Acting

Kōichi Itō

Born 1907-07-08 · Ito, Shizuoka, Japan

Acting credits

Vixen poster
6.7

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie, Ishida's wife and the chairman's daughter, offers her a million, but he gives her what she demands. Now Michi is not only satisfied, but she has a mad desire for Ishida and calls him every day asking for a date. His sympathy for her gradually evolves into love, and he soon allows her insatiable passion to strip him of his decency.

Vixen

1969

Gamera vs. Barugon poster
6.4

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Her Brother poster
7.1

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

Her Brother

1960

The Great White Tower poster
6.9

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

The Great White Tower

1966

Gamera vs. Gyaos poster
6.1

Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.

Gamera vs. Gyaos

1967

Fires on the Plain poster
7.6

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

Fires on the Plain

1959

Zatoichi Challenged poster
7.0

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Zatoichi Challenged

1967

The Killer's Killer poster
NR

Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago. When he visits the graveyard with his father to pray at his mother's tomb, his father is shot by someone. Now he thirsts for revenge.

The Killer's Killer

1970

Ten Dark Women poster
5.8

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.

Ten Dark Women

1961

Yonjū-hassai no teikō poster
NR

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth with a teenage girl, and a daughter in her twenties who falls in love with a younger man and champions sexual liberation.

Yonjū-hassai no teikō

1956

Who Will Judge Me? poster
8.0

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Who Will Judge Me?

1951

No artwork available
NR

A Daiei erotic film depicting the five passionate love affairs of a voluptuous married woman, driven by her beauty.

Doku bara

1949

Forget Love for Now poster
7.0

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Forget Love for Now

1937

The Crowded Train poster
6.8

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.

The Crowded Train

1957

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly poster
6.1

Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime.

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

1957

Giants and Toys poster
7.1

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Giants and Toys

1958

Omokage Sanshiro poster
NR

A judo movie.

Omokage Sanshiro

1949

The Aristocrat's Stairs poster
NR

A romantic tale depicting the beautiful and tragic love between a young man and woman from aristocratic families who are caught in the crossfire of the February 26 Incident.

The Aristocrat's Stairs

1959

Two Wives poster
7.3

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...

Two Wives

1967

Troupers of Asakusa poster
NR

On the night of the Sanja Festival, a bloodstained wallet left in the hands of a female pickpocket… The boss’s sinister grasp closing in on an innocent dancer, and the passion and deadly battle unleashed by the righteous hero of Asakusa…

Troupers of Asakusa

1955

When Women Lie poster
8.0

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).

When Women Lie

1963

The Telephone Rings in the Evening poster
NR

In a peaceful town near the Seto Inland Sea, a threatening letter arrives along with the ringing of a telephone... A thriller-comedy that sets this stagnant town ablaze.

The Telephone Rings in the Evening

1959

Five Siblings poster
8.0

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune

Five Siblings

1939

Sentimental Mobsters poster
7.0

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!

Sentimental Mobsters

1963