Acting

Hiroshi Tsukiji

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Ghost Story of Yotsuya poster
6.5

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.

Ghost Story of Yotsuya

1959

The Ghosts of Kagami Pond poster
8.5

A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.

The Ghosts of Kagami Pond

1959

No artwork available
NR

Pinku from 1969.

Harenchi jogakusei: Shojo urimasu

1969

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima poster
6.5

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

1949

Young Teacher poster
NR

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.

Young Teacher

1942

The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin poster
8.0

In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...

The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin

1959

Film credits

1980s · 2 titles

1960s · 10 titles

No artwork available
NR

Pinku from 1969.

Harenchi jogakusei: Shojo urimasu

1969

Yellow Line poster
7.8

The 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

Black Curtain poster
NR

Two 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

Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle poster
6.0

After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction tried to usurp the rightful heir and take over the honored clan. Before his untimely death, the lord of the Kuroda bestowed “Nihongo”, a magnificent spear, on his finest warrior, which ultimately brings him into contact with two of Japan’s most famous historical figures, Yagyu Jubei and Miyamoto Musashi. Can the three masters of martial art join forces to defeat their enemies and save the nation?

Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle

1960

Fire Line poster
3.6

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).

Fire Line

1961

New Resume of Love Affairs poster
10.0

Romantic story and complications of a lingerie model.

New Resume of Love Affairs

1967

No artwork available
10.0

Pink film directed by Kinya Ogawa.

Kôshoku mansion-shitsu

1968

東京の夜は泣いている poster
NR

Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.

東京の夜は泣いている

1961

Naked Pursuit poster
4.8

Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent on committing suicide. The two embark on a passionate and violent affair.

Naked Pursuit

1968

Kawaii akujo: Konomama koroshite poster
NR

Pinku from 1965.

Kawaii akujo: Konomama koroshite

1965

1950s · 20 titles

Ghost Story of Yotsuya poster
6.5

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend about a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.

Ghost Story of Yotsuya

1959

The Ghosts of Kagami Pond poster
8.5

A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.

The Ghosts of Kagami Pond

1959

The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin poster
8.0

In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of Shirayama gather round a blazing fire, and utter incantations while an old headman tempers a sword...

The Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin

1959

Where Chimneys Are Seen poster
6.6

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.

Where Chimneys Are Seen

1953

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

1958

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers poster
7.0

A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by providing the screenplays/stories for the majority of the original Showa films.

Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers

1956

Half Virgin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Half Virgin

1953

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka poster
6.9

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

1950

The Tale of Jiro poster
7.5

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.

The Tale of Jiro

1955

乾杯!女学生 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

乾杯!女学生

1954

No artwork available
NR

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped Western-style outfit lying in his exam room. He must retrace his blurry steps of the night before, and navigate a web of embezzlement, murder, framings, and false identities in Tokyo's Ginza district, to discover the identity of the dead woman and why she is there—and hopefully prove his innocence, before his wedding in three days...

Golden Beast

1950

Yasubei Nakayama poster
NR

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura

Yasubei Nakayama

1951

Riverside Fish Market Empire poster
NR

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

Riverside Fish Market Empire

1952

Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction poster
7.0

The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)

Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction

1957

Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Onna daigaku yakyūkyō jidai

1956

Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle poster
6.5

The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens.

Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle

1957

日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦 poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦

1957

No artwork available
NR

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.

関八州喧嘩陣

1958

Escape from the Soviet Union: Female Military Doctor and Fake Madman poster
NR

The film depicts a psychological battle involving suspense and romance between the protagonist, who feigns mental illness to avoid being declared a war criminal, and a female military doctor from the Soviet military's political department who interrogates him.

Escape from the Soviet Union: Female Military Doctor and Fake Madman

1958

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

ノイローゼ兄さんガッチリ娘

1956

1940s · 4 titles

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima poster
6.5

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

1949

Young Teacher poster
NR

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.

Young Teacher

1942

Travelling Actors poster
6.4

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Travelling Actors

1940

World of Love poster
10.0

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.

World of Love

1943