Acting
Saburō Bōya
Born — Died
1910-03-28 — 2002-05-25
Place of birth
Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
8.4After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961
7.0A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Turning Point
1994
10.0People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.
Goodbye for Tomorrow
1995
5.0A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under the same roof.
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
6.9During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986
9.0The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1975
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
7.0A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.
Turning Point
1994
10.0People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening.
Goodbye for Tomorrow
1995
1980s · 2 titles
5.0A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which leads the two to live under the same roof.
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
6.9During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
1986
1970s · 4 titles
9.0The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1975
NRMeet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?
The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Continuation
1975
5.5A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
1970
NRHarajuku, the fashion capital of Tokyo. Yasuko works at a boutique as a beginner seamstress. As snow covers the streets, the boutique's interior decorates itself with colorful clothing. An exhibition of the shop's spring line up is right around the corner. After a hard day at work Yasuko stops by at a produce market, setting all her unfinished work on the rear deck of a random truck. When she gets home, she realizes that she's missing a couple of things.
Cape Erimo
1975
1960s · 10 titles
8.4After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
1961
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji
1963
Japanese comedy film.
凸凹珍道中
1960
NRA Ginza pickpocket, wanting to show his mother his filial piety, disguises himself as an office worker and takes her sightseeing in Tokyo, with the detective trying to arrest him posing as his Section Chief.
Ginza Jungle Girl
1961
7.3The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
The Body
1962
Japanese comedy film.
Watashi wa uso wa mōshimasen
1961
NRThe golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melancholy set in Kitakyushu. Matsujiro Minamida (Atsumi) plays an uneducated and uncouth local troublemaker who becomes the talk of the town following an unexpected incident.
Big, Big Fellow
1969
5.7A promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima - an anthology of three stories.
Watashi-wa beretto
1964
Japanese comedy film.
若社長と爆発娘
1960
NR1962 Japanese movie
Ponkotsu oyaji
1962
1950s · 37 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Umon's Detective Story: Hakata Doll Gift
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Goblin Warrior
1955
NRA spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Nonki saiban
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zoku nangoku taiheiki: Satsunan no arashi
1954
NR1954 Japanese movie
Sanada Ten Braves
1954
NRBored Hatamoto movie #15
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Jumping Magistrate
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shigetaro Iwami: Final Battle at Amano Hashidate
1954
NRBored Hatamoto film #17
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion
1954
9.0Fifth film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.5
1954
Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
親馬鹿花合戦
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
O-Yae no moguri isha
1959
NRPart 2 of Holiday in Japan
Holiday in Japan -Chapter 2-
1958
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Holiday in Japan
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Tattooed Magistrate: Cherry Blossoms Dance Volume
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hibari's Triple Role: The Dazzling Transformation of Yukinojo
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
大当り黄金狂時代
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Tattooed Magistrate: Fallen Flowers Showdown Volume
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
花吹雪男祭り
1952
NRIn the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi’s lineage, specifically from his wife, Fushihime. Outraged but facing annihilation, Yoshimi gives Fushihime a string of eight ancestral beads and urges her to escape to loyal retainer Inuda Kobungo. Instead, she goes alone to Anzai, followed by her dog, Hachibo. In a twist, Hachibo attacks and kills Anzai, allowing Fushihime to escape. She later reveals that the beads protected her and predicts that eight warriors bearing these beads will someday defend the Satomi family before passing away. Yoshimi finds one of the beads in Inuzuka Nobuno’s armor and convinces her to serve him. Meanwhile, Baka Daiki, plotting to overthrow Satomi, imprisons Inukawa Shosuke, who tries to intervene, under the watch of vassal Aminen Saomojiro.
Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
1957
NRA comedic retelling of the legendary encounter between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamato Musashi.
Coward at Ganryu Island
1952
Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.
Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage
1953
NRYano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!
風雲児
1951
NRThe final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Merciless Blade Part 3
1953
10.0A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess, though neither realizes the other's identity.
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
1958
NRBased on a radio drama.
Husband Beware!
1954
No synopsis available yet.
Big Laugh Festival of the Edo-ites
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
爆笑天国 とんち教室
1954
10.0Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he finds a letter on his desk, left by Ryohei, a day school student who has lost his pencil case and asks his night-school counterpart to return it…
Night School
1956
NRMovie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
1954
NRJapanese comedy film.
Kingorō no kaigun taishô
1959
NRJapanese comedy film.
日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦
1957
NRScammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
Morishige is a Fake Gentleman
1955
NRFourth film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.4
1954
Japanese comedy film.
坊ちゃんの逆襲
1956
NRJapanese comedy film.
坊ちゃんの特ダネ記者
1957
NREarly jidaigeki by Tai Kato
Chronicle of the Bulbul
1952
1940s · 5 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Luxurious Ship for the Bridegroom
1947
7.0Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita
Tokkan ekichô
1945
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Oyabaka taishō
1948
No synopsis available yet.
The President and the Shopgirl
1948
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Haru ranman tanuki matsuri
1948
