Takeshi Katō

AKA: Takeshi Kato, Tsuyoshi Kato, Takeshi Katō
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1929-05-24

Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Takeshi Katō (加藤 武 Katō Takeshi, 24 May 1929 – 31 July 2015) was a Japanese stage and film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {155}

Samurai (uncredited)

1958-12-28 7.976

The Hidden Fortress

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

1987-02-21 0

Crybaby Chacha

Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for girls and breakdancing in discos. A funeral forces hi ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ohachi

1961-01-21 7.1

Pigs and Battleships

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Itakura

1960-09-19 7.7

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1962-12-01 6.4

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

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

Makoto Misugi

1964-09-23 0

Two Lives, Two Yakuza

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard wor ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Long John Silver (voice)

1965-01-03 7

New Treasure Island

This was the first episode of Mushi Pro Land, a unique series of 60-minute animated programs. It was also Japan's first 60-minute animated TV program. However, the series never materialized and only t ...
Genre :Animation, Adventure

1962-08-26 0

The Lucky General

The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi tu ...
Genre :Comedy

1962-01-14 0

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962 Japanese movie ...
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Detective Nakao

1963-03-01 8.349

High and Low

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1962-02-18 0

Kimagure tosei

1962 Japanese movie ...
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Fisherman A

1984-11-03 2

Watashi no naka no shōfu

Genre :

Sgt. Tamura

1965-02-24 6.4

None But the Brave

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American ...
Genre :War

Toshiro

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

1968-04-13 0

Neon taiheiki

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Koichi's father

2006-01-21 5.5

Aogeba Tôtoshi

Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals w ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Noda

1962-04-08 7.6

Foundry Town

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education. ...
Genre :Drama

Koheita Kadokura

1965-04-03 6.648

Zatoichi's Revenge

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

1961-04-23 0

Ōatari hyappatsuhyakuchū

1961 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1965-05-22 7.8

Three Yakuza

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

1971-05-05 0

Love for Eternity

Genre :Drama, Romance

1971-03-20 0

Kigeki Ijiwaru Daishougai

Genre :

Narrator (uncredited)

1957-07-14 7.2

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—bu ...
Genre :Comedy

Yuka's sugar-daddy

1964-03-04 6.2

Only on Mondays

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait ...
Genre :Drama

1969-06-14 8

Black Comedy - Ah, Fool

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy

1966-09-07 0

Kill or Be Killed

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

Inspector Tachibana

1977-04-02 6.4

Lullaby to Kill

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi mus ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

Kunikida

1968-03-01 6.2

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

1956-10-31 7.1

The Thick-Walled Room

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole. ...
Genre :Drama, War

1991-12-27 0

The Tale of Genji

TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining" by people for his dazzling noble beauty. In 1991, to ...
Genre :Drama, History

Police Chief Tachibana

1976-10-16 6.929

The Inugami Family

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood. ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery

Kyusu Im

1984-11-10 6.2

For Kayako

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1983-09-16 6.2

Children of Nagasaki

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family. ...
Genre :Drama

2004-02-07 7

Tracing Jake

Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to travel around the world, listening to the testimonies ...
Genre :Animation

1961-12-06 0

Hayauchi burai - Daiheigen no otoko

Genre :

Chief of Staff Officer Kato

1969-08-01 6

Battle of the Japan Sea

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Adm ...
Genre :War, History, Drama

1962-07-29 0

Moeru minamijūjisei

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1953-11-23 6.1

An Inlet of Muddy Water

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in. ...
Genre :History, Drama

Inspector Todoroki

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

Noburo Uchimoto

1974-01-15 7

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza fami ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Todoroki Shochô

2006-12-16 6.9

Murder of the Inugami Clan

Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mother ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Koike

1961-07-30 0

The Crimson Plains

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over the ranch, which is run by his wife alone, but the ...
Genre :Western, Action, Crime

1962-09-15 0

Let's Meet in Our Dreams

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1994-07-16 7.5

Free and Easy Special

Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but Michiko entertains Su-san late into the night. When he g ...
Genre :Comedy

Toneri Uchijima

2000-05-13 5.1

Dora-heita

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corru ...
Genre :Comedy

Takashi Kanzaki

1999-10-31 6

Across a Gold Prairie

Meet NIPPORI Ayumu, an 80 year-old man, who, due to a serious heart condition, has spent sixty years of his life confined to his house. One morning, he wakes up believing himself to be twenty again. I ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Yasuhiro Kokubu

1993-12-22 8.9

XX: Beautiful Weapon

A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her "clients" / targets that she shoots right after having sex with them in her completely darkened bedroom. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller

2001-04-28 7

Run Ichiro Run

Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and the ...
Genre :Drama

2004-08-21 7.5

Free and Easy 15

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process. ...
Genre :

Managing Director Akiyama

2001-08-18 7.3

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspire ...
Genre :Comedy

2006-07-15 5.5

Japan Sinks

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists str ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction

1993-03-03 0

Bring Me the Head of Shichiemon!

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Comedy

1966-11-09 6.9

Fighting Elegy

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action

Ronin Kobuhachi

1961-04-25 8.099

Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabata ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Koyota Hatakeyama

1985-06-01 8

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)

1954-04-26 8.5

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Guard killed by Washizu

1957-01-15 7.9

Throne of Blood

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife ...
Genre :Drama, History

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

2006-08-05 5.8

Free and Easy 17

Yumiko returns to work in Hama-chan's department. She had once left the company after getting married, but a dark shadow now seems to loom over her. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2009-12-26 7.7

Free and Easy 20: Final

Genre :

Uenoyama

1962-09-29 7.2

A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest perf ...
Genre :Drama

Zombie Cat (Voice)

2002-10-19 6.3

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

Tamala is a cat living on Planet Cat Earth in the Feline Galaxy. In attempt to leave the Feline Galaxy, which is practically owned by a mega corporation called Catty & Co., she crashes on the violence ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Kamamushi

1978-08-12 5.6

The Phoenix

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advis ...
Genre :Adventure, Animation, Action

1966-10-15 6.7

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothin ...
Genre :Drama

1972-12-19 0

The Class of the Sewage Canal

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely. ...
Genre :Drama

1981-10-27 0

Flame of Father and Son

Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuhiko grow up. However, Kazuhiko rebels against his perfectionist father and turns to delinquency. Kaz ...
Genre :Drama

Public prosecutor Tamura

1965-05-01 6.8

Tale of Japanese Burglars

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Brutal yakuza

1958-11-18 6.5

Endless Desire

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

Self - Actor

2016-12-02 7.1

Mifune: The Last Samurai

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema. ...
Genre :Documentary

Detective Todoroki

1978-02-11 7.3

Queen Bee

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

1966-04-16 6.3

Moment of Terror

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an af ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Takeshi Suzuka

1985-08-10 4.6

Odin: Starlight Mutiny

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship o ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure, Animation

1989-06-10 6

Company Executives

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

1993-12-25 7.5

Free and Easy 6

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity. ...
Genre :

Noboru Uchimoto

1973-09-25 7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Hara

1984-09-22 8

Location

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-pa ...
Genre :Comedy

Deka

1960-09-20 0

Volunteering for Villainy

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

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

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

Kohei Kashi

1989-06-17 6.9

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was b ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

2008-09-28 7

You'll Die Six Hours Later

"You will die six hours later." Keishi, a youth who proclaims himself a seer, suddenly says this to Mio, who is walking along the streets of Shibuya. At first, Mio scoffs at it as nonsense but ever si ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

1964-03-12 0

Night Scandal in Japan

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie are tur ...
Genre :

Akiyama

1991-12-23 7.5

Free and Easy 4

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1992-12-26 7.5

Free and Easy 5

Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1996-08-10 7.5

Free and Easy 8

When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé. ...
Genre :

1998-08-08 6.7

Free and Easy 10

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Akiyama

2005-08-27 7.5

Free and Easy 16

Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing. ...
Genre :

1983-12-03 1

Dansen

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1959-06-02 6

Room for Let

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely ...
Genre :Comedy

Noburo Uchimoto

1973-01-13 7.4

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Iwama Kakubei

1973-07-13 7.1

Miyamoto Musashi

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Kitayama

1999-01-15 7.4

The Geisha House

Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omocha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken f ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2002-10-25 8

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958). ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2002-10-25 0

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957). ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2002-10-25 0

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963). ...
Genre :Documentary

1970-10-31 0

Zenigeba

Based on the comic by George Akiyama ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2002-10-25 0

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960). ...
Genre :Documentary

1980-12-27 3.5

The First Catch

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi. ...
Genre :Comedy

1989-07-21 0

Virgin Road

Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai ...
Genre :Romance

1965-05-16 0

The Last Judgment

The last judgment. ...
Genre :Drama

Katori

1965-09-18 7.5

Sword of the Beast

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1967-05-13 0

Scorpion

Japanese drama film. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-08-16 0

Lost in the Sun

Genre :Drama

Keisuke Munakata

1965-08-01 5.3

House of Terrors

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnin ...
Genre :Horror

Segawa

1964-10-21 0

Whirlpool of Flesh

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending t ...
Genre :Drama

1981-10-10 6

Lonely Heart

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Toyokichi Kuze

1983-07-16 0

Voice from the Dark

A woman fears for the safety of her fiance after his three brothers mysteriously disappear. ...
Genre :Mystery

Driver

1972-03-25 6

Summer Soldiers

During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organizat ...
Genre :Drama, War

1993-11-20 0

Kogarashi Monjirō Returns

Genre :History

Kingo

1984-08-04 8

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquain ...
Genre :Comedy

1964-12-12 0

The Spying Sorceress

Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate. ...
Genre :Action, Romance, Fantasy

1963-10-13 0

The Gambling Monk

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the famil ...
Genre :Comedy

1980-12-20 6

Koto: The Ancient City

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are not her biological parents. C ...
Genre :Drama

1975-02-15 9

The Gate of Youth

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's ...
Genre :Drama

1969-09-03 0

The Girl I Abandoned

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Todoroki

1979-05-26 6

The House of Hanging

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Horror

1961-01-15 9

Happiness of Us Alone

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys. ...
Genre :Drama

2007-09-08 7.5

Free and Easy 18

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman. ...
Genre :

1978-06-03 6.3

Love and Faith

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hidey ...
Genre :Drama

Assistant Inspector Senba

1991-03-15 5.6

Noh Mask Murders

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Ugaki

1984-08-11 4.2

Zero

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the ...
Genre :War

1972-01-01 6.5

The Pirates of Buban

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the control of cruel & armed pirates. Imamura will com ...
Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

1962-06-28 0

This Madding Crowd

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1991-12-14 6

The Great Shogunate Battle

The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush the heir to the shogun’s seat is brutally cut down by ...
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1998-12-23 6.7

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment. ...
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1963-05-12 0

Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi

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1976-11-13 0

Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers losing their land as a result of strict tax collect ...
Genre :History, Drama

1961-09-02 0

Nosappu no jū

Genre :Action, Western

Cabinet Chief Secretary Hisatsune Sakomizu

1967-08-03 7.125

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

1985-06-08 8

Yume-Chiyo

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Though her responsibility lies in taking care of her ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1971-01-21 0

300 Million Yen Mission

Genre :Comedy

1961-07-01 0

Gambler in the Sea

Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Internal Trade and Industry Minister Kasaoka

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

1963-08-13 0

The Navy

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, h ...
Genre :War, Drama

1961-12-01 0

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1982-04-17 0

Fossilized Wilderness

Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his apartment at midnight. When he regains consciousne ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Mystery

1970-02-28 0

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese archipelago, but the task will not be easy. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

1982-03-13 6.7

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

This film stays very faithful to the original down to the smallest details, save for the kangaroo-rat that suddenly appears twenty minutes into the movie and subsequently follows Aladdin around, servi ...
Genre :Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

1983-10-22 0

The Politicians

Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love letters changes the situation. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1959-05-26 0

High Teen

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher shoul ...
Genre :Drama

1964-01-01 0

Monrō no yōna onna

1964 Japanese movie ...
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1961-04-04 0

Wakarete ikiru toki mo

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie ...
Genre :Drama

Ronin on the ship

1954-06-01 0

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Despite facing opposition from his family and nationa ...
Genre :Drama, History

1963-06-16 0

午前零時の出獄

This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous intent, and the efforts of a journalist chasing after the truth. Due to the passage of tim ...
Genre :Drama

1981-12-22 0

Hamuretto wa yukue fumei

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1994-12-23 7.5

Free and Easy 7

Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later, Hama-chan sees her again at a dentist's office. ...
Genre :Comedy

Horibe Yasubee

1964-01-05 7.5

Akō Rōshi

"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after attempting to kill Lord Kira. Once the retainers hear about their Lord's death, they sacrific ...
Genre :Drama

Kaneko Magojiro

1963-04-07 7

Life of a Flower

The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke. ...
Genre :Drama

Takashi

1984-02-04 7.7

Choudenshi Bioman

Five descendants of the people showered with Bio Particles by Bio Robots five centuries in the past have become Biomen. They transform with the Bio Brace and fight using their Super Electronic Brains ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure

Shinomiya

1988-04-11 7.5

Hana no Asuka gumi!

While the adults were devouring the country in peace the young girls are now plunging into the Sengoku Period. A domination of fear and terror by the Zenchura, a federation of banchos nationwide, beg ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

1987-01-07 0

Iki no Iiyatsu

Set in a sushi restaurant in Tokyo shortly after the end of the war, the story follows a stubborn, old-fashioned master and his hot-tempered, brash apprentice growing up among the warm-hearted people ...
Genre :Drama

1983-12-01 0

Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin

A human drama based on the "Date Riots". ...
Genre :Drama

永橋

1991-04-02 7

Kimi no na wa

A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945. ...
Genre :Drama

父・西城賢輔

1980-04-07 0

Natchan no shashinkan

The 25th NHK Asadora. Nishiki Natsuko is a woman who strives to become a photographer. ...
Genre :Drama

Kahei Nirei

1983-02-19 7

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

Genre :Drama, Mystery