Known for Sound
Born
December 16, 1932
Died
June 18, 2002 (age 69)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
225 films, 11 shows


Tora-san to the Rescue
1995 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.


Tora-san's Easy Advice
1994 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an injured housewife on her yearly vacation.


Tora-san's Matchmaker
1993 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring Mitsuo back home, himself falls in love with an attractive but troubled woman visiting her father.


Tora-san Makes Excuses
1992 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Tora befriends a pretty barbershop owner and runs into Izumi. When Tora twists his ankle, Mitsuo comes to care for him and see Izumi. Meanwhile, Izumi must choose between her new job in Tokyo and returning to Nagoya to care for her mother.


Tora-san, My Uncle
1989 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.


Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
1988 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.


Tora-san Plays Daddy
1987 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.


Tora-san Goes North
1987 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.


Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
1986 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.


Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
1986 · 2h 15m
country: Japan
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.


Tora-san's Island Encounter
1985 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher.


Tora-san, the Go-Between
1985 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.


Tora-san's Forbidden Love
1984 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.


Marriage Counselor Tora-san
1984 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
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 acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.


Tora-san Goes Religious?
1983 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.


Tora-san's Song of Love
1983 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.


Tora-san, the Expert
1982 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.


Domineering
1982 · 2h 22m
country: Japan
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.


Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
1982 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san.


Tora-san's Promise
1981 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enamored of Tora-san and follows him around. One of Tora-san's old friends is terminally ill and makes Tora-san promise him to marry his wife once he is gone.


Tora-san's Love in Osaka
1981 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged.


The Dump Truck Rascal
1981 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.


Foster Daddy, Tora!
1980 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.


Tora-san's Tropical Fever
1980 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.


Tora-san's Dream of Spring
1979 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.


Tora-san, the Matchmaker
1979 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.


Talk of the Town Tora-san
1978 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.


Stage-Struck Tora-san
1978 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.


Uno Koichiro no agechaitaino
1978 · 1h 10m
country: Japan


Tora-san Plays Cupid
1977 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.


Noble Lady Bound Vase
1977 · 1h 13m
country: Japan
A cruel and sadistic landowner buys the daughter of a fallen samurai family to be his wife and subjects her to escalating sexual torture, especially after discovering that she has been harboring a secret passion.


Eros School: Feels So Good
1977 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
A delinquent transfer student calling himself Ryu the Rapist and his pet pig ravages his way through the female student body of a high school. He soon sets his sights on the popular class president and track star who is favored to win the upcoming track meet. How long can she resist?


Tora-san Meets His Lordship
1977 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.


Tora-san's Pure Love
1976 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.


Apartment Wife: Secret Call Girl
1976 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
A blackmail ring uses illicit photos of an unfaithful wife to force her into prostitution.


Lusty Ama: Stirred-Up Pot
1976 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
A young woman with an unrequited love for her step brother has their relationship upended when a despondent couple wanders into town.


Tora-san, the Intellectual
1975 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead.


Newlywed Hell
1975 · 1h 16m
country: Japan
Yuki returns to her hometown after several years. She has been away ever since the tragic events surrounding her abusive older husband. While in town she barely escapes the sexual advances of an old friend and accidentally comes across a scene that repels and excites her. Through an open doorway she spies a woman bound with rope. Thus begins her descent into the world of submission and pleasure.


New Apartment Wife: Swapping
1975 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
A tragicomedy that happened to three couples who switched partners, turning sex into a simple game to break off marital relations, gripped by a painful mood!


Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
1975 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.


Nun's Heaven
1975 · 1h 8m
country: Japan


Hot Spring Resort: Geishas vs. Ozashiki Strippers
1975 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
In a rural town the local elders and a band greet the arrival of a troupe of strippers. After a show two men who claim to be show biz producers make the elders an offer. If enough funds can be raised they will make their favorite lead stripper a star. Is this an offer too good to be true?


Doterai Man
1975 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Teruhiko Saigo. Set in a wholesaler town in Osaka, it depicts the activities of the main character Takezo Yamashita who repels adversity with a man's stubbornness and guts.


Tora-san's Lullaby
1974 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child.


Modern Prostitution: Lust Under a Uniform
1974 · 1h 8m
country: Japan
A college student haunted by past childhood memories engages in casual prostitution while living with her adopted sister.


Tora-san's Lovesick
1974 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.


Karūseru Maki: yoru wa watashi o nurasu
1974 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
An older nightclub hostess has to choose between a relationship with her loser boyfriend who owes the yakuza money and a music producer who wants to make her a star.


Sex Highway: Woman's Parking Lot
1974 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
A young wife dabbles in casual prostitution to secretly help her older husband improve his business. But when she falls for one of her clients complications ensue.


Center of Tokyo
1974 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people.


Sanbaba
1974 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
A story about being scared of getting old.


Sukeban Deka: Dirty Mary
1974 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
A tough female cop matches wits with a blackmailing killer.


Gypsy Rose: A Docu-Drama
1974 · 1h 16m
country: Japan
The film depicts the private life wrapped in the mysterious veil of the dancer Gypsy Rose, who was known as the Monroe of Japan and enthused a wide range of fans.


Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction
1974 · 1h 11m
country: Japan
A wife who suspects her husband of infidelity hires an investigator. But it turns out he has his own kinky secrets.


Tora-san Loves an Artist
1973 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister.


Onna Chosain Sex Report: Fujo Bôkô
1973 · 1h 6m
country: Japan
Nikkatsu Roman Porno


The Virgin Masquerade
1973 · 1h 3m
country: Japan
Three female college students become involved with a land developer. When a rich client and his sons tries to take advantage of him the women hatch a plan for revenge.


Shinjuku Love Hotel: Secret Weekend Paradise
1973 · 1h 1m
country: Japan
Drama that centers around a bath house during school break.


Sex Report From a Female Private Detective: Housewife Prostitution
1973 · 1h 8m
country: Japan
Nikkatsu Roman Porno


Love Makes Me Wet
1973 · 1h 15m
country: Japan
Exhausted from searching the city for his missing wife, Kyōhei stumbles into a small bar and falls into a dangerous affair with a mysterious woman named Miwa. A snake tattoo coils around her thigh — a mark of a past she can’t outrun. Then, one day, Miwa reveals she knows where Kyōhei’s wife is… but the truth may be more than he bargained for.


Naked Rashomon
1973 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
A marquis' mistress becomes pregnant with fraternal twins. He keeps the boy, but sends his bodyguard to dispose of the mother and the girl. Years later…


Apartment Wife: Playing with Fire
1973 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
Yoichi and Masako have been married for several years and have reached a period of boredom.


Teenage Violence
1973 · 1h 3m
country: Japan
Nikkatsu Roman Porno


Maruhi onsen anaba sagashi
1973 · 1h 5m
country: Japan
Nikkatsu Roman Porno


The Climax
1973 · 1h 9m
country: Japan
Nikkatsu Roman Porno


Shokugyôbetsu sekkusu kôrya kuhô
1973 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
An aspiring but hapless reporter comes up with an idea for a story about seducing women by way of their profession. With advice from his playboy friend he puts his plan into action but gets more than he bargained for.


Tsuma San-nin: Hada Kurabe
1973 · 1h 9m
country: Japan
Two couples engage in adulteries with each other then discover the joys of wife swapping when they meet another free spirited couple.


Sukeban Sex Violence
1973 · 1h 9m
country: Japan
A conflict erupts between the girl gangs of Kinjou Gakuen High School and Shiiba Girls’ High School. Sex, fights and rock music ensue.


Overly-Ripe Breasts: Married Women
1973 · 1h 11m
country: Japan
A woman's husband’s infidelity drives her to sleep with both of her sisters’ lovers.


The Hotspring Resort Masseuse
1973 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
Nikkatsu Roman Porno


Confessions of an Adolescent Wife: Shocking!
1973 · 1h 11m
country: Japan
A disillusioned young man from a rich family strikes up an unlikely relationship with night club worker who dreams of a better life.


Tora-san's Forget Me Not
1973 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.


Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
1972 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo.


Maruhi: Benten gokaichō
1972 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
Roman Porno from 1972.


Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
1972 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garners popularity in the slums due to her compassionate care for children. In an attempt to secure a stable future for their child, she enters into marriage with Tsutomu Yamazaki, who struggles with a stutter. Unfortunately, their union is cut short by the untimely death of Tsutomu Yamazaki in an accident.


Lusty Sisters
1972 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
Three sisters live alienated existences in modern day Tokyo. One works as a secretary, one is a prostitute, and one is a criminal. The secretary is cynically unhappy with the sexist business world which limits her opportunities for advancement and makes her a target for her lecherous boss. The prostitute lives an aimless life, drifting between men, and often the target of either police or jealous wives. The criminal, who lives by disrupting the society which oppresses her two sisters, is the only happy one of the three.


The Last Laugh
1972 · 1h 12m
country: Japan
Roman Porno film depicting the great uproar that the children cause in the division of their property, even before their parents are dead, as they claw at their greed.


Tora-san's Dear Old Home
1972 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.


Hellish Love
1972 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.


Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous
1972 · 1h 5m
country: Japan
Shuichi and Nobuko are an ordinary, young couple, a promising company employee and his pretty wife. They think nothing can mar their peaceful life but nothing is permanent in this world and Shuichi's company goes bankrupt. Shuichi feels lost. He misses the good times he had at bars and cabarets, especially Hiromi, a hostess. Nobuko offers to work while he hunts for a job and finds an opening at an advertising company. But as Nobuko makes the rounds of restaurants and cabarets, she finds she cannot get ads just by dint of hard work alone. All the shop owners and managers expect her to sleep with them for each big ad they buy. At first, Nobuko is shocked but, to eat, she must meet their demands.


A Chorus of One Million People
1972 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being harassed by the Hashimoto group, a local gangster group which manages the city's entertainment.


Kigeki: Onna uridashimasu
1972 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
The third film in the "Woman" series, based on the original work by Shinji Fujiwara, set in the Shinjuku Entertainment Company.


Affair at Twilight
1972 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
Reiko is an adulterous housewife whose lover is a foul-tempered yakuza gangster. After one of her husband's friends spies the amorous duo at a no-tell motel, the stage is set for murder.


Tora-san's Love Call
1971 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.


Thirsty for Love
1971 · 1h 14m
country: Japan
Kazuko Shirakawa plays a girl who left home to satisfy her inner lust. Her passion turns to despair when she looks at her miserable life and sees the loss of her one true love and eventually becomes a prostitute. Everything is masterminded by her jealous sister, who hopes to bed her husband. She eventually gets her wish.


Apartment Wife: Affair in the Afternoon
1971 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
A sexually unsatisfied housewife gets into a world of trouble when her meetings with an old friend are discovered.


Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
1971 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Comedy centered on a stripper agency


Price of Life
1971 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Comedy of a phony doctor.


Follow the Girls
1971 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.


Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
1971 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.


Tora-san's Shattered Romance
1971 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his sister Sakura. Meanwhile, a new tenant moves into Toraya restaurant.


School Festival Night: A Sweet Experience
1970 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She befriends one of the school's misfits, Yoshiyuki Mizuno, which starts to change her life. The film follows the way Makiko Hayashi's life changes throughout the time, from a model student with high ambitions, to someone who is uncertain enough about her future, that she feels the only way out is to start anew.


Tora-san's Runaway
1970 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.


Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude
1970 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked out the infirmary's doctor and taken his place. A trio of students notice the trick and dress up as medical professionals to assist the female portion of the school body. A newspaper has caught wind of this.


Charming Men
1970 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Baisho) also returns from the juvenile classification center on the same day. However, at a welcome party held by Goro for Haruko, a drunk friend crashes into Haruko's house with a dump truck and is forced to leave. Goro plans to marry Haruko to a rich man and force her to pay dowry, but...


The Walking Major
1970 · 2h 16m
country: Japan
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds to rebuild an orphanage. Suspicious of Allen's motives, a Japanese newsman, Hiroshi Kitabayashi, traces the American's background until he discovers the motive behind Allen's long walk.


Shameless School
1970 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.


Tora-san's Grand Scheme
1970 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.


Tora-san, His Tender Love
1970 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.


Tora-san's Cherished Mother
1969 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.


We Sell It Because It Sells
1969 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.


Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp
1969 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting.


It's The Drifters! All Star Attack
1969 · 1h 26m
country: Japan


Konto 55: The Weaknesses of the Century
1968 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.


It's The Drifters! Adventure, Adventure, More Adventure!
1968 · 1h 24m
country: Japan


How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
1968 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
A salaryman comedy.


The Shy Deceiver
1968 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.


Diamonds of the Andes
1968 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his fiancée Reiko.


Stardust Wharf
1968 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Hamada, Izumi, and Aki Jo, a rising singer from Toshiba Records, form a fresh trio who risk their youthful energy to bravely confront violence in this bright and cheerful coming-of-age action film.


Outlaw: Gangster VIP
1968 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.


It's The Drifters! Forward, forward, and forward again!
1967 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
A group of low-level yakuza members have run out of options and decided to start a new company called “The Do-It-All Consultants,” but this leads to much trouble.


The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
A 1967 crime film


Fountain of Love
1967 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
Five young men have many financial troubles, but this only brings them closer together.


Massacre Gun
1967 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.


The Greatest Challenge of All
1967 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.


Love for an Idiot
1967 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.


The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
1967 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.


Branded to Kill
1967 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.


Burning Nature
1967 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
Film from 1967.


The Space Giants
1967 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
The monster Rodak has been conquering planets throughout the universe. He sees Earth and wants it, as it is the best he has ever seen. Goldar & Silvar are sent from another planet to protect Earth from Rodak. This series follows Rodak's attempts to take over the earth and destroy Goldar.


Song of Love
1967 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.


Zoku izuko e
1967 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.


Let's Have A Dream
1967 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland.


Fighting Elegy
1966 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
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.


Gamblers' Luck
1966 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.


Yakuza Vassal
1966 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.


Black Tight Killers
1966 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.


Secret Club 000
1965 · 1h 25m
country: Japan


The Abalone Gals
1965 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.


A Charming Devil
1965 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Movie adaptation of the TV series.


Snow Country
1965 · 1h 53m
country: Japan
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.


Love on the Rainbow
1965 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.


Hoodlum Soldier
1965 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.


Story of a Prostitute
1965 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.


The Spying Sorceress
1964 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
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.
Nippon Paradise
Nippon Paradise
1964 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Japanese comedy film.


Imo samurai: Kani uemon
1964 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
In this entertaining period drama, Kanemon appears at a post town in Katsuyama where a group of seven homeless ronin make a living by raiding dojos. When he visits the dojo where his cousin serves as assistant instructor, his connection to the group is revealed, and he gets drawn into a showdown.


Gate of Flesh
1964 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.


3 Gents in the Snow Country
1964 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Shûe Matsubayashi movie


Fools at Work
1964 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.


The Honest Fool
1964 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Yasugoro can confess his love.


Hail the 3 Gents
1964 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
A lighthearted satire of Japan’s postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman’s Register blends farce, romance, and boardroom comedy with the polished charm of 1960s salaryman cinema. When mild-mannered secretary Tsutomu Harada’s wedding is postponed yet again due to the sudden promotion of his matchmaker, Reitarō Koizumi, to company president, chaos ensues in the world of business and matrimony alike. At a raucous nightclub party, a game of musical chairs leads to injury, scandal, and rivalry with a competing paper-bag tycoon. Limping through his first day as president, Reitarō faces corporate sabotage, eccentric clients, and a disastrously comic “business trip” that tangles together love, liquor, and misplaced ambition.


The Sun is Calling You
1963 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.


The Hill is Full of Flowers
1963 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....


Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
1963 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the underground organization of fear. The final work of Asahi Kobayashi's "Ginza Whirlpool Child (Mitsugai)" series.


Hore tatte dame yo
1962 · 1h 17m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie


Fearful Witch
1962 · 1h 2m
country: Japan


Night of Bloody Hell
1962 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
A motorcycle daredevil is murdered by a gang that wants to take over the circus to become the cover for their drug operation, but his replacement (Akira Kobayashi) has other ideas.


Glory on the Summit
1962 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.


Return of the Whirlwind
1962 · 1h 18m
country: Japan
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the fifth in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi dressed as a hero of the dead ghost. Familiar Takuya Nikaido challenges the international call girl organization.


Shūmatsu-ya hanjō-ki
1962 · 1h 8m
country: Japan


Our Marriage
1962 · 1h 6m
country: Japan
Poverty-stricken sisters reach the age when they start attracting marriage proposals. They must decide between marrying for love or money, but their ambitions clash when they both fall for the same man.


Love in the Air
1962 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea. On land again Shoji goes to a cabaret where he is soon involved in a brawl. Kasamatsu, the owner of the cabaret, impressed by Shoji's strength, offers him a job as his bodyguard. The next morning Shoji visits Shingo's grave and meets Miyako, Shingo's former sweetheart, who is still a trapeze performer and now the star of the Kuroko Circus which Shoji realizes Kasamatsu intends to control.


Epitaph to My Love
1961 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
A young reporter falls for a beautiful waitress, but fate conspires against their burgeoning romance when the latter is involved in a car accident and loses her memory.


Isseki Nicho
1961 · 1h 2m
country: Japan


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.


The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
1961 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.


Yoru no chōsen-sha
1961 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
1961 Japanese movie


An Angel is Chasing Me
1961 · 1h 9m
country: Japan
A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only to find himself embroiled in a thrilling and hilarious journey involving money and women.


Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
1960 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says that he is the younger brother of Colt Jo's killer. When Ryuji escaped difficulties with one blow knocking out the enemy's weapon, Sabu reveals that Colt Jo is in the hospital in Gifu. Ryuji decides to visit his old enemy. However, he does not know that this is a trap.


Flowers in the rain
1960 · 53m
country: Japan
A song-based action drama featuring hit songs by Hiroshi Inoue about a daughter who cries over an innocent crime and a young man who bravely stands up for the truth to help her.


Covered Wagon
1960 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's major islands, to Hokkaido, it's northernmost.


Yami wo saku kuchibue
1960 · 56m
country: Japan
A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an artificial lake.


The Man with a Sinister Laugh
1960 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his missing sister.


Asakusa Sisters
1960 · 47m
country: Japan
A young chef at a small restaurant in Asakusa, with a past conviction for breaking into a safe, defeats the evil boss and ends up marrying his lover.


He's the Witness
1960 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.


Knock Down
1960 · 1h 22m
country: Japan


Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.


Mighty Rules
1959 · 1h 22m
country: Japan


Oyae no hatsukoi sensei
1959 · 56m
country: Japan
A hilarious comedy where newly appointed teacher Oyae shows off her unusual plays as she fights alone against a group of five bad boys.


O-Yae no moguri isha
1959 · 56m
country: Japan


Wolves on Number Zero Street
1959 · 1h 27m
country: Japan


おヤエの女中の大将
1959
country: Japan


The Maid Oyae Meets A Ghost
1959 · 52m
country: Japan


Merciless Bullet
1959 · 57m
country: Japan
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sawamura clan (Kaneko), who is with his mistress, impassively pulls the trigger of a pistol with a silencer. Kenji was hired by Sawamura's advisor, Matsumoto (Ashida). It was a cunning plan: eliminate Sawamura, sell the smuggling rights to the Hamasaki clan and make a profit. And for Kenji, the motive did not matter, as long as he was paid, his job was to kill opponents without a miss.…


Machi ga nemuru toki
1959 · 1h 31m
country: Japan


Underworld Beauty
1958 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.


Breasts and Bullets
1958 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
Japanese crime film


Mehyō to Narazu Mono
1957 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose love and action unfold against the backdrop of a rice field in the middle of a vast forest.