Kei Taguchi

1750 Days of Turbulence (1990)

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years. ...

Ana (1984)

A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup exposes the truth. ...

A Madcap Corporation (1983)

A yakuza family goes into show business. ...

Lowly Ronin 5: The Teenage Orphan Girl (1983)

When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword. ...

Cliff of Death (1982)

Ogata is an employee of a securities company. He is selected as the president's secretary because of his ability. However, he has a romantic relationship with the president's daughter, Michiyo. The president sees this as a problem and transfers Ogata to th ...

Dead Angle (1979)

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s. ...

Proof of the Man (1977)

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime. ...

Ore no sora (1977)

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does. ...

Reformatory Buddies (1974)

Third film in the series. ...

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police (1973)

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a ...

Gang Warfare (1972)

The Armed Organization (1971)

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsuruta as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Waka ...

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love (1971)

The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty. ...

Kanto Street Peddlers: Clan Violent Loyalty (1970)

The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara. ...

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers (1969)

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence. ...

The Private Police (1969)

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fight ...

King Kong Escapes (1967)

An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a treme ...

Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring. ...

Actress (1956)

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness. ...

If Indeed One Loves (1955)

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who bears the unbearable burden of caring for her family. Tomiko's father has been unable to find work for a lon ...

A Beloved Wife (2019)

A comedic portrait of an unhappy marriage between an unemployed screenwriter and his wife who's supported him for 10 years, based on the writer/director's own autobiography. ...