
Acting
Kyōko Ōgimachi
Acting credits
5.0Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
Black Line
1960
3.0Three women are kidnapped by a sadistic lunatic and forced to "entertain" his co-workers and friends.
Flesh Market
1962
7.4No synopsis available yet.
Ghost of the Pearl Divers
1960
8.0The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
1962
Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.
The Fairy of the Flesh
1964
Early pinku.
Jōen no Uzu
1964
Probable Pink movie from Koji Wakamatsu.
Mesuinu no Kake
1964
Early pinku.
Irregularity of Sex
1963
Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.
Ghost Story: Cruel Phantom
1964
NRThis film depicts women who throw themselves into the world of call girls as an easy way to make a living and seek pleasure, only to ruin their lives through money and sex.
Kono michi akashingō
1964
7.8The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Yellow Line
1960
1.0Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is exactly like Orie) be attacked by ninja. Thus he stays Chisaka's residence in Yonezawa. Chisaka was just trying to stop Forty-seven ronin's revenge against Kira Kozukenosuke by female ninja's sexual entrapment. Chisaka asks Tsunataro to lead female ninja. Tsunataro accepts the request on condition of marriage to Oyu.
Tale of Ninja Duty
1965
NRWith the object of discovering the male accomplice of Hideko, a bad girl, Michiko, a police-woman, disguises herself and infiltrates a gang. Then in a reformatory, under the name of Suzuko, she finds a certain girl who is familiar with Hideko and from her she approaches a woman, named Keiko. One day, at a beer-hall, the police-woman meets Keiko who just finished a secret narcotics transaction and asks her about Hideko. However, with the sudden appearance of Saburo, one of the gang, her search fails, and an exciting pursuit begins. Later Keiko is found dead.
Female Detective
1960
NRComedy movie
Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū
1962
5.0During a fever, Tateo, the male protagonist believes he is dying and has the hallucination that his beautiful wife, Reiko (Tamaki Katori), the daughter of a wealthy family, is having an affair w/ another man. He then tells her an ancient Chinese story: the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi wanted to test the faithfulness of his wife, so he faked his own death; the wife was grief-stricken and went into mourning. While funeral arrangements were in progress, a handsome young man came to call on Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi's wife soon fell into love w/ the young man and decided to marry hi. However, the young man fell ill; his servant said that the only medicine to cure him is human brain. Zhuangzi's wife eventually decided to break his husband's coffin and take his brain. However the young man turns out be Zhuangzi in disguise.
Okinawan Horror: Upside-Down Ghost - Chinese Horror: Breaking a Coffin
1962
NRThe last film produced by Shintoho.
Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni
1962
NRThe All Girl's Rugby Team try to keep their private college from falling into the hands of Yakuza and unscrupulous businessmen.
Five Violent Girls
1960
Japanese comedy film.
凸凹珍道中
1960
NREarly film directed by Satoru Kobayashi.
The Ama's Mysterious Pearl
1963
Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
Fighting Horizon
1960
Japanese comedy film.
誰よりも金を愛す
1961
9.0Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.
Ghost from the Continent
1963
NRTwo pharmaceutical companies in Tokyo and Osaka engage in a fierce battle of wits over the sale of aphrodisiacs. Shigeru Amachi and Yumiko Nogawa, special sales agents known as "propers," operate in the shadows.
Black Curtain
1966
8.0Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".
Invitation to the Enchanted Town
1961