Seijiro Takano

Confession of a girl: Purity (1968)

The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit of love and sex between a high school senior soccer player and a female student in the same class. ...

Let's find your sweetheart (1967)

Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts working to earn money for his mother's surgery after she was involved in a hit-and-run accident, giving up on furthering his education. During this time, a r ...

A Windmill, Tulips and Love (1966)

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo. ...

Youth A Go Go! (1966)

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh. ...

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu (1965)

1965 Nikkatsu youth film. ...

Homecoming (1964)

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-mi ...

Traces of Lead (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Fresh Leaves (1962)

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher. ...

Hageshī kawa (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Me o tsubutte tsuppashire (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Wakai tsume ato (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Hitotsu no inochi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Storm over Arabia (1961)

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time. ...

Wharf Temperament (1961)

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother. ...

Pursuit (1961)

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film. ...

The Man with a Shotgun (1961)

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill. ...

Pigs and Battleships (1961)

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together. ...

Yami wo saku kuchibue (1960)

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an artificial lake. ...

Who is in the Background? (1959)

Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi plays an active role in the death of a divine ghost in a skillful disguise. Takuya Nikaido a ...

Oyae no hatsukoi sensei (1959)

A hilarious comedy where newly appointed teacher Oyae shows off her unusual plays as she fights alone against a group of five bad boys. ...

A Secret Rendezvous (1959)

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair. ...

Break Down that Wall (1959)

A man is wrongfully accused of murder. ...

Zesshou (1958)

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their destinies against their parents' wishes. Neither war nor years of separation could kill this love. It was only cu ...

Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku (1958)

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara. ...

Underworld Beauty (1958)

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane ...

Man Who Causes a Storm (1957)

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graph ...

The Temptress and the Monk (1957)

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts. ...

The Champion (1957)

Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko's father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the drea ...

Joshiryōsai (1957)

Satan's Town (1956)

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the i ...