Daizaburo Hirata

Massacre Gun (1967)

Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no o ...

The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding (1967)

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza. ...

Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows (1967)

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Sei ...

Dreams Come True at Night (1967)

A Windmill, Tulips and Love (1966)

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo. ...

Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph (1966)

Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the ...

Cheers to the Sky (1966)

Stewardess Yuriko goes through rigorous two-month training and finishes her maiden flight safely with the help of her colleagues and instructors. ...

The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil (1966)

The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's mo ...

Blood and Sea (1965)

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her grandmother, Tom, who is in her sixties, her mother, Kura, and older sister, Saki, all women. Toma, despite her advan ...

Thanks for the Tears (1965)

A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons. ...

Story of a Prostitute (1965)

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story ...

The Flame of Devotion (1964)

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war. ...

Eddy Currents of Life (1964)

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursio ...

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa (1964)

Kunio 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 fac ...

The Scarred Crest (1964)

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for. ...

The Sound of Waves (1964)

On 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 spr ...

The Long Death (1964)

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also tryi ...

Shutsugeki (1964)

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of "Kiriko's Tango" by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. ...

Jinsei Gekijo (1964)

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation. ...

Kanto Wanderer (1963)

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang confli ...

The Insect Woman (1963)

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life. ...

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women (1963)

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! ...

Youth of the Beast (1963)

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. ...

Danger Pays (1962)

Joe, 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 ...

Glass-Hearted Johnny (1962)

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai). ...

The Rambler Returns Home (1962)

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series. ...

The Man From the Sea (1962)

Japanese action film. ...

Song of a Traveller (1962)

A crime film released in 1962 ...

Nuki uchi fūraibō (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Keep Your Chin Up (1962)

Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji dem ...

Love in the Air (1962)

Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea. On land again Shoji goes to a cabaret where he is soon ...

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab (1961)

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring. ...

Kusa wo karu musume (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

Wharf Temperament (1961)

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother. ...