Meiko Kaji

AKA: Masako Ohta, Masako Ôta, 梶 芽衣子
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1947-03-24

Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Meiko Kaji , born Masako Ôta, is a Japanese actress and enka singer.

Crew Roles

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Music
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {149}

Yuki Kashima

1973-12-01 7.545

Lady Snowblood

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in pr ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

2016-12-03 8

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken

Genre :

Nami

1972-04-01 6.647

Wandering Ginza Butterfly

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy worl ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Michiko Fukue

1969-02-08 0

Women's Police

Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He ha ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1969-12-31 0

The Cleanup

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1969-08-09 0

Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

Natsuko Inubushi

1969-11-22 0

Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms

Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and adv ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Ishizuka Yoko

2007-07-14 7

The Lawyer of Shimane

The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan. Nakama plays the role of the hard-working and righteous Yamazaki Mizuho, who travels around by bicy ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Nami Matsushima

1973-07-29 6.801

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discov ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1966-07-30 0

Goodbye Mr. Tears

An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

1968-12-14 0

The Blazing Continent

A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love. ...
Genre :Drama

1970-05-16 0

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. Schoo ...
Genre :Drama, War

1970-01-24 0

A Gangster's Morals

Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Mei

1970-05-02 5.9

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller, Action, Music

Keiko

1976-10-30 6.603

Yakuza Graveyard

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Mako

1970-09-01 6.3

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist macho pigs led by the evil Baron, who hate half-breeds. When one of the girls start dating a half-bre ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Maya

1970-11-22 6

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fendin ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama

Hijiriko

1974-03-30 7.7

Jeans Blues: No Future

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

C-ko

1970-08-01 5.7

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious leader, he and his posse make plans to rob her partner ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama

1969-03-21 0

Whirlwind Of Love

A young woman in Hokkaido gets cold feet during her marriage ceremony and runs to Tokyo with her friends. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Nami Matsushima

1972-12-30 7.135

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1966-05-11 0

I Love The Sun

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama. ...
Genre :Drama

Yuki Kashima

1974-06-15 6.394

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

1970-04-04 0

A Young Man's Stronghold

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Nami Matsushima

1972-08-25 7.041

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701

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

Nami Matsushima

1973-12-29 6.2

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particula ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1965-05-15 0

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

1965 Nikkatsu youth film. ...
Genre :Drama

Nami

1972-10-25 8

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role of Na ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1968-09-10 0

Confession of a girl: The Forbidden Fruit

A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth. ...
Genre :Drama

1971-09-18 0

Morning Fog

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter ...
Genre :

1966-09-07 0

Kill or Be Killed

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Omasa

2005-02-08 0

Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who works at the Yamabukiya Tea House, and has asked her t ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Omasa

2006-02-17 0

Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits

An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, h ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Omasa

2007-04-06 8

Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow

Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Crime, History

Omasa

2008-10-17 8

Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman

Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki will see a woman who had been an inside contact of the Yataro by chance. Also, Heizo is worried abou ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Omasa

2009-07-17 8

Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki

Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a calling card as evidence. As a street notice, showing the thief of Ohno shop, but it is not Bungoro, it' ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

2008-12-14 8.5

The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor

Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a nobleman. There’s just one woman in this world that he loves, Shiho (Emi Wakui) but when he meets h ...
Genre :History, Drama

1965-04-04 0

Gambling is My Destiny

Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on th ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1970-04-18 0

Greatest Boss Of Japan

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Gentarou's mother (voice)

1999-05-15 8

Zeno: Unlimited Love

Zeno: Kagirinaki Ai ni is a movie about life and work of Brother Zenon Żebrowski, a Polish missionary in Japan. Brother Zenon was known for his charity work for victims of war and the poor in Japan. ...
Genre :Animation

Eiko Maeda

1976-01-17 0

Tsuma to onna no aida

Genre :Romance, Drama

1971-02-06 0

Secret Zone of Tokyo

The third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which two young men come to Tokyo and meet face-to-face with a nocturnal organization that controls women with ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Toshie Takami

1969-06-28 0

Mini-Skirt Lynchers

The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group claiming the same name as Teruko and her group appeared and began extorting them. The group was led ...
Genre :

Omasa

2010-06-18 8

Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being th ...
Genre :Action, Drama, TV Movie, Crime

Omasa

2011-04-15 8

Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm

Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of betrayal and deceit, and become the very thing He ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, TV Movie

1970-02-21 0

Gambling Den Desire

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

1983-02-05 0

Cold Current

Set against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the board and the faction of the vice-chairman of the board of a large bank, this business mystery explores t ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Akemi Tachibana

1970-06-20 6.229

Blind Woman's Curse

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The ...
Genre :Crime, Horror, Drama, Action

Yasuko Uehara

1973-04-28 7.398

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitio ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1965-10-01 0

Adventure With Him

Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko learns of the trip by chance and tells Mitsuo and h ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1965-10-01 0

In Tears

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the D ...
Genre :Drama

1966-08-13 0

Your Life

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Daughter Kimiko

1965-12-29 0

Showdown in the Red Valley

Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometown with his own eyes. Ken, who was entangled in this land's boss Samejima and collapsed, was rescued ...
Genre :

1966-06-01 0

Till We Meet Again

College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club that performs canzone, a genre they are both in love with. The only problem is that the club doesn' ...
Genre :Drama

1968-12-28 0

I Shall Not Forget

Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew something about Yosuke's death, but he was unable to ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1968-02-13 0

The Code of Man

Tetsuya Watari, a modern youth idol, co-stars with Tetsuro Tamba for the first time, and a young man who survives freely is an action giant who swings down the iron arm of justice and anger toward evi ...
Genre :Action

1969-05-01 0

Yabanjin no Nekutai

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1968-09-21 0

Monument to the Girl's Corps

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bi ...
Genre :Drama, War

1969-01-22 0

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of ...
Genre :Action

2004-02-14 0

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld. ...
Genre :Drama

1967-10-23 0

Aruhi watashi wa

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well a ...
Genre :Family, Comedy

Narration

2006-12-23 7

Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace

The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and pe ...
Genre :Drama, History

1968-10-03 0

Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki. ...
Genre :Drama

1968-10-14 0

若い川の流れ

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship. For the sake of the company's managing director ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Drama

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

1969-05-13 0

Inu to Asachan

A daughter from an island in the Seto Inland Sea takes a job as a nanny in Tokyo. She thrills the hearts of fishmongers and milkmen. ...
Genre :Drama

1971-04-24 0

Night Butterflies

A 1971 crime film ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Furiko

1971-01-03 5.6

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united. ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama

Young Lady

1976-06-12 6.5

Lullaby of the Earth

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother d ...
Genre :Drama

1986-11-15 7.8

Tree Without Leaves

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in ...
Genre :Drama

1978-04-29 6.8

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contra ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Suga Sasahara

2013-02-09 6.7

Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion

In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal s ...
Genre :Drama, History, Action, TV Movie

1969-09-13 0

Chivalrous Pride

Genre :Action

Sakei

1974-10-09 7.5

The Homeless

Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help he ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

1966-06-01 0

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Umetaro

1988-10-15 4.5

The Blue Mountains '88

Genre :Drama

Tamaki Kishi

1975-11-01 0

Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa ...
Genre :Drama, History

Saeko

1968-10-05 5.8

Retaliation

Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if ...
Genre :Action, Crime

2016-12-02 8

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku

Genre :TV Movie, Action, Drama

1995-11-18 8

Onihei's Detective Records

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

2011-09-30 0

Onihei Crime Files: A Bandit Wedding

Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signature of Yahei Kasayama, a great thief who once rans ...
Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie, Action

宮川香琴

2018-12-24 6

犬神家の一族

Genre :TV Movie, Mystery

2005-05-26 0

Samurai Justice: A Duel at Takadanobara

Edo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed site of a bloody revenge fought by Nakayama Yasubei, who late married into the Ako clan where he was one of ...
Genre :TV Movie, Crime, Drama, Action, History

2006-01-30 0

Samurai Justice: The Female Bodyguard

A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of an old friend of Akiyama Kohei, a wealthy merchant who plans to bypass his son-in-law as ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History, Crime, TV Movie

1977-02-26 10

Flickering Flames

In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kitahara, ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Yasuko Uehara

1980-04-05 6.7

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Yuko 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 :

Okiku

1989-04-22 6.3

Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell

The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who ma ...
Genre :Drama, Action, TV Movie

Fumiko

1975-09-06 6

Main Line to Terror

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, de ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

1966-09-17 0

No Greater Love

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Yumi

1965-03-20 0

Song of Farewell

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... ...
Genre :Drama

1966-10-29 0

I'll Never Cry!

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by find ...
Genre :Drama

Misako

1975-11-01 6.9

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Cha ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1981-02-14 4

There Was a War When I Was a Child

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War. ...
Genre :Drama

Katsuko Niki

1973-10-27 0

Yakuza of the Present

In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza grou ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1969-08-23 2

The SAKURA Code

Cold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Omoto

2004-12-14 0

Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel

The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest they uncover a plot by one of the clan officials th ...
Genre :Drama

Omoto

2005-01-11 0

Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter

Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major ...
Genre :

2015-08-20 0

Bad Girls of Japan

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, ...
Genre :Documentary

1970-10-24 7

Step on the Gas!

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance... ...
Genre :

1971-06-10 7

Blood for Blood

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Aki

1970-07-22 5

Melody of Rebellion

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover h ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Keiko Asami

1968-04-28 6.8

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally il ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Thriller

Hisako Teramoto

1966-10-03 0

The Stormy Man

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Osakae

1966-04-10 0

Blood Shed

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crim ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Hanako

1965-08-04 0

The Rule for a Vagabond

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

1980-06-28 7.2

The Wicked

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hiromi

1967-03-11 0

A Warm Misty Night

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1990-10-08 0

Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who is on a never-ending quest to find the man who murdered his father. The usually aloof Muyonosuke, w ...
Genre :TV Movie, Action, Drama

1967-02-25 0

The Man of Victory

Genre :Drama

1967-06-15 0

Burning Nature

Film from 1967. ...
Genre :

Mayumi Sone

2020-10-30 7

The Voice of Sin

Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tap ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

1990-12-27 0

Magistrate Toyama: Conspiracy of a Beautiful Woman! Rampage in Kanhashu

The meeting of the two greatest legends in Japan - Magistrate Toyama, the crime-fighting official with the cherry blossom tattoo on his shoulder, and Kunisada Chuji, the yakuza protector of the common ...
Genre :Drama

1971-05-05 9

The Killer

A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations. This film is amongst the last "straight" y ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Komiyama Maki

1969-09-27 0

Gambler's Dilemma

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death. ...
Genre :

Eiko Hase

1968-11-02 5

Lost Virgin

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Rika

1971-05-05 0

Onna no Iji

2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living wi ...
Genre :Drama

Hisae Kakei

2021-11-03 6.182

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1988-08-13 0

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 8

President Ito, a major apparel maker, was poisoned in the president's office. Kenzo (Baku Ohwada), who happened to be interviewing nearby, rushes to the site. According to his secretary Masae, Ito's e ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Shoji Atsuko

2021-02-11 7.7

Under the Open Sky

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a ch ...
Genre :Drama

1970-01-15 0

The Fearless Brotherhood Duet of Kanto

The beginning of the Showa period. A town in the Kanto region. During the autumn festival, a car from Daihoji Senzo hit a child and left. Upon hearing this, Shogoro Chiba's boss tried to pay for the m ...
Genre :Action, Drama

2020-02-28 0

My Neighbor's Masala

Sawaki Tatsuya is a fledgling photographer. He returns to his hometown Fukuoka to take care of his sick father Hideo, but is rejected by his father. Tatsuya meets Jinbo and Yui, who work as mediators ...
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Kumiko

2021-08-18 0

Nezunoban

In Japan, the passing of a loved one is marked by 'night watch': staying up all night with the deceased, incense burning throughout, to ensure their safe passage to the afterlife. ...
Genre :Drama

1967-11-03 0

My Sweetheart

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half w ...
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1969-04-16 0

Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority

A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka. ...
Genre :Drama

2004-10-07 0

Ooku Dai-isho

Genre :Drama

Shimako Matsumoto

2003-10-07 6.5

There's Someone Watching

Azusa the wife, Otaro the husband, and their only daughter Suzu. They live in a little public dwelling in Tokyo. They're a fairly ordinary family of three living a normal but happy life. That is, unti ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

1995-10-16 0

Hanayome wa 16-sai!

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Akie Fujisaki

1986-04-23 0

Hanayome Ishou wa Dare ga Kiru

An orphaned girl strives to become a wedding dress maker. ...
Genre :

Yoko Kirishima

2012-10-11 7.2

Wonderful Single Life

"Kekkon Shinai" follows the lives of single people in their 30's and 40's. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bistro Guest

1996-04-15 8.5

SMAP×SMAP

SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's ...
Genre :Comedy

2007-05-01 0

Kuwayama Jubei travels to eight provinces

In this drama based on an award-winning story by author Sato Masayoshi, Kitaoji Kinya stars as Kuwayama Jubei, a samurai who travels through Japan keeping the peace. ...
Genre :Drama

Ryo Ichijo

2017-04-21 5.8

Seven Ms. Prisoners

Kamiwatari Kotone is a geisha in Kyoto. While she is sleeping after a night of drinking, her fellow geisha is killed. Kotone Kamiwatari is falsely accused of her murder and is sent to prison. There, s ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Genkai

2023-12-14 7.601

Yu Yu Hakusho

After a selfless act costs him his life, teen delinquent Yusuke Urameshi is chosen as a Spirit Detective to investigate cases involving rogue yokai. ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure

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

1970-10-03 10

Ōedo Sōsamō

Set against the backdrop of the reign of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun, Ienari Tokugawa, this drama is a masterpiece of action period drama that broke the mold of traditional detective stories and attracte ...
Genre :

Mako

2022-10-21 6.8

Modern Love Tokyo

This seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of "love," such as love almost forgotten, love between sons and mothers, and love that transcends borders. ...
Genre :Drama

Hisae Kakei

2019-04-06 7.278

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Kakei Shiro is a lawyer who works at a small law firm. He is a good cook and a meticulous and thrifty person who keeps the monthly food budget to 25,000 yen. Shiro’s daily routine is to leave work on ...
Genre :Comedy

1984-09-01 0

ミステリー「万引き夫人のとんでもない誤解」

Genre :

おまさ

1989-07-12 8.1

Onihei Hankachō

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes. ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Sae

1973-08-04 0

Sengoku Rock Hagure Kiba

Set in the Sengoku Period, a time of turmoil and upheaval, this action period drama follows the solitary life of Sae, the "Hagure Kiba," who takes on dangerous jobs for hire. ...
Genre :Drama

1986-04-30 0

秘められた関係

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Kosakatae

2006-10-20 0

Nogaremono Orin

It is the Edo period during the ninth Shogun Ieshige's reign. Orin's father was falsely accused of attempting to assassinate the former Shogun Yoshimune and in accordance with her father's wishes, Ori ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

1974-01-17 0

Terauchi Kantarō Ikka

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ofumi

1972-01-04 0

Ronin of the Wastelands

Continuing the tradition of the Yojimbo movies, Mifune Toshiro stars as Toge Kujuro, a wandering ronin searching for his own fame and happiness. With a sense of justice, he travels the countryside, wi ...
Genre :

1998-10-14 0

Kenkaku Shōbai

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father find themselves wrapped up in a series of events with ...
Genre :Drama

Misa Fujita

1984-10-17 0

Life of St. Blue Eyes

A romantic comedy set in a high school in Kamakura. Ekiden Club member Yutaro Takagi and Beth Green, an exchange student from the US enrolled in the same class, are married internationally due to cert ...
Genre :Comedy

1985-10-12 0

Ponytail Won't Look Back

After her family breaks apart and she ends up behind bars, a defiant teen fights her way back into the world through rhythm and rebellion, driven by a dream to start a band and rewrite her life. ...
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Natori Fuyuko

1977-10-08 0

腐蝕の構造

A powerful trading company uses all means to obtain the uranium enrichment technology. ...
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