Hideaki Nitani

Cherry Blossoms (1989)

A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation... ...

Mighty Jack (1987)

The organization Mighty Jack is formed to combat the criminal syndicate known as "Q", and are given a large array of advanced weapons, chief among them being a high-tech submarine. Harold Hatari is abducted by Q, and Mighty Jack is dispatched to rescue him ...

Again (1984)

An anthology that embodies the essence of Nikkatsu action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to find a former rival he once shared the screen with. The story unfolds as he roams, creating a distinctive ...

Variation (1976)

The man who lives in the past and the woman who abandoned a past. They were lovers 10 years ago, and had met again in Paris. ...

The Family (1974)

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family. ...

Submersion of Japan (1973)

A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions. ...

Gang Warfare (1972)

Night Butterflies (1971)

A 1971 crime film ...

Hajimete no Tabi (1971)

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny (1970)

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria. ...

The Cleanup (1969)

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn. ...

Gorgeous Leopardess (1969)

The Domain: Flower and Dragon (1969)

100 Gamblers (1969)

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis. ...

Retaliation (1968)

Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are ma ...

Monument to the Girl's Corps (1968)

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed ...

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 (1968)

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is presse ...

The Sands of Kurobe (1968)

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 ...

My Sweetheart (1967)

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popul ...

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 ...

Burning Nature (1967)

Film from 1967. ...

Burning Clouds (1967)

A Warm Misty Night (1967)

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes mis ...

The Man of Victory (1967)

Immortal Guy (1967)

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months later, Kosuke suddenly appears in Kagoshima and reunites with his partner, the vagrant Kumagoro. However, Kosuk ...

Asiapol Secret Service (1966)

A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police organization that pursues global criminal organizations. ...

Tomo o okuru uta (1966)

Tokyo Drifter (1966)

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for- ...

A World For Two (1966)

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled Japan fifteen years ago, Hojo Shuichi. To throw Kawase off, the man talks a female passenger, Reiko, into ...

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 ...

Woman Gambler (1965)

Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for help. He's being pursued by a dangerous gang of yakuza. ...

The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice (1965)

As a foreign gambling ring tries to take over the Japanese underworld, Himuro the ace gambler must face their leader - and his dangerous gadgets… ...

Killer Sword (1965)

1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai spirits still lived. Out of the many schools that taught Japanese swordsmanship, the school of Ono and Kogen ...

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Y ...

Gambling Kitten (1965)

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 deci ...

A Chain of Islands (1965)

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy. ...

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 ...

Profit from Killing (1964)

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki returns to his hometown after being released from Abashiri prison, and he is noticed when he saves a student fr ...

Tiger of the Sea (1964)

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth. ...

Red Handkerchief (1964)

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his trouble ...

Kiri ni Kieta Hito (1963)

The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé. ...

The Hill is Full of Flowers (1963)

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Nor ...

Escape into Terror (1963)

Action film ...

Beyond the Green Hills (1963)

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls ...

Rainbow Over Kinmon (1962)

Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a big-shot politician. He was discharged from the hospital and had since sailed around the world as an on-bo ...

Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Sun and Stars (1962)

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion. ...

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

A Torrent of Life (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Black Dice (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Aniki (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Pursuit (1961)

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film. ...

Gunman's Alley (1961)

Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the killer of the hood's brother. ...

The Man with a Shotgun (1961)

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill. ...

Hotbed of Crime (1961)

Released in the UK as Hotbed of Crime ...

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living (1961)

A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers. ...

Man at the Bullfight (1960)

An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yujiro who risks his life to invite bullfighting. ...

Lone Wolf (1960)

The Lost Diamond (1960)

Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime. ...

The Gun Like Lightning (1960)

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart, who he now finds is engaged to Nobor ...

Knock Down (1960)

Yakuza Song (1960)

Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge his girlfriend, who was shot by a yakuza on a whim! ...

The Law's Bloody Wounds (1960)

An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks the gang rules and the law), and an older brother who prays for his brother's happiness while becoming a gangster to the old yakuza. ...

When a Man Risks His Life (1959)

The Sky Is Mine (1959)

My Second Brother (1959)

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zain ...

Wolves on Number Zero Street (1959)

A Man Explodes (1959)

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical trea ...

Wounded Beast (1959)

A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective who is trying to catch a fleeing young criminal. ...

Tokyo Romance Way (1959)

1959 Japanese movie ...

Zattō ni hikarume (1959)

1959 Japanese movie ...

Crimson Wings (1958)

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has b ...

Voice Without a Shadow (1958)

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she ...

Red Pier (1958)

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop. ...

Young Breasts (1958)

A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako). However, he doesn't realize that his fellow blackmailers have their eyes on his girlfriend next. ...

The Boy Who Came Back (1958)

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. ...

Underworld Beauty (1958)

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane ...

Breasts and Bullets (1958)

Japanese crime film ...

I Am Waiting (1957)

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

Temptation (1957)

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei's painting was praised by a great printer at the completion cere ...

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can't pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a "commission" for his ...

Eight Hours of Terror (1957)

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers. ...

Saigo no totsugeki (1957)

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized by Toyama Tetsu of "Smuggling of the Body", also directed by Yutaka Abe, and Shigeyoshi Mine of "Densuke's P ...

Inn of the Floating Weeds (1957)

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison. ...