Naoko Kubo

Acting

Naoko Kubo

Born

1932-09-24 (94)

Place of birth

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 50 titles

Kingdom of Samurai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kingdom of Samurai

1966

Greed in Broad Daylight poster
8.0

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.

Greed in Broad Daylight

1961

Nothing But Bones poster
10.0

The harrowing journey of Kinu Wada, a young woman who is sold into prostitution to pay her family's debts.

Nothing But Bones

1966

Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie poster
5.0

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming that he did it. Tracking down the real culprit will take him along a twisted trail that involves the Shogun's harem, hidden Christians, and positively pregnant politics!

Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie

1969

Comic Storyteller: Great Delay poster
NR

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

Comic Storyteller: Great Delay

1966

Hoodlum Match poster
NR

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Hoodlum Match

1965

Comic Storyteller: The Age of Fools poster
NR

The second "Comic Storyteller" feature.

Comic Storyteller: The Age of Fools

1966

Zatoichi's Flashing Sword poster
6.9

Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.

Zatoichi's Flashing Sword

1964

Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella poster
10.0

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who is later himself killed. His dying words in Umon's arms were, "I didn't kill the guard." The murdered criminal had been a safe-cracker & only his girlfriend knows where he hid a fortune. She is kidnapped, so the plot gets thicker & thicker.

Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella

1963

Comic Storyteller — The Great Burglar poster
NR

The fourth and final "Comic Storyteller" feature.

Comic Storyteller — The Great Burglar

1967

The Hoodlum Priest poster
7.3

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.

The Hoodlum Priest

1967

South Pacific Waves Are High poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

South Pacific Waves Are High

1962

Great Incidents poster
NR

Comedy starring the manzai team of Chick and Tack, and set in the world of salarymen.

Great Incidents

1967

Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip poster
7.0

14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip

1969

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity poster
NR

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity

1960

Won't Stand for Dying poster
NR

The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. However, soon the girl Kenji Amy, who was in favor of the director of the company, is sexually harassed by him. Kenji beats the director and resigns. He asks his brother Ryota, the manager of the cabaret, to find a job, but his brother refuses him, and he is taken in by Senba, a yakuza boss specializing in smuggling and drugs...

Won't Stand for Dying

1960

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure poster
5.8

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

1964

The Hoodlum Brothers poster
NR

A crime film released in 1965

The Hoodlum Brothers

1965

Modern Gentleman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Modern Gentleman

1964

Yakuza G-Men poster
NR

34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to find out who robbed a truck full of gold.

Yakuza G-Men

1965

The Man of Seven Faces poster
6.3

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

The Man of Seven Faces

1960

Warrior of the Wind poster
7.1

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find themselves at the center of an intrigue surrounding the legendary land of Yasurai in the mountains of Kumano. Hidden gold, the love of a beautiful Princess, and the approaching evil sword all contribute in bringing you a Ninja action thriller that only the legendary actor Okawa Hashizo and the genius director Kato Tai could produce!

Warrior of the Wind

1964

The Escape poster
7.0

Film about the 2-26 Incident.

The Escape

1962

The Cave of the Vampire Bats poster
6.0

A maiden is murdered by a mysterious ninja, unfortunately two young ladies witness this, good thing the bored Lord is walking by, he saved the girls but was too late to save the maiden, quickly he finds himself mixed up in a mystery of murdered maidens, an unknown ninja clan, attempted assassinations towards himself and a cursed vampire bat cave, can the bored Lord solve this puzzle before maidens lose their lives?

The Cave of the Vampire Bats

1961

Stairs of Evil poster
NR

Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live a life of leisure. They celebrated with Iwao’s woman, Rumiko. However, it was too early to celebrate. They decided not to use the money for six months to avoid suspicion and stored it in a safe. But one day, Konishi asked for his share of the money in advance, even if it meant receiving a smaller portion, igniting the dark flame of desire among Iwao and the others.

Stairs of Evil

1965

Prison Break poster
7.0

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father’s turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the entire conspiracy. His quest for justice leads him to prison where he must fend off the attack of a master assassin before he can make his escape and go after the true killer!

Prison Break

1969

Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge! poster
NR

Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the Wartime Generation”. It is a war drama set in China and depicts battles over opium.

Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!

1966

Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain

1962

Return of Gun Dog poster
6.2

Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.

Return of Gun Dog

1966

Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction poster
5.8

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!

Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

1964

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Tale of a Company Boss

1961

A Comic Storyteller — Uproarious Laughter poster
NR

The third "Comic Storyteller" feature. A comedy set in historic Edo.

A Comic Storyteller — Uproarious Laughter

1967

Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways poster
NR

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on Hanawa, but as he leaves, he is unaware that a boy is watching him. Toru's new employer asks him to kill a competitor in drug sales, but...

Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways

1967

Devotion to Railway poster
7.0

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

Devotion to Railway

1960

Young Boss: Leader's Flesh poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Young Boss: Leader's Flesh

1967

Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps poster
6.1

The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps

1967

Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō poster
NR

Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate). Shot by Nishikawa Shoei (I Am the Magician of Hell).

Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō

1961

The Flower and the Angry Waves poster
7.2

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.

The Flower and the Angry Waves

1964

Young Lord Yakuza poster
8.0

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.

Young Lord Yakuza

1961

Case of Umon: Red Lizard poster
NR

Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard.

Case of Umon: Red Lizard

1962

Red Flowers of Hell poster
7.0

1961 gangster film.

Red Flowers of Hell

1961

The Second Bullet is Marked poster
8.0

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

The Second Bullet is Marked

1960

The Thinking Leaf poster
NR

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

The Thinking Leaf

1962

Duel of the Underworld poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Duel of the Underworld

1963

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush poster
NR

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush

1960

Hell's Kitchen poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Hell's Kitchen

1962

Ghost Story of Two Travelers at Tenamonya poster
10.0

Two travelers (Makoto Fujita and Minoru Shiraki) have adventures along the road including strange supernatural happenings, ghosts, and monsters.

Ghost Story of Two Travelers at Tenamonya

1967

Storming Squadron poster
NR

1960 Toei war movie.

Storming Squadron

1960

Black Thief poster
7.5

Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.

Black Thief

1964

Lakeside Figure poster
NR

A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved fiancé, comes to a sudden halt, Minako finds herself in search of new love which in turn leads her into a complicated love triangle.

Lakeside Figure

1961

1950s · 6 titles

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