Jun Etoh
Known for Acting
Born
October 28, 1951 (age 74)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
48 films, 3 shows
Known for Acting
Born
October 28, 1951 (age 74)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Filmography
48 films, 3 shows

Kandak Sema
2023
country: Sri Lanka
Based on a novel written by Sumithra Rahubadda.

The Actor 2
2017 · 1h 10m
country: Japan
Sequel to 'The Actor'.

Outrage
2010 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

Tombstone of the Fireflies
2008 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.

The King of Minami: The Memory of a Stray Dog
2006 · 1h 32m
country: Unknown
#56 in the series.
Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
2004
country: Japan
A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.

The Negotiator
2003 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
After a convenience store robbery, three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations while one of their colleagues, Lt. Ando, tries to find out why the men decided to take the hospital hostage. Through flashbacks, relevant information is revealed to the audience. When the negotiations are finished, most things seem to be fine until they lose track of the criminals. Then, the story unveils from a different perspective, its roots in feelings of love and vengeance.

Touch a Dream
2003 · 1h 49m
country: Japan

Colorful
2000 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide.

The Splendid Days of Queen Ruriko
1998 · 1h 23m
country: Unknown
Based on a manga that approaches the hearts of sick people living in a distorted modern age. The neat painting teacher and S&M Queen, Ruriko, will train you.

Tora-san's Tropical Fever Special Version
1997 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.

Kura
1995 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family's sake business.

Abayo Hakusho
1995 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
1995 DTV Japanese film. Based on Ayumi Tachihara's manga.

Winter Ever Since
1991 · 54m
country: Japan
Original drama special written by Taichi Yamada about the sadness and resilience of human beings through a man and his wife's best friend who become attracted to each other after the death of the wife.

Ai・Mai・Me
1990 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Kaoruko, the daughter of a doctor and attending a prestigious high school in Fukuoka, was vaguely anxious about the future. She's even more scared when her friend Natsumi invites her to membership-based prostitution club.

Flower Season
1990 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of the Kitamori family, Hana entrusts everything to Yuki, but wants her entire family to come see her on her birthday. At that time, her second son Keisuke's daughter Megumi, who is her private taxi driver, made a mistake, and she was overwhelmed and approached Yuki for advice. Eventually, her mother Kayo of Megumi learned about this, but a period was quietly struck by her women coming to a conclusion that should be the food for Megumi's growth.

Sing to Those Clouds
1990 · 49m
country: Japan

Kizu
1988 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.
Vehicle Shadows, Messengers of the Dead
Vehicle Shadows, Messengers of the Dead
1988
country: Japan
Taeko, who last saw her missing grandmother, could not forget the white gloves of the cab driver. The driver was a very creepy old man...

Maiko monogatari
1987 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Japanese drama film.

Crybaby Chacha
1987 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for girls and breakdancing in discos. A funeral forces him to return home and meet his familiy, which (espicially his father) disapprove of his lifestyle.

Atami Murder Case
1986 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metropolitan Police Department. Transferred to Denbei's Criminal Investigation Division 1, Detective KUMADA Tomekichi arrives from the Toyama Prefectural Police. KUMADA is disconcerted by Denbei's position that murderers nowadays do not need a plausible motive, but gradually adapts to Denbei's unusual methods of investigation.

Sound of the Tide
1984 · 1h 15m
country: Japan
Japanese film based on the life of sculptor Eikichi Takahashi, who died as a soldier on Guadalcanal.

Mermaid Legend
1984 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.

Konnichiwa Hânesu
1983 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
A female college student who aims to become a pianist meets a boy who raises a guide dog.

Antarctica
1983 · 2h 23m
country: Japan
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell
1983 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. Feeling indebted to the child for buying him dinner, the Ronin takes the child back to his village. There, the Ronin reluctantly gets involved in a pathetic revolt by the cowardly villagers against their tyrannical governor. Mifune at his best!

Grudge: Blood-sucking higanbana calls the spirits of the dead
1982 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Kayo (Kimie Shingyoji), who married Jingoro (Jun Eto) of the small-time goods dealer Kagamishimaya, is unable to even hug each other seven days after the wedding. Kayo (Kimie Shingyoji), who married Jingoro (Jun Eto), a merchant in a small house in Kagamiya, is unable to even hug Kayo even seven days after the wedding ceremony. One day, Jingoro suddenly dies, but a monk (Ichiro Arishima) appears to the grieving family and tells them that his soul has simply slipped away, and the next morning Jingoro wakes up as if nothing had happened. A few days later, Kayo follows the spirit that escaped from Jingoro again and arrives at the grave of Araji, where she sees Jingoro meeting with the spirit of a young girl. In fact, three years earlier, Jingoro had been torn apart by the daughter (Keiko Suzuka) of Miuraya, a kimono wholesaler, and they had tied each other's fingers together with string, slit their wrists, and thrown themselves off a boat.

Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
1982 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the baffling case.

運命の殺意 北信濃母子心中
1982 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
In the past, a woman was raped by her brother-in-law. Keeping this dark secret, she lives a seemingly happy life with her husband and son, but the son, shocked to find out his real father is the brother-in-law, sets out to do something. The downfall of a mother and her child starts there...

Burst City
1982 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.

Bondage Rope Sisters
1982 · 1h 3m
country: Japan
Arata and Sumimi are attacked and tortured by two men...

Black Hair Velvet Soul
1982 · 1h 6m
country: Japan
A drunk husband has a gambling compulsion that ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife’s restaurant in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs. But it’s not enough. The wife has to sacrifice her body as well.

Ah! Nomugi Pass — Fresh Green Edition
1982 · 2h 16m
country: Japan
In a factory that prioritizes profits amid economic downturns, a female worker criticized for her poor performance commits suicide, prompting her colleagues to strike and demand improved working conditions.

Distant Thunder
1981 · 2h 15m
country: Japan
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

Samurai of Hachiman
1981 · 2h
country: Japan
A mysterious swordsman called Hatokuro Yawata (Ken Matsudaira) who appeared from somewhere with white pigeons is actually Naotada Ii, the lord of Hikone Han. He was told that he had an older brother of twin by his mother on her deathbed. Hatokuro pretended to be a citizen in Edo and searched for his brother. However, in Edo, Murasaki Gumi, led by the mysterious Murasaki had power and used it as they like. One day, Hatokuro saved Okyu whose office-worker father was killed from Sanjuro Akaseki of Murasakigumi. It brought about a fierce fight between Murasaki and Hatokuro. What is the identity of Murasaki!?

47 Ronin and the Shadow Ninja
1981 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
In Genroku-era Japan, after Lord Asano is forced to commit suicide for attacking Kira, Chief Retainer Araki sends Kaizuka Shingo undercover to investigate Oishi Kuranosuke's motives. As Kiras son deploys spies to stop Oishis revenge, Kaizuka joins the samurai's cause, setting the stage for a historic raid.

Auto Town
1981 · 2h 9m
country: Japan

Until Evening
1980 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.

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.

Jun
1980 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Jun has come to Tokyo from his family home, an island which resembles a ship. He works in a machine shop and is attempting to develop a career as a cartoonist in his spare time. When he travels around the town by subway, he has grown into the habit of groping female passengers in a sexual way. They never denounce him, and many seem to respond very favorably, moaning in apparent ecstasy. However, when his girlfriend sees him doing this, she denounces him to the police.

G.I. Samurai
1979 · 2h 19m
country: Japan
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.

The Days of No Return
1978 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.

Hakunetsu Dead Heat
1977 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Taku abandons his job and his girlfriend and embarks on a journey of revenge in his turbo-tuned silver Celica LB, chasing the evil gold Skyline Hardtop GT, nicknamed "Phantom," that killed his friend.

Onna no Katei
1977 · 55m
country: Japan
The drama special satirizes the daily life of a wife with a businessman husband who is busy with his work.

The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh
1976 · 2h 27m
country: Japan
A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers losing their land as a result of strict tax collection. The Tonegawa area of Boso was a lawless area for a generation, as two major forces fought against each other: Sukegoro of Iioka, who wields power with his industrial capital behind him, and Shigezo of Sasakawa, a rising yakuza. Furthermore, the successive floods of the Tone River, which could be called fate, forced the farmers into even more poverty and despair. Meanwhile, farmers in Nabe Village continue to live a lethargic life, but agricultural reform is about to begin under the hands of Yugaku Ohara, a ronin who has settled in the village.

The Youth Killer
1976 · 2h 1m
country: Japan
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.

Preparation for the Festival
1975 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.