Nakajirō Tomita

Gate of Flesh (1977)

The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women. ...

Human Revolution II (1976)

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference. ...

The Blossom and the Sword (1973)

Tai Kato's early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is ...

Three Little Geisha (1973)

A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel. ...

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler (1972)

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looki ...

Hairpin Circus (1972)

A retired racing champion, now a driving instructor, gets involved with the speed tribes after impulsively taking to the streets to relive his former glory. ...

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 10 - The Woman Who Nails Ghost Stories (1971)

Tenth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series. ...

Comedy: The Face is Life (1971)

A comedic tale that follows several quirky individuals who navigate the twists and turns of their daily lives. ...

A Kamikaze Cop (1970)

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out. ...

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life (1970)

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels. ...

Wolves of the City, Money Hunters (1970)

The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters. ...

Rebel Against Glory (1970)

Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat" (1969)

Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters. ...

Red Lion (1969)

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny. ...

Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler (1969)

Japanese crime film ...

Ruthless Gambler (1969)

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing his family's minions, and his lover ...

Quick-draw Okatsu (1969)

This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of her brother, and real child of the man who adopted her. Her brother unfortunately has a gambling habit, and ...

Samurai Banners (1969)

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces th ...

Sworn Brothers (1969)

Ichikawa Raizo's last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He's then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up. ...

Harbor Light Yokohama (1968)

A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne. ...

East China Sea (1968)

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. ...

High School Geisha (1968)

Outlaw: Heartless (1968)

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect. ...

The Return of the Filthy Seven (1967)

A 1967 crime film ...

Burning Nature (1967)

Film from 1967. ...

Shin yūkyōden (1966)

In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving hot-blooded men. However, their slight clumsiness is a flaw, but they are extremely strong in fights, and there's ...

Captive's Island (1966)

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman. ...

Greatest Boss of the Showa Era (1966)

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role. ...

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966)

Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals. ...

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 ...

Rise Against the Sword (1966)

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and ano ...

The Rule for a Vagabond (1965)

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga. ...

Chivalrous Life (1965)

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido Federation, to which he belonged. The creditor, Izo, visited the local police station daily, worried about the saf ...

Kojiki taishō (1964)

The Gambling Samurai (1964)

The Rabble (1964)

1964 Japanese movie ...

Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sa ...

Samurai from Nowhere (1964)

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. I ...

Vanquished Foes (1964)

A skilled assassin's services are called upon to put an end to the ugly turf battle between two yakuza families, Mitsuwa and Aikawa. Forced by the code of the yakuza to put one's life on the line for a Boss who offered a meal and lodging, each side manages ...

Samurai Pirate (1963)

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels a ...

River Washes Away the Moon (1963)

The Symbol of a Man (1963)

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict. ...

Notorious Bastard (1963)

When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind this scheme. ...

All My Children (1963)

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII. ...

Escape from Hell (1963)

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a ...

A Man with Dragon Tattoos (1962)

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many across Japan. A vigorous young man with a look of fearless determination, sets foot on the northern part of Kyus ...

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Anything For Success (1962)

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a foreign visitor by setting him up with a beautiful "model" (Tsukasa), actually a bar hostess, but the plan ba ...

Gang vs. G-Men (1962)

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood. ...

Harakiri (1962)

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior ...

The Man With Starry Eyes (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Tokyo Bay (1962)

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld. ...

Seven Miles to Nakayama (1962)

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide. Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hidi ...

G-Men in the Pacific (1962)

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama. ...

I am the Judge (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Bandits on the Wind (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

Yagyu Chronicles 3: The Valley of Outlaws (1961)

This time, sword-saint Yagyu Jubei battles the evil corruption in Akizuki Village, with the help of his friend, a samurai named Matashichiro. This spaghetti western style action swordplay film is exciting and dynamic from start to finish! One-eyed master o ...

Mist and Shadows (1961)

A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a teacher in the remote Hokuriku region. In pursuit of the truth, they are led to a web of corporate f ...

The Orphan Brother (1961)

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. While Anju ...

Fine Man (1961)

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the evil, he becomes a fine man. ...

Living by Karate (1961)

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss. ...

Golden Peacock Castle, Part 1 (1961)

A group of pirates led by the evil Gondaiyu and his wizard, Genkuro, capture the Golden Peacock Castle and massacre the peaceful clan that lives there. The few survivors that manage to escape plot their revenge and wait for the right timing for an attack. ...

Wild Palanquin (1960)

Shinsuke Inaba, a thief who snuck into the Kishu family residence in Edo. He was almost discovered by a patrol, but he is helped by Kajio, a woman who holds the position of a junior maid of honor. She was later reprimanded and moved into her family's candl ...

If You're Man Enough (1960)

The Swordsman In The Golden Valley (1960)

Jidaigeki film from 1960 ...

The Sand City in Manchuria (1960)

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople. ...

G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves (1960)

G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels all the way from Kyushu to Tokyo. Disguising himself as a yakuza member, he intends to root out the underworl ...

The Man of Seven Faces (1960)

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case. ...

Bloody Account of Jirocho: Raid on the Road (1960)

Early film by Eiichi Kudô. ...

Bloody Account of Jirocho: Duel at Akiba (1960)

Early film by Eiichi Kudô. ...

Yakuza of Ina (1960)

Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventure, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. The son of a Hatamoto, he has left the samurai life and become a yakuza, gambling on life's fortune and ready to ri ...

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1960)

The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the benefit to poor farmers. ...

The Princess Says No (1959)

The Travel notes of Choshichiro - Peregrine Goblin (1959)

The second film about the adventures of Chosichiro Matsudaira. This time he fights against conspirators whose goal is to replace the 4th Shogun Ietsuna during his visit to Nikko Shrine. ...

Windy Street (1959)

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each following their own path, the film offers a richly poetic exploration of what constitutes happiness for women. ...

A Young Rabble 2 (1959)

An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves. ...

Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo (1959)

A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offense! ...

Hell's Companion (1959)

During the seventh-year memorial service for Katsugoro and Genji, Ikari Genji himself emerged from the coffin brought in by the hearse seeking revenge ...

Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons (1959)

In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden treasures. This is the most exciting film in the series, and contains some of the best action sequences of O ...

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains. ...

Girl with the Fire Banner (1958)

Fearless girl firefighter Oharu and skilled firefighter Shintaro battle against their evil rivals who threaten to take over Oharu's family's turf. ...

Magistrate Ooka’s Legends (1958)

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic. ...

Fireball Magistrate (1958)

Two guardians of the Nijo Castle, Shioya and Kamazawa, discover a map leading to a secret passage to Edo Castle. Instead of reporting their find to local authorities, they decide to blackmail the lords who created the forbidden passage. To prove their crim ...

Secret of The Golden Spell (1958)

One of Japan's most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the treachery of a master plotting to take control over a sword fighting school. ...

A Chivalrous Spirit (1958)

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre. Jirocho, an honorable and respected gang boss, uncovers a conspiracy organized by his rivals while on a ...

Glorious Standard Bearer (1957)

Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman exposes the corrupt activities of merchants. ...

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer (1957)

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wa ...

Torawakamaru, the Koga Ninja (1957)

During the Age Of Wars (Sengoku Era), Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi are vying for power and each uses their secret weapons in order to try and defeat the other. Momochi Sandayu of the Iga, along with his disciple Ishikawa Goemon are ordered by Iey ...

Black River (1957)

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era. ...

Stepbrothers (1957)

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. ...

Oshidori kenkagasa (1957)

Case of Young Lord 5: Death of a Beauty at Midnight (1957)

A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman. ...

Case of a Young Lord 4: Bridal Robe in Blood (1957)

A murdered pawnbroker found clutching a blood-soaked wedding gown, the kidnapped daughter of a Shogun vassal, mysterious robberies, brutal killings, a vault with no key, a suspect killed while in police custody. This fragmented trail of clues could well be ...

Throne of Blood (1957)

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit' ...

Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Crimson Tower (1957)

Bored Hatamoto film #21 ...

Cantankerous Edo (1957)

It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular couple... Misora Hibari and Okawa Hashizo. Along with the great Otomo Rytaro as Tatsugoro the fire chief, th ...

Shimizu Port of Chivalry (1957)

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre. In this dramatic portrayal of the real-life gambling boss Jirocho, a good-hearted and honest boss sets o ...

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship (1956)

Bored Hatamoto film #20 ...

Gale Winds! Tengu Karama (1956)

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi. ...

Fighting Birds (1956)

Asataro the Crow (1956)

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi. ...

Police Precinct (1956)

A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, who suspect the perpetrator as a habitual offender, flew to Yanagibashi using the remains as ...

Samurai of the Great Earth (1956)

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River". ...

The Maiden Courtesan (1956)

Period romantic drama. ...

Young Tree (1956)

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds. ...

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight K ...

Seven Masks of Revenge (1955)

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome Town. Next day the man is found brutally murdered and the mystery starts to unravel. ...

The Dancer and Two Warriors (1955)

Hirado Pirates (1955)

In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who earned huge amounts of gold by piracy. Along the way, he picked up Ichinojo Kaneko, a Ronin who survived the disaster at sea. Seizo and Orin, the daughter of ...

Golden Valley (1955)

A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shinano region, which is guarded by a descendant of the Heike clan. ...

The Playful Fox and the Thousand Cherry Trees (1954)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Rikidozan no tetsuwan kyojin (1954)

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan. ...

The Black Fury (1954)

A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exp ...

Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord (1954)

Five Sisters (1954)

The story of five sisters. ...

Omatsuri hanjiro (1953)

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather toward the port town. ...

The Eagle of the Pacific (1953)

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the b ...

Jirocho's Home-Coming (1953)

The "sangokushi" films beginning with Jirocho sangokkushi: Nagurikomi kojinyama (Jirocho's Tale of Three Provinces, 1952) were based on a novel by Genzo Murakami (1910-2006), who had films based on other of his books on Musashi Miyamoto's adversary Sasaki ...

The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki (1953)

When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and was praised as a "Malay tiger." However, the situation in ...

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life (1953)

Jirocho the gambler hits the road. ...

Pirates (1951)

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New Yuuden 2: Yuu Traffic (1951)

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki (Part 2 of 2) ...