Shizuo Chūjō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Masayo Banri

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Utsui

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a strange buzzing sound is always heard right...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yoshirō Kitahara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Order of Yakuza

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the...

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Cast: Yoshirō Kitahara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kyôhei Shibata

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Utsui

Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kyôhei Shibata

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her. However, a harsh reality awaits him in...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Goro Noguchi

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Utsui

To avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. An entertaining action drama and an interesting love...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jun Negami

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Taki

Former policeman Matsushita Hiroshi is a professional marksman shootist. When his keen eye catches his target in the dry urban darkness, the hard,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toru Nakamura

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bontarō Miake

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

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Cast: Ken Utsui

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Genre: Action

Cast: Kyôhei Shibata

Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four days and they're hunting illicit gun manufacturers.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kyôhei Shibata

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masaaki Daimon

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miwa Takada

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Genre: War

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart. Koji Umeya,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

An industrial espionage film.

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hectic around the two of them.

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Cast: Jirō Tamiya

1959 youth comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit....

Genre: Action

Cast: Jun Fujimaki

This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Utsui

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Jun Fujimaki

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Cast: Ken Utsui

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaomi Kondo

1964 musical.

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Cast: Yasuko Nakada