Acting
Kazuo Sumita
Acting credits
7.0A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.
Nocturne of a Woman
1961
NRSanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.
Okore Sanpei
1953
NR1962 Japanese movie
Sutekina 16-sai
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shunsetsu no mon
1953
6.3A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.
Odd Obsession
1959
A romantic musical film based on hit records of the time.
Tokyo Night
1947
Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints coldly in the child’s hand.
Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha
1950
NRIn Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.
Bōya monogatari
1951
NRA judo movie.
Omokage Sanshiro
1949
Yoshio Kawai is a lowly singer at the Bonbon-za, a third-rate theater in Asakusa. Together with fellow low-ranking actors Tokuri, Kameda, and Hanayama—and centered around Yumi, the beautiful dancer who serves as their mascot—they form a poor but cheerful group of five.
Warau chikyū ni asa ga kuru
1950
NR16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance
1970
8.0Order of Yakuza
Order of Yakuza
1962
NRA yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him are a woman’s burning gaze and the muzzle of a gangster’s gun…
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chōchō shissō jiken
1947
No synopsis available yet.
Mother
1948
Hideki Yamaga runs a used bookstore in Ginza. He is a man known for his great physical strength, helping the weak and standing up to the strong, and is deeply respected and loved by the women of the city. Nicknamed “The Lone Wolf,” Hideki takes special care of street children. One morning, he rescues Kim Ono, a country girl who was standing there dazed with a single duffel bag, and asks Katsuko, the owner of a dressmaking shop he knows well, to hire her.
Lone Wolf
1950
9.0Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
The Forest of No Escape
1965
9.0No synopsis available yet.
High School Geisha
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Kekkon meirei
1943
NRRomantic thriller film.
Sanmenkyō no kyōfu
1948
NRMysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
The Man From Chungking
1943
9.0A drama about the sex industry.
Let's Dance Tonight
1967
6.0Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.
Black Trump Card
1964
NR1961 Japanese movie
Bara to ryū
1961