Kei Satō

AKA: Kei Satô , 佐藤慶之助, Keinosuke Satō
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1928-12-21

Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {206}

Hachi

1964-11-21 7.7

Onibaba

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they le ...
Genre :Horror

Ghost Samurai (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

1965-01-06 7.727

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is ...
Genre :Horror, Fantasy, Drama

Boss Gonzo

1966-05-03 6.9

Zatoichi's Vengeance

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

1980-07-05 0

The Night of Martial Law

Genre :

Shinjô 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

Raiko

1968-02-24 7.4

Kuroneko

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found myster ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Shinji Tsuda

1961-05-16 7

Epitaph to My Love

Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by ...
Genre :Drama

Eisuke Oyamada

1966-07-15 6.171

Violence at Noon

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist. ...
Genre :Drama

Sekino

1977-10-29 8.8

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Secretary Mizumo

1967-12-16 7.6

Eleven Samurai

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, the Oshi clan is blamed for what happened and sente ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

Shimizu

1979-08-04 5.8

The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1962-10-24 0

Zoku aizen katsura

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Kazutaka Okada

2009-10-10 6.8

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalizing cars, and drinking booze. Two years l ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Mystery

1997-11-22 0

Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow

A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake. ...
Genre :

Shobei Hamajima

1973-08-11 6.3

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who want ...
Genre :History, Action, Drama

Gondo

1985-08-23 6.8

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

Takanosuke Nojiri

1965-07-10 6.6

Samurai Spy

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1968-07-04 0

Women and Miso Soup

Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother. ...
Genre :Drama

Shamoji

1963-11-01 0

Okashina yatsu

Genre :Comedy

Otoko

1967-09-02 5.7

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lawyer

1999-01-30 5.4

The Perfect Education

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in ...
Genre :Drama

1963-09-14 0

Blackmail

Genre :Crime

Nakajima

1985-03-02 1

I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident

On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, sudden ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Kamo Serizawa

1966-02-25 7.725

The Sword of Doom

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Police inspector

1965-08-29 5.8

Pleasures of the Flesh

A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Reporter

1962-07-01 7.4

Pitfall

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls. ...
Genre :Mystery, Fantasy, Crime

Magistrate

1973-04-21 7

Zatoichi's Conspiracy

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood frien ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

1991-07-24 0

Akizakura - Cosmos

A touching drama about human life and love A 24-hour probation has been given to a man who should have died! ...
Genre :

Murase / Ochiai

1970-12-26 6

Evil Spirits of Japan

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look. ...
Genre :Crime

Sakurada Kazuomi, Grandfather

1971-05-18 7

The Ceremony

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan acr ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Ichikawa

1979-10-06 7.3

The Man Who Stole the Sun

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Action

1964-09-05 7.5

The Ninja Hunt

Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Tanemaru as their Lord. ...
Genre :Action

Secretery Kanbe

1965-10-16 6.1

Sword Devil

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

Yohei

1971-09-11 6.2

Inn of Evil

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the hea ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Akira Matsuko

1960-06-03 6.6

Cruel Story of Youth

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Crime

Prison warden

1968-02-02 7.4

Death by Hanging

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Hachizo

1962-11-04 6.8

Human

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Inspector

1983-08-29 0

The Crimes of Kiyoshi Ōkubo

Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ōkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who raped and killed e ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, TV Movie

Himself

1969-02-15 4.6

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Police Chief

1983-07-02 6.3

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations. ...
Genre :Drama

Y Chong - iru

1968-03-30 5.6

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Sakagami Shuzen

1967-02-15 4.9

Band of Ninja

A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound. ...
Genre :Animation, Drama, Action, War

Iseya

1990-08-18 5.9

Ronin-gai

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local pros ...
Genre :History, Drama, Action

1993-07-12 0

Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy

The crescent shaped scar on his forehead is a license given him by the Shogun to kill anyone he deems to be a villain. A strong performance that reflects well upon his father, with interesting stories ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1981-11-07 6.1

Station

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance

Priest

1969-05-31 6.4

Devil's Temple

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

1973-03-02 2

Secret High School Girl: After School Activity

A banker and a high school girl start a brothel in the snowy countryside of Hokuriko. ...
Genre :

Nogami

1978-02-24 5.5

Lost Love

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, ...
Genre :Drama

Dentist

1981-09-12 4.1

Day Dream

Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

1986-08-25 0

The White Tiger Battalion

The Byakkotai was part of Aizu’s four-unit military, set up in the domain’s drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battle of Toba-Fushimi. The other three units were Genbutai ...
Genre :History, Adventure, Drama

Takenori Suzuki

1968-06-08 7.8

Hymn to a Tired Man

Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming. ...
Genre :Drama

Ohkawa

1979-04-28 0

Golden Partners

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it. ...
Genre :Adventure

1964-03-01 0

Life of Hishakaku 3

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy. ...
Genre :

Koide, Chief of Police

1974-09-07 5.7

My Way

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-12-23 0

Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1999-12-18 6.6

Taboo

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, al ...
Genre :Drama, History, Thriller

Tenkai Nankôbô

2003-05-10 6.9

Azumi

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action, Thriller, Romance

Gorô Onodera , Military Commentator

1979-08-18 6

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82

Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Asaichi Isobe

1964-06-20 0

Homicide

This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26 and the execution of young officers. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1995-09-02 0

Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II ...
Genre :Drama, History

Tamio Yamada

1961-03-01 0

Women of Tokyo

Genre :Drama, Romance

1966-08-13 0

Your Life

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

1964-05-09 7.2

A Story from Echigo

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has ...
Genre :Drama

Tōshūsai Sharaku

1968-08-22 0

Where did Sharaku go?

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared aft ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Iyemon

1969-06-28 6.2

The Curse of the Ghost

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

Hatamoto Serizawa

1966-01-15 7

Irezumi

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Nemoto

1992-10-17 3.8

Erotic Liaisons

A low-key private detective agency in Paris is run by Rie and her partner Kishin, two ex-pats who tick along between cases by giving guided tours of the city to busloads of Japanese tourists. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1965-05-01 0

Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again

Genre :

Father Togawa

2005-12-17 5.3

The Whispering of the Gods

Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every which way and puts religion to the test. ...
Genre :Drama

Doctor

1967-08-31 0

The River - Poem of Wrath

A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Shoichi Katsuda

1978-12-02 7.4

The Killing Game

The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five yea ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Thriller

1966-07-02 6.5

Captive's Island

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Sakamaki

1960-10-09 6.5

Night and Fog in Japan

Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments. ...
Genre :Drama

Masakazu

1962-09-15 8.434

Harakiri

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

Sakaguchi

1960-08-09 6.5

The Sun's Burial

In Osaka's slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1977-02-01 0

They Were Eleven

An NHK adaptation of the famous manga by Moto Hagio. ...
Genre :

Shinkô Kuniyoshi

1972-08-05 4.3

Dear Summer Sister

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes the ...
Genre :Drama

1970-10-31 6.9

Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it ...
Genre :Thriller

1973-05-12 0

A Diary of a Woman Doctor

1973 Toei movie. ...
Genre :

Director Fukami

1975-07-12 4

Conflagration

Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an economically devastating ultimatum. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Thriller

Shogo

1964-06-14 6.5

Roadside Stone

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese villag ...
Genre :Drama

Cop

1962-02-16 7.2

The Inheritance

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to take advantage of the situation. ...
Genre :Drama

Yoshino

1983-11-12 7

Choji Snack Bar

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown. ...
Genre :Drama

1979-07-04 7

Dead Angle

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

1988-08-11 0

The Notorious Bored Samurai

Mondosuke ventures alone into the land of Nagasaki. There, he encounters young lady named Kinue, the daughter of Nagasaki's former magistrate office constable, Shusuke Kaneko. Monsuke has received in ...
Genre :Drama, History, Action

1965-04-10 6.4

Cold Rice, Osan, Chan

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money. ...
Genre :Drama

1977-12-19 0

The Skies of Haruo

1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada. ...
Genre :

1964-03-01 7

The Third Ninja

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Comedy, Family, Adventure

1984-01-14 5

Appassionata

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the ...
Genre :Drama

1962-12-01 0

The Paper Crane

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists. ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator

1983-06-04 6.8

Tokyo Trial

One of the major documentaries on a specific chapter in modern Japanese history, this look at the trial of Japanese militarists accused of war crimes is excellently handled by director Masaki Kobayash ...
Genre :War, Documentary

Yuzo Gondo

1966-10-29 7

Glorious Fights

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1962-09-16 6

The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman

In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is charged again with the task of protecting the Yagyu Secret Scrolls. The two scrolls are held in sepa ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Chief Editor Gondo

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

T.V. Director Fukami

1977-10-20 10

High Seas Hijack

Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands. ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

Inoue Kawachi-no-kami

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

1986-05-24 0

Surgical Designs in Flames

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures. ...
Genre :Drama

1963-02-23 6

Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption

In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life. ...
Genre :

Katsumaki

1963-12-01 7

Duel of Blood and Sand

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him into a small town besieged by a violent group of brig ...
Genre :Action

Hitoshi Awazu

1986-11-15 5.6

Yakuza Ladies

When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful gangs in Japan. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Genjiro

1992-02-22 0

Dioxin from Fish!

A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo. ...
Genre :Comedy

1979-11-17 7.2

The Execution Game

The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran kill ...
Genre :Thriller, Action, Drama

Iwai

1960-09-20 0

Volunteering for Villainy

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town. ...
Genre :Drama

Ichiro Hamada

1980-04-19 0

Target

Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Narrator (voice)

1987-02-15 0

The Hopi Prophecy

This film describes how the Hopi and Navajo tribes in the southwestern United States have responded to the resource colonization of their lands that have been repeatedly plundered for plutonium and ur ...
Genre :Documentary

Takeyama

1962-05-27 7

Tokyo Bay

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Teramitsu Abara

1976-10-30 6.7

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

tyobei(Izuya)

1973-09-29 9

Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry

An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness. Days later, he is asked to kill the doctor's brother ...
Genre :

Dr. Koiguchi

1963-11-08 6.8

Mother

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son. ...
Genre :Drama

1972-02-23 0

Chase That Man

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate. ...
Genre :Action

Nishida

1966-09-17 2

Assignment Cloud

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

1963-12-11 5.8

Sasuke and His Comedians

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action, Comedy

1972-04-14 7

Gang Warfare

Genre :Action, Crime

Saburobei Konoe

1963-04-28 7

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords. ...
Genre :History, Action, Drama

Otaguro

1964-01-01 7

Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Mu ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1962-02-04 0

Drunkard's Paradise

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol. ...
Genre :

Ieraishan Tatsu

1961-01-22 5

Incidental Murders

The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosa ...
Genre :Drama

1963-05-25 6

The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List

When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This time, Jubei must stop the evil plot of Lord Hayato ...
Genre :

Prison Guard

1975-06-07 5

Shimane Prison Riot

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of a ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1992-10-03 0

Kachô Shima Kôsaku

Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane ...
Genre :Drama

1962-06-17 0

Kyoto Assassin

A dark tale of murder and revenge set in old Kyoto. ...
Genre :

Sekino

1978-09-09 7

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1994-11-19 6.2

The Wicked Reporter 2: The Rebirth of Horserace Betting

The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki, a racing tipster for a sports paper. Matsuzaki befriends a mysterious old track bettor named Tokudaiji. The man turns out to be a well-connected millionaire and ...
Genre :Crime

1972-09-09 6

Cross-Currents

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Takamoto

1963-07-31 7.5

League of Gangsters

A yakuza is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score. ...
Genre :Action

1962-03-21 6.2

The Christian Revolt

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

1974-02-09 5.8

Demon Spies

Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identiti ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action

Endo

1980-10-04 5.5

The Beast to Die

A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings "walks like a dead man". ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Izo

1965-03-13 7

Young Boss

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

Psychiartist

1973-09-29 6

A Japanese Demon

Genre :Drama, Horror

1960-07-05 6.8

Good-for-Nothing

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love wi ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

2009-05-16 0

Dear My Love

Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back the distance created during the long years in which ...
Genre :Drama

1973-03-17 10

Flower and Dragon

Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival wh ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Narrator (voice)

1980-01-15 6

The Revolt

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his s ...
Genre :War, Drama

Masanobu Kurosawa

1968-05-29 0

Song of my Life

Genre :Drama

Daishi Shimoyama

1985-06-14 8

Let Him Rest in Peace

A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

(voice)

1989-09-30 0

Business Trip

Genre :Comedy

(segment "Echoes")

2004-05-08 6.8

Prayer Beads

This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror. ...
Genre :Horror

1981-08-08 6.3

The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War. ...
Genre :War, Drama

1961-02-14 5.8

Bitter End of a Sweet Night

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder. ...
Genre :Drama

1995-06-03 5

Last Friends

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared ...
Genre :War, Drama

1968-11-02 6.6

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Thriller

1965-11-20 7.3

The Flower and the Dragon

A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1965-01-03 8.2

Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return. ...
Genre :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

Detective

1992-06-06 8

The Strange Tale of Oyuki

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai pat ...
Genre :Drama

1970-04-04 7

Naked Ambition

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

1988-08-20 0

Green Requiem

Genre :Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction

1971-07-03 0

Expelled from the Kanto Mob

In the late Taisho era. Umeshima Jinbei, the president of the Kanto Umeshima Kai, divided the area into the Kuroda family to the south and the Takeuchi family to the north in order to protect the secu ...
Genre :

Kinjiro Takeuchi

1964-08-26 8.5

Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office

Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of their special abilities. In the end, their plan goes ...
Genre :Drama

1966-01-13 10

Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves

The sequel of "Flower and Dragon". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vic ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1967-01-01 5.5

Clouds at Sunset

A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her into sleeping with an older man for money. ...
Genre :Drama

1969-09-13 0

Lone Rebel

Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, w ...
Genre :

2002-10-05 0

Sensen fukoku

War between North Korea and Japan ...
Genre :War

1969-09-10 6

Bullet Wound

Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to take out both parties. After almost getting assassina ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Yukio Yamaji

1974-04-27 6

The Tattooed Hitman

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1963-05-12 0

Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi

Genre :

1963-09-21 0

Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin

Genre :

1989-06-24 0

Festival of Dreams

Genre :

1960-03-20 0

Knock Down

Genre :

1993-03-27 0

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death

Bored Hatamoto film ...
Genre :

1987-12-30 0

Tabaruzaka

Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s anti-Western faction, he was instumental in establishing the S ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

Ichiro Yasui

1968-02-24 4

The Great Villains

Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Dr. Faust

1999-01-15 0

Neo Faust

Short anime adaption of the Osamu Tezuka manga Neo Faust. ...
Genre :Animation, Fantasy

1966-02-26 0

A Man Worth the Money

Genre :Drama

Orator

1978-09-06 7

Empire of Passion

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Horror

1990-07-11 0

Detective Heiji

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo, leaving few clues as to their leader's identity. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, TV Movie

1964-12-19 0

The Dawn of Asia

The Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the trans-China/Japan collaboration of revolutionaries in the early twentieth century. It was Nagisa Oshima’s rare attempt ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

1965-02-25 8

The Tattooed Lord

Genre :Drama, Mystery

1977-05-28 7

Japanese Humanity and Justice

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1988-12-17 0

I Love You So Much

The Sagami family has been running an Edo-style woodworking shop in downtown Tokyo for generations. The head of the family, Bunzo (Kunie Tanaka), has received official recognition for his craftsmanshi ...
Genre :

1988-08-06 0

Nezumi Kozo's Edo Adventure

A thrilling and entertaining piece in which Jirokichi, portrayed by Morio Kazama, tackles a major event involving an attempt to assassinate the shogun. This production features historical figures such ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Eguchi

1964-05-29 6.5

Brand of Evil

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wif ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1961-09-29 8

Procurer of Hell

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two women, one of them a young widow with a son. They li ...
Genre :Thriller

1967-12-02 6.7

A Killer's Key

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

1963-07-27 0

At the Side of the Bridge 4

Genre :Drama

1961-08-13 0

白い南風

1961 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

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

1990-09-03 0

The Fir Tree Remains

The Fir Tree Remains | Yamamoto explores the life of Koi Harada, a man wrongfully branded a “traitor” in Japanese history. As the Date clan faces the threat of destruction from within and from the sho ...
Genre :History, Drama, Action

Hiki Yoshikazu

1979-01-07 7

Kusa Moeru

The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period. ...
Genre :Drama

Mashita Nagamori

2000-01-09 10

Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations

The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of three generations of the Tokugawa dynasty--from its founder Ieyasu to Iemitsu, the third Shogun who sol ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Akechi Mitsuhide

1965-01-03 0

Taikouki

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan. ...
Genre :Drama

1981-09-18 0

Precious Moments

The drama depicts the daily lives of three women of the marriageable age who are desperately trying to make some memories before they get married. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

1972-09-02 8

Professional Killers

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

Kao Chiu

1973-10-02 7.6

The Water Margin

The Water Margin is a Japanese television series based on Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The novel details the trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws duri ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Sadamichi Yamanaka (Konoha's grandfather)

2001-10-01 0

Honmamon

Genre :Drama

Shigeru Yasuda

1980-12-05 10

The Trading Company

An economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The US branch president of a trading company challenges Japan's internal power struggle and the North Ameri ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1986-04-03 0

Rice Curry

Set in the majestic Canadian wilderness, the drama depicts the adolescence and love of three young men who were on a high school baseball team together. ...
Genre :Drama

1989-01-14 0

Jūkyūsai

Daisuke dropped out of high school, and his motorcycle was the only thing that helped him cope with his loneliness. His parents find a new high school where he can ride his motorcycle to school, but h ...
Genre :Drama

1984-10-17 0

水曜ドラマスペシャル

“Monday Drama Special” (Getsuyou Drama Special) is a long-running drama that aired on TBS every Monday from 21:00 to 22:54 (JST) from October 2, 1989 to March 19 , 2001 . program. ...
Genre :

1985-06-08 0

Kokugo Gannen

Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken language, this humorous drama focuses on how the national l ...
Genre :Drama

北山俊道

1987-04-06 0

Chotchan

The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother. ...
Genre :Drama

Sabee Inugami

2004-04-03 9

稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ

Genre :

1981-04-07 0

Pro Hunter

Genre :Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime

1996-10-11 0

Concerto

Love and ambition collide when two brilliant architects compete for the same woman and the glory of success in their highly competitive field. Kakeru, a young dreamer just entering the professional wo ...
Genre :Drama

1978-01-07 0

Ningen no Shōmei

TV series produced by MBS and TOEI, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Seiichi Morimura. ...
Genre :Mystery

1982-11-24 0

Nemuri Kyoshiro

Starting out in Edo, as Kyoshiro travels west toward Kyoto, he encounters some of the most dangerous obstacles in his career. Signs that the Tokugawa shogunate was vulnerable began to appear during th ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

1990-01-12 0

Graduation

Kinoshita Kaori (Nakayama Miho), a native of Nagano, was allowed to live alone in Tokyo for two years during her junior college years. Now, with employment still unsettled, her parents are pressuring ...
Genre :Drama

1995-01-13 0

Wave in Mind

The wife of a lawyer and her twice-divorced sister-in-law scheme to break up her brother's marriage in this hard-edged drama of misdirected passion. The quirky characters who fill out the cast include ...
Genre :

Asahina Genzaemon

1974-10-02 0

Fateful Mountain Pass

Akizuki Rokurōta was born as a child of Tokugawa Ieyasu, but since he is a twin with Tokugawa Iemitsu he is not allowed an official place within the Tokugawa family. Sent away as an adopted son, he co ...
Genre :

2003-01-19 0

藤田宜永サスペンス「異端の夏」

Genre :

1979-01-06 0

Yasei no Shōmei

A girl survives a massacre of villagers by Japanese soldiers in a remote mountain village, and a member of the Self-Defense Force who stumbled upon the scene of the massacre during training - this sus ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Tanaka Tosa

1986-12-30 0

Byakkotai

Byakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its military modernization, in the wake of the Battle of Toba-Fushimi. The other three units were Genbutai, Se ...
Genre :Drama

Retsudo Yagyu

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

1985-11-10 0

The Autumn in Tokyo

A unique drama that contrasts the lives of a family of elite salarymen in Tokyo and a family of landowners in Tokorozawa, Saitama, while exploring the timeless themes of drama such as human happiness, ...
Genre :Family, Drama

1968-07-30 0

Star of the Night

Genre :Drama, Crime