Kenzō Tabu

A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath. ...

A Human Promise (1986)

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death. ...

The Second Is a Christian (1985)

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhiko who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling police detecti ...

Aoi sanmyaku (1975)

Remake of 1949 film ...

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon (1974)

About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and f ...

My Voiceless Friends (1972)

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families. ...

Rikugun rakugo-hei (1971)

The Secret Ceremony (1971)

Erotic drama. ...

The Gift of the Fox (1971)

The Genius and Delinquent (1971)

A talented man and a dull-witted one plan a big crime. ...

Live and Learn (1971)

Tetsuko (Eiko Yanami), a high school student, one day, forces Tsuneo, (Kei Wakakura), the brightest boy in her school, to make love to her after school is out and they are caught by the old school janitor. Tsuneo's mother, orders Tetsuko to pay for what sh ...

The All-Out Game (1970)

When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo (Saburo Shindo), the captain of the Judo team and Shiro Usami (Kei Wakakura) of the boxing team are about to fight, he breaks it up that are apt to erupt s ...

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, b ...

Sex Revolution (1970)

Story exposes free-sex among highschool students. ...

Way Out, Way In (1970)

Japanese crime film. ...

Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor (1970)

The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun Ichikawa's odd Memories of You (Kaisha mono-gatari, 1988) released by Shochiku. Most of the cast of Crazy lrrespo ...

Black Comedy - Ah, Fool (1969)

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy. ...

Crazy Big Explosion (1969)

Chaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a bank. ...

I Sell My Husband (1968)

Japanese comedy film. ...

The Funeral Racket (1968)

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society. ...

The Two Bodyguards (1968)

Film directed by Kenji Misumi ...

Mexican Free-for-All (1968)

The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu Sakamori and his friends travel to Mexico to find a stone statue that contains the location of the secret treasure "Olmeca". ...

School for Thieves (1968)

The Diary of a Sex Counsellor (1968)

The Million Dollar Pursuit (1968)

Burned out butcher Hazama meets a woman at a restaurant and is asked to help her deliver a bag of diamonds. ...

Zatoichi Challenged (1967)

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography ...

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments ...

Come Marry Me (1966)

Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro. ...

Dynamite Doctor Returns (1966)

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie ...

Dynamite Doctor (1966)

Film by director Kenji Misumi ...

Gamblers' Luck (1966)

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assi ...

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As ...

An Innocent Witch (1965)

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions. ...

Beast Alley (1965)

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his polit ...

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 ...

A Trap (1965)

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shatte ...

Nami kage (1965)

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film. ...

The Donkey Comes on a Tank (1964)

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken. ...

The Sandal Keeper (1964)

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to eventually become a trusted general. ...

The Rabble (1964)

1964 Japanese movie ...

I'm a Bodyguard (1964)

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a writer living in the area while working at a police box. His dream is to become a bodyguard (BG) for the Pr ...

Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla ...

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus. ...

Fifty-Fifty (1963)

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima. ...

Crazy Operation: First Move (1963)

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global s ...

My Hobo (1962)

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family. ...

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Local Reporter (1962)

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a me ...

Irresponsible Age of Japan (1962)

An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder. ...

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1 (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

23 Steps to Bed (1962)

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who stole money from his firm to repay his son's debt. ...

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Awamori-kun kanpai! (1961)

Second of the three Awamori-kun movies. ...

Romance Express (1961)

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eitaro as ...

Eternity of Love (1961)

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie ...

Get 'em All (1960)

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one. ...

This Greedy Old Skin (1960)

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs. ...

The Blue Beast (1960)

The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder. After securing a position at a prestigious firm through deceit, he callously discards the women who helped him and embezzles ...

Saga of the Vagabonds (1959)

Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro fals ...

The Beast Shall Die (1959)

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. ...

The Shop Curtain (1958)

The lives of a family of kelp (kombu) merchants in Osaka across three generations, spanning from the Meiji era through the aftermath of World War II. ...

Dotanba (1956)

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan's national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida's rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure o ...

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he ...