Acting

Yūji Moriya

Acting credits

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

Gamera, the Giant Monster poster
5.9

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.

Gamera, the Giant Monster

1965

Love for an Idiot poster
6.0

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

Love for an Idiot

1967

Okoto and Sasuke poster
8.0

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Okoto and Sasuke

1961

A Wife Confesses poster
6.7

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

A Wife Confesses

1961

Hoodlum Soldier poster
7.2

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.

Hoodlum Soldier

1965

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 Most Valuable Wife poster
8.0

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...

The Most Valuable Wife

1959

Assignment Cloud poster
2.0

A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.

Assignment Cloud

1966

Black Test Car poster
7.1

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Black Test Car

1962

The False Student poster
6.7

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

The False Student

1960

The School of Spies poster
6.6

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.

The School of Spies

1966

The Forest of No Escape poster
9.0

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

The Forest of No Escape

1965

The Great Villains poster
5.2

Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.

The Great Villains

1968

Green Fruit poster
NR

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears

Green Fruit

1964

Trump Card of Revenge poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Trump Card of Revenge

1966

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree poster
8.0

Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly loves Fuyuhiko Kanae, an architectural engineer who is designing her villa. For Reiko, the life of the Todo family is completely different, but when she meets the bright and intelligent Fuyuhiko, she feels more than just affection for him, going beyond Reiko's circumstances. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko also begins to love the neat and beautiful Reiko. The relationship between the two develops rapidly, but Reiko's heart is complicated. This is because Reiko has an older sister, Ginko, who works in a red-light district...

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree

1959

No artwork available
8.0

A love melodrama.

Night Mist Makes Women Cry

1962

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great poster
NR

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

1963

Otoko no meigara poster
NR

A unique literary work depicting the crisis in the love and physical relationship of the ordinary Shimura couple.

Otoko no meigara

1961

The Money Dance poster
9.0

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.

The Money Dance

1964

Shin Jinsei Gekijo poster
NR

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

Shin Jinsei Gekijo

1961

Art of Assassination poster
7.0

A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...

Art of Assassination

1969