Jirō Tamiya

The Corporation (1976)

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter ...

Cobra 2 (1976)

A Datsun driving, face-punching moody super-cop Cobra Cumera battles homicidal mobsters intent on causing mayhem and trouble in beautifully shot Tokyo. Complete with strippers, muggins, drugs, car chases, bouncy pop tunes, freak-outs, and a saucy lady assa ...

Main Line to Terror (1975)

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 hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan Nation ...

Kyukei no Koya (1975)

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his country, his wife and children, and risked everything to ...

Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn (1974)

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop of the turbulent history of the Showa period and the magnificent nature of Hokkaido. ...

Cobra (1974)

Japanese crime film. ...

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. ...

Yellow Dog (1973)

A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation. ...

Miyamoto Musashi (1973)

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Pa ...

Professional Killers (1973)

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching... ...

Flower and Dragon (1973)

Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill ...

Theater Of Life (1972)

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku. ...

Sword and Flower (1972)

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori). ...

Chase That Man (1972)

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate. ...

3,000 Kilometer Trap (1971)

A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido. ...

300 Million Yen Mission (1971)

The Creature Called Man (1970)

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man. ...

Fossil of Love (1970)

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations (1969)

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history. ...

The Time of Reckoning (1968)

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to ...

School for Thieves (1968)

The Great Villains (1968)

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

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty (1968)

The Akumyō (悪名, "bad name") series consists of seventeen yakuza films starring Shintaro Katsu, produced between 1960 and 1974. A remake and a direct-to-video sequel starring Kōji Matoba were produced in 2001. ...

Territory of the Night (1967)

The Last Loyalty Offering (1967)

The Silent Gun (1967)

A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura th ...

Invitation to Jail (1967)

Medal from the Devil (1967)

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Man of Legend (1967)

Quick-Draw Dog (1967)

Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series. ...

Let's Dance Tonight (1967)

A drama about the sex industry. ...

Tokyo Gambler (1967)

Spy on the Masked Car (1967)

An industrial espionage film. ...

Prison Release Loyalty Offering (1966)

Stray Dog (1966)

Stray Dog is a 1966 film directed by Yoshio Inoue. It is the seventh film in the Inu series. ...

The Great White Tower (1966)

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while ...

A Drop of Grease (1966)

You and I (1966)

That Complicated Guy (1966)

Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima. ...

Return of Gun Dog (1966)

Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series. ...

Bad Reputation: Cherry Blossoms (1966)

A Man Worth the Money (1966)

Trump Card of Revenge (1966)

Trigger Happy Romeo (1965)

Fifth film in the "Inu" series. ...

The Informer (1965)

To pay off his enormous debt, Segawa becomes a spy for the president of a small trading company. ...

Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men (1965)

Black Temptation (1965)

The Spy (1965)

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment. ...

Fangs of Vengeance (1965)

Rampaging Dog (1965)

Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series. ...

Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again (1965)

Back Stairways (1965)

A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. ...

The Dedicated Gunman (1965)

Third film in the "Inu" series. ...

Sweet Seventeen (1964)

The Battle Begins at Night (1964)

Superexpress (1964)

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 automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built ...

Clamouring Canines (1964)

The second film in the "Inu" series. ...

Bad Reputation: The Big Drum (1964)

The Akumyō (悪名, "bad name") series consists of seventeen yakuza films starring Shintaro Katsu, produced between 1960 and 1974. A remake and a direct-to-video sequel starring Kōji Matoba were produced in 2001. ...

Black Trump Card (1964)

Chairman 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 du ...

Black Weapon (1964)

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi. ...

Homeless Dog (1964)

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka ...

Black Challenger (1964)

Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming from those at the very top of society. ...

Love and Greed (1964)

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangl ...

Black Speeding (1964)

Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio Yazawa, the boss of the Sakamoto Motorcycle Club. ...

Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo (1963)

Lips of Ruin (1963)

Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also known in English as "Black Parking Lot". ...

Operation Underworld (1963)

A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate. ...

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor (1963)

The Akumyō (悪名, "bad name") series consists of seventeen yakuza films starring Shintaro Katsu, produced between 1960 and 1974. A remake and a direct-to-video sequel starring Kōji Matoba were produced in 2001. ...

She Came For Love (1963)

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 secret affair. ...

Typhoon Reporter (1963)

Set around Ginza's neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo's bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Gi ...

Bury Me Deep (1963)

A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman. ...

Bad Reputation: Imposter's Paradise (1963)

The Akumyō (悪名, "bad name") series consists of seventeen yakuza films starring Shintaro Katsu, produced between 1960 and 1974. A remake and a direct-to-video sequel starring Kōji Matoba were produced in 2001. ...

Black Dividend (1963)

Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love with Ibuki, reveals her firm's plans to him. She resigns when Ibuki blackmails her employer but Ibuki gains an ...

The Third Will (1963)

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father. ...

Ninja in a Business Suit (1963)

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident. ...

Bad Reputation: Three Notorious Men (1963)

Order of Yakuza (1962)

Order of Yakuza ...

A Woman's Life (1962)

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually finds sanctuary with a wealthy family that trades goods with China and becomes a successful businesswoman. Ma ...

New Bad Reputation Continues (1962)

A Night to Remember (1962)

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on. ...

The Midday Trap (1962)

A businessman who dreams of a successful career ends up embroiled in a murder case after a love affair. ...

Black Test Car (1962)

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. ...

The Notorious Man's Return (1962)

1962 film ...

B.G. monogatari: Ekinyūmon (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Stolen Pleasure (1962)

High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him into divorcing his wife, only for their new marriage to be destabilized by the arrival of her young niece. ...

Night Mist Makes Women Cry (1962)

A love melodrama. ...

Yume de aritai (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Their Legacy (1962)

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He conside ...

Bad Reputation Returns (1961)

This is the 2nd in a series of films called The Akumyō (悪名, "bad name"). The series consists of seventeen yakuza films starring Shintaro Katsu and Jiro Tamiya, produced between 1960 and 1974. A remake and a direct-to-video sequel starring Kōji Matob ...

Oniisan to oneesan (1961)

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda. ...

Tough Guy (1961)

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her. ...

Kawaii mendori ga utatta (1961)

A Design for Dying (1961)

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and ...

Gonin no totsugeki tai (1961)

New Couple's Guide: The Young Wife is Popular (1961)

A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young wife is a female doctor who has made a name for herself in sex medicine. ...

Les Mesdemoiselles (1961)

A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture. ...

Nocturne of a Woman (1961)

A 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. ...

Hit and Run Gang (1960)

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. His younger brother Matabei vowed to challenge the culprit in front of his brother's grave. A fast-paced act ...

The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960)

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn't arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her. ...

Fool's Love (1960)

A young man (Eiji Funakoshi) lavishes his complete attention and resources on a beautiful young girl (Junko Kano) who was picked up in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo. ...

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi (1960)

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

Kirai Kirai Kirai (1960)

A Woman's Testament (1960)

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male cli ...

The Grave Tells All (1960)

Yamazaki Ryotaro is an Olympics' athlete and an asset. He accepts two jobs and responsibilities that are thrust upon him. One involves a a painting and an advertising poster. The other is about coaching the hockey team. Simultaneously, however, he is head ...

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black (1959)

Ripe and Marriageable (1959)

1959 youth comedy. ...

The White Road Across the River (1959)

A Storm Zone (1959)

Diary of a Substitute Doctor (1959)

The Person I Chose (1959)

A 1959 film directed by Hiromu Edagawa. ...

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree (1959)

Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly ...

A Secret Night (1959)

Goodbye, Hello (1959)

Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Their families think differently and strive to arrange their personal happiness. ...

Love, Fireworks and Fire Bombs (1958)

Hey, Nakamura-kun (1958)

A Mother's Journey (1958)

The Judo Champ (1958)

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 brother, Ryota, and the teacher's only daughter, Akiko, are greatly disturbed by Zanba, who intends to use t ...

Giants and Toys (1958)

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies. ...

Thirst (1958)

Mr. Minami is Very Embarrassed (1958)

Directed by Edagawa Hiroshi, this film stars Funakoshi Eiji and Kawakami Yasuko. ...

Love River (1958)

The Precipice (1958)

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year's Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu's brother works. ...

Mother (1958)

Three O'clock in the Morning in a Big City (1958)

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

Tokyo Eyes (1958)

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around t ...

Bride Candidate (1957)

The Blue Sky Maiden (1957)

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was. ...

Chikaiteshi (1957)

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly (1957)

Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime. ...

Nine Hours of Terror (1957)

Night Butterflies (1957)

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival. ...

The Crowded Train (1957)

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, le ...

Morning Whistling (1957)

Daiei Studio is Bustling (1957)

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars. ...

3,000 Kilometer Trap (1971)

A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido. ...