Sanpei Taira

The Racketeer Ishimatsu (1976)

Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero. ...

The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges (1974)

Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Katsuji finds his long lost mother, who is a rich lady of a ...

Young Oh ! Oh ! (1973)

The Erotomaniac Daimyo (1972)

Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan. However, the lord's sexual inexperience and Kiyohime's strict morals lead to significant crisis in their marriage. To improve his sexual prowess, the lord ...

Ghost Story of Two Travelers at Tenamonya (1967)

Two travelers (Makoto Fujita and Minoru Shiraki) have adventures along the road including strange supernatural happenings, ghosts, and monsters. ...

Nothing But Bones (1966)

The harrowing journey of Kinu Wada, a young woman who is sold into prostitution to pay her family's debts. ...

Life of Matsu the Untamed (1965)

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. ...

Zatoichi's Revenge (1965)

Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Thro ...

Hoodlum Match (1965)

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances. ...

The Confusing Journey of Jirocho (1963)

An entertaining historical drama featuring popular comedians from the Kansai region of the time, such as Makoto Fujita, Minoru Shiraki, and Gannosuke Ashiya. Raizo Ichikawa as the famous yakuza boss Jirocho. ...

Tenamonya Sandogasa (1963)

The Tokaido highway is crowded with people heading for Shimizu Port with the dream of defeating Jirocho of Shimizu and becoming the strongest in Japan. Tokijiro is a fallen yakuza who is trying to make his mark by heading for Shimizu Port with his partner, ...

The Mysterious Cape (1963)

Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogun, hears news of a doctor gone missing, he begins to suspect that things are not what they seem at ...

Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady (1962)

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld. ...

Keepers of Order (1962)

Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by boss Shigezo Sasagawa, Ishimatsu, and a few young yakuza. ...