eas ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

1962-09-30 0

At the Side of the Bridge 2

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Taxi driver

1955-12-06 0

Mune yori mune ni

Japanese drama ...
Genre :Drama

Domon

1995-04-29 6.182

Kamikaze Taxi

A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' missi ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

1984-06-23 5

MacArthur's Children

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troop ...
Genre :War, Drama, Comedy

1971-07-04 0

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike

First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series. ...
Genre :Horror

1983-12-01 0

The Fir Trees Remain

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the next day, his 4 attendants were killed one after anot ...
Genre :History, Drama

1975-02-01 9

Doterai Man

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka, it depicts the activities of the main character Tak ...
Genre :Drama

Prosecutor Shimada

1965-05-28 7.1

A Trap

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

1968-03-01 6.5

The Sands of Kurobe

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earth ...
Genre :Drama

1983-10-06 10

Shadow Hunters

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayors of local go ...
Genre :Drama, History, Action

1967-01-14 0

Rebellion of Japan

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultim ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1976-10-16 0

The Possessed

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all. Shinzo hated Oshima, and he made ...
Genre :Horror

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

1987-05-28 0

The Orphaned Geisha

Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture of camellia flowers in a temple. The samurai, whom she meets again at a drinking party, is the heir ...
Genre :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

2000-12-23 5

Riot in Gujo

Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays ...
Genre :Drama

Lord Bizen

1980-11-11 6.881

Shogun Assassin

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the country ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

1972-10-10 6.8

The Fearless Avenger

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important comm ...
Genre :Action

Chief Cabinet Secretary Takegami

1984-12-15 7.2

The Return of Godzilla

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese gove ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action, Thriller, Horror

Ryuji Gamo

1987-08-15 0

The West Tako Cheerleaders

A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1990-01-01 0

Shingo's Ten Duels

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite wi ...
Genre :Drama

Shimamura's friend Koizumi

1965-04-10 4

Snow Country

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls. ...
Genre :Drama

1958-10-22 6.4

Voice Without a Shadow

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his v ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1961-02-11 0

Yabure Kabure

Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to crawl out of the mire, and his lover who tries to save him at his own peril. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, 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

Ichige Gyobu

1972-01-15 7.365

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

Director

1988-06-08 6.4

A Step

Romantic love story of Russian physician Gusev and Japanese woman Keiko takes place in time of fighting of Russian and Japanese scientists against poliomyelitis epidemic broken out in Japan in 1959. ...
Genre :Drama

1972-08-12 6

Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II. ...
Genre :War

Judge Yazawa

1982-09-11 6.7

Suspicion

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Kiyoji Yamada

1953-02-20 0

A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is known as a master of documentary films, and followed h ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor Maeda

1970-09-23 0

Live My Share, Mother

At school, Fumio is good in everything. His cheerful, out-going personality makes him a great favorite with teachers and classmates alike. He is in perfect health and there does not seem to be a singl ...
Genre :Drama

1975-09-06 6.8

Solar Eclipse

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

1968-07-01 0

The Woman Champion

Fifth 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

1968-10-02 0

The Woman Dicer

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

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

Tadahiko Ohashi

1972-03-12 7.6

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, War

Yosamatsu Kito

1977-08-27 5

Island of Hell

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946. ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

Director Sawada

1967-06-22 0

Portrait of Chieko

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her hus ...
Genre :Drama

2004-09-20 7

New Shadow Warriors IV: Jiraika 2

Shippuu (Hayate) appeared suddenly dead. However, he fell into the hands of Sarutobi for due to his loss of memory. ...
Genre :Action, War, Drama

1979-10-27 6

The Fixer

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight. ...
Genre :Crime

1968-03-09 10

The Night before Pearl Harbor

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School. ...
Genre :Action, War, Mystery

Lawyer Kondo

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

Labor Minister Hamao

1978-09-23 7

August without Emperor

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

Tokiaki Tanegashima

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

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

Inspector Yasumoto

1956-09-11 0

The Shadow of Fear

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

1988-01-16 0

Michinoku Reunion Tour Murders

Suspense. ...
Genre :

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

1982-09-24 7

Dojo Breaker

Tomisaburo Wakayama is back with a new take on the classic Yamamoto Shugoro masterpiece “Ame Agaru” as a samurai on the run with his bride who makes a living by challenging dojo masters to a match, th ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

1969-09-13 5.8

The Magoichi Saga

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Hidaka

1965-05-26 6.4

A Chain of Islands

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit mo ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Mr. Soga

1998-06-06 4.4

Bonds

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist follow ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Matagoro Kashiyama

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

Narrator (voice)

1980-08-02 7.3

Port Arthur

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

1964-09-19 7

Gazing at Love and Death

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save he ...
Genre :Drama

1965-03-06 0

Taking the Castle

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name ...
Genre :

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

1961-06-28 6

A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dye ...
Genre :Drama

Judge

1978-03-15 6.2

Third Base

Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a conflict with a young gangster and winds up killing h ...
Genre :Drama

Chief Cabinet Secretary

1974-08-03 6

Prophecies of Nostradamus

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the eff ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Ichiro Watanabe

1999-04-17 7.178

After Life

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the cou ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama

1987-10-17 6

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto. ...
Genre :Drama

Shiro's father

1984-05-02 0

Make-Up

Genre :Drama

Iwasaki, managing director

1985-12-28 0

Congratulatory Speech

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Kôno (segment 2)

1955-07-05 0

Ai Sureba Koso

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who bears the unbearable burden of caring for her family ...
Genre :Drama

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

1959-05-09 0

Umi wa kurutte iru

Genre :Drama

Search Section Chief

1974-10-19 7.32

The Castle of Sand

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

1954-06-22 0

Tomoshibi

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave. After his departure there is gr ...
Genre :Drama

1982-02-26 0

Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 2

Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that could save a domain near Osaka.  Meanwhile Shogun Yoshimune must face a painful decision whether or not ...
Genre :Action, Drama, TV Movie

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

1958-10-31 10

I Want to Be a Shellfish

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police ...
Genre :

1966-01-01 0

Young Boss: Invitation to Fight

Genre :Crime

1959-02-18 7.3

Lucky Dragon No. 5

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

1955-12-13 0

Ishigassen

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

1956-11-27 0

Actress

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

1967-01-28 0

Spy on the Masked Car

An industrial espionage film. ...
Genre :

1987-05-23 0

Paper Lantern

A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, t ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1989-04-04 0

長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 長七郎 大奥まかり通る

Genre :

1983-08-23 0

Hariko no tora

Genre :

1963-11-02 0

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Enten ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1965-09-30 0

High-Ranking Yakuza

1965 youth / yakuza film ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1986-08-25 0

姑公認未公認、二人の女の妻芝居

The surgeon's mother-in-law plots to have her son's mistress give birth and drive out his wife. ...
Genre :

1959-02-24 0

Kamen no Onna

A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in agony over her hidden past. ...
Genre :Drama

1954-11-08 0

Wakai hito-tachi

Genre :

1963-08-25 0

Kiriko's Tango

A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a working-class neighborhood. ...
Genre :Romance

1996-04-26 0

Symphony of the Sensual Wife Karuizawa

Etsuko, the wife of the conglomerate Okazaki family, has come to Karuizawa to escape the summer heat. Her love for her husband has cooled down and she has a separate bedroom, but one day, when she mee ...
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1958-02-16 0

Hibi no haishin

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyuki becomes torn between his love for Ikuko and his ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1971-05-22 0

Challenge at Dawn

Set in Kawasaki in 1925, Challenge at Dawn is based on the Tsurumi Riot Incident, which actually ocurred in Yokohama that year and was sparked by corruption and yakuza involvement in the construction ...
Genre :History

1961-06-05 0

That Young May Be Eternal

A forbidden love between a young teacher and her student. As a fragile boy’s heart and body are swept into a storm of passion, the film captures the joys and anguished longings of youth. ...
Genre :Drama

Tange Ittôhei

1961-01-28 0

The Human Condition

The Human Condition follows the journey of the well-intentioned, yet naïve Kaji who transitions from being a labor camp supervisor to an Imperial Army soldier and eventually Soviet POW. Constantly try ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Akechi Mitsuhide

1978-01-08 0

Ōgon no Hibi

Luzon Sukezaemon is a merchant who imports vases from the Philippines. The vases are highly valued as tea utensils and he makes a huge profit. This was the first taiga drama to concentrate on the live ...
Genre :Drama

Kaishu Katsu

1967-01-01 8

Three Sisters

The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration. ...
Genre :Drama

Hitachibo Kaison

1966-01-02 0

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of Japan. Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no ...
Genre :Drama

1978-03-11 0

Kyukei no Koya

Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the heroine Kumiko because she finds evidence that her father, who should have died, was "alive." Set in 1945, ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Narrator (Voice)

1973-04-08 7.9

Lone Wolf and Cub

Ogami Itto is a master swordsman who holds a position of high power in the Tokugawa Shogunate. Highly trusted by the Shogun, he serves as the official decapitator, assisting lords and samurai who have ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

1984-10-06 7

School Wars

Genre :Drama

1981-01-02 0

The Man of Five Rings

After 2 years of completely isolation in mountains, Musashi comes back in order to live a normal life. However, after his duel against Kojiro Sasaki he has many enemies who want to kill him... ...
Genre :Drama

1981-11-13 0

Himawari no Uta

Since his wife's death from illness, Oki Eisuke (Utsui Ken) has been working as a lawyer at the Oki Law Office, raising his high school-aged daughter, Kaori (Hayashi Norie). His late wife's father, Ki ...
Genre :Drama