Acting

Jōji Ehara

Acting credits

The Sands of Kurobe poster
7.0

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.

The Sands of Kurobe

1968

Black Strait poster
10.0

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again.

Black Strait

1964

Aniki poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Aniki

1962

The Scarred Angel poster
NR

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hachiro begins to investigate the cause of his older sister Sumiko's suicide. While Hachiro was in juvenile detention, Sumiko committed suicide, but there are too many mysteries surrounding this suicide...

The Scarred Angel

1966

He Killed Dad poster
NR

The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.

He Killed Dad

1961

The Angry Rambler poster
NR

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

The Angry Rambler

1960

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962

Yakuza sensei poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yakuza sensei

1960

The Gambling Monk poster
NR

One 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

Biographies of Killers poster
NR

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie

Biographies of Killers

1969

I Am Waiting poster
6.5

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

I Am Waiting

1957

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami

1962

Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō bōryoku chizu poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō bōryoku chizu

1962

The Bride is Fifteen poster
NR

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and casual photographic portrait embody Nikkatsu’s 1960s youth-film aesthetic. Clean, hopeful, and pop-oriented. The large white title, handwritten for a softer impression, injects playful energy that contrasts with the strict vertical text blocks. As Japan’s youth culture blossomed after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, posters like this captured the spirit of romance and rebellion marketed to teenage audiences. The vivid color palette and carefree composition signal a stylistic shift from postwar black-and-white melodrama to the vibrant optimism of modern Technicolor cinema.

The Bride is Fifteen

1964

Gambling Kitten poster
6.8

Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.

Gambling Kitten

1965

The Storm over Arabia poster
8.0

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.

The Storm over Arabia

1961

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

1963

The Frozen Plains poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

The Frozen Plains

1962

美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋

1955

Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin poster
8.0

Japanese crime film

Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin

1969

Kunisada Chūji poster
9.0

Kunisada Tadaharu, a peasant of Kunisada Village in Joshu Sai County, could not stand the bad government and poor harvest of Takebe Genhan, the governor of the time. entered the world of As he played more and more games at the gambling hall, he became feared as "Chuji the gambling robber", and became a boss who had a share of Inui such as Nikko's Enzo and Shimizu's Kentetsu. However, due to a disagreement, he killed his benefactor Isaburo Boss, and was abandoned by Yasugoro and was chased. However, Chuji cleverly took advantage of the peasant uprising, shut himself up on Mt. Akagi, opened a gambling hall, and was touted as the greatest boss in the Kanto region. The magistrate, who learned of the close relationship between the peasants and Chuji, finally arranged for Chuji to go on a trip. Chuji, who doesn't know that he was weighed, gleefully descends the mountain, but...

Kunisada Chūji

1954

Morning Fog poster
NR

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter's attempt to grow from adolescence to adulthood in a family of one mother and one daughter, and her emotional exchange with her mother against the backdrop of the harsh natural environment.

Morning Fog

1971

Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu

1962

Quick Draw Sanshiro poster
NR

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

Quick Draw Sanshiro

1962