Known for Lighting
Died
March 8, 2009
Filmography
43 films


Kindaichi Kousuke File: The Tragedy of Meiro-so
2002 · 2h
country: Japan


Kagerô 3
1997 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
The third series of action series depicting the success of a woman torpedo who was caught in two groups of conflicts at a small port town in the Seto Inland Sea.


Manji Dance 2 : Three Erotic Women
1995 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Story of Japanese women.


Great Edo Fleeting Life Bath Story
1994 · 1h 13m
country: Japan
Story of Japanese women during the great Edo period.


The Oil-Hell Murder
1992 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.


Heat Wave
1991 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.


The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
1987 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.


Death Shadows
1986 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the Viper”, finds his abandoned daughter, Ocho, who has now become a mistress of Denzo, a smuggler. After Yazuke’s death, Ocho is also recruited as a “shadows executioner”, with the task of completing her father’s mission.


Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
1974 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and falls directly into disfavor with the yakuza.


Coup d'Etat
1973 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.


Kaoyaku
1971 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.


The Magoichi Saga
1969 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.


Devil's Temple
1969 · 1h 16m
country: Japan
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 whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?


出獄四十八時間
1969 · 1h 19m
country: Japan


A Killer's Key
1967 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
A lone wolf assassin, masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta, is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens to engulf a powerful yakuza group with ties to influential figures in the political establishment.


The Radiant Prince
1961 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imperial court, while still mourning the spirit of his late mother who died while he was still a child. Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother originally caught the eye of the emperor, young Genji embarks upon a reckless affair with her that could cost him his life.


Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
1961 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.


Three Young Samurai
1961 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.


The Demon of Mount Oe
1960 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A band of warriors journeys to Mount Oe to rescue abducted women from a demon, overcoming supernatural threats like a giant spider and a diabolical witch along the way.


Princess Sen in Edo
1960 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!


Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
1959 · 1h 54m
country: Japan


Yutaro's Secret Story
1959 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Yutaro Kodan, born under a cloud because his aristocrat father died opposing the shogunate, stumbles onto a treasure map. Lusting after the treasure, Lord Sumi Tadamasa convinces trusting Princess Tsu that the gold will help to avenge her lost clan.


Love of the Princess
1957 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Sanji museigen
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Sanji museigen
1956 · 51m
country: Japan
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Kakushigo sōdō
Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Kakushigo sōdō
1956 · 55m
country: Japan


I Was Tokichiro
1955 · 1h 44m
country: Japan


The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1954 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.


Otomi-san
1954 · 44m
country: Japan
A period drama that depicts the romance between Otomi and Yosaburo.