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6.9When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Youth of the Beast
1963
NRHisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to pretend to be a king of a remote, undiscovered island, and becomes a media sensation.
His Highness Surabaya
1955
6.0Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Wet Sand in August
1971
NRA man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
Cell No. 8
1956
10.0Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi, promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Tokyo Station. Meanwhile, Shinagawa Station's crowded with repatriates. Upon returning to their homeland, their lives have changed dramatically. Daizo works as a railway construction worker. Eiji has established himself as a boxer. Kenichiro's become a gangster. In 1955, the day of their reunion is approaching. Now it is a matter of whether the three will be able to meet each other at the platform of Tokyo Station, as they had agreed on back in 1950.
The Three Faces
1955
NRIn the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
The Rambler Goes North
1962
Film credits
1970s · 5 titles
6.0Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Wet Sand in August
1971
7.0The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
Blood for Blood
1971
6.0Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mako swears vengeance on her beloved's murderer.
Bad Girl Mako
1971
8.5Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
Step on the Gas!
1970
NRPost World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of Kurahata, a member of the Yakuza who doesn't like him.
Records of Bloodshed
1970
1960s · 29 titles
6.9When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Youth of the Beast
1963
NRIn the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
The Rambler Goes North
1962
NR1962 Japanese movie
Hageshī kawa
1962
10.0In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.
The Rambler Rides Again
1960
NRJapanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
The Plateau Man
1961
NRThe young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town while encountering the sinister rival, Masa "the pistol guy".
The Rambler in the Sunset
1960
NRGeorge Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had helped Tom around the time of World War I, and to perform some act of kindness in Japan using $300 pocket money. This was to test whether George was a suitable boy to inherit Tom's YES Ranch.
My Hometown is the Wild West
1960
7.0On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.
The Sound of Waves
1964
6.6On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1961
NRAgainst the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series.
Joe of Aces: Give and Take
1961
7.0A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.
Gazing at Love and Death
1964
NRStrife between competing lumber mills.
Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961
NRThis is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
Itsudemo yume o
1963
7.0Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....
Danger Pays
1962
7.0A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
Red Bud and White Flower
1962
NROne summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
The Gambling Monk
1963
NRWhen Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind this scheme.
Notorious Bastard
1963
NR1962 Japanese movie
A Torrent of Life
1962
NR1962 Japanese movie
Wakai futari
1962
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Mexico Drifter
1962
NRSeventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
Rambling in the Sea
1961
6.8Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...
Tokyo Mighty Guy
1960
NR1962 Japanese movie
Traces of Lead
1962
NRA sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
1963
NR1961 Japanese movie
Shōjo
1961
NR1962 Japanese movie
The Man With Starry Eyes
1962
7.0Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few days later, she visited Kunio. She was working at a toy factory called Tomoko Nishizawa. Kunio naturally became attracted to Tomoko, but for some reason Tomoko refused to talk about her past. One day, the two went to the bowling alley and were approached by Tempira...
Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
1964
NR1962 Japanese movie
Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Famous Wanderer
1961
1950s · 16 titles
NRHisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to pretend to be a king of a remote, undiscovered island, and becomes a media sensation.
His Highness Surabaya
1955
NRA man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
Cell No. 8
1956
10.0Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi, promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Tokyo Station. Meanwhile, Shinagawa Station's crowded with repatriates. Upon returning to their homeland, their lives have changed dramatically. Daizo works as a railway construction worker. Eiji has established himself as a boxer. Kenichiro's become a gangster. In 1955, the day of their reunion is approaching. Now it is a matter of whether the three will be able to meet each other at the platform of Tokyo Station, as they had agreed on back in 1950.
The Three Faces
1955
8.0A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
The Valley Between Love and Death
1954
6.8Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
Man Who Causes a Storm
1957
Japanese drama film.
The Motherless
1955
6.0After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.
Women's House
1954
9.0A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Pure Emotions of the Sea
1956
7.5A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer.
Passport to Darkness
1959
NRA good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
The juvenile
1955
8.3In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
The Maid's Kid
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Joshiryōsai
1957
NRDr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super speed. He contacts the newspaper about it, but the editor dismisses him, saying he's gone mad and doesn't take him seriously at all. This is the imaginative sci-fi comedy "Frankie 14," featuring a groundbreaking and innovative story with flying saucers of unparalleled rarity and the appearance of artificial satellite people produced from single cells.
Frankie's Aliens
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Maid Oyae Meets A Ghost
1959
NRThe day has come for recruits to enlist in the Japanese Marine Corps. The recruits, who have left the free world to enter this strict military life, look nervous. Monma Santaro (Frankie Sakai), who grew up in Edo and is small but smart, and Mamada Gosaku (Toshiyuki Ichimura), who was born in Tohoku and has a strong 'zuzu' dialect, have also been called up.
Frankie Bûchan no Aa gunkanki
1957
NRA side show snake man who dreams of becoming a drummer tries to save a blind flower girl.
Drums Love and Dreams
1956
