Known for Lighting
Filmography
24 films
I Am a Medical Examiner
I Am a Medical Examiner
1964 · 1h 33m
country: Japan


Interpol Code 8
1963 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.


High and Low
1963 · 2h 22m
country: Japan
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.


Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers
1959 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
An Ishiro Honda film.


The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
1959 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.


3 Dolls in College
1959 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University, balance studying for the final exams while falling for the new French professor.


The Rickshaw Man
1958 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.


People of Tokyo, Goodbye
1956 · 1h 1m
country: Japan


Housewives Are Suing
1956 · 1h 27m
country: Japan


Rainy Night Duel
1956 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.


School Girls in Costume
1955 · 1h 26m
country: Japan


All is Well 2
1955 · 1h 18m
country: Japan


All is Well
1955 · 1h 33m
country: Japan


The Black Fury
1954 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exploration of the criminal facts behind the explosion of a freighter in the harbor. He goes undercover with a band of drug smugglers, but his methods threaten to destroy him as well as his case.


Farewell Rabaul
1954 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.


The Red Light Military Base
1953 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.