Known for Acting
Fumio Watanabe October 31, 1929 – August 4, 2004 was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.
Born
October 31, 1929
Died
August 4, 2004 (age 74)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Filmography
165 films, 8 shows
修羅のみち4 北九州代理戦争
2002
country: Japan
金融腐蝕列島 再生
2002 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Shura ga Yuku 6
1997 · 1h 32m
country: Unknown
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination.
Sanctuary - Part 3
1996 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Standing in the way of Hojo and Asami is Secretary-General Isaoka, and a new enemy, the Russian Mafia. The magnificent war between front and back society has finally reached its climax! What is the incurable disease that hit Asami when the secret bond between the two was revealed? Two men work to transform their lives and reshape Japan.
Sanctuary - Part 2
1995 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto region, and Asami to create a faction "Rifukakai," aiming to destroy Isaoka's system of the ruling Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the connection between Hojo and Asami is revealed.
Sanctuary
1995 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but rising Yakuza clan, while Asami is a politician aiming to become the youngest member of the Japanese parliament. But while they both live in different ways, Hojo and Asami share the same past; both of them were survivors of the Killing Fields of Cambodia. With the aggression and survival instincts they learned in the Cambodian jungles, Hojo and Asami strive in both the Yakuza and political world to reform Japan into their own sanctuary.
Dogra Magra
1988 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
Tokyo Blackout
1987 · 2h
country: Japan
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.
The Key
1983 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Kidnapping Blues
1982 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Shogun's Ninja
1980 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1978 · 2h 11m
country: Japan
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.
The Skies of Haruo
The Skies of Haruo
1977 · 2h
country: Japan
1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1977 · 2h 21m
country: Japan
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
High Seas Hijack
1977 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
Deep Throat in Tokyo
1975 · 1h 17m
country: Japan
Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and quickly marries Hideo, the heir to a corporate empire. Hideo's father, Takehiko, lusts after Kumi. Takehiko sends his son away, ostensibly on a business trip, but actually so that he can be murdered by Takehiko's henchmen. Takehiko seduces Kumi, but is frustrated when she refuses to perform oral sex on him. Angered, Takehiko forces Kumi to undergo surgery in which her clitoris is transferred to her throat, thereby requiring that she engage in oral sex in order to have an orgasm. Hideo, the supposedly murdered son, returns having paid off his assassins. Hideo shoots and kills his father, but Kumi grabs the gun and kills Hideo so that she can inherit the family's fortune
Main Line to Terror
1975 · 2h 1m
country: Japan
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, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Conflagration
1975 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
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.
The Bullet Train
1975 · 2h 32m
country: Japan
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
The Great Chase
1975 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase" to be seen, Shihomi does pursue a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese yakuza types. While the story is pure 70's exploitation and gritty crime drama, the best reason to see it is for the Martial Arts Action of Etsuko Shihomi. The action is over-the-top and at times hilarious (i.e. Shihomi battling the lead criminal atop a moving gondola or Shihomi battling a whip-wielding Catholic Nun).
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1975 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.
Without Complaint
1975 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
It Was a Faint Dream
1974 · 2h
country: Japan
Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and the brother of a retired Emperor. Realising that she is only a plaything of the court, she becomes a nun and wanders the country.
City of Corruption
1974 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
My Way
1974 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
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.
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
The Tattooed Hitman
1974 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
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 the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
1974 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Katsuji finds his long lost mother, who is a rich lady of a respectable family. Comedy and melodrama ensue. A thrilling spectacle with an overly violent ending, and a remarkable, Japan's only post-prison rape comedy, Masa is determined to have sex with the female guard, despite the fact that there is a bar between them. Michi Azuma (topless swordswoman from Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril) plays a tomboy who wants to join her brothers.
Cobra
1974 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Japanese crime film.
The Transgressor
1974 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
The Street Fighter
1974 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
A Japanese Demon
1973 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
A psychotherapist suffers from the onslaughts of Satori, the demon whose name is paradoxically homonymic to the word used for enlightenment experiences in the Zen tradition. Many people mistakenly believe that such a state is the goal of Zen practice; however, the demon strikes at people who are in a state devoid of thought or feeling. Satori's influence spreads from the psychotherapist to a couple who grow increasingly uninhibited.
The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
1973 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
Gokudo of Kamagasaki
1973 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen.
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1973 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
A Diary of a Woman Doctor
1973 · 52m
country: Japan
1973 Toei movie.
Internal Sleuth
1973 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
Quarreling with Yakuza
1973 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
1972 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
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.
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1972 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations
Yakuza Skirmishes
1972 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
1972 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
1972 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
The Lucky Status Symbol
1972 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.
Modern Lady Gambler
1972 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...
The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan. However, the lord's sexual inexperience and Kiyohime's strict morals lead to significant crisis in their marriage. To improve his sexual prowess, the lord is introduced to Sandra, a French woman held captive by usurer-smuggler Hatakaya. This results in the lord's choosing Sandra as his mistress. Kiyohime's attendants see this move as an insult and have Sandra beaten and imprisoned. Nevertheless, Sandra escapes with the help of Morita, a retainer of the lord. Out of bitterness and as some sort of revenge, the lord imposes a sex ban on his subjects.
Gang Warfare
1972 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
1972 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime groups based in Osaka to war it out and order the Shima to the Onishi group of the branch to expand the territory. Now members of the same yakuza gang are forced to fight each other over territory and honor.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
1972 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
1971 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enough for a complete victory?
The Insatiable
1971 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
Yuki Onozaki, who was studying at a Women's College in Tokyo, was originally a young and ignorant girl, but her life changed completely in the summer of a certain year. During the summer vacation, Yuki returned to her hometown of Kyoto, only to be raped by the lover of her mother. Yuki then abandoned her studies and chose a depraved life. She met the gang leader Kiyoshi Oba and factory industrialists. Although these men could give her more or less physical comfort, they could not open Yuki's locked heart. It was not until the appearance of the young architect Yoichiro Honma that Yuki's love flower gradually bloomed. Soon, Yoichiro's first love while studying in France, Sandra, finds her, which makes Yuki's heart surge. After several twists and turns, Yoichiro decided to marry Yuki, but the trials never stopped...
The Armed Organization
1971 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsuruta as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
Troops of Darkness
1971 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
The Gambler's Counterattack
1971 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.
The Gambling Nun
The Gambling Nun
1971 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
Story of Japanese Bad Men
1971
country: Japan
Toei yakuza film.
Wet Sand in August
1971 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion
1971 · 47m
country: Japan
Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Patience Has An End
1971 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
The Ceremony
1971 · 2h 3m
country: Japan
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 across several decades.
King of Pornography
1971 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimensions (obviously a role tailor made for star Umemiya's ego). He visits a doctor, impresses ladies and opens a porn shop before running afoul with yakuza...
Dagger
1971 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
1971 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he must first face his nemesis, Whipmaster, the blind Priest, a master killer thirsting for revenge.
The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
1971 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
Evil Spirits of Japan
1970 · 1h 36m
country: 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.
Thugs of Shinjuku
1970 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.
Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
1970 · 2h
country: Japan
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 to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
1970 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.
Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss
1970 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
Brothers of Capones
1970 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows his first venture to Japan with gangster brothers Frank (Shingo Yamashiro) and Joe (Fumio Watanabe). And being chased by gangster and the FBI, including the granddaughter of Eliot Ness. The whole thing is a good amount of fun, the performances especially (Wakayama, Yamashiro, Watanabe in a rare heroic role), making this one of routine director Takashi Harada’s best pictures.
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
House of Gamblers
1970 · 1h 56m
country: Japan
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family goons, by retaliating on his own. After injuring the head of Tanuma's family, and slaying others along the way, he then surrenders to the law and serves time. Before his last year to serve, the head of the Aramasa family falls ill and decides to retire, Ryoji miss chance to be successor, his old friend is reluctant but accepts. Now this gives the Tanuma family a chance for revenge! But with Tomisaburo Wakayama (Sekine) always having your back, how can you go wrong?
Bloodstained Clan of Honor
1970 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
1970 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It was thought that Igarashi, who valued righteousness and principles and had the respect of others, would become the second-in-command. However, he was an annoying presence to Ryūzaki...
Wolves of the City: Checkmate
1970 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
1969 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
Kanto Street Peddlers
1969 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bosses (Watanabe, Amatsu and Kawazu).
The Private Police
1969 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.
Boy
1969 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
1969 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
The Cross of Vengeance
1969 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Film with Junko Miyazono.
Sky Scraper!
1969 · 2h 40m
country: Japan
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
The Bad Boss 3
1969 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game
1969 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Yakuza on Foot
1969 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.
Kanto Onna Gokudo
1969 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Japanese crime film
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
1969 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
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.
Rogue
1968 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer Sawada and his spunky sister Tomoko. The boys also find part time night jobs as roving minstrels in the club district courtesy of benevolent gang boss Asakawa. Of course, they run afoul of boss Karasawa's cruel gang. Karasawa also has it in for Asakawa, and this indirectly throws a spanner into the works as far as Isamu's burgeoning success as a kickboxer. When Asakawa's HQ is burned to the ground by Karasawa's men, Asakawa tries to kill Karasawa - which, of course, leads to his own gruesome death. Isamu goes on the rampage with his sword, wiping out Karasawa and men.
Shogun's Joy of Torture
1968 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
Kanto Woman Yakuza
1968 · 1h 14m
country: Japan
The Cheating Underworld
1968 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.
Outlaw: Heartless
1968 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
Industrial Spy
1968 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a new engine invented by a rival company. Kogure manages to obtain the secrets, but Sawada's goal was not the secrets themselves, but to use them to obtain the position of president of the company. Angered by Sawada's dirty tricks, Kigure begins to take revenge.
The Bad Boss
1968 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
1968 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
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.
The Domain: Severed Relations
1968 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
The Domain: Severed Relations
Gambler's Farewell
1968 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Death by Hanging
1968 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
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.
Women's Prison
1968 · 1h 15m
country: Japan
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and the girl will take revenge.
A History of the Japanese Underworld
1968 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
The Hoodlum Priest
1967 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
Yanagase Blues
1967 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Invitation to Jail
1967 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Young Boss, Fugitive
1967 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Organized Violence II
1967 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
The Gambler's Law
1967 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Dissolution Rites
1967 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
Organized Violence
1967 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
Five Star Private
1967 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Band of Ninja
1967 · 2h
country: Japan
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
Inochi hateru hi made
1966 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
1966 Japanese movie
A Woman's Gamble
1966 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.
Violence at Noon
1966 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Silence Has No Wings
1966 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post-war Japan.
Escape and the Law
1965 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Minami Yoichiro is a gang member who has killed the boss of opponent clan. Before leaving Japan forever, he visits his sister's grave and becomes involved with a rival gang. He then discovers that his sister was murdered; also it becomes apparent that the pursuing detective has a personal reason for trying to capture him. In the end both he and the girl who was escaping with him are killed. The third film in Shochiku's series Law / Okite.
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
1965 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.
Pleasures of the Flesh
1965 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
1963 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Four Sisters
1962 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Yume de aritai
1962 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie
Nippon no obaachan
1962 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
石ころの唄
1962
country: Japan
Sanctuary
1961 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
As the Clouds Scatter
1961 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
Hikkoshi yatsure
1961 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Manao Horiuchi movie
Epitaph to My Love
1961 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
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 a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.
Killers on Parade
1961 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
Hijō no otoko
1961 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
1961 Japanese movie
The Tragedy of Bushido
1960 · 1h 14m
country: Japan
A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single night with the young man and teach him the pleasures of the flesh, out of motherly mercy. However, the following day, an official decree is issued to ban suicide through fidelity...
Late Autumn
1960 · 2h 8m
country: Japan
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
The River Fuefuki
1960 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Night and Fog in Japan
1960 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Volunteering for Villainy
1960 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
The Sun's Burial
1960 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
Good-for-Nothing
1960 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
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 with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.
Cruel Story of Youth
1960 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
Only She Knows
1960 · 1h 3m
country: Japan
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
Girls Behind the Bars
1960 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Story of girls in a Japanese reform school.
Shisha to no kekkon
1960 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959 · 2h 58m
country: Japan
Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend Shinjô defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
Street of Love and Hope
1959 · 1h 2m
country: Japan
The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, and his caring teacher converge and consequently become more complicated.
Red Pants
1959 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes the focus of many yearning eyes and Seikichi, the boss' son, picks a quarrel with him and violent fight ensues in which Shinji kills a man in self-defense.
Umi no Chizu
1959 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing.
Donto ikōze
1959 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
ある落日
1959 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Bridge
1959 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
The Girl Who Creates Tomorrow
1958 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
A story set in a small harmonica factory in Kita-Senju that celebrates the love lives of young workers.
Maria of the Ant Village
1958 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
One Step to Happiness
1958 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
The Undefeated Woman
1958 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
The Invisible Wall
1958 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Yurakucho 0 Street
1958 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
A satirical comedy set in Tokyo's new landmark food center in Yurakucho.
Equinox Flower
1958 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
Thirst
1958 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
1958 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate salaryman Goro Mutsu, who is transferred from Kyushu.
その手にのるな
1958 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabaret musician who lives in a nearby apartment. He had a criminal record for stabbing his wife, who had betrayed him, and a match he worked for had fallen at the scene of the murder. However, Kishida, who appeared at the police station, stubbornly denied the crime, and he returned to his apartment without physical evidence.However, the residents of the apartment who learned of this had been cold-blooded and rumored to be a murderer. Kishida has a secret crush on the stripper Tachibana Yumi, who lives in the apartment directly opposite.However, Yumi has a lover of a plumber named Maki Shinji.
Black River
1957 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
Elegy of the North
1957 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko.
Flying in the Air
1957 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
俺は死なない
1956 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Seishun no oto
1956
country: Japan
Fountainhead
1956 · 2h 9m
country: Japan
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.